PMP Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 26 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing PMP 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.29% 1.08% 1.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.61% 1.83% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £450 £393
% change year-on-year +27.78% +14.65% -13.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate - £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +84.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 164 109 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 46.99% 58.92% 47.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 79 48
10th Percentile £405 - £337
25th Percentile £459 £200 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +3.70% +1.25%
75th Percentile £646 £556 £693
90th Percentile £685 - £850
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 14 18
10th Percentile £46.59 £25.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £25.15 £53.40
Median hourly rate £60.00 £33.08 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +81.41% -42.33% -4.42%
75th Percentile £64.19 £56.56 £70.94
90th Percentile £65.58 £59.63 £92.11
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +138.57% -56.15% -4.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

PMP job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing PMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing PMP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing PMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing PMP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cutover Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation