PMP Contracts in the Thames Valley

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 86 129 140
Rank change year-on-year +43 +11 -36
Contract jobs citing PMP 16 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% 0.60% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.93% 1.45% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 8
10th Percentile £416 £446 £428
25th Percentile £455 £456 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% +26.47%
75th Percentile £663 £645 £599
90th Percentile £700 - £630
South East median daily rate £513 £545 £535
% change year-on-year -5.96% +1.87% +18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £87.05 - -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -1.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

PMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for PMP 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 PMP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PMP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for PMP 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 PMP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PMP 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 PMP 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 +34 13 £463 -2.63% 9
Oxfordshire +7 3 £700 - 4
PMP
South East

PMP
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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (12.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.25%) Lucidchart
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (12.50%) Agriculture
5 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Electronics
6 1 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Finance Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Finance Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) HR Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) OSS Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Payroll Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Transformation Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Financial Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Life Science
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) PMI
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Project Management
1 12 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (62.50%) PRINCE2
4 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Risk Management
5 6 (37.50%) Migration
5 6 (37.50%) Project Delivery
5 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (31.25%) Change Management
7 4 (25.00%) Analytics
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
7 4 (25.00%) Project Planning
8 3 (18.75%) ITIL
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Resource Management
8 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
8 3 (18.75%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 8 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
4 2 (12.50%) CISSP
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) CISA
5 1 (6.25%) CISM
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (6.25%) MBA
5 1 (6.25%) PgMP
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Certification
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) COBIT
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Cramer
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 2 (12.50%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow