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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 182 140
Rank change year-on-year -11 -42 -6
Contract jobs citing PMO 600 439 769
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.42% 1.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.65% 9.73% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 257 540
10th Percentile £285 £304 £290
25th Percentile £370 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £700 £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 11 13 20
10th Percentile £15.60 £22.60 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.98 £30.21 £24.34
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% +18.18% -5.71%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.73 £55.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.77 £71.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.56 £36.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -42.90% +9.09% +1.48%

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 6,936 4,514 6,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.34% 14.58% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,459 2,677 4,230
10th Percentile £325 £260 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.81% +2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 170 337
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.01 £14.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.97% +16.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.34 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year -17.24% +18.71% -13.06%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +5 531 £488 +8.33% 127
UK excluding London -12 332 £450 -5.26% 113
London +31 218 £500 +17.65% 37
Work from Home +18 176 £475 - 69
South East +37 148 £486 +3.35% 33
Midlands -49 62 £400 -15.79% 28
West Midlands -43 50 £405 -19.00% 27
North of England -53 50 £416 -15.04% 30
Yorkshire -50 28 £438 +6.18% 11
Scotland -1 24 £438 -6.42% 3
South West -35 20 £431 +5.32% 9
North West -42 20 £350 -30.00% 16
East of England -16 18 £493 -1.50% 6
East Midlands -29 13 £313 -24.40% 1
Northern Ireland -2 7 £525 +16.67% 2
Wales 0 5 £380 - 3
North East -12 2 £450 -25.00% 4

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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 (14.67%) SharePoint
2 37 (6.17%) Confluence
3 3 (0.50%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 190 (31.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (22.50%) Microsoft Project
3 108 (18.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 97 (16.17%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (3.33%) MS Visio
6 8 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.83%) Primavera
3 7 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (1.17%) Oracle Financials
3 7 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.67%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.33%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 99 (16.50%) Power Platform
2 40 (6.67%) Azure
3 24 (4.00%) AWS
4 21 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (1.83%) Smartsheet
7 8 (1.33%) OCI
8 7 (1.17%) SaaS
9 6 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.00%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.00%) Serverless
9 6 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (0.83%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.50%) GCP
11 3 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.50%) Firewall
2 11 (1.83%) Wireless
3 5 (0.83%) LAN
3 5 (0.83%) WAN
4 3 (0.50%) DNS
4 3 (0.50%) Network Security
4 3 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.33%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) Broadband
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) Intranet
6 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (16.00%) Power BI
2 14 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (1.83%) Power Query
4 10 (1.67%) Tableau
5 4 (0.67%) PowerPivot
6 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.33%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.33%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.17%) Metadata
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 116 (19.33%) JIRA
2 10 (1.67%) Burp Suite
2 10 (1.67%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.17%) LSMW
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 298 (49.67%) Finance
2 261 (43.50%) Social Skills
3 120 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (12.83%) Organisational Skills
5 62 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 46 (7.67%) Banking
7 26 (4.33%) Legal
8 24 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.83%) Retail
10 22 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (3.50%) Manufacturing
12 20 (3.33%) Telecoms
13 16 (2.67%) Marketing
14 14 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (2.33%) Investment Banking
15 13 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.50%) Local Government
17 7 (1.17%) Electronics
18 6 (1.00%) Military
19 5 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 136 (22.67%) Analyst
2 109 (18.17%) PMO Analyst
2 109 (18.17%) Project Manager
3 83 (13.83%) Lead
4 67 (11.17%) PMO Lead
5 50 (8.33%) PMO Manager
6 32 (5.33%) Senior
7 28 (4.67%) Coordinator
8 21 (3.50%) Project Planner
9 19 (3.17%) Programme Manager
10 18 (3.00%) Support Officer
11 17 (2.83%) Consultant
12 15 (2.50%) Project Coordinator
12 15 (2.50%) SAP Manager
13 14 (2.33%) IT Manager
13 14 (2.33%) Junior
14 13 (2.17%) Administrator
14 13 (2.17%) PMO Coordinator
15 12 (2.00%) PMO Specialist
15 12 (2.00%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.33%) ADO
3 3 (0.50%) Node.js
4 2 (0.33%) Middleware
4 2 (0.33%) React
4 2 (0.33%) Web Services
5 1 (0.17%) FHIR
5 1 (0.17%) JDO
5 1 (0.17%) Kafka
5 1 (0.17%) REST
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 25 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 21 (3.50%) PMI
3 21 (3.50%) Virtual Team
4 16 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.83%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.67%) NHS
9 6 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.83%) FMCG
11 4 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.50%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.50%) IVR
12 3 (0.50%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.50%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.33%) Digital Signage
13 2 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) pSOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (36.67%) Project Management
2 187 (31.17%) Agile
3 161 (26.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 140 (23.33%) Project Delivery
5 122 (20.33%) PRINCE2
6 104 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 101 (16.83%) Business Intelligence
8 100 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 88 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (13.00%) Risk Management
12 76 (12.67%) Project Governance
13 75 (12.50%) Change Management
14 73 (12.17%) Waterfall
15 64 (10.67%) Programme Management
16 62 (10.33%) Change Control
16 62 (10.33%) Portfolio Management
17 51 (8.50%) ERP
18 50 (8.33%) Project Planning
19 43 (7.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.17%) SQL
2 10 (1.67%) Python
3 7 (1.17%) VBA
4 6 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (1.00%) VB
5 3 (0.50%) Korn
6 1 (0.17%) ABAP
6 1 (0.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 98 (16.33%) Degree
2 90 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 71 (11.83%) PMI Certification
4 66 (11.00%) PMP
5 62 (10.33%) SC Cleared
6 28 (4.67%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.17%) APMP
8 10 (1.67%) CHECK Team Member
8 10 (1.67%) CREST Certified
8 10 (1.67%) Cyber Scheme
8 10 (1.67%) Postgraduate
9 8 (1.33%) CISSP
10 7 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.67%) CISA
12 4 (0.67%) CISM
12 4 (0.67%) MAPM
13 3 (0.50%) CCNA
13 3 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.17%) QA
2 23 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.50%) GDPR
4 20 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.83%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.17%) P3O
7 10 (1.67%) SLA
8 9 (1.50%) NIST
9 6 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (1.00%) GRC
10 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.50%) MiFID
10 3 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.33%) COBIT
11 2 (0.33%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.17%) PMBOK
System Software
1 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (1.67%) Nmap
2 3 (0.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.17%) logstash
3 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 117 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.17%) SAP
3 39 (6.50%) Oracle
4 28 (4.67%) Planview
5 21 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.67%) Cisco
8 5 (0.83%) IFS
9 4 (0.67%) Ariba
9 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.67%) Pega
9 4 (0.67%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.50%) Arista
10 3 (0.50%) Avaya
10 3 (0.50%) BT
10 3 (0.50%) Databricks
10 3 (0.50%) Dell
10 3 (0.50%) Genesys
10 3 (0.50%) GoldenSource
10 3 (0.50%) Workday
145 PMO jobs Nationwide