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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 97 104
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +44
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 55 34 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.20% 1.73% 1.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.44% 6.90% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 12
10th Percentile £440 £281 £428
25th Percentile £509 £384 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% -11.90% -17.97%
75th Percentile £750 £652 £638
90th Percentile £788 £740 -
London median daily rate £544 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% +9.09% -
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 652 493 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.12% 25.09% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 326 340
10th Percentile £405 £314 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.05%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £752
London median daily rate £550 £530 £538
% change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile £19.44 £25.04 £20.31
25th Percentile £24.25 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £56.63 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £65.57 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £31.62
% change year-on-year +108.75% -20.46% -42.51%

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 3 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 3 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 -6 48 £650 +22.64% 19
City of Westminster -5 4 £725 +93.33% 2
West End of London -9 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 4 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (5.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) Azure
2 5 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.64%) GitHub
4 2 (3.64%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.82%) Asana
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.82%) ClickUp
5 1 (1.82%) dbt
5 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
1 2 (3.64%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) BGP
2 1 (1.82%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.82%) Metadata
2 1 (1.82%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Introscope
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (56.36%) Social Skills
2 26 (47.27%) Finance
3 14 (25.45%) Banking
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.45%) Law
5 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Electronics
6 2 (3.64%) German Language
6 2 (3.64%) International Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.82%) Front Office
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Project Manager
2 10 (18.18%) Bid Manager
3 9 (16.36%) Transformation Manager
3 9 (16.36%) Transformation Project Manager
4 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 8 (14.55%) Senior Manager
5 7 (12.73%) Programme Manager
6 6 (10.91%) Finance Manager
6 6 (10.91%) Finance Project Manager
7 5 (9.09%) Programme Director
7 5 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (7.27%) Bid Project Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Bid Director
9 3 (5.45%) Business Change Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Business Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Change Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Migration Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Bid Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Business Change Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) ADO
1 1 (1.82%) Middleware
1 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) PMI
2 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.64%) FMCG
2 2 (3.64%) IoT
2 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.64%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.82%) AS400
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.82%) PACS
3 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) AIX
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Unix
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (74.55%) PRINCE2
2 39 (70.91%) Project Management
2 39 (70.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (60.00%) Agile
4 19 (34.55%) Project Delivery
5 16 (29.09%) Decision-Making
6 15 (27.27%) Change Management
7 13 (23.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (16.36%) Migration
8 9 (16.36%) Waterfall
9 8 (14.55%) Business Case
9 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
10 7 (12.73%) Change Control
10 7 (12.73%) Scrum
11 6 (10.91%) Matrix Organization
11 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.91%) Project Governance
12 5 (9.09%) Programme Management
12 5 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 4 (7.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.64%) Python
1 2 (3.64%) SQL
2 1 (1.82%) Bash
2 1 (1.82%) COBOL
2 1 (1.82%) Java
2 1 (1.82%) Jython
2 1 (1.82%) RPG
2 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (83.64%) PMP
2 10 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.82%) CBAP
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) PMO
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.45%) NIST
3 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.82%) GRC
4 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.82%) MiFID
4 1 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.82%) SEPA
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
4 1 (1.82%) TARGET2
4 1 (1.82%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) CA Wily
1 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) CyberArk
2 3 (5.45%) SAP
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.82%) Charles River
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco
4 1 (1.82%) Databricks
4 1 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) IBM
4 1 (1.82%) Planview
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Wrike