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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 100 104
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 44 30 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.84% 1.61% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.21% 6.52% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 7
10th Percentile £467 £422 £380
25th Percentile £530 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -2.38% -16.67%
75th Percentile £750 £652 £578
90th Percentile £784 £750 £626
Central London median daily rate £700 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% -14.63%

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 610 460 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.46% 24.63% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 314 312
10th Percentile £408 £341 £405
25th Percentile £463 £462 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £642 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £19.42 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £21.88 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £31.03 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +17.29% -31.91%
75th Percentile £57.02 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.86% +17.69% -23.40%

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 August 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 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.27%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
3 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) Metadata
2 1 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Introscope
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (50.00%) Finance
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Financial Institution
3 5 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) German Language
6 1 (2.27%) Automotive
6 1 (2.27%) International Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (59.09%) Project Manager
2 10 (22.73%) Bid Manager
3 8 (18.18%) Senior
3 8 (18.18%) Senior Manager
4 7 (15.91%) Finance Manager
4 7 (15.91%) Finance Project Manager
4 7 (15.91%) Programme Manager
4 7 (15.91%) Transformation Manager
4 7 (15.91%) Transformation Project Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Migration Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Migration Project Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Programme Director
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (9.09%) Bid Project Manager
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Finance Project Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Business Change Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Business Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Change Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Implementation Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) ADO
1 1 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) PMI
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) AS400
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) AIX
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (81.82%) PRINCE2
2 31 (70.45%) Agile
2 31 (70.45%) Project Management
3 30 (68.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (38.64%) Project Delivery
5 12 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 8 (18.18%) Change Control
6 8 (18.18%) Change Management
6 8 (18.18%) Migration
6 8 (18.18%) Waterfall
7 7 (15.91%) Scrum
8 6 (13.64%) Project Governance
8 6 (13.64%) Validation
9 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
9 5 (11.36%) Security Architecture
10 4 (9.09%) Business Case
10 4 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (9.09%) Matrix Organization
10 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.27%) COBOL
1 1 (2.27%) Java
1 1 (2.27%) Jython
1 1 (2.27%) Python
1 1 (2.27%) RPG
1 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
1 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (79.55%) PMP
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) CBAP
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) GDPR
1 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (11.36%) NIST
1 5 (11.36%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) GRC
2 1 (2.27%) MiFID
2 1 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) CA Wily
1 1 (2.27%) Puppet
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) CyberArk
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Charles River
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) IBM
4 1 (2.27%) Planview
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce