PgMP Contracts

PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PgMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 592 -
Rank change year-on-year +77 - -
Contract jobs citing PgMP 4 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.018% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% 0.060% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £531 £612 -
25th Percentile £551 £749 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £825 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.18% - -
75th Percentile £626 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

PgMP 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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

PgMP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PgMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PgMP in the UK

PgMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PgMP.

Daily rate trend for PgMP in the UK

PgMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PgMP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PgMP in the UK

PgMP
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PgMP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +59 4 £593 -28.18% 8
UK excluding London +53 2 £650 - 5
South East +43 2 £650 -
London +32 2 £535 -35.15% 3
Work from Home - 2 £535 - 9

PgMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Asana
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Measurement
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (75.00%) PMP
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CAPM
3 1 (25.00%) CISA
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow