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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 440 493
Rank change year-on-year -104 +53 +28
Contract jobs citing PMI 93 77 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.77% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 43 25
10th Percentile £415 £307 £334
25th Percentile £450 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £647 £600
90th Percentile £780 £740 £637
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +6.80% +2.99% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £25.33 - -
25th Percentile £43.02 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

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 15,715 10,023 10,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 36.13% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,478 6,288 6,128
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £412 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 511 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.11 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.43 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +12.36%

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 28 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMI in England over the 6 months to 28 September 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 28 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 -86 48 £550 -1.79% 72
South East -40 29 £575 +11.66% 50
South West -29 9 £525 - 11
East of England -21 3 £650 - 6
Midlands -44 2 £513 +13.89% 15
North West -57 2 £556 -11.00% 11
North of England -71 2 £556 -11.00% 16
West Midlands -47 1 £525 +16.67% 7
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 8
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 6 (6.45%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Changepoint
1 2 (2.15%) Primavera
1 2 (2.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.08%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.08%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.98%) Azure
2 10 (10.75%) SaaS
3 8 (8.60%) Smartsheet
4 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.38%) IaaS
5 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.30%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.15%) AWS
9 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.08%) GCP
9 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) LAN
2 1 (1.08%) VoIP
2 1 (1.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) Power BI
2 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.23%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) Big Data
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) JIRA
General
1 41 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.03%) Finance
3 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.90%) Marketing
6 6 (6.45%) German Language
7 5 (5.38%) Banking
7 5 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Law
8 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Aviation
9 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.15%) Automotive
10 2 (2.15%) Billing
10 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.15%) Police
11 1 (1.08%) Legal
11 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (19.35%) Project Manager
2 14 (15.05%) Analyst
3 12 (12.90%) Business Analyst
3 12 (12.90%) Risk Manager
4 11 (11.83%) Lead
4 11 (11.83%) Senior
5 5 (5.38%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.30%) B2B Sales Manager
6 4 (4.30%) Consultant
6 4 (4.30%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (4.30%) Sales Manager
6 4 (4.30%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.23%) Change Manager
7 3 (3.23%) Integration Specialist
7 3 (3.23%) Migration Manager
7 3 (3.23%) SaaS Consultant
7 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 3 (3.23%) Scrum Master
7 3 (3.23%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.23%) Strategy Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.15%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.15%) Synthetic Data
4 2 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.08%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.08%) FMCG
5 1 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.08%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.01%) Project Management
2 38 (40.86%) PRINCE2
3 34 (36.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (35.48%) Agile
5 28 (30.11%) Decision-Making
6 24 (25.81%) Change Management
6 24 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (23.66%) Risk Management
8 18 (19.35%) Scrum
8 18 (19.35%) Workshop Facilitation
9 17 (18.28%) Project Delivery
9 17 (18.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (15.05%) Waterfall
11 12 (12.90%) Risk Analysis
12 11 (11.83%) B2B
12 11 (11.83%) Kanban
12 11 (11.83%) Matrix Organization
13 10 (10.75%) Business Case
13 10 (10.75%) Customer Retention
13 10 (10.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.53%) SQL
2 2 (2.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 93 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 35 (37.63%) Security Cleared
3 29 (31.18%) Degree
4 23 (24.73%) SC Cleared
5 22 (23.66%) PMP
6 13 (13.98%) CBAP
7 11 (11.83%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.23%) CAPM
9 3 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.15%) APMP
10 2 (2.15%) CISA
10 2 (2.15%) MAPM
10 2 (2.15%) MCSE
10 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (1.08%) CIPD
11 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 1 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) PMO
2 7 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.38%) SLA
4 3 (3.23%) QA
5 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.15%) NIST
5 2 (2.15%) P3O
5 2 (2.15%) SEPA
6 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.08%) GRC
6 1 (1.08%) MiFID
6 1 (1.08%) UCITS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.08%) Kibana
1 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.23%) Databricks
2 3 (3.23%) Planview
2 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.23%) SAP
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle
4 1 (1.08%) Autodesk
4 1 (1.08%) Charles River
4 1 (1.08%) Intapp
4 1 (1.08%) Progress
4 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.08%) Splunk
4 1 (1.08%) VMware
4 1 (1.08%) Wrike