Project Management Institute (PMI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PMI over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 762 613
Rank change year-on-year +228 -149 +181
Permanent jobs citing PMI 411 184 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 0.45% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 247 162 272
10th Percentile £37,900 - £41,250
25th Percentile £42,324 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,275 £80,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £53,100
% change year-on-year +22.22% -15.25% +6.20%

All Generic Skills
UK

PMI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PMI in the UK

PMI
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PMI in the UK

PMI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMI over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PMI in the UK

PMI
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMI within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +255 380 £57,500 +15.00% 116
UK excluding London +103 292 £55,000 +22.22% 85
Work from Home +130 213 £64,080 +42.40% 58
London +167 104 £64,080 -8.46% 41
North of England +102 101 £64,080 +60.20% 16
South East +50 94 £47,500 -15.56% 22
North West +26 52 £67,500 +68.75% 13
Midlands +17 47 £47,500 -20.83% 19
Yorkshire +80 34 £50,000 -9.09% 2
West Midlands +14 33 £47,500 -9.09% 9
South West -27 28 £30,000 -33.33% 13
North East +1 15 £55,000 +37.50% 1
East Midlands -10 14 - - 10
Scotland -60 12 £46,250 +15.63% 9
East of England -5 6 £77,500 +93.75% 5
Northern Ireland +21 2 £57,500 +9.52%
Wales -6 2 £61,250 -10.58% 3

PMI
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 15 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.92%) IIS
3 3 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 32 (7.79%) Microsoft Project
2 29 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.43%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.22%) AutoCAD
5 5 (1.22%) SPSS
6 4 (0.97%) Simulink
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Primavera
1 3 (0.73%) Sage 200
1 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.24%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 44 (10.71%) Azure
2 25 (6.08%) AWS
3 22 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.87%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.92%) GCP
6 11 (2.68%) Power Automate
7 10 (2.43%) SaaS
8 8 (1.95%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.46%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.22%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.97%) GitHub
11 4 (0.97%) Slack
12 3 (0.73%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.73%) Intacct
12 3 (0.73%) Smartsheet
13 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.84%) Firewall
1 24 (5.84%) WAN
2 17 (4.14%) SAN
3 12 (2.92%) DHCP
3 12 (2.92%) DNS
3 12 (2.92%) iSCSI
3 12 (2.92%) LAN
3 12 (2.92%) SD-WAN
4 11 (2.68%) Unified Communications
5 7 (1.70%) VPN
5 7 (1.70%) WLAN
6 5 (1.22%) NAS
6 5 (1.22%) VLAN
7 4 (0.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.87%) Power BI
2 11 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.22%) MySQL
8 4 (0.97%) DB2
8 4 (0.97%) Power Query
9 2 (0.49%) GIS
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.60%) JIRA
2 12 (2.92%) Git
3 7 (1.70%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.73%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.49%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.49%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.24%) MSTest
7 1 (0.24%) NUnit
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 186 (45.26%) Finance
2 162 (39.42%) Social Skills
3 77 (18.73%) Retail
4 53 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
6 22 (5.35%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.11%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.95%) Marketing
11 7 (1.70%) Automotive
11 7 (1.70%) Banking
11 7 (1.70%) Legal
12 5 (1.22%) Advertising
12 5 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Law
15 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (26.52%) Senior
2 87 (21.17%) Project Manager
3 64 (15.57%) Architect
4 59 (14.36%) Portfolio Manager
5 52 (12.65%) Senior Manager
6 36 (8.76%) Analyst
6 36 (8.76%) Solutions Architect
7 31 (7.54%) Senior Portfolio Manager
8 23 (5.60%) Lead
9 22 (5.35%) Pensions Analyst
9 22 (5.35%) Senior Analyst
9 22 (5.35%) Technical Analyst
10 20 (4.87%) IT Manager
10 20 (4.87%) Pensions Project Manager
10 20 (4.87%) Senior Technical Analyst
11 18 (4.38%) Senior Architect
12 16 (3.89%) Senior Project Manager
13 15 (3.65%) Administrator
14 14 (3.41%) IT Project Manager
15 12 (2.92%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.22%) .NET
1 5 (1.22%) HTML
2 4 (0.97%) .NET Framework
2 4 (0.97%) CSS
3 3 (0.73%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.73%) JavaFX
3 3 (0.73%) REST
4 2 (0.49%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.49%) JSON
4 2 (0.49%) Node.js
4 2 (0.49%) React
4 2 (0.49%) Spring
5 1 (0.24%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.24%) JSP
5 1 (0.24%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.33%) Management Information System
2 24 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.68%) Replication
7 9 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.46%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.46%) Clustering
9 6 (1.46%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 6 (1.46%) Industry 4.0
9 6 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.46%) NHS
9 6 (1.46%) SCADA
9 6 (1.46%) Virtual Reality
10 5 (1.22%) FMCG
11 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.97%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.38%) Windows
2 15 (3.65%) Linux
3 10 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.97%) Android
4 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (50.36%) Project Management
2 156 (37.96%) PRINCE2
3 127 (30.90%) Agile
4 84 (20.44%) Mentoring
5 82 (19.95%) Coaching
6 69 (16.79%) Project Delivery
7 67 (16.30%) Roadmaps
8 61 (14.84%) Portfolio Management
8 61 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (10.95%) Decision-Making
9 45 (10.95%) Information Security
10 44 (10.71%) Line Management
11 41 (9.98%) Change Management
12 35 (8.52%) Digital Strategy
13 34 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (8.03%) Artificial Intelligence
14 33 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (7.30%) Scrum
16 29 (7.06%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.03%) SQL
2 15 (3.65%) Python
3 11 (2.68%) Java
4 7 (1.70%) C
4 7 (1.70%) C++
4 7 (1.70%) MATLAB
5 5 (1.22%) C#
6 4 (0.97%) RPG
6 4 (0.97%) VBA
7 3 (0.73%) Fortran
7 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.49%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 410 (99.76%) PMI Certification
2 77 (18.73%) Degree
3 68 (16.55%) PMP
4 59 (14.36%) APMP
5 33 (8.03%) CAPM
6 29 (7.06%) PgMP
7 16 (3.89%) Security Cleared
8 11 (2.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 11 (2.68%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (1.70%) CISSP
11 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.97%) ACCA
13 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.73%) CISA
14 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.60%) PMO
2 14 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.92%) QA
4 8 (1.95%) SLA
5 7 (1.70%) NIST
6 4 (0.97%) COBIT
6 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.97%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.97%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.97%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.97%) TickIT
7 3 (0.73%) GRC
7 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.73%) ITGC
7 3 (0.73%) P3O
7 3 (0.73%) PMBOK
8 2 (0.49%) GDPR
9 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 24 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (2.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 12 (2.92%) Opsgenie
1 12 (2.92%) VxRail
1 12 (2.92%) ZABBIX
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 91 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.79%) VMware
3 24 (5.84%) Fortinet
4 17 (4.14%) Cisco
5 12 (2.92%) Dell
5 12 (2.92%) NetApp
5 12 (2.92%) SolarWinds
6 11 (2.68%) BT
6 11 (2.68%) Mitel
7 5 (1.22%) Juniper
7 5 (1.22%) NEC
7 5 (1.22%) SAP
7 5 (1.22%) Veeam
8 4 (0.97%) Avaya
8 4 (0.97%) Cognos
8 4 (0.97%) Databricks
8 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.73%) Sage
10 2 (0.49%) Northgate