PMO Contracts in Manchester

Project Management Office (PMO)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring PMO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMO over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 78 78
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +28
Contract jobs citing PMO 7 18 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 1.19% 2.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.11% 7.38% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 34
10th Percentile £359 £164 £295
25th Percentile £395 £195 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £288 £500
Median % change year-on-year +78.26% -42.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £566 £394 £550
90th Percentile £625 £473 £596
North West median daily rate £505 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.92 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.60% -
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £65.92 £32.77
% change year-on-year -51.82% +101.16% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

PMO falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 244 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.79% 16.08% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 191
10th Percentile £360 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £708 £713 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.84 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.11 £13.19 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £37.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.07% +65.03% +80.00%
75th Percentile £55.06 £68.78 £39.60
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.14 £63.84
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for PMO in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Audenshaw - 1 £500 -
PMO
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) PMO Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Programme Planner
2 1 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Implementation Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP PMO Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Programme Planner
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Data Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Logistics
2 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
2 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) SAP