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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 186 142
Rank change year-on-year +32 -44 -2
Contract jobs citing PMO 795 424 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.45% 1.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.94% 9.24% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 277 471
10th Percentile £300 £275 £300
25th Percentile £370 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -4.28%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £583
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £464 £450
% change year-on-year -2.96% +3.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 15
10th Percentile £20.08 - £13.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £18.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £47.81 £39.04 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% +11.54% +7.69%
75th Percentile £72.96 £48.78 £52.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £77.08 £65.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £46.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year +38.23% +88.98% -20.72%

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 7,998 4,588 6,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.80% 15.65% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,159 2,929 3,922
10th Percentile £339 £263 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £486
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.26% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 179 384
10th Percentile £14.23 £18.04 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £13.18
Median hourly rate £34.50 £34.50 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year - +63.84% -39.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.97 £83.01 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.75 £46.30 £18.06
% change year-on-year -20.63% +156.44% -44.45%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +33 719 £475 - 202
UK excluding London +18 429 £450 -2.96% 155
London +52 298 £500 +8.40% 73
Work from Home +29 232 £463 +7.25% 99
South East +30 161 £500 +10.99% 47
North of England -17 97 £408 -12.10% 46
Midlands -34 89 £315 -37.00% 24
West Midlands -28 71 £315 -37.00% 16
North West -17 47 £380 -24.75% 20
Yorkshire -35 46 £438 +0.11% 18
South West -31 33 £410 -18.00% 16
Scotland 0 27 £413 +13.79% 5
East Midlands -18 19 £353 -14.79% 8
East of England -26 17 £510 -12.07% 15
Northern Ireland -3 6 £525 +40.00% 1
North East -19 4 £450 +80.00% 8
Wales - 1 - - 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 88 (11.07%) SharePoint
2 51 (6.42%) Confluence
3 3 (0.38%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 204 (25.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 143 (17.99%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (13.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 89 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (2.26%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (5.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.76%) Primavera
3 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.88%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.88%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.63%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.25%) SAP PP
10 1 (0.13%) Actimize
10 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle HRMS
10 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.13%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 101 (12.70%) Power Platform
2 60 (7.55%) Azure
3 33 (4.15%) AWS
4 23 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (2.01%) Smartsheet
7 10 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (1.26%) Serverless
7 10 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 7 (0.88%) SaaS
10 6 (0.75%) GCP
11 5 (0.63%) OCI
11 5 (0.63%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.50%) ClickUp
12 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.14%) Firewall
2 10 (1.26%) Wireless
3 6 (0.75%) Network Security
4 3 (0.38%) DNS
4 3 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.38%) WAN
5 2 (0.25%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) Broadband
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) PABX
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (12.58%) Power BI
2 16 (2.01%) Tableau
3 10 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (1.26%) Power Query
4 7 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.75%) PowerPivot
6 3 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.38%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.25%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.25%) Metadata
7 2 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.25%) QlikView
7 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 133 (16.73%) JIRA
2 10 (1.26%) Burp Suite
2 10 (1.26%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.25%) Hudson
4 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.13%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) LSMW
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.13%) Postman
4 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 340 (42.77%) Finance
2 321 (40.38%) Social Skills
3 173 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (11.82%) Organisational Skills
5 77 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 56 (7.04%) Banking
7 34 (4.28%) Legal
8 32 (4.03%) Retail
9 27 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
10 22 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.89%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.13%) Marketing
16 8 (1.01%) Military
16 8 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.75%) Billing
17 6 (0.75%) Local Government
18 5 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 171 (21.51%) Analyst
2 154 (19.37%) Project Manager
3 130 (16.35%) PMO Analyst
4 101 (12.70%) Lead
5 68 (8.55%) PMO Manager
6 55 (6.92%) Senior
7 52 (6.54%) PMO Lead
8 31 (3.90%) SAP Manager
9 28 (3.52%) Coordinator
9 28 (3.52%) IT Manager
10 24 (3.02%) Senior Manager
11 23 (2.89%) SAP Project Manager
12 22 (2.77%) Programme Manager
12 22 (2.77%) Project Officer
13 21 (2.64%) Change Manager
13 21 (2.64%) Consultant
13 21 (2.64%) IT Project Manager
14 20 (2.52%) Project Coordinator
14 20 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (2.52%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.76%) ADO
1 14 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.38%) Middleware
2 3 (0.38%) Node.js
2 3 (0.38%) REST
3 2 (0.25%) SOAP
3 2 (0.25%) Web Services
4 1 (0.13%) FHIR
4 1 (0.13%) JDO
4 1 (0.13%) JSON
4 1 (0.13%) JWT
4 1 (0.13%) Kafka
4 1 (0.13%) OAuth
4 1 (0.13%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.13%) XML
4 1 (0.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.91%) Onboarding
2 25 (3.14%) Data Centre
3 21 (2.64%) PMI
3 21 (2.64%) Virtual Team
4 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.51%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.26%) NHS
10 9 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.63%) FMCG
11 5 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.63%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.50%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.50%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.50%) IVR
13 3 (0.38%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.13%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (33.71%) Project Management
2 231 (29.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 215 (27.04%) Agile
4 204 (25.66%) Project Delivery
5 162 (20.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 152 (19.12%) Decision-Making
7 149 (18.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 141 (17.74%) PRINCE2
9 102 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
10 93 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (11.45%) Risk Management
12 88 (11.07%) Change Management
12 88 (11.07%) Waterfall
13 77 (9.69%) Change Control
14 71 (8.93%) Programme Management
15 69 (8.68%) Project Governance
16 68 (8.55%) Portfolio Management
17 63 (7.92%) Migration
18 59 (7.42%) Programme Governance
19 55 (6.92%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (3.40%) SQL
2 11 (1.38%) Python
3 9 (1.13%) VBA
4 6 (0.75%) VB
5 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.38%) Java
7 2 (0.25%) Korn
8 1 (0.13%) ABAP
8 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 165 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 113 (14.21%) Degree
2 113 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.44%) PMP
4 79 (9.94%) PMI Certification
5 52 (6.54%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.76%) APMP
8 11 (1.38%) Postgraduate
9 10 (1.26%) CHECK Team Member
9 10 (1.26%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.26%) Cyber Scheme
10 8 (1.01%) APMG
11 7 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.75%) CISSP
12 6 (0.75%) MAPM
12 6 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.63%) CISA
14 4 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.53%) QA
2 29 (3.65%) GDPR
3 28 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.76%) P3O
6 14 (1.76%) SLA
7 10 (1.26%) NIST
8 7 (0.88%) GRC
9 5 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.63%) MiFID
9 5 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.38%) ITGC
11 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.25%) COBIT
12 2 (0.25%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (1.26%) Nmap
2 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.38%) Terraform
4 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 105 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 90 (11.32%) SAP
3 31 (3.90%) Oracle
4 27 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.52%) Planview
6 15 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.64%) Cisco
8 9 (1.13%) Dell
9 7 (0.88%) Workday
10 6 (0.75%) Ariba
11 5 (0.63%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.63%) Databricks
12 4 (0.50%) Avaya
12 4 (0.50%) IFS
13 3 (0.38%) BT
13 3 (0.38%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.38%) Computacenter
13 3 (0.38%) Concur
13 3 (0.38%) Genesys
13 3 (0.38%) Pega
218 PMO jobs Nationwide