Project Management Office (PMO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PMO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PMO over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 350 397
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 +1
Permanent jobs citing PMO 798 957 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.97% 0.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.87% 5.10% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 562 746 1,068
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,300 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,375 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

PMO is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,596 18,747 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 18.90% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 8,688 13,219
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,626
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.98% +0.27%

PMO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PMO in the UK

PMO
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PMO.

Salary trend for PMO in the UK

PMO
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PMO in the UK

PMO
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +8 710 £51,500 -9.65% 197
UK excluding London +42 617 £48,500 -3.00% 149
Work from Home -48 251 £52,500 -4.55% 76
North of England +83 157 £50,000 -8.26% 36
London -40 155 £65,000 - 54
South East -4 143 £45,000 -5.26% 44
Midlands +26 122 £49,990 -4.78% 32
South West -7 78 £48,750 -2.50% 17
North West +12 72 £50,000 -9.09% 22
West Midlands +1 66 £50,000 -4.76% 15
Scotland -40 58 £55,000 +2.33% 7
East Midlands +32 49 £42,500 -19.05% 17
North East +24 45 £52,500 - 6
East of England +16 44 £65,000 - 13
Yorkshire +81 40 £45,500 -15.74% 9
Wales -2 12 £53,499 +15.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £67,500 - 1

PMO
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 42 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.38%) Confluence
3 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.88%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 120 (15.04%) Microsoft Project
2 112 (14.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (2.13%) Windchill
6 14 (1.75%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.13%) Teamcenter
1 17 (2.13%) Unit4 Business World
2 13 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.50%) Primavera
4 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) CA PPM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 46 (5.76%) Azure
2 43 (5.39%) Power Platform
3 33 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (3.51%) SaaS
5 23 (2.88%) AWS
6 20 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.38%) Smartsheet
9 10 (1.25%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.25%) IaaS
9 10 (1.25%) Nutanix
10 8 (1.00%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.00%) PowerApps
10 8 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (0.88%) Asana
12 5 (0.63%) PaaS
13 4 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.50%) GitHub
14 3 (0.38%) Azure Storage
14 3 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.63%) 5G
2 15 (1.88%) WAN
3 13 (1.63%) SD-WAN
4 9 (1.13%) DHCP
4 9 (1.13%) DNS
5 8 (1.00%) SAN
6 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.50%) Broadband
7 4 (0.50%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.50%) Internet
7 4 (0.50%) RS-232
8 3 (0.38%) WebEx
9 2 (0.25%) Extranet
9 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.25%) LAN
9 2 (0.25%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.25%) Network Security
9 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.76%) Power BI
2 20 (2.51%) Looker
2 20 (2.51%) NoSQL
2 20 (2.51%) Relational Database
3 17 (2.13%) DB2
4 3 (0.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.13%) Big Data
6 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.13%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.13%) Metadata
6 1 (0.13%) Power Query
6 1 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (8.52%) JIRA
2 13 (1.63%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.50%) Git
3 4 (0.50%) Subversion
4 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.25%) JIRA Agile
4 2 (0.25%) Selenium
4 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 378 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 226 (28.32%) Finance
3 98 (12.28%) Presentation Skills
4 81 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.40%) Marketing
6 66 (8.27%) Law
7 62 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (7.27%) Public Sector
9 53 (6.64%) Retail
10 49 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
11 45 (5.64%) Legal
12 42 (5.26%) Manufacturing
13 25 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.88%) Banking
16 13 (1.63%) Electronics
17 9 (1.13%) Back Office
18 8 (1.00%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.88%) German Language
20 5 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 233 (29.20%) Project Manager
2 111 (13.91%) Lead
3 99 (12.41%) Analyst
4 91 (11.40%) Senior
5 61 (7.64%) IT Manager
6 52 (6.52%) PMO Analyst
7 42 (5.26%) Coordinator
7 42 (5.26%) Senior Manager
8 39 (4.89%) IT Project Manager
9 37 (4.64%) Software Engineer
10 35 (4.39%) Senior Project Manager
11 28 (3.51%) PMO Lead
11 28 (3.51%) PMO Manager
12 27 (3.38%) Project Coordinator
13 25 (3.13%) Head of PMO
14 22 (2.76%) Consultant
15 20 (2.51%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (2.51%) UI Engineer
16 17 (2.13%) Configuration Specialist
16 17 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.76%) CSS
1 30 (3.76%) HTML
2 24 (3.01%) React
3 11 (1.38%) .NET
4 7 (0.88%) Flash
5 6 (0.75%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.75%) REST
6 4 (0.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (0.50%) HTML5
6 4 (0.50%) Next.js
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (0.50%) WCF
6 4 (0.50%) Web Services
6 4 (0.50%) WinForms
7 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.13%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.13%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.13%) SAML
8 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (13.91%) Management Information System
2 94 (11.78%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.26%) PMI
5 24 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 23 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.63%) GNSS
8 12 (1.50%) NHS
8 12 (1.50%) Robotics
9 11 (1.38%) Graphic Design
10 9 (1.13%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.00%) FMCG
12 6 (0.75%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.50%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.50%) Fibre Optics
13 4 (0.50%) IoT
13 4 (0.50%) Tandem
14 3 (0.38%) Housing Association
14 3 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.76%) Linux
2 33 (4.14%) Windows
3 26 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.13%) Unix
5 8 (1.00%) Debian
5 8 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (70.43%) Project Management
2 258 (32.33%) Agile
3 251 (31.45%) Project Delivery
4 163 (20.43%) PRINCE2
5 149 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 128 (16.04%) Coaching
8 124 (15.54%) Change Management
9 105 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (11.90%) Mentoring
11 94 (11.78%) Project Governance
12 92 (11.53%) Decision-Making
13 86 (10.78%) Waterfall
14 81 (10.15%) Collaborative Working
15 79 (9.90%) Risk Management
16 77 (9.65%) Scrum
17 73 (9.15%) Customer Requirements
18 70 (8.77%) DevOps
19 69 (8.65%) Programme Management
20 63 (7.89%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (5.76%) SQL
2 27 (3.38%) JavaScript
2 27 (3.38%) Python
3 21 (2.63%) C++
4 20 (2.51%) Bash
5 13 (1.63%) C#
5 13 (1.63%) Perl
6 9 (1.13%) Java
7 8 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.75%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.38%) R
10 2 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.13%) PHP
11 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 195 (24.44%) Degree
2 71 (8.90%) PMP
3 68 (8.52%) PMI Certification
4 50 (6.27%) Security Cleared
5 39 (4.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 38 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 18 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.13%) APMP
8 17 (2.13%) CISA
9 15 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 12 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.13%) ISEB
12 9 (1.13%) ISEB Practitioner
13 8 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.88%) MBA
15 6 (0.75%) CAPM
15 6 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
16 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.51%) QA
2 17 (2.13%) ITGC
3 16 (2.01%) ISO 9001
4 15 (1.88%) SLA
5 12 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.00%) P3O
7 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) GDPR
8 4 (0.50%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) JTAG
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) PMBOK
System Software
1 11 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.75%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (1.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (1.00%) vRealize
2 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.25%) PowerCLI
3 2 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 133 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.14%) SAP
3 26 (3.26%) Oracle
4 21 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 17 (2.13%) Sage
6 12 (1.50%) Cadence
7 11 (1.38%) VMware
8 9 (1.13%) CheckPoint
8 9 (1.13%) Citrix
9 8 (1.00%) 3PAR
9 8 (1.00%) Brocade
9 8 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.75%) Thales
10 6 (0.75%) Veeam
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco
11 4 (0.50%) Cognos
11 4 (0.50%) Planview
12 3 (0.38%) Adobe
12 3 (0.38%) HP
12 3 (0.38%) Northgate