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 29 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 424 483
Rank change year-on-year -36 +59 +66
Contract jobs citing PMI 122 55 67
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.66% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 33 31
10th Percentile £335 £395 £394
25th Percentile £400 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -5.78% -2.17%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £675 £925
UK median daily rate £465 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -11.80% -4.09% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £96.25 - -
90th Percentile £98.50 - £65.33
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 12,724 8,331 11,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.44% 34.08% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,075 5,461 7,571
10th Percentile £300 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £669
90th Percentile £747 £775 £787
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 315 800
10th Percentile £15.77 £16.70 £12.47
25th Percentile £19.75 £22.61 £15.17
Median hourly rate £44.50 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.99% +25.45% +20.88%
75th Percentile £69.99 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.70 £84.60 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £42.22 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.91% +18.18% +22.22%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -19 64 £447 -28.56% 13
South East -27 24 £550 -15.38% 11
Midlands -57 15 £340 -26.49% 8
North of England -67 12 £402 -26.91% 11
East Midlands -20 11 £340 -13.04% 2
North West -36 7 £390 -35.32% 7
South West - 7 £621 - 1
Yorkshire -66 5 £468 -13.33% 3
West Midlands -56 4 £575 +21.05% 6
East of England -30 2 £708 +57.22% 1
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 (16.39%) Confluence
2 7 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.82%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 21 (17.21%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (10.66%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (9.02%) MS Visio
4 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (2.46%) Trello
7 2 (1.64%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.10%) Primavera
3 4 (3.28%) Endur
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.93%) Power Platform
2 9 (7.38%) SaaS
3 7 (5.74%) Azure
4 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.10%) Smartsheet
5 4 (3.28%) Lucidchart
6 3 (2.46%) AWS
7 2 (1.64%) Contentsquare
7 2 (1.64%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.64%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.82%) PaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.82%) Serverless
8 1 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.93%) Power BI
2 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (19.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.64%) Git
3 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.82%) Introscope
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (44.26%) Social Skills
2 49 (40.16%) Finance
3 27 (22.13%) Banking
4 24 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.20%) Legal
5 10 (8.20%) Marketing
6 9 (7.38%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.56%) Corporate Banking
7 8 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.56%) Retail Banking
8 6 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.82%) Automotive
12 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.82%) Front Office
12 1 (0.82%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 41 (33.61%) Project Manager
2 30 (24.59%) Analyst
3 24 (19.67%) Business Analyst
4 16 (13.11%) Senior
5 13 (10.66%) Programme Manager
6 7 (5.74%) Change Manager
7 6 (4.92%) Payments Analyst
7 6 (4.92%) Payments Business Analyst
7 6 (4.92%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 6 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (4.92%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (4.92%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.10%) Operational Change Manager
8 5 (4.10%) Senior Project Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (3.28%) PMO Analyst
9 4 (3.28%) Project Planner
9 4 (3.28%) Sales Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.82%) Middleware
1 1 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.82%) Spring
1 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.67%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.84%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.38%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.28%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.46%) LIMS
5 3 (2.46%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.64%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) AIX
2 3 (2.46%) Windows
3 2 (1.64%) Solaris
4 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (59.02%) Agile
2 58 (47.54%) Project Management
3 57 (46.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (37.70%) PRINCE2
5 38 (31.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (29.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (26.23%) Change Management
8 31 (25.41%) Scrum
9 29 (23.77%) Project Delivery
10 25 (20.49%) Waterfall
11 22 (18.03%) Kanban
12 20 (16.39%) Decision-Making
13 19 (15.57%) Business Analysis
14 18 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (14.75%) Roadmaps
14 18 (14.75%) Workshop Facilitation
15 17 (13.93%) Requirements Gathering
15 17 (13.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 16 (13.11%) Regulatory Change
16 16 (13.11%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.64%) Java
1 2 (1.64%) SQL
2 1 (0.82%) Jython
2 1 (0.82%) Python
2 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (98.36%) PMI Certification
2 49 (40.16%) Degree
3 35 (28.69%) PMP
4 23 (18.85%) CBAP
5 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
6 16 (13.11%) Master's Degree
7 13 (10.66%) SC Cleared
8 10 (8.20%) MBA
9 9 (7.38%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (6.56%) MAPM
11 6 (4.92%) APMP
12 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
13 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (3.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (1.64%) CAPM
14 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
14 2 (1.64%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 2 (1.64%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 1 (0.82%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.95%) QA
2 22 (18.03%) PMO
3 8 (6.56%) Basel III
4 6 (4.92%) ISO 8583
4 6 (4.92%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.92%) PSD2
5 4 (3.28%) GDPR
5 4 (3.28%) NIST
5 4 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.64%) GRC
7 2 (1.64%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.64%) WCAG
8 1 (0.82%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.82%) P3O
8 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.82%) Docker
1 1 (0.82%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.82%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.82%) Puppet
1 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.10%) Oracle
3 4 (3.28%) Planview
4 3 (2.46%) Databricks
5 2 (1.64%) Adobe
5 2 (1.64%) Ariba
5 2 (1.64%) Google
5 2 (1.64%) NEC
5 2 (1.64%) SAP
6 1 (0.82%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.82%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow