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 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 255 302
Rank change year-on-year +65 +47 +19
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 195 128 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 0.81% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.28% 3.22% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 68 70
10th Percentile £400 £425 £350
25th Percentile £450 £464 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £700 £656 £643
90th Percentile £780 £793 £732
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +3.68%
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 £67.50 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +12.50% +10.09%

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 3,690 3,978 4,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.01% 25.30% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,505 2,534 3,192
10th Percentile £350 £350 £355
25th Percentile £431 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 58 97
10th Percentile £19.05 £18.13 £19.00
25th Percentile - £27.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.71 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.21% -24.62% +21.20%
75th Percentile £39.53 £62.81 £72.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.90 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £51.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.93% -2.38% +16.67%

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 17 £560 -1.10% 17
West London -7 5 £500 -9.09% 6
South London - 1 £425 - 8
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 21 (10.77%) Confluence
2 10 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (16.41%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (3.59%) Trello
6 6 (3.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.08%) Endur
3 5 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.54%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.54%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.54%) Workfront
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.03%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.51%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.51%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.51%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.26%) Azure
2 15 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 10 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.10%) Smartsheet
5 7 (3.59%) AWS
5 7 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.56%) SaaS
7 4 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.54%) Asana
8 3 (1.54%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.54%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.03%) Canva
9 2 (1.03%) GCP
9 2 (1.03%) Miro
9 2 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.51%) dbt
10 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) Firewall
2 3 (1.54%) Network Security
3 2 (1.03%) DNS
3 2 (1.03%) LAN
3 2 (1.03%) VPN
3 2 (1.03%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) 4G
4 1 (0.51%) 5G
4 1 (0.51%) DHCP
4 1 (0.51%) Intranet
4 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.51%) LTE
4 1 (0.51%) Multicast
4 1 (0.51%) PPP
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.51%) TETRA
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.18%) Power BI
2 4 (2.05%) Tableau
3 3 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.51%) Metadata
4 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (22.56%) JIRA
General
1 128 (65.64%) Social Skills
2 111 (56.92%) Finance
3 38 (19.49%) Banking
4 32 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.21%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (6.15%) Legal
6 12 (6.15%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.10%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.10%) Marketing
7 8 (4.10%) Retail
8 7 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.56%) Publishing
10 4 (2.05%) Front Office
10 4 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.54%) Aviation
11 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (51.28%) Project Manager
2 25 (12.82%) Analyst
2 25 (12.82%) Senior
3 21 (10.77%) Business Analyst
3 21 (10.77%) Senior Manager
4 19 (9.74%) Lead
5 14 (7.18%) Senior Project Manager
6 13 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
7 12 (6.15%) Transformation Manager
8 11 (5.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 11 (5.64%) IT Manager
9 10 (5.13%) Transformation Project Manager
10 9 (4.62%) SAP Manager
10 9 (4.62%) Technical Manager
11 8 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (4.10%) Digital Project Manager
11 8 (4.10%) Programme Manager
11 8 (4.10%) SAP Project Manager
12 7 (3.59%) Banking Project Manager
12 7 (3.59%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.54%) XML
2 2 (1.03%) HTML
2 2 (1.03%) Middleware
3 1 (0.51%) .NET
3 1 (0.51%) ADO
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.51%) HTML5
3 1 (0.51%) Kafka
3 1 (0.51%) RESTful
3 1 (0.51%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (30.26%) PMI
2 12 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.56%) Life Science
6 4 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.54%) Derivative
7 3 (1.54%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.03%) DTCC
8 2 (1.03%) Equities
8 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.03%) LIMS
8 2 (1.03%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.54%) Windows
2 2 (1.03%) Linux
2 2 (1.03%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (66.15%) Project Management
2 121 (62.05%) PRINCE2
3 119 (61.03%) Agile
4 92 (47.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (27.18%) Project Delivery
6 47 (24.10%) Change Management
6 47 (24.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 46 (23.59%) Waterfall
8 42 (21.54%) Risk Management
9 40 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (18.46%) Migration
11 35 (17.95%) Programme Management
12 28 (14.36%) Scrum
13 26 (13.33%) Budget Management
14 24 (12.31%) Resource Allocation
15 22 (11.28%) Project Governance
16 21 (10.77%) Business Analysis
16 21 (10.77%) Matrix Organization
17 19 (9.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.08%) SQL
2 2 (1.03%) Java
2 2 (1.03%) Korn
2 2 (1.03%) Python
3 1 (0.51%) C++
3 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 146 (74.87%) PMP
2 84 (43.08%) Degree
3 20 (10.26%) Master's Degree
4 18 (9.23%) CBAP
5 11 (5.64%) Security Cleared
6 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.54%) CISM
9 3 (1.54%) CISSP
9 3 (1.54%) MBA
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.03%) CAPM
10 2 (1.03%) CRISC
10 2 (1.03%) IIBA
10 2 (1.03%) ISEB
10 2 (1.03%) PgMP
10 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.51%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.79%) PMO
2 17 (8.72%) QA
3 6 (3.08%) GDPR
3 6 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.05%) GMP
4 4 (2.05%) SLA
5 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.54%) MiFID
5 3 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.03%) Basel III
6 2 (1.03%) EMIR
6 2 (1.03%) GRC
6 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.03%) PSD2
6 2 (1.03%) SEPA
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) PMBOK
System Software
1 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (10.77%) Microsoft
1 21 (10.77%) SAP
2 9 (4.62%) Planview
3 8 (4.10%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.08%) Oracle
5 5 (2.56%) Adobe
5 5 (2.56%) Databricks
6 3 (1.54%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.54%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.54%) Workday
7 2 (1.03%) Calypso
7 2 (1.03%) Murex
7 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.03%) UiPath
8 1 (0.51%) Ariba
8 1 (0.51%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.51%) NEC
8 1 (0.51%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.51%) Synthesia
8 1 (0.51%) VMware