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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 242 293
Rank change year-on-year +24 +51 +56
Contract jobs citing PMP 167 130 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.03% 3.40% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 77 76
10th Percentile £400 £413 £356
25th Percentile £463 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £650
90th Percentile £733 £868 £709
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
England median hourly rate £73.25 £72.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +1.03% +34.88% -2.27%

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 4,141 3,821 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.76% 25.92% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,886 2,409 2,927
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £658
90th Percentile £750 £774 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 60 91
10th Percentile £20.74 £21.13 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £63.14 £60.19 £65.43
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -9 21 £543 -13.20% 25
West London -13 5 £500 -2.44% 1
South London - 4 £500 - 2
East London - 1 £495 - 1
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 (6.59%) Confluence
2 9 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (14.37%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (7.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.99%) Trello
6 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.99%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (2.40%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.80%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.80%) Workfront
5 2 (1.20%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.60%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.60%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.60%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.17%) Azure
2 14 (8.38%) AWS
3 12 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.59%) Smartsheet
5 5 (2.99%) SaaS
6 4 (2.40%) Asana
6 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.40%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.80%) OCI
8 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.20%) IaaS
8 2 (1.20%) Miro
8 2 (1.20%) PaaS
8 2 (1.20%) Slack
8 2 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.60%) GitHub
9 1 (0.60%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.60%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.79%) Network Security
2 5 (2.99%) Firewall
3 4 (2.40%) WAN
4 3 (1.80%) LAN
4 3 (1.80%) VPN
5 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.60%) DNS
6 1 (0.60%) Intranet
6 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.60%) Multicast
6 1 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.59%) Power BI
2 7 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.20%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.20%) Tableau
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.60%) Metadata
5 1 (0.60%) MySQL
5 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (18.56%) JIRA
General
1 108 (64.67%) Social Skills
2 86 (51.50%) Finance
3 36 (21.56%) Banking
4 32 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (11.38%) Legal
6 15 (8.98%) Retail
7 14 (8.38%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (6.59%) Manufacturing
8 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.39%) Investment Banking
10 7 (4.19%) Marketing
11 6 (3.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
13 4 (2.40%) Front Office
13 4 (2.40%) General Ledger
13 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (2.40%) Law
14 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 116 (69.46%) Project Manager
2 19 (11.38%) Senior
3 18 (10.78%) Lead
4 17 (10.18%) Senior Manager
5 16 (9.58%) Infrastructure Manager
6 13 (7.78%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 13 (7.78%) IT Manager
6 13 (7.78%) Senior Project Manager
7 12 (7.19%) Analyst
7 12 (7.19%) IT Project Manager
8 10 (5.99%) SAP Manager
8 10 (5.99%) SAP Project Manager
9 9 (5.39%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.39%) Technical Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Banking Project Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Digital Project Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Security Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Transformation Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Transformation Project Manager
11 7 (4.19%) Lead Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.99%) XML
2 4 (2.40%) Middleware
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.20%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.60%) .NET
5 1 (0.60%) ADO
5 1 (0.60%) EDI
5 1 (0.60%) Kafka
5 1 (0.60%) REST
5 1 (0.60%) RESTful
5 1 (0.60%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.60%) SOAP
5 1 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.19%) PMI
2 10 (5.99%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.99%) Life Science
5 4 (2.40%) Derivative
5 4 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.80%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.20%) Equities
7 2 (1.20%) FMCG
7 2 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.60%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.60%) New Media
8 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Linux
1 4 (2.40%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (77.25%) Project Management
2 127 (76.05%) PRINCE2
3 107 (64.07%) Agile
4 93 (55.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (32.93%) Project Delivery
6 50 (29.94%) Risk Management
7 49 (29.34%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (23.35%) Change Management
9 38 (22.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (20.96%) Migration
11 29 (17.37%) Scrum
11 29 (17.37%) Waterfall
12 27 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (16.17%) Programme Management
13 26 (15.57%) Decision-Making
14 24 (14.37%) Budget Management
15 23 (13.77%) Resource Allocation
16 22 (13.17%) Project Governance
17 17 (10.18%) Computer Science
17 17 (10.18%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.79%) SQL
2 2 (1.20%) Korn
2 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.60%) Java
3 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 148 (88.62%) PMI Certification
2 72 (43.11%) Degree
3 14 (8.38%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.39%) Security Cleared
6 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.19%) CISSP
8 6 (3.59%) APMP
8 6 (3.59%) CISM
8 6 (3.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.40%) MBA
10 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.20%) CAPM
11 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.20%) CRISC
11 2 (1.20%) IIBA
11 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.37%) PMO
2 20 (11.98%) QA
3 14 (8.38%) GDPR
4 9 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.79%) NIST
6 7 (4.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (3.59%) Basel III
8 4 (2.40%) GMP
9 3 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.80%) GAAP
9 3 (1.80%) IFRS
9 3 (1.80%) IFRS 9
9 3 (1.80%) MiFID
9 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.80%) SLA
10 2 (1.20%) EMIR
10 2 (1.20%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.60%) PowerHA
1 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (12.57%) SAP
2 19 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.19%) Oracle
4 9 (5.39%) Workday
5 7 (4.19%) Planview
5 7 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.99%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.80%) Adobe
7 3 (1.80%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.80%) Informatica
7 3 (1.80%) Remedy
7 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.20%) Ariba
8 2 (1.20%) Cisco
8 2 (1.20%) Databricks
8 2 (1.20%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.60%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.60%) IBM
9 1 (0.60%) Murex
9 1 (0.60%) UiPath