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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 200 272
Rank change year-on-year -12 +72 +64
Contract jobs citing PMP 255 175 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.32% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.54% 5.03% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 117 66
10th Percentile £409 £396 £419
25th Percentile £440 £456 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £661 £713 £638
90th Percentile £750 £803 £735
England median daily rate £544 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -5.39% +9.52% -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 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -3.70% +28.57%

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 5,617 3,480 3,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.04% 26.21% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 2,345 2,684
10th Percentile £374 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £25.22 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -22.11% -41.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -8.36%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +2 48 £560 -6.47% 31
West London -4 15 £550 +7.32% 9
East London - 1 - - 5
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 7 (2.75%) Confluence
1 7 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.96%) CMS
2 5 (1.96%) IIS
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 27 (10.59%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.39%) Trello
7 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.18%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.39%) DELMIA
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 44 (17.25%) Azure
2 25 (9.80%) SaaS
3 22 (8.63%) AWS
4 17 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.49%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.10%) Smartsheet
7 10 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.96%) Asana
9 5 (1.96%) GCP
9 5 (1.96%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.96%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.57%) GitHub
11 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.78%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) Firewall
2 8 (3.14%) Network Security
3 5 (1.96%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.96%) LAN
3 5 (1.96%) WAN
4 4 (1.57%) 4G
4 4 (1.57%) 5G
5 3 (1.18%) Internet
5 3 (1.18%) VoLTE
5 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.78%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.78%) MPLS
6 2 (0.78%) NAS
6 2 (0.78%) SAN
6 2 (0.78%) SSL
6 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.39%) DNS
7 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.96%) Power BI
2 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.39%) Big Data
3 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (9.02%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (53.73%) Finance
2 121 (47.45%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.86%) Banking
4 26 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.41%) Marketing
6 18 (7.06%) Retail
7 17 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.71%) Legal
10 11 (4.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (4.31%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.14%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.75%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.75%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.57%) Front Office
14 4 (1.57%) Law
14 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.18%) Electronics
15 3 (1.18%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (58.04%) Project Manager
2 30 (11.76%) Senior
3 25 (9.80%) Senior Manager
4 24 (9.41%) IT Manager
4 24 (9.41%) Programme Manager
5 20 (7.84%) Senior Project Manager
5 20 (7.84%) Technical Manager
6 19 (7.45%) IT Project Manager
7 16 (6.27%) Delivery Manager
7 16 (6.27%) Lead
8 15 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
9 14 (5.49%) Analyst
9 14 (5.49%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (5.10%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.71%) Business Analyst
12 11 (4.31%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 11 (4.31%) Transformation Project Manager
13 10 (3.92%) Bid Manager
14 8 (3.14%) Business Manager
15 7 (2.75%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.35%) REST
2 4 (1.57%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.39%) ADO
3 1 (0.39%) Middleware
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.67%) PMI
3 14 (5.49%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.92%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.35%) Life Science
6 6 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.35%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.96%) FMCG
7 5 (1.96%) IoT
8 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.57%) CMDB
8 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.18%) CCTV
9 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.92%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (80.78%) PRINCE2
2 171 (67.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 166 (65.10%) Project Management
4 145 (56.86%) Agile
5 94 (36.86%) Project Delivery
6 73 (28.63%) Change Management
7 55 (21.57%) Programme Management
8 54 (21.18%) Decision-Making
8 54 (21.18%) Migration
9 47 (18.43%) Roadmaps
10 46 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (17.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 43 (16.86%) Scrum
13 42 (16.47%) Budget Management
14 36 (14.12%) Waterfall
15 34 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (13.33%) Risk Management
16 33 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
17 31 (12.16%) ITIL
18 27 (10.59%) AI
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.78%) COBOL
1 2 (0.78%) Python
1 2 (0.78%) RPG
1 2 (0.78%) SQL
2 1 (0.39%) Bash
2 1 (0.39%) C#
2 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 205 (80.39%) PMI Certification
2 56 (21.96%) Degree
3 33 (12.94%) Security Cleared
4 25 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 10 (3.92%) CISSP
8 8 (3.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.75%) CISM
9 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.57%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.18%) APMP
12 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.78%) CAPM
13 2 (0.78%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.55%) PMO
2 16 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.10%) GDPR
4 12 (4.71%) QA
5 11 (4.31%) NIST
6 10 (3.92%) P3O
7 9 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.14%) Data Quality
9 7 (2.75%) GRC
10 6 (2.35%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.96%) GxP
11 5 (1.96%) HIPAA
12 3 (1.18%) GMP
12 3 (1.18%) SLA
13 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.78%) ITGC
13 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.18%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.24%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.14%) Oracle
4 7 (2.75%) Planview
4 7 (2.75%) SAP
5 6 (2.35%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.96%) VMware
6 5 (1.96%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.57%) Cisco
7 4 (1.57%) Google
8 3 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.18%) Murex
9 2 (0.78%) IBM
9 2 (0.78%) NEC
9 2 (0.78%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.39%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.39%) Meraki
10 1 (0.39%) Splunk
10 1 (0.39%) Varonis