PMP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 227 349
Rank change year-on-year +33 +122 -24
Contract jobs citing PMP 107 121 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 0.80% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.91% 2.91% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 75 86
10th Percentile £237 £363 £406
25th Percentile £411 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £700 £614 £600
90th Percentile £825 £648 £739
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 9
10th Percentile £60.00 £24.63 £37.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £25.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year +188.46% -61.76% +52.81%
75th Percentile £81.03 £26.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.05 £57.53 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +188.46% -60.00% +46.07%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,738 4,158 6,503
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.92% 27.44% 25.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 2,618 4,369
10th Percentile £352 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 265 285
10th Percentile £17.94 £15.85 £19.35
25th Percentile £25.75 £24.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.77% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.85 £82.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +27.06%

PMP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PMP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PMP.

PMP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PMP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PMP over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

PMP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PMP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PMP.

PMP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PMP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PMP over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

PMP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (3.74%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 25 (23.36%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (6.54%) Trello
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.80%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (1.87%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.93%) Maximo
4 1 (0.93%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.93%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.93%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.93%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.48%) Azure
2 7 (6.54%) Asana
3 5 (4.67%) AWS
4 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.87%) GCP
5 2 (1.87%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.87%) SaaS
5 2 (1.87%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.93%) OCI
6 1 (0.93%) PaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) 5G
1 3 (2.80%) Firewall
2 2 (1.87%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.93%) GIS
3 1 (0.93%) Looker
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.93%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 16 (14.95%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
General
1 70 (65.42%) Social Skills
2 41 (38.32%) Finance
3 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Legal
5 11 (10.28%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.61%) Banking
7 5 (4.67%) Billing
7 5 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.74%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.80%) Agriculture
9 3 (2.80%) Automotive
9 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Aviation
10 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.87%) Marketing
10 2 (1.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (55.14%) Project Manager
2 11 (10.28%) Lead
3 8 (7.48%) Programme Manager
4 7 (6.54%) Coordinator
5 6 (5.61%) Implementation Manager
5 6 (5.61%) Project Coordinator
6 5 (4.67%) Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) SAP Manager
6 5 (4.67%) Security Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Data Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.74%) ERP Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Payroll Manager
7 4 (3.74%) SAP Project Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Technical Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Telecoms Project Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.93%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) PMI
2 7 (6.54%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.67%) Life Science
3 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.80%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.87%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (83.18%) Project Management
2 56 (52.34%) PRINCE2
3 51 (47.66%) Agile
4 49 (45.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (31.78%) Project Delivery
6 31 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (23.36%) Risk Management
8 23 (21.50%) Waterfall
9 17 (15.89%) Resource Allocation
10 16 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (14.02%) Programme Management
12 14 (13.08%) Change Management
12 14 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (12.15%) Decision-Making
14 12 (11.21%) Migration
14 12 (11.21%) Roadmaps
15 10 (9.35%) Budget Management
16 9 (8.41%) Data Management
16 9 (8.41%) Process Improvement
16 9 (8.41%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.80%) SQL
2 2 (1.87%) Python
Qualifications
1 95 (88.79%) PMI Certification
2 51 (47.66%) Degree
3 14 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.08%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.35%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.87%) APMP
7 2 (1.87%) CBAP
7 2 (1.87%) CISM
7 2 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.87%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.93%) APMG
8 1 (0.93%) CISA
8 1 (0.93%) CRISC
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.93%) PCI QSA
8 1 (0.93%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) PMO
2 6 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.80%) MiFID
3 3 (2.80%) QA
4 2 (1.87%) EMIR
4 2 (1.87%) GDPR
4 2 (1.87%) GxP
4 2 (1.87%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.87%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) COBIT
5 1 (0.93%) GRC
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (0.93%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (20.56%) SAP
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.54%) Ariba
4 3 (2.80%) Amdocs
4 3 (2.80%) Ciena
4 3 (2.80%) Cisco
4 3 (2.80%) Ericsson
4 3 (2.80%) NetCracker
4 3 (2.80%) Nokia
5 2 (1.87%) Aruba
5 2 (1.87%) Databricks
5 2 (1.87%) F5
5 2 (1.87%) Google
5 2 (1.87%) Imperva
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle
5 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) comScore
6 1 (0.93%) eFront
6 1 (0.93%) IBM
6 1 (0.93%) Planview