PMO Contract Job Trends

Project Management Office (PMO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 191 142
Rank change year-on-year +6 -49 -8
Contract jobs citing PMO 648 417 755
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.38% 1.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.77% 9.21% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 257 517
10th Percentile £286 £304 £305
25th Percentile £363 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £688 £651 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £464
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.38% +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 18
10th Percentile £15.60 £23.70 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.79 £30.99 £23.01
Median hourly rate £24.13 £39.04 £31.65
Median % change year-on-year -38.20% +23.35% -19.73%
75th Percentile £64.79 £55.51 £61.50
90th Percentile £73.02 £77.08 £73.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.98 £46.30 £31.65
% change year-on-year -61.17% +46.29% -6.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,389 4,529 6,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.36% 14.96% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,756 2,799 4,114
10th Percentile £325 £260 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £476
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.21% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 175 370
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.73 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.75 £14.49
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +27.04% -28.57%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.67 £78.44 £71.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.98% +27.04% -21.59%

PMO
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PMO job vacancy trend in the UK

PMO
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PMO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PMO

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PMO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PMO

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PMO in the UK

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Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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 +15 578 £495 +7.03% 166
UK excluding London -6 354 £450 -5.26% 153
London +15 239 £500 +17.65% 41
Work from Home +28 187 £488 +4.00% 111
South East +37 147 £500 +10.99% 35
Midlands -40 72 £393 -17.54% 29
West Midlands -34 59 £400 -20.00% 25
North of England -46 58 £423 -15.44% 35
Yorkshire -49 34 £438 -2.67% 13
South West -36 27 £410 -18.00% 16
Scotland +5 22 £400 +6.67% 15
North West -39 22 £375 -25.74% 21
East of England -22 19 £493 -5.06% 17
East Midlands -26 14 £309 -25.36% 4
Northern Ireland -2 7 £525 +75.00% 3
Wales 0 4 £435 - 6
North East -10 2 £450 -15.49% 3

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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 91 (14.04%) SharePoint
2 41 (6.33%) Confluence
3 3 (0.46%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 201 (31.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (21.76%) Microsoft Project
3 106 (16.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (15.12%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (2.93%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (4.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.16%) Primavera
3 8 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.46%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.31%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 101 (15.59%) Power Platform
2 49 (7.56%) Azure
3 26 (4.01%) AWS
4 21 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (1.54%) OCI
7 9 (1.39%) Smartsheet
8 7 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.08%) SaaS
8 7 (1.08%) Serverless
8 7 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.77%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.62%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.62%) GCP
11 4 (0.62%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.46%) PaaS
12 3 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.31%) Firewall
2 11 (1.70%) Wireless
3 5 (0.77%) LAN
3 5 (0.77%) WAN
4 4 (0.62%) Network Security
4 4 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.46%) DNS
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) Intranet
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (15.12%) Power BI
2 16 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (1.85%) Tableau
4 10 (1.54%) Power Query
5 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.62%) PowerPivot
6 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.46%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) Metadata
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.15%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 126 (19.44%) JIRA
2 10 (1.54%) Burp Suite
2 10 (1.54%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.15%) Hudson
3 1 (0.15%) LSMW
General
1 323 (49.85%) Finance
2 283 (43.67%) Social Skills
3 131 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (13.12%) Organisational Skills
5 70 (10.80%) Public Sector
6 46 (7.10%) Banking
7 29 (4.48%) Legal
8 26 (4.01%) Manufacturing
8 26 (4.01%) Retail
9 25 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.93%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.16%) Investment Banking
14 13 (2.01%) Marketing
15 11 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.23%) Local Government
17 7 (1.08%) Electronics
18 6 (0.93%) Military
19 5 (0.77%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 139 (21.45%) Analyst
2 128 (19.75%) Project Manager
3 108 (16.67%) PMO Analyst
4 91 (14.04%) Lead
5 65 (10.03%) PMO Lead
6 50 (7.72%) PMO Manager
7 40 (6.17%) Senior
8 28 (4.32%) Coordinator
9 21 (3.24%) SAP Manager
10 20 (3.09%) IT Manager
10 20 (3.09%) Programme Manager
10 20 (3.09%) Project Planner
11 19 (2.93%) Consultant
11 19 (2.93%) Support Officer
12 18 (2.78%) SAP Project Manager
13 17 (2.62%) IT Project Manager
14 15 (2.31%) Junior
14 15 (2.31%) Project Coordinator
14 15 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 15 (2.31%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.93%) ADO
3 3 (0.46%) Node.js
4 2 (0.31%) Middleware
4 2 (0.31%) Web Services
5 1 (0.15%) FHIR
5 1 (0.15%) JDO
5 1 (0.15%) Kafka
5 1 (0.15%) REST
5 1 (0.15%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.86%) Onboarding
2 30 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 27 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 22 (3.40%) PMI
5 15 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.54%) NHS
9 7 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.77%) FMCG
11 5 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.77%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.62%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.46%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.46%) IVR
13 3 (0.46%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.47%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) pSOS
2 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (35.65%) Project Management
2 199 (30.71%) Agile
3 185 (28.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 159 (24.54%) Project Delivery
5 133 (20.52%) PRINCE2
6 119 (18.36%) Decision-Making
7 108 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 104 (16.05%) Business Intelligence
9 97 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 84 (12.96%) Risk Management
12 76 (11.73%) Project Governance
13 73 (11.27%) Waterfall
14 71 (10.96%) Change Management
15 67 (10.34%) Portfolio Management
16 63 (9.72%) Change Control
16 63 (9.72%) Programme Management
17 53 (8.18%) ERP
18 52 (8.02%) Project Planning
19 48 (7.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (3.55%) SQL
2 10 (1.54%) Python
3 8 (1.23%) VB
4 7 (1.08%) VBA
5 6 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.46%) Java
6 3 (0.46%) Korn
7 1 (0.15%) ABAP
7 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (16.51%) Degree
2 106 (16.36%) Security Cleared
3 77 (11.88%) PMI Certification
4 72 (11.11%) PMP
5 70 (10.80%) SC Cleared
6 33 (5.09%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.16%) APMP
8 11 (1.70%) Postgraduate
9 10 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.54%) CHECK Team Member
9 10 (1.54%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.54%) Cyber Scheme
10 9 (1.39%) CISSP
11 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.62%) CISA
13 4 (0.62%) CISM
13 4 (0.62%) MAPM
14 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.33%) QA
2 22 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.40%) GDPR
3 21 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.62%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.31%) SLA
6 14 (2.16%) P3O
7 11 (1.70%) NIST
8 7 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.93%) GRC
10 4 (0.62%) MiFID
10 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.46%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) COBIT
12 2 (0.31%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (1.54%) Nmap
2 3 (0.46%) Terraform
3 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.15%) logstash
4 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 119 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 70 (10.80%) SAP
3 40 (6.17%) Oracle
4 25 (3.86%) Planview
5 21 (3.24%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.62%) Cisco
7 16 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.08%) Dell
9 5 (0.77%) Databricks
9 5 (0.77%) IFS
10 4 (0.62%) Ariba
10 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.62%) Pega
10 4 (0.62%) Workday
11 3 (0.46%) Arista
11 3 (0.46%) Avaya
11 3 (0.46%) BT
11 3 (0.46%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.46%) Genesys
11 3 (0.46%) GoldenSource
200 PMO jobs Nationwide