PMP Contracts in the City of London

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 114 151
Rank change year-on-year +32 +37 +18
Contract jobs citing PMP 34 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.92% 0.68% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.78% 3.29% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 13
10th Percentile £456 £463 £333
25th Percentile £475 £570 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £625 £645
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -3.10% +12.17%
75th Percentile £731 £719 £700
90th Percentile £767 £741 £796
Central London median daily rate £635 £625 £645
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.10% +17.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 437 456 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.70% 20.52% 19.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 297 412
10th Percentile £402 £384 £358
25th Percentile £460 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £725
90th Percentile £764 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £549 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.89% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £23.62 £19.45 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £27.73
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.97% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.81 £27.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £89.13 £55.05 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -48.08% +14.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PMP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PMP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMP in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMP in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PMP in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMP within the City of London region over the 6 months to 26 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
PMP
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (11.76%) Trello
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Asana
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.94%) Looker
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 18 (52.94%) Finance
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Law
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Front Office
5 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Project Manager
2 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
2 3 (8.82%) Data Business Analyst
2 3 (8.82%) Data Manager
2 3 (8.82%) Lead
3 2 (5.88%) Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Implementation Project Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Pensions Project Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Project Implementation Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Senior
3 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.88%) Reference Data
1 2 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.94%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.94%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) PMI
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) Project Management
2 18 (52.94%) Agile
3 16 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (44.12%) PRINCE2
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (32.35%) Project Delivery
6 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
6 7 (20.59%) Scrum
6 7 (20.59%) Waterfall
7 6 (17.65%) Process Improvement
8 5 (14.71%) Analytics
8 5 (14.71%) Change Management
8 5 (14.71%) Data Management
8 5 (14.71%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (11.76%) Data Governance
9 4 (11.76%) ERP
9 4 (11.76%) ITIL
9 4 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (97.06%) PMI Certification
2 15 (44.12%) Degree
3 6 (17.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.88%) CBAP
4 2 (5.88%) PgMP
4 2 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CAPM
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) MBA
5 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.76%) PMO
3 3 (8.82%) MiFID
4 2 (5.88%) EMIR
4 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Databricks
2 2 (5.88%) Dell
2 2 (5.88%) HP
2 2 (5.88%) Pure Storage
3 1 (2.94%) Citrix
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Workday