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 24 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 184 272
Rank change year-on-year -37 +88 +56
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 238 201 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.49% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.26% 5.66% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 128 66
10th Percentile £412 £363 £416
25th Percentile £438 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -1.41%
75th Percentile £661 £713 £633
90th Percentile £751 £788 £701
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 £72.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +60.00%

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 5,589 3,549 3,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.86% 26.32% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,017 2,392 2,699
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -2.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 85 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.84 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.06 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.70
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +110.74% -48.21% -11.71%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 51 £663 +43.24% 22
West London -13 8 £550 +7.32% 6
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 12 (5.04%) Confluence
2 10 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.10%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.42%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 30 (12.61%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (9.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.52%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.84%) Trello
7 1 (0.42%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.84%) Changepoint
3 2 (0.84%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.42%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.42%) Endur
4 1 (0.42%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.42%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.42%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.42%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (17.23%) Azure
2 22 (9.24%) AWS
3 20 (8.40%) SaaS
4 15 (6.30%) Smartsheet
5 14 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.10%) Asana
8 5 (2.10%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.10%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.10%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.68%) GCP
9 4 (1.68%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.26%) GitHub
10 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.84%) AWS KMS
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.10%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.68%) Firewall
2 4 (1.68%) Network Security
3 3 (1.26%) 4G
3 3 (1.26%) 5G
3 3 (1.26%) Internet
3 3 (1.26%) LAN
3 3 (1.26%) VoLTE
3 3 (1.26%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) SSL
4 2 (0.84%) VLAN
5 1 (0.42%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) NAS
5 1 (0.42%) SAN
5 1 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.78%) Power BI
2 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.84%) Metadata
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.42%) Big Data
3 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (13.03%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.42%) Git
2 1 (0.42%) GitLab
2 1 (0.42%) Introscope
2 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (49.16%) Finance
2 104 (43.70%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.71%) Banking
4 25 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.66%) Marketing
6 15 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (4.20%) Legal
9 10 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.20%) Retail
10 8 (3.36%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.94%) Law
11 7 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.94%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.52%) Financial Institution
13 5 (2.10%) German Language
14 3 (1.26%) Electronics
14 3 (1.26%) Front Office
14 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (53.36%) Project Manager
2 31 (13.03%) Senior
3 23 (9.66%) Senior Manager
4 22 (9.24%) Analyst
5 18 (7.56%) Business Analyst
5 18 (7.56%) Senior Project Manager
6 17 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
6 17 (7.14%) Programme Manager
6 17 (7.14%) Technical Manager
7 13 (5.46%) IT Manager
7 13 (5.46%) Lead
7 13 (5.46%) Transformation Manager
8 12 (5.04%) Infrastructure Manager
9 11 (4.62%) Bid Manager
9 11 (4.62%) IT Project Manager
9 11 (4.62%) Technical Project Manager
9 11 (4.62%) Transformation Project Manager
10 10 (4.20%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 8 (3.36%) Business Manager
11 8 (3.36%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.52%) REST
2 2 (0.84%) Middleware
3 1 (0.42%) ADO
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.42%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.69%) PMI
2 11 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.52%) Life Science
6 6 (2.52%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.26%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) AS400
9 2 (0.84%) CCTV
9 2 (0.84%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.84%) Derivative
9 2 (0.84%) FMCG
9 2 (0.84%) IoT
9 2 (0.84%) PKI
9 2 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.94%) Windows
2 2 (0.84%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) AIX
3 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (74.79%) PRINCE2
2 149 (62.61%) Project Management
3 141 (59.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 133 (55.88%) Agile
5 86 (36.13%) Project Delivery
6 69 (28.99%) Change Management
7 49 (20.59%) Decision-Making
7 49 (20.59%) Migration
8 40 (16.81%) Programme Management
8 40 (16.81%) Scrum
9 39 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (15.55%) Waterfall
11 34 (14.29%) Budget Management
11 34 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (13.87%) Roadmaps
13 32 (13.45%) Risk Management
14 28 (11.76%) AI
14 28 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (11.34%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.52%) SQL
2 2 (0.84%) COBOL
2 2 (0.84%) Python
2 2 (0.84%) RPG
3 1 (0.42%) C#
3 1 (0.42%) Java
3 1 (0.42%) Jython
3 1 (0.42%) Korn
3 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 203 (85.29%) PMP
2 66 (27.73%) Degree
3 27 (11.34%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.40%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.20%) CISSP
5 10 (4.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 10 (4.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 8 (3.36%) CBAP
6 8 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.52%) CISM
8 6 (2.52%) CTC Cleared
9 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.10%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.84%) APMP
12 2 (0.84%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.18%) PMO
2 16 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.30%) GDPR
4 11 (4.62%) NIST
4 11 (4.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (4.20%) QA
6 9 (3.78%) Data Quality
6 9 (3.78%) P3O
7 8 (3.36%) GRC
8 5 (2.10%) GxP
8 5 (2.10%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.26%) GMP
9 3 (1.26%) SLA
10 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.84%) ITGC
10 2 (0.84%) SEPA
10 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.84%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.42%) CA Wily
3 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.46%) ServiceNow
3 9 (3.78%) Oracle
4 7 (2.94%) CyberArk
4 7 (2.94%) Planview
4 7 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.94%) SAP
5 4 (1.68%) Google
5 4 (1.68%) VMware
6 3 (1.26%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (1.26%) Databricks
6 3 (1.26%) Murex
7 2 (0.84%) Charles River
7 2 (0.84%) IBM
7 2 (0.84%) NEC
7 2 (0.84%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.84%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.42%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.42%) Splunk
8 1 (0.42%) Varonis