PMI Certification Contract Job Trends in London

PMI Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 248 325
Rank change year-on-year +66 +77 +28
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 201 132 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.49% 0.81% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.64% 3.31% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 69 86
10th Percentile £363 £424 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.29% +1.43%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £675
90th Percentile £788 £740 £800
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £38.09 £55.00
% change year-on-year +70.67% -30.75% +4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

PMI Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,562 3,984 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.45% 24.43% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,397 2,596 3,471
10th Percentile £356 £347 £353
25th Percentile £438 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 55 90
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.98 £18.98
25th Percentile - £23.08 £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -37.96% +22.92%
75th Percentile £37.81 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.80 £77.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -53.43% - +20.00%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PMI Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PMI Certification in London

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI Certification in London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in London

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMI Certification within the London region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Central London +9 32 £463 -11.90% 29
West London -2 6 £506 +21.99% 3
South London -4 1 £425 -22.73% 2
PMI Certification
England

PMI Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (8.96%) Confluence
2 13 (6.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (14.43%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.99%) MS Visio
6 5 (2.49%) Trello
7 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (5.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.99%) Endur
3 4 (1.99%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.99%) Workfront
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.00%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.00%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.00%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.50%) Aligne
6 1 (0.50%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.50%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.50%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.50%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 28 (13.93%) Azure
2 15 (7.46%) AWS
3 12 (5.97%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.48%) SaaS
7 6 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.99%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.99%) Smartsheet
8 5 (2.49%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.49%) GCP
9 3 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.00%) Asana
10 2 (1.00%) Canva
10 2 (1.00%) Google Drive
10 2 (1.00%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.00%) Miro
10 2 (1.00%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.50%) dbt
11 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.98%) Firewall
2 5 (2.49%) VPN
3 4 (1.99%) Network Security
4 2 (1.00%) DNS
4 2 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.50%) 4G
5 1 (0.50%) 5G
5 1 (0.50%) DHCP
5 1 (0.50%) Intranet
5 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.50%) LTE
5 1 (0.50%) PPP
5 1 (0.50%) SMS
5 1 (0.50%) TETRA
5 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.47%) Power BI
2 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.99%) Tableau
4 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 129 (64.18%) Social Skills
2 107 (53.23%) Finance
3 32 (15.92%) Banking
4 28 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.44%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.97%) Marketing
7 11 (5.47%) Legal
8 10 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.98%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.48%) Back Office
10 7 (3.48%) Retail
11 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.49%) Publishing
12 4 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.49%) Law
13 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (45.77%) Project Manager
2 19 (9.45%) Analyst
2 19 (9.45%) Lead
3 18 (8.96%) Senior
4 15 (7.46%) Business Analyst
4 15 (7.46%) Senior Manager
5 12 (5.97%) IT Manager
6 11 (5.47%) Transformation Manager
7 10 (4.98%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (4.98%) Programme Manager
8 9 (4.48%) Senior Project Manager
8 9 (4.48%) Transformation Project Manager
9 7 (3.48%) IT Project Manager
9 7 (3.48%) SAP Manager
10 6 (2.99%) Consultant
10 6 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (2.99%) SAP Project Manager
10 6 (2.99%) Technical Manager
11 5 (2.49%) Implementation Manager
11 5 (2.49%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.00%) ADO
1 2 (1.00%) HTML
1 2 (1.00%) Middleware
2 1 (0.50%) .NET
2 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.50%) HTML5
2 1 (0.50%) Kafka
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 58 (28.86%) PMI
2 14 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.48%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.48%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.49%) Reference Data
4 5 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.49%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.49%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Life Science
6 3 (1.49%) PKI
6 3 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.00%) Equities
7 2 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.99%) Windows
2 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (67.66%) Project Management
2 115 (57.21%) PRINCE2
3 112 (55.72%) Agile
4 86 (42.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (22.89%) Change Management
6 46 (22.89%) Project Delivery
7 41 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (19.90%) Waterfall
9 38 (18.91%) Migration
9 38 (18.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 36 (17.91%) Programme Management
11 35 (17.41%) Risk Management
12 33 (16.42%) Scrum
13 23 (11.44%) ITIL
14 22 (10.95%) Budget Management
15 21 (10.45%) Matrix Organization
15 21 (10.45%) Resource Allocation
16 20 (9.95%) Computer Science
16 20 (9.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.99%) SQL
2 5 (2.49%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.99%) Python
4 2 (1.00%) Java
5 1 (0.50%) C++
5 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 151 (75.12%) PMP
2 88 (43.78%) Degree
3 17 (8.46%) Master's Degree
4 16 (7.96%) CBAP
5 9 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.48%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.99%) CISM
8 6 (2.99%) CISSP
9 5 (2.49%) CRISC
10 4 (1.99%) CISA
10 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.00%) CAPM
11 2 (1.00%) MBA
11 2 (1.00%) PgMP
11 2 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.44%) PMO
2 16 (7.96%) QA
3 6 (2.99%) GDPR
4 5 (2.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.99%) SLA
6 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.49%) GMP
6 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.00%) Basel III
7 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.00%) PSD2
7 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.00%) SEPA
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.50%) FINRA
8 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.50%) MiFID
8 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.50%) SCCM
2 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.45%) SAP
3 10 (4.98%) Oracle
4 9 (4.48%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.98%) Databricks
6 5 (2.49%) Adobe
6 5 (2.49%) Planview
7 4 (1.99%) Workday
8 3 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.00%) Dell
9 2 (1.00%) Google
9 2 (1.00%) HP
9 2 (1.00%) NEC
9 2 (1.00%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.00%) UiPath
9 2 (1.00%) Wrike
10 1 (0.50%) ComArch
10 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.50%) OpenLink