PMI Certification Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

PMI Certification
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.71% 0.52% 0.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.16% 1.82% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £213
25th Percentile £214 £710 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £253 £720 £222
Median % change year-on-year -64.82% +224.32% -
75th Percentile £304 £730 £233
90th Percentile £323 - £236
South Wales median daily rate £253 £720 £438
% change year-on-year -64.82% +64.57% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cardiff

PMI Certification 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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 49 55 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 20.94% 28.50% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 56
10th Percentile £214 £167 £156
25th Percentile £288 £213 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £409 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% +2.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £628 £587 £532
90th Percentile £750 £600 £650
South Wales median daily rate £500 £425 £515
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.48% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.39 -
25th Percentile - £28.03 £37.50
Median hourly rate £13.08 £37.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.69% -7.39% +100.28%
75th Percentile - £46.03 £42.50
90th Percentile - £50.66 -
South Wales median hourly rate £31.25 £21.59 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.74% -39.18% +77.50%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMI Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

PMI Certification job vacancy trend in Cardiff

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing PMI Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Health
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Principal Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) NHS Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) NHS
1 3 (75.00%) PMI
2 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 4 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Business Case
2 3 (75.00%) Line Management
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Resource Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) P3O
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft