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 21 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 88 113
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 +40
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 45 38 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.72% 1.98% 0.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.73% 8.09% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 10
10th Percentile £435 £281 £414
25th Percentile £553 £456 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £734 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +46.80% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £750 £653 £623
90th Percentile £788 £763 £639
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
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 £73.75 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.36% +169.23% -

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 669 470 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.63% 24.52% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 311 311
10th Percentile £405 £361 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £727 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £19.13 £26.92 £20.22
25th Percentile £26.58 £29.07 £20.29
Median hourly rate £41.75 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% +43.67% -33.52%
75th Percentile £57.69 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £66.18 £72.46 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +96.36% +10.00% -52.38%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -11 40 £747 +19.44% 6
City of Westminster -3 3 £725 +93.33% 1
West End of London -6 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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.22%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) AWS
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.44%) OneDrive
3 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.22%) Asana
4 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.22%) ClickUp
4 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.22%) GitHub
4 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
1 1 (2.22%) LAN
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.22%) WAN
1 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.22%) Metadata
2 1 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Introscope
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
1 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Banking
3 8 (17.78%) Financial Institution
4 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Law
6 2 (4.44%) Electronics
6 2 (4.44%) German Language
6 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) International Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (62.22%) Project Manager
2 10 (22.22%) Migration Manager
2 10 (22.22%) Migration Project Manager
3 9 (20.00%) Senior
4 7 (15.56%) Bid Manager
4 7 (15.56%) Senior Manager
5 6 (13.33%) Programme Manager
6 5 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
6 5 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
6 5 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
7 4 (8.89%) Finance Manager
7 4 (8.89%) Finance Project Manager
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Finance Project Manager
8 3 (6.67%) Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) Bid Project Manager
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Transformation Manager
9 2 (4.44%) Bid Director
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Bid Manager
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) PMI
2 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) FMCG
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) AIX
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) Project Management
2 34 (75.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (73.33%) PRINCE2
4 31 (68.89%) Agile
5 22 (48.89%) Project Delivery
6 14 (31.11%) Migration
7 12 (26.67%) Change Management
7 12 (26.67%) Validation
8 11 (24.44%) Project Governance
9 10 (22.22%) Decision-Making
9 10 (22.22%) Security Architecture
9 10 (22.22%) Waterfall
10 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.89%) Change Control
11 4 (8.89%) Matrix Organization
11 4 (8.89%) Scrum
12 3 (6.67%) Logistics
12 3 (6.67%) Programme Management
12 3 (6.67%) Project Planning
12 3 (6.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.44%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) Java
2 1 (2.22%) Jython
2 1 (2.22%) Python
2 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (77.78%) PMP
2 8 (17.78%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) CBAP
4 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (24.44%) GDPR
1 11 (24.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (24.44%) NIST
2 6 (13.33%) PMO
3 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.22%) GRC
4 1 (2.22%) MiFID
4 1 (2.22%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) CA Wily
1 1 (2.22%) Puppet
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) CyberArk
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (4.44%) Planview
6 1 (2.22%) Charles River
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Databricks
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (2.22%) Wrike
6 1 (2.22%) Zscaler