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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 261 323
Rank change year-on-year +51 +62 +55
Contract jobs citing PMP 165 120 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.30% 3.03% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 72 76
10th Percentile £405 £425 £356
25th Percentile £472 £491 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.62% +1.60%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £631
90th Percentile £776 £830 £725
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +42.86% -3.67%

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 3,833 3,966 4,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.56% 25.32% 23.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,632 2,529 3,200
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 103
10th Percentile £19.40 £20.15 £19.00
25th Percentile - £31.34 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.71 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.21% -24.62% +18.03%
75th Percentile £41.71 £63.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.76 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £51.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.93% -2.38% +16.67%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -1 21 £568 -6.58% 54
West London -7 5 £500 -4.76% 9
South London - 2 £425 - 7
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 15 (9.09%) Confluence
2 10 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (4.24%) Trello
5 2 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.42%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.82%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.82%) SAP IBP
3 3 (1.82%) Workfront
4 2 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.21%) ResourceLink
4 2 (1.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.61%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.70%) Azure
2 9 (5.45%) AWS
3 8 (4.85%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.24%) Smartsheet
5 6 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.03%) SaaS
7 4 (2.42%) Asana
7 4 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.21%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.61%) GCP
10 1 (0.61%) GitHub
10 1 (0.61%) IaaS
10 1 (0.61%) PaaS
10 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) Network Security
2 5 (3.03%) Firewall
3 2 (1.21%) DNS
3 2 (1.21%) VPN
3 2 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.61%) 4G
4 1 (0.61%) 5G
4 1 (0.61%) DHCP
4 1 (0.61%) Intranet
4 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.61%) LAN
4 1 (0.61%) LTE
4 1 (0.61%) Multicast
4 1 (0.61%) PPP
4 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.61%) TETRA
4 1 (0.61%) WAN
4 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.24%) Power BI
2 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.21%) Tableau
3 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) Metadata
3 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (21.82%) JIRA
General
1 104 (63.03%) Social Skills
2 91 (55.15%) Finance
3 36 (21.82%) Banking
4 23 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.70%) Legal
6 15 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (6.67%) Investment Banking
8 10 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (5.45%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.45%) Retail
10 7 (4.24%) Marketing
10 7 (4.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (3.03%) Law
12 4 (2.42%) Front Office
12 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.82%) Back Office
13 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.82%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (63.03%) Project Manager
2 18 (10.91%) Senior
3 16 (9.70%) Senior Manager
4 14 (8.48%) Infrastructure Manager
5 12 (7.27%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 12 (7.27%) Lead
5 12 (7.27%) SAP Manager
6 11 (6.67%) SAP Project Manager
7 10 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (6.06%) IT Manager
7 10 (6.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 9 (5.45%) Analyst
9 8 (4.85%) Banking Project Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Digital Project Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Security Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Technical Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Transformation Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Transformation Project Manager
10 6 (3.64%) Digital Transformation
10 6 (3.64%) Digital Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.82%) XML
2 2 (1.21%) Middleware
3 1 (0.61%) .NET
3 1 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.61%) Kafka
3 1 (0.61%) RESTful
3 1 (0.61%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.67%) PMI
2 7 (4.24%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.03%) Life Science
5 4 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.82%) Derivative
6 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.21%) DTCC
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.21%) Equities
7 2 (1.21%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.21%) FMCG
7 2 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.21%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.82%) Windows
2 2 (1.21%) Linux
2 2 (1.21%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (78.79%) Project Management
2 117 (70.91%) PRINCE2
3 101 (61.21%) Agile
4 74 (44.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (26.06%) Project Delivery
7 42 (25.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 41 (24.85%) Risk Management
9 37 (22.42%) Change Management
10 35 (21.21%) Migration
11 33 (20.00%) Waterfall
12 29 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (15.76%) Programme Management
14 25 (15.15%) Resource Allocation
14 25 (15.15%) Scrum
15 23 (13.94%) Budget Management
16 22 (13.33%) Project Governance
17 21 (12.73%) Decision-Making
18 18 (10.91%) Matrix Organization
19 15 (9.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.82%) SQL
2 2 (1.21%) Korn
3 1 (0.61%) C++
3 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 143 (86.67%) PMI Certification
2 71 (43.03%) Degree
3 13 (7.88%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.85%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.24%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.64%) CISM
6 6 (3.64%) CISSP
7 5 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.82%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.82%) MBA
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.21%) CAPM
10 2 (1.21%) CRISC
10 2 (1.21%) IIBA
11 1 (0.61%) APMG
11 1 (0.61%) CBAP
11 1 (0.61%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.12%) PMO
2 13 (7.88%) QA
3 7 (4.24%) GDPR
4 5 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.42%) GMP
5 4 (2.42%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.42%) SLA
6 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.82%) MiFID
6 3 (1.82%) NIST
6 3 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.21%) Basel III
7 2 (1.21%) EMIR
7 2 (1.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.61%) FINRA
8 1 (0.61%) GRC
8 1 (0.61%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 20 (12.12%) SAP
2 19 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.24%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.64%) Planview
5 5 (3.03%) Oracle
6 3 (1.82%) Adobe
6 3 (1.82%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.21%) Calypso
7 2 (1.21%) Murex
7 2 (1.21%) UiPath
7 2 (1.21%) Workday
8 1 (0.61%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.61%) Ariba
8 1 (0.61%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco
8 1 (0.61%) Concur
8 1 (0.61%) Databricks
8 1 (0.61%) IFS
8 1 (0.61%) NEC
8 1 (0.61%) Remedy