PMP Contract Job Trends in London

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 231 275
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 +68
Contract jobs citing PMP 192 117 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.92% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.91% 3.64% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 78 76
10th Percentile £400 £413 £381
25th Percentile £463 £475 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £591
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.82% +7.45%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £645
90th Percentile £750 £838 £790
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £23.05
25th Percentile - - £23.75
Median hourly rate - - £25.75
75th Percentile - - £27.06
90th Percentile - - £27.25
England median hourly rate £82.50 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +188.46% -61.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

PMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,907 3,213 4,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.46% 25.37% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,492 2,165 2,966
10th Percentile £363 £349 £325
25th Percentile £430 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £659
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 65 120
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.35 £14.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +3.92% -12.09%
75th Percentile £75.87 £56.25 £61.77
90th Percentile £77.43 £69.60 £83.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -30.00% +29.03% -22.50%

PMP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

PMP job vacancy trend in London

PMP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMP

PMP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMP in London over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMP in London

PMP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMP

PMP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMP within the London region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 37 £681 +19.26% 13
South London - 4 £500 -
West London -19 3 £550 +15.79% 4
East London - 2 £495 -
PMP
England

PMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.73%) Confluence
2 8 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.04%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.52%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 19 (9.90%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.56%) Trello
6 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) DELMIA
1 3 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (1.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.04%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (1.04%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) ENOVIA
3 1 (0.52%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.52%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.19%) Azure
2 24 (12.50%) AWS
3 10 (5.21%) Smartsheet
4 9 (4.69%) SaaS
5 8 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.56%) Asana
7 3 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.56%) OCI
8 2 (1.04%) GCP
8 2 (1.04%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.04%) IaaS
8 2 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.04%) Miro
8 2 (1.04%) PaaS
8 2 (1.04%) Slack
8 2 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.17%) Network Security
2 7 (3.65%) WAN
3 6 (3.13%) LAN
4 3 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.04%) Firewall
5 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.04%) VLAN
5 2 (1.04%) VPN
6 1 (0.52%) DNS
6 1 (0.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.17%) Power BI
2 6 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.04%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.52%) MySQL
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (13.54%) JIRA
General
1 105 (54.69%) Social Skills
2 90 (46.88%) Finance
3 38 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (17.71%) Banking
5 22 (11.46%) Legal
6 21 (10.94%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (8.33%) Retail
8 15 (7.81%) Public Sector
9 10 (5.21%) Marketing
10 8 (4.17%) Financial Institution
10 8 (4.17%) Investment Banking
11 7 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.60%) Front Office
12 5 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.08%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.08%) General Ledger
13 4 (2.08%) Law
13 4 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 24 (12.50%) Senior
3 22 (11.46%) Lead
4 21 (10.94%) Senior Manager
5 19 (9.90%) Infrastructure Manager
6 17 (8.85%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 17 (8.85%) Senior Project Manager
7 16 (8.33%) Technical Manager
8 14 (7.29%) IT Manager
8 14 (7.29%) IT Project Manager
8 14 (7.29%) Migration Manager
9 13 (6.77%) Migration Project Manager
9 13 (6.77%) Technical Project Manager
10 12 (6.25%) Analyst
10 12 (6.25%) Business Analyst
11 10 (5.21%) Lead Project Manager
12 9 (4.69%) Banking Project Manager
12 9 (4.69%) Security Manager
13 8 (4.17%) Payments Project Manager
14 7 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.60%) SailPoint
1 5 (2.60%) XML
2 3 (1.56%) ADO
2 3 (1.56%) Middleware
2 3 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.04%) REST
3 2 (1.04%) SOAP
3 2 (1.04%) XML Messaging
4 1 (0.52%) .NET
4 1 (0.52%) EDI
4 1 (0.52%) RESTful
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.77%) Data Centre
1 13 (6.77%) PMI
2 9 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.60%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.08%) CMDB
5 4 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.56%) CCTV
6 3 (1.56%) Derivative
6 3 (1.56%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.56%) Life Science
7 2 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) CBDC
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.13%) Windows
2 4 (2.08%) Linux
3 3 (1.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (77.08%) Project Management
2 143 (74.48%) PRINCE2
3 125 (65.10%) Agile
4 121 (63.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 82 (42.71%) Project Delivery
6 45 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (21.88%) Risk Management
8 40 (20.83%) Migration
9 39 (20.31%) Change Management
10 37 (19.27%) Scrum
11 33 (17.19%) Programme Management
11 33 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 31 (16.15%) Project Governance
13 29 (15.10%) Waterfall
14 28 (14.58%) Decision-Making
15 22 (11.46%) Budget Management
16 20 (10.42%) Validation
17 18 (9.38%) Matrix Organization
18 17 (8.85%) DevOps
18 17 (8.85%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.69%) SQL
2 3 (1.56%) Korn
3 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.52%) Java
4 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 157 (81.77%) PMI Certification
2 55 (28.65%) Degree
3 16 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.81%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.25%) APMP
6 9 (4.69%) CISSP
6 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.17%) CISM
7 8 (4.17%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 5 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.08%) CRISC
10 4 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (1.56%) CCNA
11 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.04%) MBA
12 2 (1.04%) Project+ Certification
12 2 (1.04%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.15%) PMO
2 24 (12.50%) GDPR
3 21 (10.94%) QA
4 16 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (8.33%) NIST
5 7 (3.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.60%) Basel III
7 3 (1.56%) GAAP
7 3 (1.56%) IFRS
7 3 (1.56%) IFRS 9
7 3 (1.56%) MiFID
8 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.04%) EMIR
8 2 (1.04%) GxP
8 2 (1.04%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.52%) GRC
9 1 (0.52%) P3O
9 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) PowerHA
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.04%) Control-M
1 2 (1.04%) RSA Archer
1 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (9.90%) Microsoft
1 19 (9.90%) SAP
2 14 (7.29%) CyberArk
2 14 (7.29%) Oracle
3 12 (6.25%) Workday
4 11 (5.73%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.60%) Cisco
5 5 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.08%) Okta
6 4 (2.08%) Planview
7 3 (1.56%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.56%) Informatica
7 3 (1.56%) Remedy
8 2 (1.04%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.04%) VMware
8 2 (1.04%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.52%) NEC
9 1 (0.52%) Tenable