PMO Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Project Management Office (PMO)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing PMO 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.74% - 1.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.55% - 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £324 - £572
25th Percentile £332 - £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 - £594
Median % change year-on-year - - +58.33%
75th Percentile £367 - £605
90th Percentile £369 - £606
South West median daily rate £411 £500 £467
% change year-on-year -17.85% +7.00% +1.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 44 28 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 16.24% 20.29% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 25
10th Percentile - £451 £211
25th Percentile £263 £525 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £600
90th Percentile £584 £755 £619
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £60.15 - -
25th Percentile £60.38 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £13.26 £12.24
Median % change year-on-year +363.80% +8.33% -75.52%
75th Percentile £63.38 - £12.82
90th Percentile £64.05 - £35.13
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +44.44% -27.42%

PMO
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

PMO job vacancy trend in Somerset

PMO
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing PMO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing PMO

PMO
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing PMO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing PMO

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Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
Bridgwater - 1 £370 - 5
PMO
South West

PMO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JDO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft