PMI Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Project Management Institute (PMI)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMI over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 60 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing PMI 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 0.15% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 0.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £352 £319 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £338 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% - -
75th Percentile £401 £356 -
90th Percentile £402 - -
England median daily rate £561 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +6.86% -14.29% +8.89%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

PMI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 300 191 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.76% 28.13% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 92 126
10th Percentile £205 £251 £250
25th Percentile £358 £348 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £459 £485
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -5.41% +4.44%
75th Percentile £525 £535 £589
90th Percentile £625 £618 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 11
10th Percentile £16.63 £13.79 £16.66
25th Percentile £19.28 £15.10 £17.20
Median hourly rate £21.65 £31.76 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +51.24% +19.59%
75th Percentile £25.11 £55.00 £39.86
90th Percentile £25.75 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.98% -10.11% +27.14%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

PMI job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

PMI
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMI

PMI
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMI

PMI
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMI within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 3 £400 - 1
PMI
England

PMI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Payments Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Payments Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) KYC
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CBAP
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) MBA
3 1 (33.33%) PMP
3 1 (33.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) ISO 8583
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) PSD2
3 1 (33.33%) Basel III
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft