PMO Manager Contract Job Trends

Project Management Office Manager
UK

The median Project Management Office Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 480 537
Rank change year-on-year -65 +57 +127
Contract jobs requiring a PMO Manager 47 63 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 50
10th Percentile £405 £348 £398
25th Percentile £453 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £519
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.20% +3.75%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £637 £643 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £33.77 £29.24
25th Percentile - £43.93 £30.65
Median hourly rate - £61.71 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - +86.98% -5.71%
75th Percentile - £62.99 £51.75
90th Percentile - £63.26 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year - +86.98% -5.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,704 31,327 40,582
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.78% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,320 19,249 27,284
10th Percentile £293 £300 £285
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,988 974 1,449
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.56 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.33 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% -26.67% +48.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.32 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

PMO Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PMO Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PMO Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

PMO Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PMO Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PMO Manager job vacancies in the UK

PMO Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO Manager over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO Manager in the UK

PMO Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for PMO Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for PMO Manager job vacancies in the UK

PMO Manager
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 23 December 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 -52 38 £500 -4.76% 8
UK excluding London -57 22 £465 -7.00% 8
London -9 21 £500 -16.49% 2
Work from Home -6 15 £543 -1.36% 5
Midlands -40 7 £488 -17.02% 1
Scotland +5 6 £463 -7.50% 1
West Midlands -31 5 £520 -11.49% 1
North of England -52 3 £463 -1.60% 1
South East -18 2 £450 +29.50% 4
East of England -23 2 £470 +84.31%
Yorkshire -46 2 £463 -6.57%
East Midlands - 2 £451 -
South West - 2 £675 - 1
North West -29 1 - -

PMO Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, PMO Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PMO Manager in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) PMO
2 19 (40.43%) Project Management
2 19 (40.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (31.91%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) Microsoft Excel
5 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (23.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (21.28%) PRINCE2
6 10 (21.28%) Programme Governance
6 10 (21.28%) Waterfall
7 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
7 9 (19.15%) Project Delivery
8 8 (17.02%) Change Management
8 8 (17.02%) JIRA
8 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (14.89%) PMI Certification
9 7 (14.89%) Programme Management
9 7 (14.89%) Resource Management
9 7 (14.89%) Risk Management
10 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
10 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (12.77%) PMP
10 6 (12.77%) Power BI
10 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
10 6 (12.77%) Project Governance
11 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
11 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.64%) Programme Delivery
11 5 (10.64%) SAP

PMO Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.51%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (2.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.13%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.13%) Azure
2 1 (2.13%) dbt
2 1 (2.13%) GitHub
2 1 (2.13%) Google Workspace
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
2 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Intranet
1 1 (2.13%) LAN
1 1 (2.13%) VPN
1 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 27 (57.45%) Finance
2 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Retail
6 3 (6.38%) Spanish Language
7 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Billing
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.13%) PMI
2 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Project Management
1 19 (40.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (31.91%) Agile
3 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (21.28%) PRINCE2
4 10 (21.28%) Programme Governance
4 10 (21.28%) Waterfall
5 9 (19.15%) Project Delivery
6 8 (17.02%) Change Management
6 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (14.89%) Programme Management
7 7 (14.89%) Resource Management
7 7 (14.89%) Risk Management
8 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.77%) Project Governance
9 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.64%) Programme Delivery
10 4 (8.51%) Budgeting
10 4 (8.51%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) PMI Certification
2 6 (12.77%) PMP
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
3 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) APMG
5 1 (2.13%) APMP
5 1 (2.13%) CISM
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (100.00%) PMO
2 4 (8.51%) QA
3 3 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (6.38%) SLA
4 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.26%) P3O
5 1 (2.13%) GDPR
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.13%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) SAP
3 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Planview
5 2 (4.26%) Ariba
5 2 (4.26%) BMC
5 2 (4.26%) Remedy
6 1 (2.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) IFS
6 1 (2.13%) Workday