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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 90 99
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +43
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 48 30 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.11% 1.69% 1.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.18% 6.80% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 12
10th Percentile £436 £400 £428
25th Percentile £503 £442 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% +6.67% -17.97%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £638
90th Percentile £788 £748 -
Central London median daily rate £625 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +35.14% -11.90% -17.97%

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 587 441 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.77% 24.83% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 297 315
10th Percentile £413 £330 £385
25th Percentile £463 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £654
90th Percentile £734 £743 £772
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +17.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £33.10 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £52.24 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% +33.33%

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 5 September 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.08%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) AWS
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.17%) GitHub
4 2 (4.17%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) dbt
5 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.08%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.08%) Metadata
2 1 (2.08%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (50.00%) Finance
3 14 (29.17%) Banking
4 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (4.17%) German Language
6 2 (4.17%) International Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.08%) Marketing
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (56.25%) Project Manager
2 10 (20.83%) Bid Manager
3 8 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
3 8 (16.67%) Transformation Project Manager
4 7 (14.58%) Programme Manager
4 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 7 (14.58%) Senior Manager
5 6 (12.50%) Finance Manager
5 6 (12.50%) Finance Project Manager
6 5 (10.42%) Programme Director
7 4 (8.33%) Bid Project Manager
7 4 (8.33%) Change Manager
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Bid Director
8 3 (6.25%) Business Change Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Migration Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Bid Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Business Change Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Change Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) ADO
1 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) PMI
2 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) AS400
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) PACS
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) PRINCE2
2 33 (68.75%) Project Management
3 32 (66.67%) Agile
3 32 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 13 (27.08%) Decision-Making
6 10 (20.83%) Change Management
7 9 (18.75%) Waterfall
8 8 (16.67%) Business Case
9 7 (14.58%) Change Control
9 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (14.58%) Migration
9 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.58%) Scrum
10 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.50%) Project Governance
11 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 4 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
12 4 (8.33%) Process Improvement
12 4 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (2.08%) Bash
2 1 (2.08%) COBOL
2 1 (2.08%) Python
2 1 (2.08%) RPG
Qualifications
1 40 (83.33%) PMP
2 8 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.08%) CBAP
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) PMO
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) NIST
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) SLA
4 1 (2.08%) GRC
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.08%) MiFID
4 1 (2.08%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) SEPA
4 1 (2.08%) TARGET2
4 1 (2.08%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 2 (4.17%) SAP
3 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) BMC
4 1 (2.08%) Charles River
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Planview
4 1 (2.08%) Remedy
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce