PMO Job Trends in the North East

Project Management Office (PMO)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring PMO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 82 53
Rank change year-on-year +13 -29 +27
Permanent jobs citing PMO 13 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.28% 0.43% 2.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.05% 2.38% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 17
10th Percentile £31,050 - £40,839
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £47,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £43,750 - £68,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.93% +1.82% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

PMO falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 81 168 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.95% 18.05% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 46 43 104
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,600 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,494 £35,690
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +21.83% +2.87%
75th Percentile £68,438 £68,750 £60,868
90th Percentile £88,125 £84,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% +2.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PMO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

PMO job vacancy trend in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PMO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PMO

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMO in the North East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PMO in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +14 9 £32,500 -7.14%
Durham - 4 - -
PMO
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) BGP
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Wireless
1 4 (30.77%) EIGRP
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
1 4 (30.77%) OSPF
1 4 (30.77%) SNMP
1 4 (30.77%) VLAN
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
1 4 (30.77%) WAAS
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless Security
General
1 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Advertising
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Coordinator
2 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Project Coordinator
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Change Coordinator
3 2 (15.38%) Change Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
4 1 (7.69%) Governance Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) PMO Manager
4 1 (7.69%) PMO Planning Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Change Management
2 7 (53.85%) Project Delivery
2 7 (53.85%) Project Management
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) ITIL
4 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
5 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
5 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
5 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (30.77%) WAN Optimisation
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) CCIE
2 4 (30.77%) CCNP
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (30.77%) PMI Certification
2 4 (30.77%) PMP
3 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Blue Coat
1 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) F5
1 4 (30.77%) Infoblox
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Motorola
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
1 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce