PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PMP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 446 382
Rank change year-on-year +143 -64 +41
Contract jobs citing PMP 295 258 605
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.45% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.31% 1.66% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 189 434
10th Percentile £375 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.22% +4.05%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £575
90th Percentile £714 £730 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +2.38% +16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 41
10th Percentile £23.75 £36.20 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.63% +20.79% +61.82%
75th Percentile £40.94 £74.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £81.78 £75.00 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £62.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.50% -1.19% +136.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

PMP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,775 15,576 19,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 27.20% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,956 10,400 12,640
10th Percentile £308 £330 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 771 774
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.95
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +5.26%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PMP in the UK

PMP
Top 17 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 20 May 2024. 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 +104 231 £550 - 169
UK excluding London +74 129 £538 +2.38% 111
Work from Home +122 116 £550 +10.00% 54
London +90 116 £573 +4.09% 67
North of England +36 30 £525 - 26
South East +20 30 £563 +5.14% 33
Midlands +24 23 £475 -12.04% 22
West Midlands +29 20 £488 -7.14% 12
North West +24 19 £440 -15.18% 15
Wales - 14 £600 - 2
Scotland +41 13 £550 +22.22% 11
East of England +8 10 £550 +4.76% 8
South West +6 7 £544 +11.54% 10
Yorkshire +12 6 £513 -4.65% 7
East Midlands +15 3 £463 -31.48% 10
North East - 3 £600 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

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 24 (8.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.03%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 32 (10.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (10.51%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (10.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (7.12%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (3.73%) Acrobat
5 5 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.68%) CA PPM
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.68%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.34%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.34%) iTrent
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Primavera
3 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (6.78%) SaaS
2 19 (6.44%) Azure
3 15 (5.08%) Google Workspace
4 14 (4.75%) IaaS
4 14 (4.75%) PaaS
5 7 (2.37%) AWS
6 6 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.36%) OCI
8 3 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.34%) Apple Pay
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.34%) Google Pay
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle CX
10 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.37%) Network Security
2 5 (1.69%) Firewall
2 5 (1.69%) SAN
2 5 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.69%) VPN
3 4 (1.36%) DHCP
3 4 (1.36%) DNS
3 4 (1.36%) LAN
3 4 (1.36%) VLAN
4 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.02%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.02%) WAN
4 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.68%) SNA
5 2 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.68%) Wireless
6 1 (0.34%) IMAP
6 1 (0.34%) Intranet
6 1 (0.34%) SNMP
6 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.03%) Power BI
2 3 (1.02%) MySQL
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.02%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (1.02%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.68%) DB2
3 2 (0.68%) EDMS
4 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.34%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 29 (9.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
General
1 143 (48.47%) Social Skills
2 95 (32.20%) Finance
3 52 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.81%) Banking
5 25 (8.47%) Marketing
6 24 (8.14%) Legal
7 19 (6.44%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.76%) Military
8 17 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (5.08%) Manufacturing
10 14 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.75%) Retail
11 13 (4.41%) Aerospace
11 13 (4.41%) Local Government
12 12 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (3.05%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (2.03%) German Language
15 6 (2.03%) Mandarin Language
16 5 (1.69%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 125 (42.37%) Project Manager
2 25 (8.47%) IT Manager
3 24 (8.14%) Senior
3 24 (8.14%) Senior Manager
4 22 (7.46%) Delivery Manager
5 19 (6.44%) IT Project Manager
5 19 (6.44%) Lead
6 18 (6.10%) Technical Manager
7 16 (5.42%) Programme Manager
8 15 (5.08%) Scrum Master
9 14 (4.75%) Senior Project Manager
10 12 (4.07%) Security Manager
11 11 (3.73%) Bid Manager
11 11 (3.73%) SAP Manager
12 10 (3.39%) Project Controller
13 9 (3.05%) Senior Bid Manager
13 9 (3.05%) Technical Project Manager
14 7 (2.37%) Consultant
14 7 (2.37%) Infrastructure Manager
14 7 (2.37%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.37%) CSS
1 7 (2.37%) HTML
2 5 (1.69%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (1.36%) REST
3 4 (1.36%) Visualforce
4 3 (1.02%) ADO
4 3 (1.02%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.15%) PMI
2 17 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.75%) Virtual Team
4 13 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.05%) Mobile Banking
7 7 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.36%) FMCG
9 4 (1.36%) NHS
9 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.02%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.02%) Robotics
11 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.68%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
11 2 (0.68%) LPAR
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) zOS
2 1 (0.34%) AIX
2 1 (0.34%) Linux
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
2 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (74.92%) Project Management
2 174 (58.98%) PRINCE2
3 109 (36.95%) Agile
4 94 (31.86%) Project Delivery
5 70 (23.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 68 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (20.34%) Risk Management
8 55 (18.64%) Scrum
9 52 (17.63%) Decision-Making
10 37 (12.54%) Waterfall
11 33 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (10.85%) Programme Management
13 30 (10.17%) Budget Management
13 30 (10.17%) Change Management
14 28 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (9.15%) Business Case
15 27 (9.15%) Computer Science
16 26 (8.81%) Project Planning
17 25 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 23 (7.80%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.05%) SQL
2 7 (2.37%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 243 (82.37%) PMI Certification
2 112 (37.97%) Degree
3 63 (21.36%) Security Cleared
4 54 (18.31%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.46%) APMP
6 20 (6.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 17 (5.76%) DV Cleared
8 16 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (4.41%) Master's Degree
10 11 (3.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 10 (3.39%) CISSP
12 7 (2.37%) CISM
12 7 (2.37%) PgMP
13 6 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.69%) CCNA
15 4 (1.36%) APMG
15 4 (1.36%) CEH
16 3 (1.02%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 3 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.86%) PMO
2 26 (8.81%) QA
3 6 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.36%) P3O
4 4 (1.36%) PMBOK
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) GxP
5 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) COBIT
6 1 (0.34%) COREP
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) GAMP
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) PowerHA
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.47%) SAP
3 22 (7.46%) Salesforce
4 18 (6.10%) Oracle
5 16 (5.42%) Google
6 11 (3.73%) Adobe
7 6 (2.03%) Ariba
8 4 (1.36%) Cisco
8 4 (1.36%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.02%) IBM
10 2 (0.68%) Apple
10 2 (0.68%) Planview
10 2 (0.68%) VMware
11 1 (0.34%) HP
11 1 (0.34%) Infor
11 1 (0.34%) NCR
11 1 (0.34%) Progress