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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 201 278
Rank change year-on-year -3 +77 +70
Contract jobs citing PMP 259 176 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.31% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.63% 4.96% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 117 70
10th Percentile £415 £396 £399
25th Percentile £440 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -1.18%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £633
90th Percentile £743 £803 £733
England median daily rate £550 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -1.41%
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 £80.00 £72.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +10.34% +7.41% +14.89%

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 5,589 3,549 3,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.86% 26.32% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,017 2,392 2,699
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -2.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 85 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.84 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.06 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.70
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +110.74% -48.21% -11.71%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -4 46 £580 +10.48% 27
West London -7 13 £550 +7.32% 8
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 8 (3.09%) Confluence
2 7 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.93%) IIS
4 4 (1.54%) CMS
5 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 28 (10.81%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.77%) Trello
7 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.16%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.77%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.39%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.39%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.39%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.60%) Azure
2 26 (10.04%) SaaS
3 21 (8.11%) AWS
4 16 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.79%) Entra ID
6 14 (5.41%) Smartsheet
7 10 (3.86%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.93%) Asana
9 5 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.93%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.93%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.54%) GCP
11 3 (1.16%) GitHub
11 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.77%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.77%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.77%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.70%) Network Security
2 5 (1.93%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.54%) Firewall
3 4 (1.54%) LAN
3 4 (1.54%) WAN
4 3 (1.16%) 4G
4 3 (1.16%) 5G
4 3 (1.16%) Internet
4 3 (1.16%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.77%) MPLS
5 2 (0.77%) SSL
5 2 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.77%) VLAN
5 2 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.39%) DNS
6 1 (0.39%) NAS
6 1 (0.39%) SAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.93%) Power BI
2 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.39%) Big Data
3 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (9.65%) JIRA
2 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 136 (52.51%) Finance
2 114 (44.02%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.99%) Banking
4 27 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.65%) Marketing
6 21 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (6.95%) Retail
8 15 (5.79%) Legal
9 12 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (4.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (3.86%) Telecoms
12 9 (3.47%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 7 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.32%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.93%) Public Sector
16 4 (1.54%) Law
17 3 (1.16%) Electronics
17 3 (1.16%) Front Office
18 2 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 155 (59.85%) Project Manager
2 31 (11.97%) Senior
3 26 (10.04%) Senior Manager
4 23 (8.88%) IT Manager
4 23 (8.88%) Programme Manager
5 21 (8.11%) Senior Project Manager
5 21 (8.11%) Technical Manager
6 18 (6.95%) IT Project Manager
7 16 (6.18%) Delivery Manager
8 15 (5.79%) Lead
8 15 (5.79%) Technical Project Manager
9 14 (5.41%) Analyst
10 13 (5.02%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (5.02%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.63%) Business Analyst
12 11 (4.25%) Bid Manager
12 11 (4.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 11 (4.25%) Transformation Project Manager
13 10 (3.86%) IAM Project Manager
14 8 (3.09%) B2B Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.70%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.32%) REST
3 1 (0.39%) ADO
3 1 (0.39%) Middleware
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.72%) PMI
2 15 (5.79%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.63%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.47%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.32%) Life Science
7 5 (1.93%) FMCG
7 5 (1.93%) IoT
8 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.54%) CMDB
9 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.16%) CCTV
9 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.77%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (79.54%) PRINCE2
2 177 (68.34%) Project Management
3 165 (63.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 142 (54.83%) Agile
5 100 (38.61%) Project Delivery
6 69 (26.64%) Change Management
7 54 (20.85%) Decision-Making
7 54 (20.85%) Programme Management
8 49 (18.92%) Migration
9 47 (18.15%) Scrum
10 45 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (16.22%) Roadmaps
11 42 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 39 (15.06%) Budget Management
13 35 (13.51%) Waterfall
14 34 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (11.97%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (11.97%) Risk Management
16 29 (11.20%) Matrix Organization
17 28 (10.81%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.77%) COBOL
1 2 (0.77%) RPG
2 1 (0.39%) C#
2 1 (0.39%) Korn
2 1 (0.39%) Python
2 1 (0.39%) SQL
2 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 203 (78.38%) PMI Certification
2 56 (21.62%) Degree
3 34 (13.13%) Security Cleared
4 26 (10.04%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.63%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.86%) CISSP
6 10 (3.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 7 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.32%) CISM
9 5 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.54%) APMP
10 4 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.77%) MBA
12 2 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.29%) PMO
2 16 (6.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.79%) GDPR
4 12 (4.63%) QA
5 11 (4.25%) NIST
6 10 (3.86%) P3O
6 10 (3.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.70%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.70%) GRC
8 5 (1.93%) GxP
8 5 (1.93%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.93%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.16%) GMP
9 3 (1.16%) SLA
10 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.77%) ITGC
10 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (6.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.54%) RSA Archer
2 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.09%) Oracle
4 7 (2.70%) CyberArk
4 7 (2.70%) Planview
5 6 (2.32%) SAP
6 5 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.93%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.54%) Google
7 4 (1.54%) VMware
8 3 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.16%) Cisco
8 3 (1.16%) Murex
8 3 (1.16%) Okta
9 2 (0.77%) IBM
9 2 (0.77%) NEC
9 2 (0.77%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.39%) Calypso
10 1 (0.39%) Juniper
10 1 (0.39%) Misys