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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 206 295
Rank change year-on-year -22 +89 +77
Contract jobs citing PMP 213 161 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.23% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.97% 4.76% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 110 71
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £458 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £673 £725 £638
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £550 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +1.15% -1.14% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £51.98 - £23.05
25th Percentile £52.69 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.25 £70.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +171.84% -
75th Percentile £57.69 - £27.06
90th Percentile £58.33 - £27.25
England median hourly rate £82.50 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +188.46% -58.40%

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 5,372 3,385 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.81% 25.83% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,875 2,279 2,857
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 76 107
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.40 £14.96
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.00 £20.36
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.41 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.47% +3.57% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.54 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.54 £68.30
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +85.96% -32.94% -22.73%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -3 44 £688 +9.13% 22
West London -20 5 £680 +37.72% 4
East London - 1 - - 2
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 9 (4.23%) Confluence
2 8 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.35%) IIS
4 3 (1.41%) CMS
4 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 21 (9.86%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.94%) Trello
7 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.47%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.47%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.47%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.47%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.47%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (18.78%) Azure
2 21 (9.86%) AWS
3 20 (9.39%) SaaS
4 14 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.57%) Smartsheet
5 11 (5.16%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.41%) Asana
8 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.94%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.94%) GCP
9 2 (0.94%) Google Ads
9 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.94%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.47%) GitHub
10 1 (0.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.35%) HTTPS
1 5 (2.35%) Network Security
2 4 (1.88%) Firewall
2 4 (1.88%) LAN
2 4 (1.88%) WAN
3 3 (1.41%) 4G
3 3 (1.41%) 5G
3 3 (1.41%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.94%) Internet
4 2 (0.94%) VLAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
1 2 (0.94%) Power BI
2 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (9.39%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) GitLab
2 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 102 (47.89%) Finance
2 96 (45.07%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.68%) Banking
4 26 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.80%) Marketing
6 19 (8.92%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (7.04%) Legal
7 15 (7.04%) Retail
8 11 (5.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.29%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.29%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.82%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.82%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.41%) Advertising
12 3 (1.41%) Electronics
12 3 (1.41%) Front Office
13 2 (0.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 143 (67.14%) Project Manager
2 26 (12.21%) Senior
3 23 (10.80%) Senior Manager
4 20 (9.39%) Senior Project Manager
5 19 (8.92%) Technical Manager
6 17 (7.98%) Technical Project Manager
7 16 (7.51%) IT Manager
7 16 (7.51%) IT Project Manager
7 16 (7.51%) Programme Manager
8 15 (7.04%) Lead
9 14 (6.57%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (6.10%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 12 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.69%) Migration Manager
12 10 (4.69%) Migration Project Manager
12 10 (4.69%) Transformation Manager
13 9 (4.23%) IAM Project Manager
13 9 (4.23%) Transformation Project Manager
14 8 (3.76%) B2B Sales Manager
14 8 (3.76%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.29%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.82%) REST
3 3 (1.41%) ADO
4 2 (0.94%) Middleware
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.92%) PMI
2 10 (4.69%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.29%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.82%) Life Science
5 6 (2.82%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.88%) CMDB
7 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.41%) CCTV
8 3 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.41%) FMCG
8 3 (1.41%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) AS400
9 2 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.94%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.94%) IoT
9 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.76%) Windows
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (74.18%) PRINCE2
2 149 (69.95%) Project Management
3 135 (63.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 120 (56.34%) Agile
5 84 (39.44%) Project Delivery
6 56 (26.29%) Change Management
7 48 (22.54%) Decision-Making
7 48 (22.54%) Migration
8 47 (22.07%) Programme Management
9 33 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (15.02%) Waterfall
11 31 (14.55%) Matrix Organization
12 30 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (13.15%) Scrum
14 27 (12.68%) DevOps
14 27 (12.68%) ITIL
14 27 (12.68%) Project Governance
15 26 (12.21%) Roadmaps
16 23 (10.80%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.94%) COBOL
1 2 (0.94%) RPG
1 2 (0.94%) SQL
2 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 170 (79.81%) PMI Certification
2 46 (21.60%) Degree
3 21 (9.86%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.57%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.69%) CISSP
6 9 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.82%) APMP
8 6 (2.82%) CISM
9 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.88%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (1.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.41%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.41%) CAPM
11 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.49%) PMO
2 22 (10.33%) GDPR
3 16 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.51%) QA
4 12 (5.63%) NIST
5 7 (3.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (2.82%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.82%) GRC
7 5 (2.35%) GxP
7 5 (2.35%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.35%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.88%) P3O
8 4 (1.88%) SLA
9 3 (1.41%) GMP
9 3 (1.41%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.88%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.92%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.63%) SAP
4 10 (4.69%) CyberArk
5 9 (4.23%) Oracle
6 6 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.35%) Cisco
8 4 (1.88%) Okta
8 4 (1.88%) VMware
8 4 (1.88%) Workday
9 2 (0.94%) IBM
9 2 (0.94%) Murex
9 2 (0.94%) NEC
9 2 (0.94%) Planview
9 2 (0.94%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.94%) Splunk
9 2 (0.94%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.47%) Avaya
10 1 (0.47%) Genesys
10 1 (0.47%) Misys