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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 406 473
Rank change year-on-year -72 +67 +55
Contract jobs citing PMI 114 67 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.82% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 35 32
10th Percentile £340 £313 £319
25th Percentile £415 £383 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £597
90th Percentile £783 £690 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -10.42%
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 13,329 8,220 11,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 34.26% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,401 5,373 7,334
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 685 330 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.61 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.73 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% -1.43% +56.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.98 £32.05 £32.12
% change year-on-year +27.86% -0.20% +45.98%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -33 62 £443 -21.24% 15
South East -47 18 £500 -23.08% 10
Midlands -64 13 £340 -24.44% 7
North of England -78 11 £421 -23.41% 7
East Midlands -20 9 £340 -13.04% 3
North West -35 6 £395 +10.96% 6
South West -26 5 £635 - 4
Yorkshire -62 5 £468 -14.91% 1
East of England -33 4 £663 +55.88% 5
West Midlands -64 4 £575 +24.19% 4
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 18 (15.79%) Confluence
2 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (14.91%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (10.53%) MS Visio
3 10 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.75%) Trello
7 1 (0.88%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Primavera
2 2 (1.75%) Endur
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.91%) SaaS
2 14 (12.28%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.02%) Smartsheet
4 6 (5.26%) Azure
5 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.51%) Lucidchart
5 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.51%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.75%) AWS
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.88%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Firewall
1 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) Power BI
2 2 (1.75%) Metadata
2 2 (1.75%) Tableau
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (17.54%) JIRA
2 2 (1.75%) Git
3 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.88%) Introscope
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 41 (35.96%) Finance
3 20 (17.54%) Banking
4 19 (16.67%) Marketing
5 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (6.14%) Corporate Banking
7 7 (6.14%) Legal
7 7 (6.14%) Retail Banking
8 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.51%) German Language
10 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Law
10 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.88%) Automotive
12 1 (0.88%) International Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (29.82%) Project Manager
2 22 (19.30%) Analyst
3 16 (14.04%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.77%) Senior
5 8 (7.02%) B2B Sales Manager
5 8 (7.02%) Programme Manager
5 8 (7.02%) Sales Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Change Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (4.39%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (3.51%) Consultant
8 4 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.51%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.51%) Project Planner
8 4 (3.51%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 4 (3.51%) Technical Manager
8 4 (3.51%) Transformation Manager
9 3 (2.63%) Banking Project Manager
9 3 (2.63%) SaaS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.88%) Middleware
1 1 (0.88%) Spring
1 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.77%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.39%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.51%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.88%) LIMS
7 1 (0.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Windows
2 4 (3.51%) Linux
3 3 (2.63%) AIX
4 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.75%) Solaris
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.00%) Project Management
2 46 (40.35%) Agile
3 45 (39.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 36 (31.58%) Change Management
6 33 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (25.44%) Decision-Making
8 23 (20.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (19.30%) Scrum
10 19 (16.67%) Waterfall
11 17 (14.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 16 (14.04%) B2B
12 16 (14.04%) Kanban
12 16 (14.04%) Project Delivery
13 15 (13.16%) B2B Sales
13 15 (13.16%) Workshop Facilitation
14 14 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (12.28%) Customer Retention
14 14 (12.28%) Risk Management
15 13 (11.40%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.63%) SQL
2 2 (1.75%) Java
3 1 (0.88%) Jython
3 1 (0.88%) Python
3 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 112 (98.25%) PMI Certification
2 44 (38.60%) Degree
3 37 (32.46%) PMP
4 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
5 17 (14.91%) CBAP
6 13 (11.40%) Master's Degree
7 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
8 9 (7.89%) DV Cleared
9 8 (7.02%) MBA
9 8 (7.02%) SAFe Agilist
10 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.51%) MAPM
11 3 (2.63%) APMP
11 3 (2.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (1.75%) CAPM
12 2 (1.75%) CISA
12 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (1.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.42%) QA
2 12 (10.53%) PMO
3 7 (6.14%) Basel III
4 5 (4.39%) NIST
5 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.51%) SLA
6 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.63%) GDPR
7 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.75%) SEPA
7 2 (1.75%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.88%) GRC
8 1 (0.88%) MiFID
8 1 (0.88%) P3O
8 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.88%) UCITS
8 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) CA Wily
1 1 (0.88%) Puppet
1 1 (0.88%) SCOM
1 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.63%) Databricks
2 3 (2.63%) Oracle
3 2 (1.75%) NEC
3 2 (1.75%) Planview
3 2 (1.75%) SAP
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe
4 1 (0.88%) Ariba
4 1 (0.88%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.88%) Charles River
4 1 (0.88%) Google
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.88%) Splunk
4 1 (0.88%) VMware
4 1 (0.88%) Wrike