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 1 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 206 272
Rank change year-on-year +2 +66 +66
Contract jobs citing PMP 280 172 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.28% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.85% 4.83% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 121 69
10th Percentile £406 £406 £423
25th Percentile £443 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% +4.27%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £725 £813 £775
England median daily rate £545 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -6.24% +5.68% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £58.44 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £59.75 £69.00 -
England median hourly rate £82.50 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +26.92% -10.34% +31.82%

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 5,769 3,562 3,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.36% 26.45% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,178 2,397 2,565
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.93 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.88 - £25.36
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.38% -18.56%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.48 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £63.18 £71.63
England median hourly rate £51.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +104.77% -52.55% +0.95%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -5 54 £535 -16.16% 28
West London -11 15 £680 +34.32% 6
East London - 1 - - 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 13 (4.64%) Confluence
2 9 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.50%) CMS
4 5 (1.79%) IIS
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 32 (11.43%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.43%) Changepoint
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.36%) Maximo
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.36%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.86%) Azure
2 26 (9.29%) SaaS
3 21 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.07%) AWS
5 15 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.21%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.86%) Smartsheet
9 6 (2.14%) GCP
10 5 (1.79%) Asana
10 5 (1.79%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.43%) GitHub
12 3 (1.07%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.71%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.71%) AWS KMS
13 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) Firewall
2 8 (2.86%) Network Security
3 5 (1.79%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.79%) LAN
3 5 (1.79%) WAN
4 4 (1.43%) 4G
4 4 (1.43%) 5G
5 3 (1.07%) Internet
5 3 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.07%) VoLTE
5 3 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.71%) BGP
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.71%) MPLS
6 2 (0.71%) NAS
6 2 (0.71%) SAN
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
6 2 (0.71%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.57%) Power BI
2 7 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.71%) Metadata
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 33 (11.79%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (55.36%) Finance
2 133 (47.50%) Social Skills
3 49 (17.50%) Banking
4 34 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (7.86%) Marketing
7 18 (6.43%) Retail
8 16 (5.71%) Legal
8 16 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (4.29%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.93%) Manufacturing
11 11 (3.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (2.86%) Investment Banking
13 6 (2.14%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.14%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.79%) Front Office
14 5 (1.79%) Law
15 3 (1.07%) Electronics
15 3 (1.07%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (54.29%) Project Manager
2 35 (12.50%) Senior
3 34 (12.14%) IT Manager
4 29 (10.36%) Senior Manager
5 27 (9.64%) IT Project Manager
6 26 (9.29%) Programme Manager
7 24 (8.57%) Technical Manager
8 22 (7.86%) Lead
8 22 (7.86%) Senior Project Manager
9 18 (6.43%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (5.36%) Analyst
11 14 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
12 13 (4.64%) Business Analyst
13 12 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
14 11 (3.93%) Bid Manager
14 11 (3.93%) Transformation Manager
15 10 (3.57%) Transformation Project Manager
16 9 (3.21%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 8 (2.86%) Business Manager
17 8 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.14%) REST
2 4 (1.43%) SailPoint
2 4 (1.43%) SOAP
2 4 (1.43%) Web Services
3 2 (0.71%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) ADO
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.36%) PMI
4 13 (4.64%) Operational Technology
5 10 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.14%) CMDB
7 6 (2.14%) IoT
7 6 (2.14%) Life Science
8 5 (1.79%) FMCG
9 4 (1.43%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.07%) AS400
10 3 (1.07%) CCTV
10 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (0.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (78.57%) PRINCE2
2 192 (68.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 175 (62.50%) Project Management
4 162 (57.86%) Agile
5 101 (36.07%) Project Delivery
6 79 (28.21%) Change Management
7 58 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (20.36%) Programme Management
8 57 (20.36%) Scrum
9 56 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 56 (20.00%) Migration
9 56 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 53 (18.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 49 (17.50%) Budget Management
12 48 (17.14%) Waterfall
13 42 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (14.64%) Risk Management
15 38 (13.57%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (13.21%) Change Control
16 37 (13.21%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.50%) SQL
2 3 (1.07%) COBOL
2 3 (1.07%) Python
2 3 (1.07%) RPG
3 1 (0.36%) Bash
3 1 (0.36%) C#
3 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 227 (81.07%) PMI Certification
2 72 (25.71%) Degree
3 35 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 26 (9.29%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 13 (4.64%) CISSP
7 12 (4.29%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.57%) CISM
9 8 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.79%) PgMP
12 4 (1.43%) APMP
12 4 (1.43%) CAPM
12 4 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.79%) PMO
2 17 (6.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.36%) GDPR
4 15 (5.36%) QA
5 11 (3.93%) NIST
5 11 (3.93%) P3O
6 9 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.50%) GRC
8 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.79%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.79%) SLA
10 4 (1.43%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.07%) GMP
11 3 (1.07%) GxP
11 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.07%) SEPA
11 3 (1.07%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.71%) ITGC
System Software
1 17 (6.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.86%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.00%) Planview
4 11 (3.93%) SAP
5 10 (3.57%) Oracle
6 5 (1.79%) Cisco
6 5 (1.79%) Google
6 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.79%) VMware
6 5 (1.79%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.43%) IBM
7 4 (1.43%) UiPath
8 3 (1.07%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.07%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.07%) Murex
9 2 (0.71%) Databricks
9 2 (0.71%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.71%) Juniper
10 1 (0.36%) Ariba
10 1 (0.36%) Genesys