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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 411 470
Rank change year-on-year -45 +59 +71
Contract jobs citing PMI 131 68 73
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 0.82% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 35 35
10th Percentile £340 £313 £383
25th Percentile £410 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £644
90th Percentile £777 £690 £925
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -7.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% - +18.81%
75th Percentile £96.25 - -
90th Percentile £98.50 - £65.33
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% - +18.81%

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 13,088 8,307 11,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.46% 34.14% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,292 5,439 7,516
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 322 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £46.23 £33.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.33% +13.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +8.33% +33.42%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -13 71 £443 -21.24% 12
South East -34 24 £575 -11.54% 11
Midlands -62 14 £340 -26.49% 5
North of England -79 12 £402 -26.91% 6
East Midlands -19 10 £340 -13.04% 2
South West -24 8 £621 - 4
North West -32 7 £390 +9.55% 4
Yorkshire -64 5 £468 -14.91% 2
West Midlands -61 4 £575 +21.05% 3
East of England -37 3 £675 +50.00% 8
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 19 (14.50%) Confluence
2 9 (6.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.76%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (14.50%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (9.92%) MS Visio
3 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.53%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (1.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Primavera
2 2 (1.53%) Endur
2 2 (1.53%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.50%) SaaS
2 14 (10.69%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.11%) Smartsheet
4 7 (5.34%) Azure
5 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.05%) Lucidchart
5 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.05%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.29%) AWS
7 2 (1.53%) Contentsquare
7 2 (1.53%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.76%) IaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.69%) Power BI
2 2 (1.53%) Metadata
3 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.76%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (16.79%) JIRA
2 2 (1.53%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.76%) Introscope
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 47 (35.88%) Finance
3 24 (18.32%) Banking
4 20 (15.27%) Marketing
5 19 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.63%) Legal
7 8 (6.11%) Corporate Banking
7 8 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.11%) Retail Banking
8 6 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.05%) German Language
11 3 (2.29%) Law
12 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.76%) International Banking
13 1 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (31.30%) Project Manager
2 23 (17.56%) Analyst
3 18 (13.74%) Business Analyst
4 15 (11.45%) Senior
5 10 (7.63%) Programme Manager
6 8 (6.11%) B2B Sales Manager
6 8 (6.11%) Sales Manager
7 7 (5.34%) Change Manager
7 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 6 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.58%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.82%) Service Owner
10 4 (3.05%) Banking Project Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Consultant
10 4 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.05%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Project Planner
10 4 (3.05%) Transformation Manager
11 3 (2.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.76%) Middleware
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.76%) Spring
1 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.27%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.16%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.34%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.05%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.29%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.76%) LIMS
8 1 (0.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.05%) Linux
1 4 (3.05%) Windows
2 3 (2.29%) AIX
3 2 (1.53%) Solaris
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (50.38%) Project Management
2 58 (44.27%) Agile
3 52 (39.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (31.30%) PRINCE2
5 38 (29.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (28.24%) Change Management
7 29 (22.14%) Decision-Making
8 28 (21.37%) Scrum
9 27 (20.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (16.79%) Project Delivery
11 21 (16.03%) Waterfall
12 18 (13.74%) Kanban
13 17 (12.98%) ITIL
13 17 (12.98%) Roadmaps
13 17 (12.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 16 (12.21%) B2B
14 16 (12.21%) Matrix Organization
15 15 (11.45%) B2B Sales
15 15 (11.45%) Workshop Facilitation
16 14 (10.69%) Customer Retention
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.29%) SQL
2 2 (1.53%) Java
3 1 (0.76%) Jython
3 1 (0.76%) Python
3 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (98.47%) PMI Certification
2 51 (38.93%) Degree
3 45 (34.35%) PMP
4 27 (20.61%) Security Cleared
5 19 (14.50%) CBAP
6 17 (12.98%) SC Cleared
7 14 (10.69%) Master's Degree
8 9 (6.87%) MAPM
8 9 (6.87%) MBA
8 9 (6.87%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (5.34%) APMP
9 7 (5.34%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (3.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (2.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (1.53%) CAPM
13 2 (1.53%) CISA
13 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
13 2 (1.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.08%) QA
2 18 (13.74%) PMO
3 8 (6.11%) Basel III
4 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 4 (3.05%) NIST
5 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.29%) SLA
6 2 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.53%) GRC
6 2 (1.53%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.53%) PSD2
6 2 (1.53%) SEPA
6 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.53%) WCAG
7 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.76%) P3O
7 1 (0.76%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
1 1 (0.76%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.76%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.76%) Puppet
1 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.05%) Oracle
3 3 (2.29%) Databricks
3 3 (2.29%) SAP
4 2 (1.53%) Adobe
4 2 (1.53%) Ariba
4 2 (1.53%) Google
4 2 (1.53%) NEC
4 2 (1.53%) Planview
5 1 (0.76%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.76%) Charles River
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.76%) Wrike