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 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 407 495
Rank change year-on-year -64 +88 +41
Contract jobs citing PMI 115 68 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 0.82% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 36 28
10th Percentile £340 £316 £236
25th Percentile £415 £387 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +1.19% -13.22%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £588
90th Percentile £768 £725 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £81.00 - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile £99.00 - £65.33
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% - -

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 13,671 8,341 11,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.34% 34.28% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,571 5,378 7,379
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 722 358 843
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £21.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £44.23 £34.42 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -5.70% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.17 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.95 £83.59 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.47 £35.50
% change year-on-year +26.99% -5.73% +59.48%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -53 59 £443 -29.12% 12
South East -43 21 £513 -21.15% 9
Midlands -41 12 £340 -19.14% 3
North of England -74 11 £421 -23.41% 12
South West -19 8 £635 - 5
East Midlands -19 8 £340 -13.04% 1
North West -39 6 £395 +10.96% 9
Yorkshire -58 5 £468 -14.91% 2
East of England -21 4 £663 +55.88% 3
West Midlands -56 4 £575 +27.78% 2
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 16 (13.91%) Confluence
2 9 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.87%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (9.57%) MS Visio
3 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (5.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.74%) Trello
7 1 (0.87%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Primavera
2 1 (0.87%) Endur
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.78%) SaaS
2 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.96%) Smartsheet
4 6 (5.22%) Azure
5 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.48%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.61%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.74%) AWS
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.87%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) Firewall
1 1 (0.87%) Internet
1 1 (0.87%) LAN
1 1 (0.87%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) Power BI
2 2 (1.74%) Metadata
3 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.87%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.87%) Introscope
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (40.87%) Social Skills
2 38 (33.04%) Finance
3 19 (16.52%) Marketing
4 18 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.65%) Banking
5 8 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.09%) Legal
7 6 (5.22%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (5.22%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.22%) Retail Banking
8 5 (4.35%) German Language
9 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Law
9 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.87%) Automotive
11 1 (0.87%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (30.43%) Project Manager
2 20 (17.39%) Analyst
3 14 (12.17%) Business Analyst
4 11 (9.57%) Senior
5 8 (6.96%) B2B Sales Manager
5 8 (6.96%) Sales Manager
6 7 (6.09%) Programme Manager
7 6 (5.22%) Change Manager
7 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (5.22%) Risk Manager
7 6 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (5.22%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.35%) IT Manager
8 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Consultant
9 4 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Project Planner
9 4 (3.48%) Technical Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Transformation Manager
10 3 (2.61%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.87%) Middleware
1 1 (0.87%) Spring
1 1 (0.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.43%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.83%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.87%) LIMS
6 1 (0.87%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Windows
2 4 (3.48%) Linux
3 3 (2.61%) AIX
4 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.74%) Solaris
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.43%) Project Management
2 44 (38.26%) Agile
3 42 (36.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (31.30%) PRINCE2
5 35 (30.43%) Change Management
6 34 (29.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (26.96%) Decision-Making
8 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (17.39%) Scrum
10 19 (16.52%) Waterfall
11 18 (15.65%) Risk Management
11 18 (15.65%) Workshop Facilitation
12 17 (14.78%) Project Delivery
13 16 (13.91%) B2B
14 15 (13.04%) B2B Sales
14 15 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 14 (12.17%) Customer Retention
15 14 (12.17%) Kanban
16 13 (11.30%) ITIL
16 13 (11.30%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.61%) SQL
2 2 (1.74%) Java
3 1 (0.87%) Jython
3 1 (0.87%) Python
3 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (98.26%) PMI Certification
2 44 (38.26%) Degree
3 37 (32.17%) PMP
4 26 (22.61%) Security Cleared
5 17 (14.78%) SC Cleared
6 15 (13.04%) CBAP
7 12 (10.43%) Master's Degree
8 8 (6.96%) DV Cleared
9 7 (6.09%) MBA
9 7 (6.09%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (4.35%) MAPM
11 4 (3.48%) APMP
11 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (1.74%) CAPM
13 2 (1.74%) CISA
13 2 (1.74%) DBS Check
13 2 (1.74%) MCSE
13 2 (1.74%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.39%) QA
2 11 (9.57%) PMO
3 6 (5.22%) Basel III
4 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.48%) NIST
5 4 (3.48%) SLA
6 3 (2.61%) GDPR
7 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.74%) GRC
7 2 (1.74%) SEPA
7 2 (1.74%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.87%) MiFID
8 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.87%) UCITS
8 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.87%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.87%) Puppet
1 1 (0.87%) SCOM
1 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.61%) Databricks
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle
3 2 (1.74%) NEC
3 2 (1.74%) SAP
4 1 (0.87%) Adobe
4 1 (0.87%) Ariba
4 1 (0.87%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.87%) Charles River
4 1 (0.87%) Google
4 1 (0.87%) Planview
4 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.87%) Splunk
4 1 (0.87%) VMware
4 1 (0.87%) Wrike