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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 424 472
Rank change year-on-year -107 +48 +50
Contract jobs citing PMI 97 85 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.86% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 45 27
10th Percentile £413 £302 £211
25th Percentile £431 £400 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +2.99% -20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £656 £600
90th Percentile £773 £750 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £514 £488
% change year-on-year +6.90% +5.54% -22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.53 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £13.97 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.66% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £14.40 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.97 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -77.66% +4.17% -

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 15,482 9,903 10,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 35.93% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,374 6,220 6,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £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 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 495 428
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.48 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -42.65% +24.59%
75th Percentile £68.94 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 14 September 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
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 14 September 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 -91 51 £550 -8.33% 99
South East -37 28 £575 +11.66% 56
South West -37 10 £573 - 7
East of England -31 3 £650 +15.56% 15
North West -53 3 £463 -26.00% 9
North of England -78 3 £463 -26.00% 13
Midlands -48 2 £513 +13.89% 9
West Midlands -48 1 £525 +16.67% 5
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
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 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.19%) Confluence
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Changepoint
1 2 (2.06%) Primavera
1 2 (2.06%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.03%) Endur
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.43%) SaaS
2 13 (13.40%) Azure
3 10 (10.31%) Smartsheet
4 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.15%) IaaS
5 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.12%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.06%) AWS
9 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.03%) GCP
9 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.03%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Firewall
1 1 (1.03%) LAN
1 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Power BI
2 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.09%) Metadata
4 1 (1.03%) Big Data
4 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.40%) JIRA
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.87%) Finance
3 15 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.46%) Marketing
3 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.19%) German Language
4 6 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Law
6 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Aviation
8 2 (2.06%) Billing
8 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Legal
8 2 (2.06%) Police
8 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.03%) International Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Project Manager
2 16 (16.49%) Analyst
3 12 (12.37%) Risk Manager
4 11 (11.34%) Business Analyst
4 11 (11.34%) Lead
5 10 (10.31%) Senior
6 6 (6.19%) B2B Sales Manager
6 6 (6.19%) Sales Manager
7 5 (5.15%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Consultant
8 4 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Change Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Integration Specialist
9 3 (3.09%) Migration Project Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS Consultant
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Strategy Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.06%) Synthetic Data
4 2 (2.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.03%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.03%) FMCG
5 1 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.03%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.30%) Project Management
2 38 (39.18%) PRINCE2
3 33 (34.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (31.96%) Agile
5 29 (29.90%) Decision-Making
6 28 (28.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (24.74%) Change Management
8 22 (22.68%) Risk Management
9 18 (18.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (18.56%) Workshop Facilitation
10 17 (17.53%) Scrum
11 16 (16.49%) Project Delivery
12 15 (15.46%) Waterfall
13 14 (14.43%) B2B
14 13 (13.40%) B2B Sales
15 12 (12.37%) Customer Retention
15 12 (12.37%) Matrix Organization
15 12 (12.37%) Programme Management
15 12 (12.37%) Risk Analysis
16 11 (11.34%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.22%) SQL
2 2 (2.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 97 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 33 (34.02%) Security Cleared
3 27 (27.84%) Degree
4 25 (25.77%) PMP
5 20 (20.62%) SC Cleared
6 12 (12.37%) CBAP
7 10 (10.31%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.09%) APMP
9 3 (3.09%) CAPM
9 3 (3.09%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (3.09%) MAPM
9 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.06%) CISA
10 2 (2.06%) MCSE
10 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (1.03%) CIPD
11 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
11 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.37%) PMO
2 7 (7.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.12%) QA
3 4 (4.12%) SLA
4 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.06%) NIST
4 2 (2.06%) P3O
4 2 (2.06%) SEPA
5 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.03%) GRC
5 1 (1.03%) MiFID
5 1 (1.03%) UCITS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Kibana
1 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Databricks
2 4 (4.12%) Planview
2 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.09%) Oracle
3 3 (3.09%) SAP
4 1 (1.03%) Autodesk
4 1 (1.03%) Charles River
4 1 (1.03%) Intapp
4 1 (1.03%) Progress
4 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.03%) Splunk
4 1 (1.03%) VMware
4 1 (1.03%) Wrike