PMO Contracts in the Thames Valley

Project Management Office (PMO)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 72 88 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -21
Contract jobs citing PMO 30 57 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.99% 2.12% 2.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.90% 12.23% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 44
10th Percentile £255 £208 £304
25th Percentile £363 £338 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £550 £508 £550
90th Percentile £694 £550 £796
South East median daily rate £451 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +8.55% -7.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.05
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate £46.30 - £24.50
75th Percentile - - £27.13
90th Percentile - - £27.35
South East median hourly rate £46.30 - £24.50
% change year-on-year - - -24.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 303 466 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.05% 17.35% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 246 261
10th Percentile £300 £180 £252
25th Percentile £412 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 15
10th Percentile £29.62 £18.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.30 £22.50 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.50 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.62% +19.57% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66.56 £65.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £66.50 £65.66
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PMO in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +8 23 £401 +0.13% 14
Oxfordshire +8 5 £588 +95.83% 5
Buckinghamshire +9 2 £375 -16.46% 5
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Local Government
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Police
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Administrator
2 4 (13.33%) PMO Administrator
2 4 (13.33%) Project Planner
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Coordinator
3 3 (10.00%) Digital Transformation
3 3 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) PMO Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Integration Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Junior
5 1 (3.33%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Programme Director
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Project Management
3 6 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 6 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
4 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) Change Management
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 3 (10.00%) Backlog Management
6 3 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (10.00%) Change Control
6 3 (10.00%) Coaching
6 3 (10.00%) Cost Management
6 3 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 3 (10.00%) Gantt Chart
6 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.00%) Project Governance
6 3 (10.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) ISEB
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe
4 1 (3.33%) NEC