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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 93 100
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +33
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 49 25 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.27% 1.46% 1.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.84% 5.76% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 15
10th Percentile £423 £397 £438
25th Percentile £487 £440 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £575 £608
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% -5.35% +5.65%
75th Percentile £745 £725 £663
90th Percentile £793 £770 £740
Central London median daily rate £580 £530 £566
% change year-on-year +9.43% -6.40% -1.52%

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 554 434 521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.64% 25.26% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 293 310
10th Percentile £401 £342 £362
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.22% +1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £661
90th Percentile £735 £738 £768
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.18% -7.56% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £28.91 £92.44
90th Percentile £119.20 £50.91 £112.00
Central London median hourly rate £56.00 £28.15 £29.75
% change year-on-year +98.93% -5.38% -36.02%

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 6 October 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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
2 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) AWS
3 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.04%) dbt
5 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.04%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Firewall
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
1 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.04%) Metadata
2 1 (2.04%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 19 (38.78%) Finance
3 13 (26.53%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Law
7 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.08%) German Language
7 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.04%) Front Office
8 1 (2.04%) Games
8 1 (2.04%) International Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Marketing
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (48.98%) Project Manager
2 10 (20.41%) Bid Manager
3 7 (14.29%) Programme Manager
3 7 (14.29%) Senior
3 7 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 7 (14.29%) Transformation Manager
3 7 (14.29%) Transformation Project Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Programme Director
5 5 (10.20%) Finance Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Finance Project Manager
6 4 (8.16%) Bid Project Manager
6 4 (8.16%) Change Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Bid Director
7 3 (6.12%) Business Change Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Business Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Implementation Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Business Change Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Business Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) ADO
1 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) PMI
2 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Life Science
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) AS400
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.04%) PACS
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) PRINCE2
2 34 (69.39%) Agile
2 34 (69.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (67.35%) Project Management
4 13 (26.53%) Decision-Making
4 13 (26.53%) Project Delivery
5 11 (22.45%) Change Management
6 10 (20.41%) Scrum
7 9 (18.37%) Waterfall
8 8 (16.33%) Business Case
8 8 (16.33%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (14.29%) Migration
9 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.24%) Change Control
10 6 (12.24%) Project Governance
10 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (10.20%) Data Governance
11 5 (10.20%) Dependency Management
11 5 (10.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.08%) SQL
2 1 (2.04%) Bash
2 1 (2.04%) COBOL
2 1 (2.04%) Python
2 1 (2.04%) RPG
Qualifications
1 42 (85.71%) PMP
2 10 (20.41%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) CAPM
3 2 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.04%) CBAP
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) PMO
2 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.12%) SLA
4 2 (4.08%) QA
5 1 (2.04%) GRC
5 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
5 1 (2.04%) SEPA
5 1 (2.04%) TARGET2
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) SAP
3 2 (4.08%) JD Edwards
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) BMC
4 1 (2.04%) Databricks
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) IBM
4 1 (2.04%) Remedy
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce