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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 239 291
Rank change year-on-year +17 +52 +54
Contract jobs citing PMP 173 116 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 0.86% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.91% 3.40% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 77 75
10th Percentile £400 £413 £378
25th Percentile £463 £465 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £608 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +1.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £660
90th Percentile £746 £885 £820
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £23.05
25th Percentile - - £23.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £25.75
75th Percentile - - £27.06
90th Percentile - - £27.25
England median hourly rate £73.38 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year +138.39% +18.38% -50.71%

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 4,426 3,409 4,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.25% 25.24% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,116 2,134 3,012
10th Percentile £358 £351 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 61 127
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.37 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.91% +3.25% +1.96%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -14 30 £588 -6.75% 6
West London -16 4 £500 -2.44% 1
South London - 4 £500 -
East London - 2 £495 - 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 11 (6.36%) Confluence
1 11 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.16%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (11.56%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.73%) Trello
6 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.31%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (2.31%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.16%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.16%) DELMIA
4 2 (1.16%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.16%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.58%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.58%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.58%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.58%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.61%) Azure
2 17 (9.83%) AWS
3 12 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.47%) Smartsheet
6 5 (2.89%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.31%) SaaS
8 3 (1.73%) OCI
9 2 (1.16%) Asana
9 2 (1.16%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.16%) IaaS
9 2 (1.16%) Miro
9 2 (1.16%) PaaS
9 2 (1.16%) Slack
9 2 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.47%) WAN
2 5 (2.89%) LAN
2 5 (2.89%) Network Security
3 3 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.16%) Firewall
4 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.16%) VLAN
4 2 (1.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) Intranet
5 1 (0.58%) Multicast
5 1 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.36%) Power BI
2 6 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.16%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.58%) MySQL
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (14.45%) JIRA
General
1 108 (62.43%) Social Skills
2 87 (50.29%) Finance
3 33 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (18.50%) Banking
5 19 (10.98%) Legal
6 17 (9.83%) Retail
7 15 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (8.09%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.20%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.05%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.89%) Marketing
12 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.31%) Front Office
12 4 (2.31%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.31%) Law
12 4 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.73%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.73%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 121 (69.94%) Project Manager
2 24 (13.87%) Lead
3 23 (13.29%) Senior
4 20 (11.56%) Senior Manager
5 16 (9.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 16 (9.25%) Senior Project Manager
6 14 (8.09%) Analyst
6 14 (8.09%) IT Manager
6 14 (8.09%) IT Project Manager
7 13 (7.51%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 12 (6.94%) Technical Manager
9 11 (6.36%) Business Analyst
10 10 (5.78%) Lead Project Manager
10 10 (5.78%) Technical Project Manager
11 8 (4.62%) Banking Project Manager
11 8 (4.62%) Migration Manager
11 8 (4.62%) Payments Project Manager
11 8 (4.62%) SAP Manager
11 8 (4.62%) SAP Project Manager
11 8 (4.62%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.89%) XML
2 4 (2.31%) Middleware
3 3 (1.73%) ADO
3 3 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.16%) REST
4 2 (1.16%) SOAP
4 2 (1.16%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.58%) .NET
5 1 (0.58%) EDI
5 1 (0.58%) RESTful
5 1 (0.58%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.94%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.62%) PMI
3 6 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.31%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.73%) Derivative
6 3 (1.73%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.73%) Life Science
6 3 (1.73%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.16%) CCTV
7 2 (1.16%) FMCG
7 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.31%) Linux
1 4 (2.31%) Windows
2 2 (1.16%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) VMS
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (78.03%) PRINCE2
2 131 (75.72%) Project Management
3 112 (64.74%) Agile
4 104 (60.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 64 (36.99%) Project Delivery
6 50 (28.90%) Risk Management
7 47 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (24.86%) Migration
9 39 (22.54%) Change Management
10 37 (21.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (17.92%) Programme Management
12 30 (17.34%) Scrum
13 28 (16.18%) Project Governance
14 24 (13.87%) Decision-Making
15 23 (13.29%) Budget Management
16 21 (12.14%) Resource Allocation
16 21 (12.14%) Waterfall
17 19 (10.98%) Project Planning
18 18 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 16 (9.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.20%) SQL
2 2 (1.16%) Korn
2 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.58%) Java
3 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 148 (85.55%) PMI Certification
2 68 (39.31%) Degree
3 14 (8.09%) Master's Degree
4 12 (6.94%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.36%) APMP
5 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.05%) CISSP
8 6 (3.47%) CISM
8 6 (3.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.31%) MBA
10 3 (1.73%) CAPM
10 3 (1.73%) CCNA
10 3 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.73%) CRISC
10 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.16%) IIBA
11 2 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.45%) PMO
2 21 (12.14%) QA
3 20 (11.56%) GDPR
4 12 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (6.36%) NIST
6 7 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.89%) Basel III
8 3 (1.73%) GAAP
8 3 (1.73%) IFRS
8 3 (1.73%) IFRS 9
8 3 (1.73%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.16%) EMIR
9 2 (1.16%) GMP
9 2 (1.16%) IFRS 17
9 2 (1.16%) MiFID
10 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.58%) GRC
10 1 (0.58%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.58%) PowerHA
1 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (12.14%) SAP
2 19 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.67%) Oracle
4 12 (6.94%) Workday
5 8 (4.62%) CyberArk
6 7 (4.05%) Planview
7 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.31%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.73%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.73%) Informatica
9 3 (1.73%) Remedy
10 2 (1.16%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.16%) Cisco
10 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.58%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.58%) Concur
11 1 (0.58%) FIS
11 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.58%) UiPath