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 10 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 403 472
Rank change year-on-year -60 +69 +82
Contract jobs citing PMI 126 69 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.82% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 35 33
10th Percentile £340 £313 £325
25th Percentile £415 £416 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £758 £690 £925
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.91% -7.32% -8.33%
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% - -
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% - -

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 13,182 8,364 11,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.30% 34.18% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,354 5,475 7,418
10th Percentile £308 £300 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.24% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 332 819
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.77 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.75 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% +8.20% +42.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.81 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +38.46% +4.00% +38.98%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -23 68 £443 -11.40% 18
South East -48 24 £575 -11.54% 11
Midlands -57 14 £340 -24.44% 8
North of England -63 12 £402 -26.91% 9
East Midlands -25 10 £340 -13.04% 4
North West -32 7 £390 +9.55% 5
South West -32 5 £635 - 4
Yorkshire -63 5 £468 -14.91% 3
West Midlands -59 4 £575 +24.19% 4
East of England -31 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 20 (15.87%) Confluence
2 9 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.79%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (10.32%) MS Visio
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.59%) Trello
7 1 (0.79%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Primavera
2 2 (1.59%) Endur
2 2 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.08%) SaaS
2 15 (11.90%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.35%) Smartsheet
4 7 (5.56%) Azure
5 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.17%) Lucidchart
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.17%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.38%) AWS
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.79%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.79%) IaaS
7 1 (0.79%) PaaS
7 1 (0.79%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.90%) Power BI
2 2 (1.59%) Metadata
2 2 (1.59%) Tableau
3 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.79%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (17.46%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.79%) Introscope
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (38.10%) Finance
1 48 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.25%) Banking
3 19 (15.08%) Marketing
4 18 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.14%) Legal
6 8 (6.35%) Corporate Banking
6 8 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.35%) Retail Banking
7 6 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.17%) German Language
8 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.38%) Law
9 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Front Office
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (31.75%) Project Manager
2 25 (19.84%) Analyst
3 19 (15.08%) Business Analyst
4 11 (8.73%) Programme Manager
5 10 (7.94%) Senior
6 8 (6.35%) B2B Sales Manager
6 8 (6.35%) Sales Manager
7 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 6 (4.76%) Change Manager
8 6 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Banking Project Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Consultant
10 4 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.17%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Project Planner
10 4 (3.17%) Risk Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Technical Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) Middleware
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.79%) Spring
1 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.17%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.59%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.79%) LIMS
8 1 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) AIX
1 3 (2.38%) Linux
1 3 (2.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.59%) Solaris
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.79%) Project Management
2 51 (40.48%) Agile
3 49 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (31.75%) PRINCE2
5 37 (29.37%) Change Management
6 36 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (24.60%) Decision-Making
8 28 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (20.63%) Scrum
10 21 (16.67%) Waterfall
11 20 (15.87%) Kanban
11 20 (15.87%) Project Delivery
12 18 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 17 (13.49%) Workshop Facilitation
14 16 (12.70%) B2B
14 16 (12.70%) Matrix Organization
15 15 (11.90%) B2B Sales
15 15 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (11.90%) Risk Management
16 14 (11.11%) Customer Retention
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.17%) SQL
2 2 (1.59%) Java
3 1 (0.79%) Jython
3 1 (0.79%) Python
3 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (98.41%) PMI Certification
2 50 (39.68%) Degree
3 44 (34.92%) PMP
4 26 (20.63%) Security Cleared
5 20 (15.87%) CBAP
6 17 (13.49%) SC Cleared
7 14 (11.11%) Master's Degree
8 9 (7.14%) MAPM
8 9 (7.14%) MBA
8 9 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared
10 7 (5.56%) APMP
11 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (3.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (2.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (1.59%) CAPM
14 2 (1.59%) CISA
14 2 (1.59%) DBS Check
14 2 (1.59%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.05%) QA
2 18 (14.29%) PMO
3 8 (6.35%) Basel III
4 5 (3.97%) NIST
5 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.38%) GDPR
7 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.59%) GRC
7 2 (1.59%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.59%) PSD2
7 2 (1.59%) SEPA
7 2 (1.59%) SLA
7 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.79%) MiFID
8 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.79%) Puppet
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) Oracle
3 3 (2.38%) Databricks
3 3 (2.38%) SAP
4 2 (1.59%) Ariba
4 2 (1.59%) NEC
4 2 (1.59%) Planview
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.79%) Charles River
5 1 (0.79%) Google
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.79%) Wrike