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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 201 284
Rank change year-on-year -16 +83 +74
Contract jobs citing PMP 213 154 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.22% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.00% 4.71% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 102 71
10th Percentile £407 £401 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +5.68% +3.29%
75th Percentile £661 £725 £638
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
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 £80.00 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +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 5,320 3,267 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.82% 25.87% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,844 2,194 2,834
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 70 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.73 £14.49
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.47% +5.64% -52.38%
75th Percentile £75.87 £51.62 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year +79.36% -31.13% -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 25 June 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 June 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 46 £700 +10.24% 5
West London -26 5 £680 +37.72% 4
East London - 2 £495 - 1
South London -17 1 £500 +17.65% 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
1 9 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.35%) IIS
3 3 (1.41%) CMS
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.94%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.47%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 22 (10.33%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.94%) Trello
6 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.47%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.41%) DELMIA
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
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%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.60%) Azure
2 24 (11.27%) AWS
3 21 (9.86%) SaaS
4 15 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.57%) Smartsheet
6 10 (4.69%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.41%) Asana
9 3 (1.41%) Google Ads
9 3 (1.41%) OCI
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.94%) GCP
10 2 (0.94%) IaaS
10 2 (0.94%) PaaS
10 2 (0.94%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) LAN
1 7 (3.29%) WAN
2 5 (2.35%) HTTPS
2 5 (2.35%) Network Security
3 4 (1.88%) Firewall
3 4 (1.88%) VLAN
3 4 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.41%) 4G
4 3 (1.41%) 5G
4 3 (1.41%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.94%) Internet
6 1 (0.47%) DNS
6 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.88%) Power BI
2 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (10.33%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) GitLab
2 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 100 (46.95%) Social Skills
2 99 (46.48%) Finance
3 30 (14.08%) Banking
4 25 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.80%) Marketing
6 22 (10.33%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (7.51%) Legal
8 15 (7.04%) Retail
9 10 (4.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (4.69%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.29%) Financial Institution
11 7 (3.29%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.82%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.41%) Advertising
14 3 (1.41%) Front Office
14 3 (1.41%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 139 (65.26%) Project Manager
2 24 (11.27%) Lead
2 24 (11.27%) Senior
3 21 (9.86%) Senior Manager
4 19 (8.92%) Technical Manager
5 18 (8.45%) Senior Project Manager
5 18 (8.45%) Technical Project Manager
6 16 (7.51%) IT Manager
6 16 (7.51%) IT Project Manager
6 16 (7.51%) Programme Manager
7 14 (6.57%) Infrastructure Manager
8 13 (6.10%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 12 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (5.16%) Migration Manager
10 11 (5.16%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (4.69%) Transformation Manager
12 9 (4.23%) Transformation Project Manager
13 8 (3.76%) Business Manager
13 8 (3.76%) PMO Lead
13 8 (3.76%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.29%) REST
2 6 (2.82%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.88%) ADO
3 4 (1.88%) Middleware
3 4 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.94%) SOAP
4 2 (0.94%) XML
4 2 (0.94%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.47%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.92%) PMI
2 13 (6.10%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.35%) Life Science
5 5 (2.35%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.88%) CMDB
6 4 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.41%) CCTV
7 3 (1.41%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.41%) FMCG
7 3 (1.41%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) AS400
8 2 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.69%) Windows
2 2 (0.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (73.71%) PRINCE2
2 148 (69.48%) Project Management
3 133 (62.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 119 (55.87%) Agile
5 87 (40.85%) Project Delivery
6 54 (25.35%) Change Management
7 52 (24.41%) Migration
8 49 (23.00%) Decision-Making
9 44 (20.66%) Programme Management
10 32 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (14.08%) Waterfall
12 29 (13.62%) DevOps
12 29 (13.62%) Scrum
13 28 (13.15%) Matrix Organization
14 27 (12.68%) ITIL
15 26 (12.21%) Project Governance
16 24 (11.27%) Roadmaps
16 24 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 23 (10.80%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.76%) SQL
2 2 (0.94%) COBOL
2 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
2 2 (0.94%) RPG
3 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 169 (79.34%) PMI Certification
2 47 (22.07%) Degree
3 22 (10.33%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.69%) CISSP
6 9 (4.23%) APMP
7 8 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (3.29%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.82%) CISM
10 5 (2.35%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.88%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (1.88%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.41%) CAPM
12 3 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.94%) CRISC
13 2 (0.94%) Project+ Certification
13 2 (0.94%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.02%) PMO
2 23 (10.80%) GDPR
3 18 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (7.51%) QA
5 14 (6.57%) NIST
6 11 (5.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (2.82%) GRC
8 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.35%) GxP
8 5 (2.35%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.35%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.41%) Basel III
9 3 (1.41%) GAAP
9 3 (1.41%) IFRS
9 3 (1.41%) IFRS 9
9 3 (1.41%) P3O
9 3 (1.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.94%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.88%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.94%) Control-M
2 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.45%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.04%) SAP
4 12 (5.63%) Oracle
5 11 (5.16%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.76%) Workday
7 6 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.35%) Cisco
9 4 (1.88%) Okta
9 4 (1.88%) VMware
10 3 (1.41%) IBM
10 3 (1.41%) Informatica
11 2 (0.94%) Murex
11 2 (0.94%) NEC
11 2 (0.94%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.94%) Splunk
11 2 (0.94%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.47%) Misys
12 1 (0.47%) Tenable