PMI Certification Contract Job Trends in the City of London

PMI Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 85 120
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 +16
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 32 31 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.62% 1.69% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.82% 6.65% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 3
10th Percentile £405 £475 £565
25th Percentile £421 £513 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £643 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +2.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £750 £741 £638
90th Percentile £800 £811 £645
Central London median daily rate £563 £635 £588
% change year-on-year -11.42% +8.09% +6.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 550 466 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.79% 25.42% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 282 302
10th Percentile £396 £375 £363
25th Percentile £439 £458 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -0.36% -7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £680
90th Percentile £738 £763 £778
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.10% -6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £21.50 £24.78 £19.19
25th Percentile £25.95 £28.94 £19.58
Median hourly rate £39.72 £72.25 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% +247.11% -50.44%
75th Percentile £61.79 £112.00 £47.58
90th Percentile £70.88 - £63.28
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £33.74
% change year-on-year -20.71% -3.66% -19.68%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

PMI Certification job vacancy trend in the City of London

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PMI Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in the City of London

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PMI Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) LAN
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
1 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
1 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 20 (62.50%) Finance
2 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Banking
4 6 (18.75%) Financial Institution
5 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Front Office
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Legal
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Automotive
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Project Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Migration Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Business Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Programme Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) PMI
2 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Equities
5 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.13%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
5 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) Agile
2 25 (78.13%) Project Management
3 23 (71.88%) PRINCE2
4 21 (65.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (50.00%) Project Delivery
6 11 (34.38%) Migration
6 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (28.13%) Project Governance
7 9 (28.13%) Validation
7 9 (28.13%) Waterfall
8 8 (25.00%) Change Management
8 8 (25.00%) Security Architecture
8 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (21.88%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
11 5 (15.63%) Scrum
11 5 (15.63%) User Stories
11 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
12 4 (12.50%) Programme Management
12 4 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 25 (78.13%) PMP
2 6 (18.75%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) CBAP
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.13%) APMG
5 1 (3.13%) CFA
5 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) GDPR
2 9 (28.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (28.13%) NIST
3 6 (18.75%) PMO
4 4 (12.50%) QA
5 2 (6.25%) ISO 8583
5 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (6.25%) PSD2
5 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (3.13%) Basel III
6 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
6 1 (3.13%) GRC
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Planview
3 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Workday
4 1 (3.13%) AVEVA
4 1 (3.13%) Calypso
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Murex
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) VMware