PMO Contracts in the South West

Project Management Office (PMO)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 81 64 104
Rank change year-on-year -17 +40 +10
Contract jobs citing PMO 30 100 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.79% 3.13% 1.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.68% 17.42% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 63 55
10th Percentile £281 £309 £223
25th Percentile £306 £390 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +0.56%
75th Percentile £650 £569 £544
90th Percentile £900 £600 £600
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -56.25% +14.29%
England median hourly rate £39.04 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -21.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 281 574 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.94% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 336 296
10th Percentile £306 £263 £200
25th Percentile £400 £409 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% +7.63%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 57 44
10th Percentile £36.50 £12.41 £17.65
25th Percentile £62.50 £14.00 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -30.31% -5.84%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £79.81
90th Percentile £77.96 £72.53 £83.40
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in the South West.

Daily rate trend for PMO in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the South West 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
Bristol +11 16 £363 -25.05% 7
Gloucestershire -4 7 £900 +80.00% 11
Wiltshire +14 5 £650 +26.83% 2
Dorset +3 2 £313 -10.71% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (23.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Local Government
5 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Avionics
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Programme Controller
3 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Security Officer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior PMO
4 2 (6.67%) Coordinator
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Junior
4 2 (6.67%) Junior PMO
4 2 (6.67%) PMO Lead
4 2 (6.67%) PMO Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (6.67%) Project Officer
4 2 (6.67%) Workstream Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (10.00%) Agile
3 3 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 3 (10.00%) Change Control
3 3 (10.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 3 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (10.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (6.67%) Asset Management
4 2 (6.67%) Change Management
4 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (6.67%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (6.67%) Programme Governance
4 2 (6.67%) Project Governance
4 2 (6.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Def Stans
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.33%) PMBOK
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) SAP