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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 82 105
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 +36
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 41 35 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.73% 2.05% 0.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.74% 8.58% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 9
10th Percentile £430 £456 £403
25th Percentile £530 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £722 £635 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.62% +20.95% -16.67%
75th Percentile £750 £706 £625
90th Percentile £788 £777 £640
Central London median daily rate £725 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +38.10% -2.33% -14.68%

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 608 408 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.60% 23.93% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 273 287
10th Percentile £413 £380 £384
25th Percentile £463 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.80% -7.76%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £650
90th Percentile £734 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £34.16 -
25th Percentile £24.16 £44.32 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.75 £62.50 £20.91
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +198.94% -42.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £81.88 £22.88
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £25.35
Central London median hourly rate £52.22 £29.07 £21.00
% change year-on-year +79.64% +38.43% -41.83%

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 7 June 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 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.44%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.88%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.44%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DNS
1 1 (2.44%) LAN
1 1 (2.44%) Network Security
1 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.44%) WAN
1 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) Metadata
2 1 (2.44%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Introscope
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (51.22%) Finance
2 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.83%) Banking
4 8 (19.51%) Financial Institution
5 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Law
7 2 (4.88%) German Language
7 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Automotive
8 1 (2.44%) Front Office
8 1 (2.44%) International Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Project Manager
2 10 (24.39%) Migration Manager
2 10 (24.39%) Migration Project Manager
3 7 (17.07%) Programme Manager
3 7 (17.07%) Senior
4 6 (14.63%) Bid Manager
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Finance Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Finance Project Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Senior Finance Project Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Transformation Project Manager
7 3 (7.32%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Bid Project Manager
7 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Transformation Manager
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Middleware
2 1 (2.44%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) PMI
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Equities
4 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.44%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) AIX
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) PRINCE2
2 32 (78.05%) Agile
3 30 (73.17%) Project Management
4 28 (68.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (46.34%) Project Delivery
6 14 (34.15%) Migration
7 12 (29.27%) Validation
8 11 (26.83%) Project Governance
9 10 (24.39%) Security Architecture
9 10 (24.39%) Waterfall
10 7 (17.07%) Change Management
10 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
11 5 (12.20%) Change Control
11 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (12.20%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (12.20%) Scrum
12 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (9.76%) Data Migration
12 4 (9.76%) User Stories
13 3 (7.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) SQL
2 1 (2.44%) Java
2 1 (2.44%) Jython
2 1 (2.44%) Python
2 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (73.17%) PMP
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) CBAP
4 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) CFA
5 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) GDPR
2 11 (26.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (26.83%) NIST
3 5 (12.20%) PMO
4 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.88%) QA
4 2 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.44%) Basel III
5 1 (2.44%) GRC
5 1 (2.44%) MiFID
5 1 (2.44%) UCITS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) CA Wily
1 1 (2.44%) Puppet
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) CyberArk
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) Planview
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Charles River
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) Workday