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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 196 156
Rank change year-on-year +31 -40 -18
Contract jobs citing PMO 849 442 675
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 1.39% 1.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.66% 8.49% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 283 432
10th Percentile £300 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £348 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £448
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.17% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 21
10th Percentile £20.31 - £13.50
25th Percentile £23.66 £18.50 £26.68
Median hourly rate £59.75 £31.76 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.13% +13.43% -15.15%
75th Percentile £79.79 £46.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £83.75 - £63.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £41.66 £28.00
% change year-on-year +51.22% +48.79% -15.15%

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 8,792 5,204 5,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.89% 16.35% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,617 3,337 3,674
10th Percentile £338 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £624
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 221 432
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.14 £18.50 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.04 £30.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.12% +25.00% -38.00%
75th Percentile £67.85 £62.25 £50.27
90th Percentile £80.57 £82.96 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £27.91 £23.50
% change year-on-year +29.24% +18.77% -37.33%

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

PMO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the UK

PMO
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

PMO
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PMO in the UK

PMO
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 7 July 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 +35 758 £488 +6.85% 212
UK excluding London +15 444 £450 +5.88% 155
London +28 327 £500 +1.01% 91
Work from Home +14 259 £450 +3.75% 94
South East +10 134 £533 +18.44% 61
North of England -13 106 £408 +10.17% 19
Midlands -14 100 £395 -7.06% 25
West Midlands -33 75 £350 -22.22% 19
North West +2 59 £390 +8.33% 11
Yorkshire -31 42 £438 +11.61% 5
South West -27 41 £410 -27.11% 19
Scotland -9 29 £425 +17.24% 5
East Midlands +2 25 £413 +37.50% 6
East of England -16 24 £510 -12.07% 12
Northern Ireland +2 7 £170 -50.36% 6
Wales -17 5 £488 -2.50% 7
North East -39 5 £450 +80.00% 3

PMO
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 80 (9.42%) SharePoint
2 57 (6.71%) Confluence
3 5 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.24%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.12%) CMS
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 178 (20.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (14.84%) Microsoft Project
3 85 (10.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (7.42%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.77%) Primavera
3 12 (1.41%) SAP CO
3 12 (1.41%) SAP FI
3 12 (1.41%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.82%) SAP EWM
5 6 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.35%) CA PPM
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.24%) Changepoint
9 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 86 (10.13%) Power Platform
2 44 (5.18%) Azure
3 23 (2.71%) AWS
3 23 (2.71%) Smartsheet
4 21 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (0.82%) Amazon S3
8 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (0.82%) OCI
8 7 (0.82%) Serverless
8 7 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (0.71%) Google Workspace
10 5 (0.59%) GCP
10 5 (0.59%) SaaS
10 5 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.59%) Firewall
2 4 (0.47%) Network Security
2 4 (0.47%) WAN
3 3 (0.35%) Broadband
3 3 (0.35%) LAN
3 3 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.12%) DNS
4 1 (0.12%) Internet
4 1 (0.12%) MPLS
4 1 (0.12%) PABX
4 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.12%) Wireless
4 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (10.01%) Power BI
2 16 (1.88%) Tableau
3 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.59%) Power Query
6 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.24%) EDMS
6 2 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.24%) Metadata
6 2 (0.24%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.24%) QlikView
6 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (13.78%) JIRA
2 2 (0.24%) Hudson
3 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.12%) Git
3 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.12%) Postman
3 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 341 (40.16%) Finance
2 318 (37.46%) Social Skills
3 174 (20.49%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (12.72%) Organisational Skills
5 87 (10.25%) Public Sector
6 57 (6.71%) Banking
7 42 (4.95%) Legal
8 29 (3.42%) Retail
9 27 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.12%) Local Government
13 16 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.65%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.65%) Marketing
15 10 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.18%) Military
16 7 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 181 (21.32%) Analyst
2 155 (18.26%) Project Manager
3 122 (14.37%) PMO Analyst
4 117 (13.78%) Lead
5 72 (8.48%) PMO Manager
6 67 (7.89%) Senior
7 51 (6.01%) PMO Lead
8 35 (4.12%) Project Officer
9 32 (3.77%) SAP Manager
10 30 (3.53%) Coordinator
11 28 (3.30%) Support Officer
12 26 (3.06%) Senior Manager
12 26 (3.06%) Transformation Manager
13 25 (2.94%) SAP Project Manager
14 24 (2.83%) Programme Manager
15 23 (2.71%) Project Coordinator
15 23 (2.71%) Senior PMO
16 22 (2.59%) Project Support Officer
16 22 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
16 22 (2.59%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.18%) ADO
2 8 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.71%) Middleware
4 5 (0.59%) REST
5 4 (0.47%) SOAP
6 2 (0.24%) FHIR
7 1 (0.12%) HTML
7 1 (0.12%) JDO
7 1 (0.12%) JSON
7 1 (0.12%) JWT
7 1 (0.12%) Kafka
7 1 (0.12%) OAuth
7 1 (0.12%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.12%) SAP TM
7 1 (0.12%) Web Services
7 1 (0.12%) XML
7 1 (0.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.60%) Onboarding
2 24 (2.83%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.47%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.24%) Virtual Team
5 18 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 16 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.65%) NHS
9 12 (1.41%) PMI
10 9 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.71%) FMCG
11 6 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.47%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.47%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.35%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.35%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.35%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.35%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.41%) Windows
2 1 (0.12%) Linux
2 1 (0.12%) pSOS
2 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.12%) SUSE
2 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (32.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 250 (29.45%) Project Management
3 229 (26.97%) Agile
4 219 (25.80%) Project Delivery
5 196 (23.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 174 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 171 (20.14%) Decision-Making
8 124 (14.61%) PRINCE2
9 92 (10.84%) Change Management
10 90 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
11 88 (10.37%) Waterfall
12 84 (9.89%) Programme Management
13 83 (9.78%) Portfolio Management
14 80 (9.42%) Programme Governance
15 79 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (8.36%) Migration
16 71 (8.36%) Risk Management
17 70 (8.24%) Change Control
18 67 (7.89%) Programme Delivery
19 62 (7.30%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 21 (2.47%) SQL
2 7 (0.82%) VBA
3 6 (0.71%) VB
4 4 (0.47%) Korn
4 4 (0.47%) Python
5 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.35%) Java
6 1 (0.12%) COBOL
6 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.12%) RPG
6 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 178 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 116 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 104 (12.25%) Degree
4 68 (8.01%) PMP
5 61 (7.18%) DV Cleared
6 59 (6.95%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.06%) APMG
8 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.82%) CISSP
10 6 (0.71%) CISA
10 6 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.47%) APMP
11 4 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.35%) CCA
12 3 (0.35%) MAPM
12 3 (0.35%) MBA
12 3 (0.35%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.77%) QA
3 21 (2.47%) GDPR
4 15 (1.77%) P3O
4 15 (1.77%) SLA
5 11 (1.30%) NIST
6 9 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.59%) GRC
7 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.47%) MiFID
9 3 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.35%) ITGC
9 3 (0.35%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.24%) COBIT
10 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.12%) logstash
3 1 (0.12%) Nmap
Vendors
1 125 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 99 (11.66%) SAP
3 34 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 28 (3.30%) Oracle
5 18 (2.12%) Planview
6 17 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.06%) Cisco
7 9 (1.06%) Dell
7 9 (1.06%) Workday
8 6 (0.71%) Adobe
8 6 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.71%) Google
9 5 (0.59%) Databricks
10 4 (0.47%) IFS
11 3 (0.35%) Ariba
11 3 (0.35%) Computacenter
12 2 (0.24%) BT
12 2 (0.24%) Huawei
12 2 (0.24%) OpenText
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat