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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 208 284
Rank change year-on-year -18 +76 +89
Contract jobs citing PMP 220 167 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.24% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.02% 4.80% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 116 72
10th Percentile £413 £381 £413
25th Percentile £440 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £661 £725 £656
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £51.98 - £22.90
25th Percentile £52.69 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.25 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +169.23% -
75th Percentile £57.69 - £26.50
90th Percentile £58.33 - £26.95
England median hourly rate £83.00 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.67% +188.46% -55.74%

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 5,479 3,477 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.73% 25.73% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,950 2,349 2,878
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -5.41%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £771
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 81 102
10th Percentile £19.42 £18.82 £15.58
25th Percentile £27.56 £25.04 £20.62
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -2.33% -52.31%
75th Percentile £73.19 £50.00 £42.38
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.57 £68.68
England median hourly rate £53.90 £27.85 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.54% -34.47% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 45 £675 +8.00% 28
West London -13 7 £550 +11.39% 4
East London - 1 - - 4
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 (3.18%) Confluence
1 7 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.27%) IIS
3 3 (1.36%) CMS
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 23 (10.45%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (4.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.91%) Trello
7 1 (0.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.36%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.91%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.45%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.45%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.45%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.45%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.45%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.45%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.64%) Azure
2 22 (10.00%) AWS
3 20 (9.09%) SaaS
4 16 (7.27%) Smartsheet
5 14 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (5.45%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.27%) Asana
7 5 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.82%) GCP
9 3 (1.36%) GitHub
9 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.91%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.27%) HTTPS
1 5 (2.27%) Network Security
2 4 (1.82%) Firewall
2 4 (1.82%) LAN
2 4 (1.82%) WAN
3 3 (1.36%) 4G
3 3 (1.36%) 5G
3 3 (1.36%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.91%) Internet
4 2 (0.91%) VLAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
1 2 (0.91%) Power BI
2 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (9.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) GitLab
2 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
General
1 106 (48.18%) Finance
2 94 (42.73%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.27%) Banking
4 23 (10.45%) Marketing
5 18 (8.18%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.82%) Legal
7 14 (6.36%) Retail
8 11 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.18%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.18%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.27%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.27%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.36%) Advertising
12 3 (1.36%) Electronics
13 2 (0.91%) Automotive
13 2 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 145 (65.91%) Project Manager
2 29 (13.18%) Senior
3 25 (11.36%) Senior Manager
4 21 (9.55%) Senior Project Manager
5 19 (8.64%) Technical Manager
6 16 (7.27%) IT Manager
6 16 (7.27%) IT Project Manager
6 16 (7.27%) Programme Manager
6 16 (7.27%) Technical Project Manager
7 14 (6.36%) Infrastructure Manager
8 13 (5.91%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 12 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
9 12 (5.45%) Lead
10 10 (4.55%) IAM Project Manager
10 10 (4.55%) Transformation Manager
11 9 (4.09%) Migration Manager
11 9 (4.09%) Migration Project Manager
11 9 (4.09%) Transformation Project Manager
12 8 (3.64%) Business Manager
12 8 (3.64%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.18%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.73%) REST
3 2 (0.91%) ADO
3 2 (0.91%) Middleware
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.09%) PMI
2 11 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.18%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.73%) Life Science
5 6 (2.73%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.82%) CMDB
7 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.36%) CCTV
8 3 (1.36%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.36%) FMCG
8 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) AS400
9 2 (0.91%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.91%) IoT
10 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (75.45%) PRINCE2
2 152 (69.09%) Project Management
3 136 (61.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 126 (57.27%) Agile
5 83 (37.73%) Project Delivery
6 60 (27.27%) Change Management
7 50 (22.73%) Migration
8 48 (21.82%) Decision-Making
9 43 (19.55%) Programme Management
10 36 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 34 (15.45%) Waterfall
12 31 (14.09%) Matrix Organization
13 30 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (13.64%) Project Governance
14 29 (13.18%) Scrum
15 26 (11.82%) DevOps
15 26 (11.82%) ITIL
15 26 (11.82%) Roadmaps
16 25 (11.36%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.91%) COBOL
1 2 (0.91%) RPG
2 1 (0.45%) Korn
2 1 (0.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (80.00%) PMI Certification
2 48 (21.82%) Degree
3 23 (10.45%) Security Cleared
4 16 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.55%) CISSP
6 9 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.73%) CISM
8 6 (2.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 5 (2.27%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.82%) APMP
10 4 (1.82%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.82%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.36%) CAPM
11 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.91%) MBA
12 2 (0.91%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.91%) PMO
2 21 (9.55%) GDPR
3 16 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (6.36%) QA
5 12 (5.45%) NIST
6 8 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (3.18%) GRC
7 7 (3.18%) P3O
8 6 (2.73%) Data Quality
9 5 (2.27%) GxP
9 5 (2.27%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.27%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.82%) SLA
11 3 (1.36%) GMP
11 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.45%) ITGC
13 1 (0.45%) MiFID
13 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.82%) RSA Archer
2 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.64%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.00%) Oracle
3 11 (5.00%) SAP
4 10 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 7 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.73%) Planview
7 5 (2.27%) Cisco
8 4 (1.82%) Google
8 4 (1.82%) Okta
8 4 (1.82%) VMware
8 4 (1.82%) Workday
9 2 (0.91%) IBM
9 2 (0.91%) Murex
9 2 (0.91%) NEC
9 2 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.91%) Splunk
9 2 (0.91%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.45%) Misys
10 1 (0.45%) Siebel