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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 181 261
Rank change year-on-year -42 +80 +56
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 253 204 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 1.51% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.43% 5.74% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 132 66
10th Percentile £406 £383 £422
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £638
90th Percentile £770 £786 £701
England median daily rate £529 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.95% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £58.44 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £59.75 £69.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%

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 5,706 3,554 4,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.06% 26.32% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,096 2,382 2,639
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.21 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £30.81
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -18.37% -43.98%
75th Percentile £78.75 £43.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £92.13 £65.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% +0.40%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMI Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

PMI Certification job vacancy trend 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 11 September 2026.

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 11 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
Central London +2 58 £600 +29.73% 33
West London -15 9 £550 +7.32% 7
East London - 1 - - 2
PMI Certification
England

PMI Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (5.93%) Confluence
2 12 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 31 (12.25%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (2.77%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.40%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.19%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.79%) Endur
3 2 (0.79%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.40%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.40%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.40%) Maximo
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.40%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.79%) Azure
2 23 (9.09%) AWS
3 19 (7.51%) SaaS
4 16 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.93%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.53%) Smartsheet
7 11 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.37%) GCP
9 5 (1.98%) Asana
9 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.98%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.58%) GitHub
10 4 (1.58%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.79%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) Firewall
2 7 (2.77%) Network Security
3 5 (1.98%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.58%) 4G
4 4 (1.58%) 5G
4 4 (1.58%) LAN
4 4 (1.58%) WAN
5 3 (1.19%) Internet
5 3 (1.19%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.79%) BGP
6 2 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.79%) NAS
6 2 (0.79%) SAN
6 2 (0.79%) SSL
6 2 (0.79%) VLAN
7 1 (0.40%) DNS
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.40%) VoIP
7 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.95%) Power BI
2 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.79%) Metadata
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.40%) Big Data
4 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (13.44%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
2 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 130 (51.38%) Finance
2 121 (47.83%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.39%) Banking
4 29 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.51%) Marketing
6 15 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (5.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (3.95%) Retail
10 9 (3.56%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.56%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.16%) Law
11 8 (3.16%) Legal
11 8 (3.16%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.98%) Front Office
12 5 (1.98%) German Language
12 5 (1.98%) International Banking
13 4 (1.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (51.78%) Project Manager
2 32 (12.65%) Senior
3 23 (9.09%) Analyst
3 23 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 19 (7.51%) Business Analyst
4 19 (7.51%) IT Manager
5 18 (7.11%) Delivery Manager
5 18 (7.11%) Lead
6 17 (6.72%) IT Project Manager
6 17 (6.72%) Programme Manager
6 17 (6.72%) Senior Project Manager
6 17 (6.72%) Technical Manager
7 13 (5.14%) Transformation Manager
8 12 (4.74%) Infrastructure Manager
9 11 (4.35%) Technical Project Manager
9 11 (4.35%) Transformation Project Manager
10 10 (3.95%) Bid Manager
11 9 (3.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 8 (3.16%) Business Manager
13 7 (2.77%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.37%) REST
2 1 (0.40%) ADO
2 1 (0.40%) Middleware
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.16%) PMI
2 15 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.14%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.16%) Life Science
6 8 (3.16%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.77%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.19%) FMCG
10 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.79%) AS400
11 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.79%) IoT
11 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.95%) Windows
2 2 (0.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (75.89%) PRINCE2
2 162 (64.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 150 (59.29%) Agile
3 150 (59.29%) Project Management
4 86 (33.99%) Project Delivery
5 76 (30.04%) Change Management
6 59 (23.32%) Migration
7 51 (20.16%) Decision-Making
8 47 (18.58%) Waterfall
9 44 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 43 (17.00%) Scrum
11 41 (16.21%) Programme Management
12 40 (15.81%) Roadmaps
13 39 (15.42%) Budget Management
14 38 (15.02%) Risk Management
15 37 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (13.04%) ITIL
17 31 (12.25%) Cybersecurity
18 30 (11.86%) AI
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.77%) SQL
2 3 (1.19%) Python
3 2 (0.79%) COBOL
3 2 (0.79%) RPG
4 1 (0.40%) Bash
4 1 (0.40%) C#
4 1 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 218 (86.17%) PMP
2 74 (29.25%) Degree
3 29 (11.46%) Security Cleared
4 22 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 11 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 10 (3.95%) CISSP
7 8 (3.16%) CBAP
7 8 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.77%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.77%) CISM
8 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.37%) CTC Cleared
9 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.98%) CAPM
10 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.25%) PMO
2 15 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.14%) GDPR
4 12 (4.74%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.95%) NIST
5 10 (3.95%) P3O
5 10 (3.95%) QA
6 9 (3.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (3.16%) GRC
8 6 (2.37%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.98%) GxP
9 5 (1.98%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.98%) SEPA
10 4 (1.58%) SLA
11 3 (1.19%) GMP
11 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.19%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.79%) ITGC
12 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.79%) RSA Archer
1 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.40%) Kibana
2 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.11%) ServiceNow
3 11 (4.35%) Oracle
3 11 (4.35%) SAP
4 8 (3.16%) Planview
4 8 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.98%) CyberArk
5 5 (1.98%) VMware
6 4 (1.58%) Cisco
6 4 (1.58%) Databricks
6 4 (1.58%) Google
7 3 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (1.19%) IBM
7 3 (1.19%) Murex
8 2 (0.79%) Charles River
8 2 (0.79%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.79%) NEC
8 2 (0.79%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.79%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.40%) Intapp