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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 433 489
Rank change year-on-year -82 +56 +50
Contract jobs citing PMI 112 72 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.75% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 27
10th Percentile £394 £299 £211
25th Percentile £415 £387 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.25% -19.03%
75th Percentile £633 £639 £586
90th Percentile £760 £750 £645
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
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 14,958 9,554 11,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.20% 34.86% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,289 6,062 7,230
10th Percentile £316 £306 £298
25th Percentile £420 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £539
% change year-on-year - -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 469 729
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.24
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -17.50% +13.48%
75th Percentile £71.62 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.82 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -20.00% +7.14%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -64 54 £545 +10.10% 19
South East -48 28 £533 -11.25% 11
South West -28 11 £621 - 3
North of England -73 9 £431 -21.59% 4
North West -44 7 £400 -22.18% 2
Midlands -47 6 £500 +18.91% 8
West Midlands -59 4 £575 +27.78% 7
East of England -16 3 £650 +52.94%
East Midlands -12 2 £420 +7.42% 1
Yorkshire -53 2 £550 - 2
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 12 (10.71%) Confluence
2 9 (8.04%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.89%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (5.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (2.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Primavera
2 2 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.89%) Changepoint
3 1 (0.89%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.89%) Endur
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.29%) SaaS
2 11 (9.82%) Azure
2 11 (9.82%) Smartsheet
3 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.46%) IaaS
4 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.68%) AWS
6 3 (2.68%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Firewall
1 1 (0.89%) Internet
1 1 (0.89%) LAN
1 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.36%) Power BI
2 2 (1.79%) Metadata
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.39%) JIRA
2 2 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.89%) Introscope
3 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.36%) Finance
3 19 (16.96%) Marketing
4 15 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (6.25%) Banking
8 6 (5.36%) German Language
9 5 (4.46%) Legal
9 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.57%) Law
11 3 (2.68%) Aviation
11 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.79%) Billing
12 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (31.25%) Project Manager
2 19 (16.96%) Analyst
3 13 (11.61%) Business Analyst
4 12 (10.71%) Risk Manager
5 9 (8.04%) Senior
6 8 (7.14%) B2B Sales Manager
6 8 (7.14%) Sales Manager
7 7 (6.25%) IT Manager
7 7 (6.25%) Lead
8 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Change Manager
9 5 (4.46%) IT Project Manager
10 4 (3.57%) Consultant
10 4 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (3.57%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.57%) Transformation Manager
11 3 (2.68%) B2B Project Manager
11 3 (2.68%) Migration Manager
11 3 (2.68%) SaaS Project Manager
11 3 (2.68%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.89%) Middleware
1 1 (0.89%) Spring
1 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.46%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.79%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (1.79%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.89%) LIMS
5 1 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.89%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.46%) Windows
2 4 (3.57%) Linux
3 3 (2.68%) AIX
4 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.79%) Solaris
5 1 (0.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.54%) Project Management
2 40 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (34.82%) PRINCE2
4 36 (32.14%) Agile
5 35 (31.25%) Decision-Making
6 34 (30.36%) Change Management
7 31 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (23.21%) Risk Management
9 25 (22.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (20.54%) Workshop Facilitation
11 20 (17.86%) Project Delivery
12 17 (15.18%) Scrum
12 17 (15.18%) Waterfall
13 16 (14.29%) B2B
14 15 (13.39%) B2B Sales
14 15 (13.39%) Kanban
15 14 (12.50%) Customer Retention
16 13 (11.61%) Matrix Organization
16 13 (11.61%) Programme Management
17 12 (10.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.36%) SQL
2 2 (1.79%) Java
3 1 (0.89%) Jython
3 1 (0.89%) Python
3 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 37 (33.04%) Security Cleared
3 33 (29.46%) Degree
4 32 (28.57%) PMP
5 24 (21.43%) SC Cleared
6 14 (12.50%) CBAP
7 10 (8.93%) DV Cleared
8 8 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (5.36%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.57%) MAPM
11 3 (2.68%) APMP
11 3 (2.68%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (2.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (1.79%) CAPM
12 2 (1.79%) CISA
12 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.79%) MCSE
12 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.79%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (1.79%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) PMO
2 9 (8.04%) QA
3 6 (5.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.57%) NIST
4 4 (3.57%) SLA
5 2 (1.79%) SEPA
5 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.89%) Basel III
6 1 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) MiFID
6 1 (0.89%) P3O
6 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.89%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.89%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.89%) Puppet
1 1 (0.89%) SCOM
1 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.68%) Oracle
3 3 (2.68%) Planview
4 2 (1.79%) Databricks
4 2 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.89%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.89%) Charles River
5 1 (0.89%) Intapp
5 1 (0.89%) Progress
5 1 (0.89%) Splunk
5 1 (0.89%) VMware
5 1 (0.89%) Wrike