P3O Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) Guidance
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring P3O skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing P3O 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.32% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £388 £625 -
% change year-on-year -38.00% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Merseyside

P3O 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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 37 32 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.75% 16.16% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 10
10th Percentile £274 £224 £173
25th Percentile £300 £292 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -1.39% +9.09%
75th Percentile £547 £544 £500
90th Percentile £735 £659 £600
North West median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.25
25th Percentile - - £18.57
Median hourly rate - - £19.13
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.30%
75th Percentile - - £19.67
90th Percentile - - £19.98
North West median hourly rate £60.50 £63.40 £23.14
% change year-on-year -4.57% +174.04% -24.25%

P3O
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing P3O relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

P3O job vacancy trend in Merseyside

P3O
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing P3O.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing P3O

P3O
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing P3O within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Liverpool - 1 - - 2
P3O
North West

P3O
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft