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 24 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 438 480
Rank change year-on-year -92 +42 +48
Contract jobs citing PMI 104 83 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 0.84% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 42 28
10th Percentile £409 £301 £236
25th Percentile £423 £381 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +15.79% -24.00%
75th Percentile £641 £653 £585
90th Percentile £758 £745 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £475
% change year-on-year +2.14% +8.21% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +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 15,309 9,886 10,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.63% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,366 6,242 6,543
10th Percentile £325 £305 £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 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 501 506
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £19.53
Median hourly rate £42.40 £32.71 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -34.58% +8.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -33.33% +2.66%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -79 54 £501 -8.86% 7
South East -46 28 £575 +4.55% 12
South West -34 9 £621 - 4
North of England -66 7 £463 -26.00% 7
North West -43 6 £431 -31.00% 2
East of England -26 3 £650 +36.84% 2
Midlands -45 3 £525 +16.67% 10
West Midlands -46 2 £550 +22.22% 7
Yorkshire -38 1 £550 -12.00% 5
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 3
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 8 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.81%) Confluence
3 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.96%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.96%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (10.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.88%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Primavera
2 2 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.96%) Changepoint
3 1 (0.96%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.96%) Endur
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.38%) SaaS
2 12 (11.54%) Azure
3 11 (10.58%) Smartsheet
4 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.81%) IaaS
5 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.85%) AWS
6 4 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.96%) GCP
9 1 (0.96%) Serverless
9 1 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Firewall
1 1 (0.96%) Internet
1 1 (0.96%) LAN
1 1 (0.96%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.77%) Power BI
2 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.88%) Metadata
3 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.96%) Big Data
3 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.96%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.58%) JIRA
2 2 (1.92%) Git
3 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.96%) Introscope
3 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 31 (29.81%) Finance
3 19 (18.27%) Marketing
4 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.77%) Banking
6 6 (5.77%) German Language
6 6 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.85%) Law
7 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.88%) Aviation
8 3 (2.88%) Legal
8 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Billing
9 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.96%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (25.96%) Project Manager
2 17 (16.35%) Analyst
3 12 (11.54%) Risk Manager
4 11 (10.58%) Business Analyst
5 10 (9.62%) Senior
6 8 (7.69%) B2B Sales Manager
6 8 (7.69%) Lead
6 8 (7.69%) Sales Manager
7 6 (5.77%) IT Manager
8 5 (4.81%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (3.85%) Consultant
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.85%) Transformation Manager
10 3 (2.88%) B2B Project Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Infrastructure Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Migration Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.88%) SaaS Project Manager
10 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared Project Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.96%) Middleware
1 1 (0.96%) Spring
1 1 (0.96%) Spring Boot
1 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.92%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.92%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.96%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Windows
2 2 (1.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.96%) AIX
3 1 (0.96%) Unix
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (45.19%) Project Management
2 40 (38.46%) PRINCE2
3 33 (31.73%) Agile
3 33 (31.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (30.77%) Decision-Making
5 28 (26.92%) Change Management
6 26 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (22.12%) Risk Management
8 21 (20.19%) Workshop Facilitation
9 20 (19.23%) Project Delivery
9 20 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (15.38%) B2B
10 16 (15.38%) Scrum
10 16 (15.38%) Waterfall
11 15 (14.42%) B2B Sales
12 14 (13.46%) Customer Retention
13 13 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
13 13 (12.50%) Programme Management
14 12 (11.54%) Risk Analysis
14 12 (11.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.73%) SQL
2 2 (1.92%) Java
2 2 (1.92%) Python
3 1 (0.96%) Jython
3 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 31 (29.81%) Security Cleared
3 30 (28.85%) Degree
4 27 (25.96%) PMP
5 18 (17.31%) SC Cleared
6 12 (11.54%) CBAP
7 10 (9.62%) DV Cleared
8 6 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.88%) APMP
9 3 (2.88%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (2.88%) MAPM
9 3 (2.88%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.92%) CISA
10 2 (1.92%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.92%) MCSE
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (1.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) PMO
2 7 (6.73%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.81%) QA
4 4 (3.85%) SLA
5 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.92%) NIST
5 2 (1.92%) SEPA
6 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.96%) GRC
6 1 (0.96%) MiFID
6 1 (0.96%) P3O
6 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.96%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.96%) Puppet
1 1 (0.96%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.88%) Databricks
3 3 (2.88%) Oracle
3 3 (2.88%) Planview
4 2 (1.92%) SAP
5 1 (0.96%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.96%) Charles River
5 1 (0.96%) Intapp
5 1 (0.96%) Progress
5 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.96%) Splunk
5 1 (0.96%) VMware
5 1 (0.96%) Wrike