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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 197 136
Rank change year-on-year +22 -61 +2
Contract jobs citing PMO 677 410 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.40% 1.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.98% 9.21% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 267 520
10th Percentile £287 £279 £300
25th Percentile £363 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -2.11% -3.55%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 18
10th Percentile - £23.70 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.60 £30.99 £23.01
Median hourly rate £27.50 £46.30 £31.65
Median % change year-on-year -40.60% +46.29% -27.84%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.99 £61.50
90th Percentile £76.69 £77.08 £73.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.60 £46.30 £31.65
% change year-on-year -66.31% +46.29% -2.62%

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 7,538 4,453 6,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.42% 15.19% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,856 2,846 4,110
10th Percentile £332 £262 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 176 376
10th Percentile £15.49 £16.69 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.96
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.76 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +33.73% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £67.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £31.76 £20.49
% change year-on-year -3.72% +55.04% -38.64%

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 18 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

PMO
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 18 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 18 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 +15 604 £500 +7.71% 186
UK excluding London +3 372 £450 -5.26% 159
London +24 250 £514 +14.22% 52
Work from Home +20 187 £488 +2.63% 101
South East +40 159 £500 +5.21% 37
Midlands -37 76 £350 -26.47% 33
West Midlands -37 63 £350 -30.00% 26
North of England -49 61 £438 -5.81% 43
Yorkshire -44 37 £438 +0.11% 14
South West -26 26 £410 -18.00% 16
Scotland +1 25 £400 +6.67% 9
North West -39 22 £375 -25.74% 24
East of England -18 17 £493 -11.86% 15
East Midlands -35 14 £309 -25.36% 7
Northern Ireland -3 6 £525 +75.00% 2
Wales -3 4 £435 - 3
North East -10 2 £450 -3.23% 5

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 85 (12.56%) SharePoint
2 44 (6.50%) Confluence
3 3 (0.44%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 200 (29.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (21.42%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (14.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 97 (14.33%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (2.51%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (4.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.51%) Primavera
3 9 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.59%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.44%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.30%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.15%) Actimize
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 97 (14.33%) Power Platform
2 53 (7.83%) Azure
3 29 (4.28%) AWS
4 22 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (1.48%) OCI
7 9 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (1.18%) Serverless
8 8 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.03%) Smartsheet
10 5 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (0.74%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.74%) GCP
10 5 (0.74%) OpenShift
10 5 (0.74%) SaaS
11 4 (0.59%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (0.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.36%) Firewall
2 11 (1.62%) Wireless
3 6 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (0.74%) LAN
4 5 (0.74%) Network Security
4 5 (0.74%) WAN
5 3 (0.44%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) Intranet
7 1 (0.15%) PABX
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.88%) Power BI
2 15 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (2.07%) Tableau
4 10 (1.48%) Power Query
5 5 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.59%) PowerPivot
7 3 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.30%) Metadata
8 2 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 127 (18.76%) JIRA
2 10 (1.48%) Burp Suite
2 10 (1.48%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.15%) Git
3 1 (0.15%) Hudson
3 1 (0.15%) LSMW
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.15%) Postman
3 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
General
1 332 (49.04%) Finance
2 293 (43.28%) Social Skills
3 142 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.96%) Organisational Skills
5 72 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 47 (6.94%) Banking
7 30 (4.43%) Legal
8 27 (3.99%) Retail
9 26 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.84%) Manufacturing
10 22 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (3.10%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.07%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.92%) Marketing
15 7 (1.03%) Electronics
15 7 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.03%) Local Government
15 7 (1.03%) Military
16 5 (0.74%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 147 (21.71%) Analyst
2 137 (20.24%) Project Manager
3 111 (16.40%) PMO Analyst
4 90 (13.29%) Lead
5 59 (8.71%) PMO Lead
6 47 (6.94%) PMO Manager
7 41 (6.06%) Senior
8 29 (4.28%) Coordinator
9 23 (3.40%) IT Manager
9 23 (3.40%) Programme Manager
10 22 (3.25%) SAP Manager
11 21 (3.10%) Project Planner
12 19 (2.81%) Consultant
12 19 (2.81%) SAP Project Manager
13 17 (2.51%) IT Project Manager
14 16 (2.36%) Change Manager
14 16 (2.36%) Project Coordinator
14 16 (2.36%) Senior Manager
15 15 (2.22%) Junior
15 15 (2.22%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.03%) ADO
3 3 (0.44%) Middleware
3 3 (0.44%) Node.js
3 3 (0.44%) REST
4 2 (0.30%) SOAP
4 2 (0.30%) Web Services
5 1 (0.15%) FHIR
5 1 (0.15%) JDO
5 1 (0.15%) JSON
5 1 (0.15%) JWT
5 1 (0.15%) Kafka
5 1 (0.15%) OAuth
5 1 (0.15%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.15%) XML
5 1 (0.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.91%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.14%) Virtual Team
3 27 (3.99%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.40%) PMI
5 18 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.48%) NHS
11 9 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.74%) FMCG
12 5 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.74%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.59%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.59%) IVR
14 3 (0.44%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.44%) Reinsurance
14 3 (0.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.36%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) pSOS
2 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (35.60%) Project Management
2 200 (29.54%) Agile
3 194 (28.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 172 (25.41%) Project Delivery
5 138 (20.38%) PRINCE2
6 124 (18.32%) Decision-Making
7 120 (17.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 105 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
10 91 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (12.70%) Risk Management
12 80 (11.82%) Change Management
13 75 (11.08%) Waterfall
14 72 (10.64%) Project Governance
15 66 (9.75%) Portfolio Management
16 65 (9.60%) Programme Management
17 63 (9.31%) Change Control
18 53 (7.83%) ERP
19 50 (7.39%) Project Planning
20 49 (7.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (3.69%) SQL
2 11 (1.62%) Python
3 7 (1.03%) VBA
4 6 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (0.89%) VB
5 3 (0.44%) Java
5 3 (0.44%) Korn
6 1 (0.15%) ABAP
6 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 117 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 111 (16.40%) Degree
3 80 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 78 (11.52%) PMI Certification
5 72 (10.64%) PMP
6 38 (5.61%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.07%) APMP
8 11 (1.62%) Postgraduate
9 10 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.48%) CHECK Team Member
9 10 (1.48%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.48%) Cyber Scheme
10 9 (1.33%) CISSP
11 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.74%) APMG
14 4 (0.59%) CISA
14 4 (0.59%) CISM
14 4 (0.59%) MAPM
15 3 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.20%) QA
2 25 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.55%) GDPR
4 23 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.51%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.22%) P3O
6 15 (2.22%) SLA
7 13 (1.92%) NIST
8 7 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.89%) GRC
10 4 (0.59%) MiFID
10 4 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.44%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.30%) COBIT
12 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (1.48%) Nmap
2 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.44%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.15%) logstash
3 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 119 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.49%) SAP
3 37 (5.47%) Oracle
4 22 (3.25%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.10%) Planview
6 18 (2.66%) Cisco
7 17 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.03%) Dell
9 5 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.74%) Databricks
9 5 (0.74%) Workday
10 4 (0.59%) Ariba
10 4 (0.59%) Avaya
10 4 (0.59%) IFS
10 4 (0.59%) Pega
11 3 (0.44%) Arista
11 3 (0.44%) BT
11 3 (0.44%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.44%) Genesys
11 3 (0.44%) GoldenSource
209 PMO jobs Nationwide