PMP Contracts

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 317 441
Rank change year-on-year +42 +124 -59
Contract jobs citing PMP 273 303 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.70% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 2.27% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 186 196
10th Percentile £334 £383 £400
25th Percentile £413 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £639
90th Percentile £788 £706 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -11.19% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 33 12
10th Percentile £33.92 £23.75 £37.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £25.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +188.46% -60.00% +46.07%
75th Percentile - £40.94 £73.13
90th Percentile £83.44 £81.78 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £40.94 £68.00
% change year-on-year +83.19% -39.79% +8.80%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

PMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

PMP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PMP in the UK

PMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMP.

Daily rate trend for PMP in the UK

PMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMP in the UK

PMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMP.

Hourly rate trend for PMP in the UK

PMP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PMP in the UK

PMP
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +53 235 £525 -4.55% 313
London +48 130 £550 -4.35% 177
UK excluding London +25 107 £466 -11.19% 147
Work from Home +33 105 £543 -1.36% 189
South East +49 42 £513 -5.96% 53
North of England +26 25 £550 +10.00% 38
Midlands +18 15 £404 -15.05% 24
North West +7 14 £550 +38.19% 28
Scotland +4 11 £465 -7.00% 6
West Midlands +7 9 £297 -37.58% 9
South West +40 7 £425 -22.73% 8
East of England +31 7 £497 -9.64% 10
Yorkshire +17 6 £525 +2.44% 10
East Midlands +13 6 £414 -10.49% 13
North East +2 5 £575 -4.17%

PMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.66%) Confluence
2 8 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.37%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 57 (20.88%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.86%) Trello
3 11 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (6.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.73%) Maximo
3 2 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.73%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.37%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.72%) Azure
2 25 (9.16%) AWS
3 13 (4.76%) Asana
4 12 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.93%) GCP
5 8 (2.93%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.56%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.20%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.20%) SaaS
8 5 (1.83%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.10%) OCI
10 3 (1.10%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.73%) Google Drive
11 2 (0.73%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.37%) PaaS
12 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.66%) Firewall
2 6 (2.20%) WAN
3 5 (1.83%) VPN
4 4 (1.47%) 5G
4 4 (1.47%) LAN
5 3 (1.10%) Network Security
5 3 (1.10%) Wireless
6 2 (0.73%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.37%) ATM
7 1 (0.37%) MPLS
7 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.37%) SWIFTNet
7 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.93%) Power BI
2 5 (1.83%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.47%) Tableau
4 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.73%) GIS
4 2 (0.73%) Looker
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.37%) QlikView
5 1 (0.37%) Tableau Desktop
5 1 (0.37%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 48 (17.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Ant
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 173 (63.37%) Social Skills
2 105 (38.46%) Finance
3 70 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.33%) Legal
4 20 (7.33%) Manufacturing
5 17 (6.23%) Banking
6 13 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.66%) Retail
10 8 (2.93%) Billing
10 8 (2.93%) Marketing
11 6 (2.20%) Automotive
11 6 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.10%) Advertising
13 3 (1.10%) Back Office
13 3 (1.10%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 141 (51.65%) Project Manager
2 21 (7.69%) Lead
2 21 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 14 (5.13%) Implementation Manager
3 14 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
3 14 (5.13%) IT Manager
4 13 (4.76%) Consultant
4 13 (4.76%) SAP Manager
5 12 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
5 12 (4.40%) IT Project Manager
6 11 (4.03%) Senior
6 11 (4.03%) Senior Manager
7 10 (3.66%) ERP Manager
7 10 (3.66%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 9 (3.30%) Coordinator
8 9 (3.30%) Network Manager
8 9 (3.30%) SAP Project Manager
8 9 (3.30%) Technical Manager
9 8 (2.93%) Project Coordinator
9 8 (2.93%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.73%) Middleware
3 1 (0.37%) ADO
3 1 (0.37%) CSS
3 1 (0.37%) FHIR
3 1 (0.37%) HTML
3 1 (0.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.33%) PMI
2 10 (3.66%) Life Science
2 10 (3.66%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.93%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.93%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.47%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.10%) CCTV
8 3 (1.10%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.10%) PKI
9 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.73%) NHS
9 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.73%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.76%) Windows
2 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (83.88%) Project Management
2 158 (57.88%) PRINCE2
3 146 (53.48%) Agile
4 131 (47.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 96 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (23.81%) Project Delivery
6 65 (23.81%) Waterfall
7 56 (20.51%) Risk Management
8 54 (19.78%) Change Management
9 51 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (17.22%) Scrum
11 44 (16.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 41 (15.02%) Resource Allocation
13 35 (12.82%) ITIL
14 34 (12.45%) Migration
15 33 (12.09%) Programme Management
16 32 (11.72%) Decision-Making
17 28 (10.26%) Computer Science
17 28 (10.26%) Process Improvement
18 26 (9.52%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.56%) SQL
2 5 (1.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.47%) Python
4 1 (0.37%) Java
4 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 242 (88.64%) PMI Certification
2 125 (45.79%) Degree
3 25 (9.16%) Master's Degree
4 20 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.23%) Security Cleared
6 13 (4.76%) CISSP
6 13 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.56%) CISM
9 6 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.83%) APMP
10 5 (1.83%) CISA
10 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.47%) CRISC
11 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.10%) CBAP
12 3 (1.10%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.62%) PMO
2 19 (6.96%) QA
3 8 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.20%) GDPR
4 6 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.47%) GxP
5 4 (1.47%) MiFID
5 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.10%) NIST
6 3 (1.10%) PMBOK
7 2 (0.73%) COBIT
7 2 (0.73%) EMIR
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) ITGC
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (2.20%) Amdocs OSS
2 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.10%) SCCM
4 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.37%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (12.82%) SAP
2 34 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.66%) Ariba
4 9 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.93%) Cisco
6 6 (2.20%) Oracle
7 5 (1.83%) Databricks
7 5 (1.83%) Google
8 4 (1.47%) Amdocs
8 4 (1.47%) Ciena
8 4 (1.47%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.47%) F5
8 4 (1.47%) NetCracker
8 4 (1.47%) Nokia
9 3 (1.10%) comScore
9 3 (1.10%) HP
9 3 (1.10%) Marketo
9 3 (1.10%) Planview
9 3 (1.10%) Workday