PMO Contracts in Reading

Project Management Office (PMO)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 48 53 66
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -31
Contract jobs citing PMO 12 38 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 3.19% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.04% 21.47% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 16
10th Percentile £187 £171 £350
25th Percentile £286 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £413 £390
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £394 £512 £455
90th Percentile £450 £541 £513
Berkshire median daily rate £401 £400 £433
% change year-on-year +0.13% -7.51% -3.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 92 177 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.41% 14.85% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 85 77
10th Percentile £308 £313 £363
25th Percentile £363 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +7.36%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 - £723
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.80
25th Percentile - - £31.75
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +221.43%
75th Percentile - - £60.38
90th Percentile - - £69.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -5.39% +217.07% -2.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for PMO in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for PMO in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for PMO in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Administrator
1 4 (33.33%) PMO Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Commercial Director
3 1 (8.33%) Coordinator
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) PMO Lead
3 1 (8.33%) PMO Manager
3 1 (8.33%) PMO Planner
3 1 (8.33%) Portfolio Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Director
3 1 (8.33%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (8.33%) Project Planner
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Portfolio Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Artefact Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
4 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) ISEB
1 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) NEC