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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 436 481
Rank change year-on-year -95 +45 +42
Contract jobs citing PMI 98 89 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.32% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.90% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 48 27
10th Percentile £413 £304 £211
25th Percentile £431 £409 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £532 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +12.10% -24.00%
75th Percentile £656 £656 £594
90th Percentile £768 £715 £630
UK median daily rate £545 £515 £475
% change year-on-year +5.83% +8.41% -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 15,497 9,912 10,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.67% 35.96% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,455 6,253 6,353
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 489 462
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -40.42% +20.03%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.50 £75.14
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +27.50% -36.84% +8.57%

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 September 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 7 September 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 -85 50 £550 -8.33% 99
South East -55 28 £575 +11.66% 44
South West -36 9 £621 - 7
North West -52 5 £463 -26.00% 5
North of England -69 5 £463 -26.00% 11
East of England -20 3 £650 +36.84% 12
Midlands -56 3 £525 +16.67% 6
West Midlands -48 2 £550 +22.22% 5
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 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 7 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.12%) Confluence
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.06%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Primavera
2 2 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.02%) Changepoint
3 1 (1.02%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.02%) Endur
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.29%) SaaS
2 13 (13.27%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) Smartsheet
4 7 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.10%) IaaS
5 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.06%) AWS
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.02%) GCP
8 1 (1.02%) Serverless
8 1 (1.02%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Firewall
1 1 (1.02%) LAN
1 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) Power BI
2 4 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.06%) Metadata
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) Big Data
4 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.02%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.27%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.59%) Finance
3 15 (15.31%) Marketing
4 14 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.12%) German Language
6 6 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Banking
7 4 (4.08%) Law
7 4 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Aviation
9 2 (2.04%) Billing
9 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Legal
9 2 (2.04%) Police
9 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.02%) International Banking
10 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) Project Manager
2 16 (16.33%) Analyst
3 12 (12.24%) Risk Manager
4 11 (11.22%) Business Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Senior
6 9 (9.18%) Lead
7 6 (6.12%) B2B Sales Manager
7 6 (6.12%) IT Manager
7 6 (6.12%) Sales Manager
8 5 (5.10%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Change Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Migration Project Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Programme Manager
10 3 (3.06%) SaaS Consultant
10 3 (3.06%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Strategy Consultant
10 3 (3.06%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.02%) Spring
1 1 (1.02%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.04%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.04%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.02%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.02%) FMCG
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.02%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.88%) Project Management
2 39 (39.80%) PRINCE2
3 34 (34.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (33.67%) Agile
5 29 (29.59%) Decision-Making
6 26 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (25.51%) Change Management
8 23 (23.47%) Risk Management
9 19 (19.39%) Workshop Facilitation
10 18 (18.37%) Project Delivery
10 18 (18.37%) Scrum
10 18 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (16.33%) Waterfall
12 14 (14.29%) B2B
13 13 (13.27%) B2B Sales
14 12 (12.24%) Customer Retention
14 12 (12.24%) Matrix Organization
14 12 (12.24%) Risk Analysis
15 11 (11.22%) Kanban
15 11 (11.22%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.14%) SQL
2 2 (2.04%) Python
3 1 (1.02%) Java
Qualifications
1 98 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 32 (32.65%) Security Cleared
3 27 (27.55%) Degree
4 23 (23.47%) PMP
5 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
6 12 (12.24%) CBAP
7 10 (10.20%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.06%) APMP
9 3 (3.06%) CAPM
9 3 (3.06%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (3.06%) MAPM
9 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.04%) CISA
10 2 (2.04%) MCSE
10 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (1.02%) CIPD
11 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) PMO
2 7 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.10%) QA
4 4 (4.08%) SLA
5 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.04%) NIST
5 2 (2.04%) SEPA
6 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.02%) GRC
6 1 (1.02%) MiFID
6 1 (1.02%) P3O
6 1 (1.02%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) Kibana
1 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.02%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.08%) Databricks
2 4 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.06%) Planview
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle
4 2 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (1.02%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.02%) Charles River
5 1 (1.02%) Intapp
5 1 (1.02%) Progress
5 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.02%) Splunk
5 1 (1.02%) VMware
5 1 (1.02%) Wrike