PMO Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Management Office (PMO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 110 113
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing PMO 220 405 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.72% 1.96% 2.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.67% 13.01% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 261 397
10th Percentile £250 £275 £255
25th Percentile £358 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £550
90th Percentile £639 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £473 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -0.53% -3.06% +4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 18
10th Percentile £30.33 - £22.35
25th Percentile £42.67 £13.50 £27.98
Median hourly rate £46.30 £24.50 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year +88.98% -23.16% +13.88%
75th Percentile £75.87 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £51.94 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £39.02 £35.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year +11.49% +3.70% -24.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,061 3,114 3,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.13% 15.04% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,822 2,393
10th Percentile £211 £254 £219
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 307 183
10th Percentile £17.72 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.53 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.00
90th Percentile £80.32 £67.43 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £20.61 £36.25
% change year-on-year +68.65% -43.16% +31.82%

PMO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PMO in the UK excluding London

PMO
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PMO in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East -10 51 £451 +8.55% 75
North of England -9 50 £464 -7.25% 49
Midlands +13 48 £500 - 22
West Midlands +17 40 £500 +11.11% 15
South West -31 30 £500 - 13
Scotland -24 27 £363 -3.33% 13
Yorkshire +7 24 £438 -2.78% 23
North West 0 22 £505 +1.00% 23
Northern Ireland - 10 £375 - 12
East of England +25 9 £580 +28.89% 10
East Midlands +7 8 £414 -30.42% 5
North East -16 4 £250 -50.00% 4
PMO
UK

PMO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (10.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.45%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 40 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (16.36%) Microsoft Project
3 27 (12.27%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (8.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.91%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 17 (7.73%) Azure
3 5 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (2.27%) SaaS
4 3 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.36%) Google Workspace
4 3 (1.36%) IaaS
4 3 (1.36%) PaaS
4 3 (1.36%) Smartsheet
4 3 (1.36%) Snowflake
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.91%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.45%) Asana
6 1 (0.45%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Firewall
1 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.55%) Power BI
2 4 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (10.45%) JIRA
General
1 104 (47.27%) Finance
2 95 (43.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.91%) Organisational Skills
3 24 (10.91%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.00%) Banking
7 9 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.64%) Retail
9 7 (3.18%) Local Government
10 6 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.73%) Law
11 5 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.82%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.82%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.82%) Marketing
13 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.91%) Legal
14 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (17.27%) Analyst
2 37 (16.82%) Project Manager
3 33 (15.00%) Lead
4 31 (14.09%) PMO Analyst
5 23 (10.45%) PMO Manager
6 22 (10.00%) PMO Lead
7 16 (7.27%) Senior
8 8 (3.64%) IT Manager
8 8 (3.64%) PMO Specialist
8 8 (3.64%) Project Officer
9 7 (3.18%) Coordinator
9 7 (3.18%) IT Project Manager
9 7 (3.18%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.18%) Project Coordinator
9 7 (3.18%) Senior PMO
9 7 (3.18%) Support Officer
10 6 (2.73%) Change Manager
10 6 (2.73%) PMO Project Manager
10 6 (2.73%) Project Support Officer
10 6 (2.73%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.91%) LDAP
1 2 (0.91%) OLE
1 2 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (0.91%) React
2 1 (0.45%) ADO
2 1 (0.45%) CSS
2 1 (0.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) PMI
2 9 (4.09%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.82%) NHS
5 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.91%) IoT
6 2 (0.91%) Life Science
6 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.45%) Derivative
7 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.45%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.45%) PKI
7 1 (0.45%) Tandem
7 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (40.45%) Project Management
2 81 (36.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 63 (28.64%) Agile
4 38 (17.27%) PRINCE2
5 37 (16.82%) Project Delivery
6 35 (15.91%) Change Management
7 33 (15.00%) Programme Management
8 30 (13.64%) Risk Management
9 26 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (11.36%) Change Control
11 22 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 22 (10.00%) Project Governance
12 21 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (9.55%) Portfolio Management
12 21 (9.55%) Project Planning
13 19 (8.64%) Waterfall
14 16 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 15 (6.82%) Resource Management
15 15 (6.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.82%) VB
2 3 (1.36%) Java
2 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
3 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.00%) Degree
2 22 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 16 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.00%) PMP
5 7 (3.18%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.18%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.91%) APMP
6 2 (0.91%) ISEB
6 2 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) QA
2 10 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.27%) P3O
4 3 (1.36%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (0.45%) SCCM
1 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.73%) SAP
3 8 (3.64%) Oracle
4 4 (1.82%) Google
5 2 (0.91%) Anaplan
5 2 (0.91%) Ariba
5 2 (0.91%) Hyperion
5 2 (0.91%) Planview
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe
6 1 (0.45%) NEC
6 1 (0.45%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.45%) Snow
6 1 (0.45%) Veeam
6 1 (0.45%) Workday