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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 102 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +32
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 58 28 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.44% 1.47% 1.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.21% 5.87% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 16
10th Percentile £433 £281 £441
25th Percentile £487 £391 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £500 £566
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -11.70% +2.95%
75th Percentile £701 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £753 £738
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 630 477 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.46% 25.00% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 318 334
10th Percentile £390 £319 £356
25th Percentile £461 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% - -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £730 £751
London median daily rate £550 £537 £538
% change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile £15.90 £23.45 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £28.15 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +93.61% -5.38% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £34.48 £92.44
90th Percentile £155.34 £54.84 £112.00
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.80
% change year-on-year +114.71% -31.66% -29.90%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +7 48 £533 -6.17% 29
City of Westminster - 4 £725 - 1
West End of London -9 2 - -
Lambeth - 1 - -
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 6 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) AWS
2 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.45%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub
4 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) Asana
5 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.72%) ClickUp
5 1 (1.72%) dbt
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
1 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (1.72%) BGP
2 1 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) Metadata
2 1 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 24 (41.38%) Finance
3 13 (22.41%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Electronics
7 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.45%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
8 1 (1.72%) Front Office
8 1 (1.72%) International Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (51.72%) Project Manager
2 10 (17.24%) Bid Manager
2 10 (17.24%) Senior
3 9 (15.52%) Senior Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Transformation Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Transformation Project Manager
5 7 (12.07%) Programme Manager
6 6 (10.34%) Programme Director
7 5 (8.62%) Finance Manager
7 5 (8.62%) Finance Project Manager
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (6.90%) Bid Project Manager
8 4 (6.90%) Change Manager
8 4 (6.90%) Technical Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Business Change Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Business Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Implementation Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Product Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) SOAP
1 2 (3.45%) Web Services
2 1 (1.72%) ADO
2 1 (1.72%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) PMI
2 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) FMCG
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (3.45%) Life Science
4 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) AS400
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) PACS
5 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (65.52%) PRINCE2
2 38 (65.52%) Project Management
3 36 (62.07%) Agile
4 19 (32.76%) Change Management
5 17 (29.31%) Project Delivery
6 16 (27.59%) Decision-Making
7 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (20.69%) Scrum
9 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
10 9 (15.52%) Migration
10 9 (15.52%) Waterfall
11 8 (13.79%) Business Case
11 8 (13.79%) Matrix Organization
11 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (12.07%) Change Control
12 7 (12.07%) Programme Management
12 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (10.34%) Project Governance
13 6 (10.34%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) SQL
2 1 (1.72%) Bash
2 1 (1.72%) COBOL
2 1 (1.72%) Python
2 1 (1.72%) RPG
Qualifications
1 52 (89.66%) PMP
2 16 (27.59%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) CAPM
3 2 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) CBAP
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) PgMP
4 1 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (1.72%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) PMO
3 3 (5.17%) SLA
4 2 (3.45%) QA
5 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.72%) GRC
5 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.72%) SEPA
5 1 (1.72%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) JD Edwards
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) Planview
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.45%) UiPath
3 2 (3.45%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.72%) BMC
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco
4 1 (1.72%) Databricks
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) Remedy
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) Wrike