PMO Contracts in Wales

Project Management Office (PMO)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring PMO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMO over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing PMO 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.66% - 1.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.00% - 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.58%
75th Percentile £511 - £383
90th Percentile £519 - £390
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.25 £31.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.02% -4.55% -11.84%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 50 88 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 13.81% 19.60% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 47 44
10th Percentile £183 £135 £254
25th Percentile £305 £223 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £509 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% +4.31% +0.83%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £570
90th Percentile £528 £653 £609
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 10
10th Percentile - £15.81 -
25th Percentile - £23.04 -
Median hourly rate £13.08 £27.50 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -52.44% +151.83% -12.61%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £28.38
90th Percentile £14.23 - £48.88
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £24.51 £39.51
% change year-on-year +18.32% -37.97% +51.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for PMO in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in Wales over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for PMO in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
South Wales - 4 £494 - 8
PMO
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Asana
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (16.67%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) PMO Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow