PMI Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

PMI Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 95 103
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +37
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 59 32 27
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.37% 1.64% 1.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.99% 6.61% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 14
10th Percentile £443 £281 £434
25th Percentile £503 £398 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £569
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -18.68% -5.21%
75th Percentile £750 £644 £638
90th Percentile £788 £743 £714
London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.98 - -
25th Percentile £52.69 - -
Median hourly rate £55.25 - -
75th Percentile £57.69 - -
90th Percentile £58.33 - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 656 484 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.33% 24.86% 22.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 322 329
10th Percentile £403 £313 £363
25th Percentile £463 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% +0.45%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £657
90th Percentile £734 £736 £750
London median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 4
10th Percentile £19.48 £25.04 £20.31
25th Percentile £29.51 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £55.25 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.24% +43.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £132.76 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £155.34 £65.57 -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £32.29
% change year-on-year +110.74% -22.11% -40.20%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

PMI Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in Central London

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PMI Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMI Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. 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
City of London -3 51 £560 +5.66% 29
City of Westminster - 4 £725 - 5
West End of London -11 2 - - 2
Southwark - 1 £600 -
PMI Certification
London

PMI Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Azure
2 5 (8.47%) AWS
3 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub
5 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.69%) Asana
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.69%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
1 2 (3.39%) Network Security
2 1 (1.69%) BGP
2 1 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Power BI
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) Metadata
3 1 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) JIRA
2 1 (1.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (55.93%) Social Skills
2 27 (45.76%) Finance
3 15 (25.42%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Law
6 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Electronics
7 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.39%) German Language
7 2 (3.39%) International Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Front Office
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (55.93%) Project Manager
2 10 (16.95%) Bid Manager
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
3 9 (15.25%) Senior Manager
3 9 (15.25%) Transformation Manager
3 9 (15.25%) Transformation Project Manager
4 7 (11.86%) Programme Manager
5 6 (10.17%) Finance Manager
5 6 (10.17%) Finance Project Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Programme Director
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (6.78%) Bid Project Manager
7 4 (6.78%) Change Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Bid Director
8 3 (5.08%) Lead
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Bid Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Business Change Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Business Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Change Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) ADO
1 1 (1.69%) SOAP
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
1 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) PMI
2 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.39%) FMCG
4 2 (3.39%) IoT
4 2 (3.39%) Life Science
4 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.69%) AS400
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.69%) PACS
5 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (72.88%) PRINCE2
1 43 (72.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (69.49%) Project Management
3 35 (59.32%) Agile
4 18 (30.51%) Project Delivery
5 17 (28.81%) Change Management
5 17 (28.81%) Decision-Making
6 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.64%) Migration
7 11 (18.64%) Scrum
8 9 (15.25%) Roadmaps
8 9 (15.25%) Waterfall
9 8 (13.56%) Business Case
10 7 (11.86%) Change Control
10 7 (11.86%) Matrix Organization
10 7 (11.86%) Programme Management
10 7 (11.86%) Project Governance
11 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.17%) Process Improvement
11 6 (10.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.08%) SQL
2 1 (1.69%) Bash
2 1 (1.69%) COBOL
2 1 (1.69%) Python
2 1 (1.69%) RPG
Qualifications
1 51 (86.44%) PMP
2 14 (23.73%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) CAPM
3 2 (3.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.69%) CBAP
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) PMO
2 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.39%) NIST
3 2 (3.39%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) SLA
4 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.69%) GRC
4 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.69%) MiFID
4 1 (1.69%) SEPA
4 1 (1.69%) TARGET2
4 1 (1.69%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) SAP
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.39%) JD Edwards
4 2 (3.39%) Planview
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.39%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.69%) BMC
5 1 (1.69%) Charles River
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Remedy
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) UiPath
5 1 (1.69%) Wrike