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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 189 153
Rank change year-on-year +27 -36 -16
Contract jobs citing PMO 869 466 673
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.43% 1.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.72% 8.69% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 305 427
10th Percentile £299 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £345 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £550
90th Percentile £700 £683 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +5.88% -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 22
10th Percentile £20.94 - £13.90
25th Percentile £24.72 £18.50 £23.43
Median hourly rate £55.25 £27.63 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.96% -1.32% -15.15%
75th Percentile £71.86 £44.49 £57.19
90th Percentile £83.75 £46.30 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £37.02 £28.00
% change year-on-year +55.32% +32.21% -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 8,937 5,362 5,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.98% 16.50% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,721 3,436 3,626
10th Percentile £338 £277 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £619
90th Percentile £700 £717 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 240 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.60 £11.66
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.18 £13.52
Median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +29.07% +24.07% -38.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £51.24
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £27.59 £24.18
% change year-on-year +45.01% +14.08% -30.91%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +40 774 £494 +6.18% 158
UK excluding London +13 452 £450 +5.88% 127
London +35 335 £505 +1.51% 59
Work from Home +10 270 £450 +0.33% 70
South East +13 137 £525 +16.67% 47
North of England -29 105 £404 +9.14% 17
Midlands -23 100 £400 -5.88% 24
West Midlands -31 77 £350 -17.65% 17
North West -6 60 £395 +9.72% 12
South West -25 42 £410 -31.67% 14
Yorkshire -41 40 £416 -0.16% 4
Scotland -4 30 £425 +23.19% 5
East of England -6 27 £510 -12.07% 11
East Midlands +4 23 £444 +47.92% 6
Northern Ireland -4 7 £170 -52.94% 4
Wales -8 6 £575 +16.46% 4
North East -40 5 £450 +80.00% 1

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 81 (9.32%) SharePoint
2 57 (6.56%) Confluence
3 6 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.12%) CMS
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 183 (21.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (15.42%) Microsoft Project
3 88 (10.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (1.04%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 42 (4.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.50%) Primavera
3 12 (1.38%) SAP CO
3 12 (1.38%) SAP FI
3 12 (1.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.81%) SAP EWM
5 6 (0.69%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.46%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.35%) Changepoint
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 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 89 (10.24%) Power Platform
2 49 (5.64%) Azure
3 25 (2.88%) Smartsheet
4 23 (2.65%) AWS
4 23 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (1.15%) OCI
8 7 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 7 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (0.81%) Power Automate
8 7 (0.81%) SaaS
8 7 (0.81%) Serverless
8 7 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (0.69%) Google Workspace
10 5 (0.58%) GCP
10 5 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.58%) Firewall
2 4 (0.46%) WAN
3 3 (0.35%) Broadband
3 3 (0.35%) LAN
3 3 (0.35%) Network Security
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 88 (10.13%) Power BI
2 17 (1.96%) Tableau
3 8 (0.92%) Power Query
4 7 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.23%) EDMS
7 2 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.23%) Metadata
7 2 (0.23%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.23%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.23%) QlikView
7 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 126 (14.50%) JIRA
2 2 (0.23%) 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
1 346 (39.82%) Finance
2 324 (37.28%) Social Skills
3 178 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (12.66%) Organisational Skills
5 92 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 57 (6.56%) Banking
7 40 (4.60%) Legal
8 30 (3.45%) Retail
9 29 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (2.19%) Local Government
12 13 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.38%) Marketing
14 11 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.15%) Military
16 7 (0.81%) Aviation
16 7 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 190 (21.86%) Analyst
2 159 (18.30%) Project Manager
3 125 (14.38%) PMO Analyst
4 117 (13.46%) Lead
5 72 (8.29%) Senior
6 71 (8.17%) PMO Manager
7 52 (5.98%) PMO Lead
8 39 (4.49%) Project Officer
9 31 (3.57%) SAP Manager
10 30 (3.45%) Coordinator
11 29 (3.34%) Senior PMO
12 28 (3.22%) Support Officer
13 27 (3.11%) Senior Manager
14 26 (2.99%) Transformation Manager
15 25 (2.88%) Project Coordinator
15 25 (2.88%) SAP Project Manager
15 25 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (2.65%) Senior Project Manager
17 22 (2.53%) IT Manager
17 22 (2.53%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.15%) ADO
1 10 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.69%) Middleware
3 5 (0.58%) REST
4 4 (0.46%) SOAP
5 2 (0.23%) FHIR
6 1 (0.12%) HTML
6 1 (0.12%) JDO
6 1 (0.12%) JSON
6 1 (0.12%) JWT
6 1 (0.12%) Kafka
6 1 (0.12%) OAuth
6 1 (0.12%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.12%) SAP TM
6 1 (0.12%) Web Services
6 1 (0.12%) XML
6 1 (0.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 25 (2.88%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.42%) Data Centre
3 21 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.30%) Virtual Team
5 17 (1.96%) NHS
6 16 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.50%) PMI
8 7 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.69%) FMCG
9 6 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.46%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.46%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.46%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.35%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.35%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.35%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.50%) 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
1 283 (32.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 243 (27.96%) Project Management
3 237 (27.27%) Agile
4 222 (25.55%) Project Delivery
5 197 (22.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 180 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 172 (19.79%) Decision-Making
8 131 (15.07%) PRINCE2
9 97 (11.16%) Change Management
10 94 (10.82%) Waterfall
11 91 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
11 91 (10.47%) Programme Governance
12 84 (9.67%) Programme Management
13 83 (9.55%) Portfolio Management
14 82 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
15 76 (8.75%) Migration
16 72 (8.29%) Programme Delivery
17 70 (8.06%) Change Control
18 69 (7.94%) Risk Management
19 66 (7.59%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.53%) SQL
2 6 (0.69%) VB
2 6 (0.69%) VBA
3 5 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (0.58%) Korn
3 5 (0.58%) Python
4 3 (0.35%) Java
5 1 (0.12%) COBOL
5 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.12%) RPG
5 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 191 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 123 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 104 (11.97%) Degree
4 69 (7.94%) PMP
5 67 (7.71%) DV Cleared
6 60 (6.90%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.04%) APMG
8 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.81%) CISSP
10 6 (0.69%) CISA
10 6 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.46%) APMP
12 4 (0.46%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.35%) MAPM
13 3 (0.35%) MBA
13 3 (0.35%) RIBA
13 3 (0.35%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.57%) QA
3 21 (2.42%) GDPR
4 17 (1.96%) P3O
5 12 (1.38%) NIST
5 12 (1.38%) SLA
6 9 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.58%) GRC
7 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.46%) MiFID
9 3 (0.35%) ITGC
9 3 (0.35%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) COBIT
10 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.12%) logstash
3 1 (0.12%) Nmap
Vendors
1 136 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 100 (11.51%) SAP
3 35 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 30 (3.45%) Oracle
5 20 (2.30%) Planview
6 19 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.15%) Workday
8 9 (1.04%) Dell
9 7 (0.81%) Adobe
10 6 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.69%) Cisco
10 6 (0.69%) Google
11 5 (0.58%) Databricks
12 4 (0.46%) IFS
13 3 (0.35%) Ariba
13 3 (0.35%) Computacenter
14 2 (0.23%) BT
14 2 (0.23%) CheckPoint
14 2 (0.23%) OpenText
14 2 (0.23%) Red Hat