PMO Contracts in Scotland

Project Management Office (PMO)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 88 69 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 +29 -37
Contract jobs citing PMO 28 61 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.72% 2.75% 2.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.86% 14.63% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 54
10th Percentile £230 £269 £254
25th Percentile £310 £293 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £405
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £494 £438 £475
90th Percentile £567 £488 £546
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +7.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 284 417 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.48% 18.81% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 259 479
10th Percentile £192 £191 £213
25th Percentile £363 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £550
90th Percentile £605 £610 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 3
10th Percentile £18.53 £15.32 £26.25
25th Percentile £21.90 £16.18 £34.30
Median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%
75th Percentile £49.19 £51.28 £50.74
90th Percentile £75.28 £60.75 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PMO in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PMO in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for PMO in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -14 14 £375 - 2
Edinburgh +3 11 £340 -20.00% 3
Perthshire - 2 - -
Perth and Kinross - 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (3.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Local Government
5 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) PMO Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 5 (17.86%) PMO Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Compliance Manager
5 2 (7.14%) PMO Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) PMO Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Release Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Support Officer
6 1 (3.57%) Governance Manager
6 1 (3.57%) PMO Officer
6 1 (3.57%) Portfolio Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Portfolio Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Portfolio Office Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Project Control Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Project Officer
6 1 (3.57%) Project Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) PMI
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Project Management
3 9 (32.14%) Project Delivery
4 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2
5 6 (21.43%) Programme Management
5 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Portfolio Management
7 4 (14.29%) Budgeting
7 4 (14.29%) Change Management
7 4 (14.29%) Coaching
7 4 (14.29%) Community of Practice
7 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.71%) Project Governance
8 3 (10.71%) Project Planning
8 3 (10.71%) Time Management
8 3 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) ISEB
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (7.14%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft