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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 766 605
Rank change year-on-year +239 -161 +167
Permanent jobs citing PMI 418 186 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 0.45% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 254 163 275
10th Percentile £39,000 - £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £74,875 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,050 £80,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £53,700
% change year-on-year +22.22% -16.20% +7.40%

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 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
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 £86,250 £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 28 May 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 28 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 +260 388 £59,059 +19.92% 108
UK excluding London +128 294 £55,000 +22.22% 81
Work from Home +150 216 £64,080 +42.40% 57
London +206 110 £65,000 -7.14% 35
North of England +117 101 £64,080 +60.20% 16
South East +64 95 £47,500 -15.56% 23
North West +44 52 £67,500 +68.75% 12
Midlands +26 49 £55,000 -11.65% 16
West Midlands +36 35 £55,000 +5.26% 9
Yorkshire +98 34 £50,000 -9.09% 2
South West -24 27 £30,000 -33.33% 10
North East +6 15 £55,000 +37.50% 2
East Midlands -10 14 - - 7
Scotland -49 12 £46,250 +15.63% 11
East of England -6 6 £77,500 +93.75% 3
Northern Ireland +21 2 £57,500 +9.52%
Wales -8 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 16 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.87%) IIS
3 3 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 33 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
2 29 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (2.63%) MS Visio
5 10 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.20%) AutoCAD
6 5 (1.20%) SPSS
7 4 (0.96%) Simulink
8 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Primavera
1 3 (0.72%) Sage 200
1 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.24%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 43 (10.29%) Azure
2 25 (5.98%) AWS
3 22 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.87%) GCP
6 11 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 10 (2.39%) SaaS
8 8 (1.91%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.44%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.20%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.96%) GitHub
11 4 (0.96%) Slack
12 3 (0.72%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.72%) Intacct
12 3 (0.72%) Smartsheet
13 2 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
14 1 (0.24%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (0.24%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.74%) Firewall
1 24 (5.74%) WAN
2 17 (4.07%) SAN
3 12 (2.87%) DHCP
3 12 (2.87%) DNS
3 12 (2.87%) iSCSI
3 12 (2.87%) LAN
3 12 (2.87%) SD-WAN
4 11 (2.63%) Unified Communications
5 7 (1.67%) VPN
5 7 (1.67%) WLAN
6 5 (1.20%) NAS
6 5 (1.20%) VLAN
7 4 (0.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.78%) Power BI
2 11 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.20%) MySQL
8 4 (0.96%) DB2
8 4 (0.96%) Power Query
9 2 (0.48%) 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 (5.50%) JIRA
2 12 (2.87%) Git
3 7 (1.67%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.72%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.48%) 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
1 193 (46.17%) Finance
2 161 (38.52%) Social Skills
3 84 (20.10%) Retail
4 55 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.61%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (6.46%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.87%) Automotive
9 12 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.39%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.15%) Banking
12 8 (1.91%) Marketing
13 7 (1.67%) Legal
14 5 (1.20%) Advertising
15 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.72%) Law
17 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (26.32%) Senior
2 88 (21.05%) Project Manager
3 63 (15.07%) Architect
4 59 (14.11%) Portfolio Manager
5 53 (12.68%) Senior Manager
6 36 (8.61%) Analyst
7 35 (8.37%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (7.42%) Senior Portfolio Manager
9 23 (5.50%) Lead
10 22 (5.26%) Pensions Analyst
10 22 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
10 22 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
11 20 (4.78%) IT Manager
11 20 (4.78%) Pensions Project Manager
11 20 (4.78%) Senior Technical Analyst
12 18 (4.31%) Senior Architect
13 17 (4.07%) Senior Project Manager
14 15 (3.59%) Administrator
15 14 (3.35%) IT Project Manager
16 13 (3.11%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.20%) .NET
1 5 (1.20%) HTML
2 4 (0.96%) .NET Framework
2 4 (0.96%) CSS
3 3 (0.72%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.72%) JavaFX
3 3 (0.72%) REST
4 2 (0.48%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.48%) JSON
4 2 (0.48%) Node.js
4 2 (0.48%) React
4 2 (0.48%) 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 (6.22%) Management Information System
2 24 (5.74%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.87%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.63%) Replication
7 10 (2.39%) FMCG
8 9 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.44%) Augmented Reality
10 6 (1.44%) Clustering
10 6 (1.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 6 (1.44%) Industry 4.0
10 6 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.44%) NHS
10 6 (1.44%) SCADA
10 6 (1.44%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.31%) Windows
2 15 (3.59%) Linux
3 10 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.96%) Android
4 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (50.00%) Project Management
2 157 (37.56%) PRINCE2
3 129 (30.86%) Agile
4 84 (20.10%) Mentoring
5 82 (19.62%) Coaching
6 69 (16.51%) Project Delivery
7 66 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 62 (14.83%) Portfolio Management
9 61 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (10.77%) Decision-Making
10 45 (10.77%) Information Security
11 44 (10.53%) Line Management
12 42 (10.05%) Change Management
13 41 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.37%) Digital Strategy
15 33 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence
15 33 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (7.42%) Scrum
17 30 (7.18%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.89%) SQL
2 15 (3.59%) Python
3 11 (2.63%) Java
4 7 (1.67%) C
4 7 (1.67%) C++
4 7 (1.67%) MATLAB
5 5 (1.20%) C#
6 4 (0.96%) RPG
6 4 (0.96%) VBA
7 3 (0.72%) Fortran
7 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.48%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 417 (99.76%) PMI Certification
2 79 (18.90%) Degree
3 69 (16.51%) PMP
4 59 (14.11%) APMP
5 33 (7.89%) CAPM
6 29 (6.94%) PgMP
7 16 (3.83%) Security Cleared
8 11 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 11 (2.63%) SC Cleared
9 9 (2.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (1.67%) CISSP
11 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.96%) ACCA
13 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.72%) CISA
14 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.74%) PMO
2 14 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.87%) QA
4 8 (1.91%) SLA
5 7 (1.67%) NIST
6 4 (0.96%) COBIT
6 4 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.96%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.96%) GRC
6 4 (0.96%) IEC 61508
6 4 (0.96%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.96%) TickIT
7 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.72%) ITGC
7 3 (0.72%) P3O
7 3 (0.72%) PMBOK
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
9 1 (0.24%) AQAP
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 24 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 12 (2.87%) Opsgenie
1 12 (2.87%) VxRail
1 12 (2.87%) ZABBIX
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 90 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.66%) VMware
3 24 (5.74%) Fortinet
4 17 (4.07%) Cisco
5 12 (2.87%) Dell
5 12 (2.87%) NetApp
5 12 (2.87%) SolarWinds
6 11 (2.63%) BT
6 11 (2.63%) Mitel
7 5 (1.20%) Juniper
7 5 (1.20%) NEC
7 5 (1.20%) SAP
7 5 (1.20%) Veeam
8 4 (0.96%) Avaya
8 4 (0.96%) Cognos
8 4 (0.96%) Databricks
8 4 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.72%) Sage
10 2 (0.48%) Sitecore