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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 186 254
Rank change year-on-year -43 +68 +56
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 253 190 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.41% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.37% 5.32% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 130 69
10th Percentile £405 £378 £425
25th Percentile £445 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £650
90th Percentile £750 £790 £775
England median daily rate £531 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.61% +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 £75.00 £65.00 £16.17
% change year-on-year +15.38% +301.98% -73.05%

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 5,789 3,569 4,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.65% 26.56% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,200 2,404 2,586
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £772
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £19.54 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.38 - £25.99
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.66% -29.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.87 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £64.83 £73.50
England median hourly rate £49.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +96.82% -52.10% -2.36%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +14 58 £552 +10.40% 31
West London -14 7 £500 - 1
East London - 1 - - 1
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 18 (7.11%) Confluence
2 10 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.98%) IIS
4 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 33 (13.04%) Microsoft Project
2 29 (11.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (2.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.19%) Changepoint
3 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.40%) Endur
4 1 (0.40%) Maximo
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
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
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.37%) Azure
2 19 (7.51%) AWS
3 17 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.74%) SaaS
6 9 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.56%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.16%) Smartsheet
8 6 (2.37%) GCP
9 5 (1.98%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.58%) Asana
10 4 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.58%) GitHub
11 3 (1.19%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.19%) IaaS
11 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.79%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.79%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) Firewall
2 8 (3.16%) 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%) VoIP
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%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.79%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.79%) VLAN
7 1 (0.40%) DNS
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.74%) Power BI
2 8 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.19%) Metadata
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (16.21%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) Gemini Tracker
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
2 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (54.15%) Finance
2 126 (49.80%) Social Skills
3 45 (17.79%) Banking
4 37 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.74%) Legal
8 12 (4.74%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (4.35%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.95%) Marketing
10 10 (3.95%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.56%) Retail
12 6 (2.37%) Law
13 5 (1.98%) Front Office
13 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.58%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.19%) Electronics
15 3 (1.19%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (51.78%) Project Manager
2 37 (14.62%) Senior
3 26 (10.28%) IT Manager
3 26 (10.28%) Senior Manager
4 22 (8.70%) Analyst
4 22 (8.70%) IT Project Manager
5 21 (8.30%) Lead
5 21 (8.30%) Technical Manager
6 19 (7.51%) Delivery Manager
6 19 (7.51%) Senior Project Manager
7 18 (7.11%) Business Analyst
8 17 (6.72%) Programme Manager
9 11 (4.35%) Bid Manager
9 11 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
10 10 (3.95%) Technical Project Manager
10 10 (3.95%) Transformation Manager
11 9 (3.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 9 (3.56%) Transformation Project Manager
12 7 (2.77%) Programme Director
12 7 (2.77%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.37%) REST
2 4 (1.58%) SOAP
2 4 (1.58%) Web Services
3 2 (0.79%) Middleware
4 1 (0.40%) ADO
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.42%) PMI
2 20 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.93%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 10 (3.95%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.98%) Life Science
7 5 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.58%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.19%) AS400
9 3 (1.19%) CMDB
9 3 (1.19%) Derivative
9 3 (1.19%) FMCG
9 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) CCTV
10 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (0.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (74.70%) PRINCE2
2 174 (68.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 156 (61.66%) Agile
4 141 (55.73%) Project Management
5 93 (36.76%) Project Delivery
6 77 (30.43%) Change Management
7 56 (22.13%) Migration
8 53 (20.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 53 (20.95%) Waterfall
9 50 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (19.37%) Scrum
11 46 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (18.18%) Risk Management
12 45 (17.79%) Budget Management
12 45 (17.79%) Decision-Making
13 41 (16.21%) Programme Management
13 41 (16.21%) Roadmaps
14 37 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
15 33 (13.04%) Project Governance
16 32 (12.65%) AI
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.14%) SQL
2 4 (1.58%) Python
3 3 (1.19%) COBOL
3 3 (1.19%) RPG
4 1 (0.40%) Bash
4 1 (0.40%) C#
4 1 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 222 (87.75%) PMP
2 85 (33.60%) Degree
3 29 (11.46%) Security Cleared
4 21 (8.30%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 14 (5.53%) CISSP
7 11 (4.35%) CISM
7 11 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (3.16%) CBAP
8 8 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.16%) PgMP
9 7 (2.77%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.37%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.58%) CAPM
12 4 (1.58%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.88%) PMO
2 17 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.14%) GDPR
4 11 (4.35%) NIST
5 9 (3.56%) P3O
5 9 (3.56%) QA
6 8 (3.16%) GRC
6 8 (3.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.37%) SLA
8 5 (1.98%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.98%) SEPA
9 4 (1.58%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.19%) GMP
10 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.19%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.79%) GxP
11 2 (0.79%) ITGC
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%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.40%) Kibana
2 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.11%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.53%) SAP
4 13 (5.14%) Planview
5 9 (3.56%) Oracle
6 5 (1.98%) Cisco
6 5 (1.98%) Google
6 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.98%) VMware
7 4 (1.58%) IBM
7 4 (1.58%) UiPath
8 3 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.19%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.19%) Databricks
8 3 (1.19%) Murex
9 2 (0.79%) Ariba
9 2 (0.79%) Genesys
9 2 (0.79%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.79%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.40%) NVIDIA