CAPM Contract Job Trends in England

PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CAPM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 501 518
Rank change year-on-year -117 +17 +90
Contract jobs citing CAPM 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.011% 0.015%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.028% 0.035% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £356 £371 £340
25th Percentile £366 £384 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% -8.33% -41.94%
75th Percentile £421 £434 £494
90th Percentile £444 £444 £520
UK median daily rate £382 £413 £488
% change year-on-year -7.39% -15.38% -11.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CAPM 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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,513 8,676 10,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.74% 31.45% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,794 5,431 6,440
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £435 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,120 679 724
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £14.94
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.62 £67.81
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.16 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

CAPM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CAPM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CAPM job vacancy trend in England

CAPM
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CAPM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CAPM

CAPM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAPM within the England region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
London -75 2 £382 +1.87% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 1
South East - 1 £460 -
North of England - 1 £350 - 2
CAPM
UK

CAPM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (25.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Asana
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) ERP Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Gantt Chart
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (75.00%) PMP
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow