PMI Contract Job Trends in England

Project Management Institute (PMI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMI over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 428 493
Rank change year-on-year -84 +65 +49
Contract jobs citing PMI 111 69 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.78% 0.78% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 37 26
10th Percentile £363 £297 £186
25th Percentile £415 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £588
90th Percentile £739 £750 £648
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £81.00 - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile £99.00 - £65.33
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% - -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,291 8,837 11,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.86% 34.70% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,903 5,651 7,356
10th Percentile £313 £305 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £820
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 779 421 844
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +56.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £31.63 £36.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% -12.15% +60.00%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PMI job vacancy trend in England

PMI
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PMI

PMI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMI in England

PMI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PMI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PMI

PMI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMI in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PMI in England

PMI
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 PMI within the England region over the 6 months to 28 June 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 -61 54 £443 -21.29% 14
South East -41 25 £540 -10.00% 3
North of England -65 10 £441 -19.91% 8
South West -28 9 £535 - 4
Midlands -55 8 £340 -19.14% 3
Yorkshire -48 5 £468 -14.91% 3
North West - 5 £390 - 4
East Midlands -10 4 £340 -13.04%
East of England -25 4 £663 +55.88% 1
West Midlands -58 4 £575 +27.78% 3
PMI
UK

PMI
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 14 (12.61%) Confluence
2 9 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.90%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (7.21%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Primavera
2 1 (0.90%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.90%) Endur
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.41%) SaaS
2 9 (8.11%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.21%) Smartsheet
4 7 (6.31%) Azure
5 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.60%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.70%) AWS
7 3 (2.70%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Firewall
1 1 (0.90%) Internet
1 1 (0.90%) LAN
1 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Power BI
2 2 (1.80%) Metadata
3 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.90%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Git
3 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.90%) Introscope
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.63%) Finance
3 19 (17.12%) Marketing
4 16 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.91%) Banking
6 7 (6.31%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (6.31%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.41%) German Language
7 6 (5.41%) Legal
7 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.60%) Law
9 3 (2.70%) Aviation
9 3 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.90%) Billing
Job Titles
1 31 (27.93%) Project Manager
2 21 (18.92%) Analyst
3 15 (13.51%) Business Analyst
4 12 (10.81%) Risk Manager
5 10 (9.01%) Senior
6 8 (7.21%) B2B Sales Manager
6 8 (7.21%) Sales Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Change Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Consultant
9 4 (3.60%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Lead
9 4 (3.60%) Programme Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Transformation Manager
10 3 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.70%) Project Planner
10 3 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (2.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.90%) Middleware
1 1 (0.90%) Spring
1 1 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.50%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.80%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.90%) LIMS
6 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
3 3 (2.70%) AIX
4 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Solaris
5 1 (0.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.34%) Project Management
2 40 (36.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (34.23%) Agile
4 35 (31.53%) Decision-Making
5 34 (30.63%) PRINCE2
6 32 (28.83%) Change Management
7 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (23.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (22.52%) Risk Management
10 22 (19.82%) Workshop Facilitation
11 18 (16.22%) Scrum
12 16 (14.41%) B2B
12 16 (14.41%) Waterfall
13 15 (13.51%) B2B Sales
13 15 (13.51%) Project Delivery
14 14 (12.61%) Customer Retention
15 13 (11.71%) ITIL
16 12 (10.81%) Programme Management
17 11 (9.91%) Kanban
17 11 (9.91%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.60%) SQL
2 2 (1.80%) Java
3 1 (0.90%) Jython
3 1 (0.90%) Python
3 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 36 (32.43%) Degree
3 32 (28.83%) PMP
4 30 (27.03%) Security Cleared
5 22 (19.82%) SC Cleared
6 15 (13.51%) CBAP
7 10 (9.01%) DV Cleared
8 8 (7.21%) Master's Degree
9 4 (3.60%) MAPM
9 4 (3.60%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (2.70%) APMP
10 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.70%) MBA
10 3 (2.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (1.80%) CISA
11 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.80%) MCSE
11 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.80%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) QA
2 10 (9.01%) PMO
3 6 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.60%) NIST
4 4 (3.60%) SLA
5 3 (2.70%) Basel III
6 2 (1.80%) SEPA
6 2 (1.80%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.90%) GDPR
7 1 (0.90%) GRC
7 1 (0.90%) MiFID
7 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.90%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.90%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.90%) Puppet
1 1 (0.90%) SCOM
1 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.70%) Databricks
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle
2 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.80%) SAP
4 1 (0.90%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.90%) Charles River
4 1 (0.90%) Intapp
4 1 (0.90%) Planview
4 1 (0.90%) Splunk
4 1 (0.90%) VMware
4 1 (0.90%) Wrike