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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 88 105
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 +36
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 37 33 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.51% 1.81% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.06% 7.38% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 7
10th Percentile £513 £449 £380
25th Percentile £550 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £743 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% +19.05% -11.02%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £578
90th Percentile £788 £768 £626
Central London median daily rate £725 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +45.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 611 447 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.99% 24.53% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 301 297
10th Percentile £413 £359 £384
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +0.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £646 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £18.92 £21.41 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.16 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.33 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.81% +115.83% -41.83%
75th Percentile £52.16 £65.12 £27.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £82.79 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% -33.52%

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 July 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 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
3 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.70%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) Metadata
2 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Introscope
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (51.35%) Finance
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Banking
3 5 (13.51%) Financial Institution
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Law
5 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.41%) German Language
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) International Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Project Manager
2 7 (18.92%) Bid Manager
2 7 (18.92%) Migration Manager
2 7 (18.92%) Migration Project Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Manager
4 5 (13.51%) Programme Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Finance Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Finance Project Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Finance Project Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Project Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Transformation Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Transformation Project Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Bid Project Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Transformation Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Bid Director
7 2 (5.41%) Business Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Bid Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Change Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Middleware
2 1 (2.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) PMI
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) AS400
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) AIX
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) PRINCE2
2 28 (75.68%) Agile
3 27 (72.97%) Project Management
4 26 (70.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (40.54%) Project Delivery
6 11 (29.73%) Migration
7 9 (24.32%) Validation
8 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
8 8 (21.62%) Project Governance
8 8 (21.62%) Waterfall
9 7 (18.92%) Security Architecture
10 6 (16.22%) Scrum
11 5 (13.51%) Change Control
11 5 (13.51%) Change Management
12 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (10.81%) DevOps
12 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
13 3 (8.11%) Matrix Organization
13 3 (8.11%) Risk Management
13 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) COBOL
1 1 (2.70%) Java
1 1 (2.70%) Jython
1 1 (2.70%) Python
1 1 (2.70%) RPG
1 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
1 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) PMP
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.70%) CBAP
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) GDPR
2 7 (18.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (18.92%) NIST
3 6 (16.22%) PMO
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) GRC
4 1 (2.70%) MiFID
4 1 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.70%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) CA Wily
1 1 (2.70%) Puppet
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) CyberArk
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) Planview
4 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Charles River
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce