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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 213 269
Rank change year-on-year +8 +56 +46
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 212 147 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.16% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.21% 4.53% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 95 75
10th Percentile £405 £363 £363
25th Percentile £422 £456 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £645
90th Percentile £750 £820 £840
England median daily rate £525 £522 £550
% change year-on-year +0.57% -5.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £86.50 - £23.29
25th Percentile £88.75 - £24.71
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £98.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £99.50 - -
England median hourly rate £83.00 £60.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.33% +130.77% -48.51%

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 5,031 3,248 4,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.79% 25.55% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,600 2,195 2,919
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £438 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £658
90th Percentile £750 £757 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 61 118
10th Percentile £20.92 £20.00 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.47 £22.27 £20.98
Median hourly rate £44.50 £30.00 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% +14.85% -39.26%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £56.56
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £76.13
England median hourly rate £47.25 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.50% +25.00% -23.81%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -19 38 £750 +40.19% 19
South London - 4 £500 -
West London -30 3 £550 +15.79% 3
East London - 2 £495 - 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 12 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.19%) Confluence
3 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (8.96%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (3.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.94%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.94%) Trello
7 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.47%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Endur
2 3 (1.42%) DELMIA
2 3 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.94%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.04%) Azure
2 24 (11.32%) AWS
3 23 (10.85%) SaaS
4 16 (7.55%) Smartsheet
5 11 (5.19%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.36%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.89%) Asana
10 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.42%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.42%) IaaS
10 3 (1.42%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.42%) PaaS
11 2 (0.94%) GCP
11 2 (0.94%) Google Ads
11 2 (0.94%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.94%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.30%) WAN
2 6 (2.83%) LAN
2 6 (2.83%) Network Security
3 3 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.94%) Firewall
4 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.94%) VLAN
4 2 (0.94%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.19%) Power BI
2 4 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.94%) Tableau
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.47%) MySQL
4 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.47%) Git
2 1 (0.47%) Introscope
General
1 104 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 79 (37.26%) Finance
3 40 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (15.57%) Banking
5 24 (11.32%) Marketing
6 21 (9.91%) Legal
7 18 (8.49%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (6.13%) Retail
9 11 (5.19%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (4.25%) Financial Institution
10 9 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.25%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.36%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.89%) Front Office
13 3 (1.42%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.42%) German Language
13 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.42%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 111 (52.36%) Project Manager
2 25 (11.79%) Senior
3 24 (11.32%) Analyst
3 24 (11.32%) Business Analyst
4 20 (9.43%) Lead
5 15 (7.08%) Migration Manager
6 14 (6.60%) Migration Project Manager
6 14 (6.60%) Senior Manager
7 13 (6.13%) Infrastructure Manager
7 13 (6.13%) Technical Manager
8 12 (5.66%) IT Manager
8 12 (5.66%) IT Project Manager
8 12 (5.66%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (4.72%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 10 (4.72%) Security Manager
10 9 (4.25%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (4.25%) Programme Manager
10 9 (4.25%) Technical Project Manager
11 8 (3.77%) Sales Manager
11 8 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.89%) Middleware
2 3 (1.42%) SailPoint
2 3 (1.42%) XML
3 2 (0.94%) ADO
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.94%) REST
3 2 (0.94%) SOAP
3 2 (0.94%) XML Messaging
4 1 (0.47%) .NET
4 1 (0.47%) EDI
4 1 (0.47%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 72 (33.96%) PMI
2 14 (6.60%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.72%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.89%) CMDB
8 3 (1.42%) CCTV
8 3 (1.42%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.42%) Life Science
8 3 (1.42%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.94%) Derivative
9 2 (0.94%) LIMS
9 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.36%) Windows
2 4 (1.89%) Linux
3 2 (0.94%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) AIX
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (64.62%) Project Management
2 129 (60.85%) PRINCE2
3 119 (56.13%) Agile
4 111 (52.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 68 (32.08%) Project Delivery
6 50 (23.58%) Change Management
7 40 (18.87%) Migration
8 37 (17.45%) Decision-Making
9 35 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (16.51%) Risk Management
10 34 (16.04%) Scrum
11 32 (15.09%) Programme Management
12 30 (14.15%) Waterfall
13 27 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (11.79%) Project Governance
15 22 (10.38%) Matrix Organization
16 21 (9.91%) DevOps
16 21 (9.91%) Validation
17 20 (9.43%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.25%) SQL
2 2 (0.94%) Java
3 1 (0.47%) Jython
3 1 (0.47%) Korn
3 1 (0.47%) PHP
3 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.47%) Python
3 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 161 (75.94%) PMP
2 62 (29.25%) Degree
3 18 (8.49%) CBAP
4 14 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.60%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.72%) Master's Degree
6 9 (4.25%) CISSP
6 9 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.77%) CISM
8 6 (2.83%) APMP
9 5 (2.36%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (1.89%) CRISC
10 4 (1.89%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.42%) CCNA
11 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (1.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.57%) PMO
2 28 (13.21%) QA
3 27 (12.74%) GDPR
4 18 (8.49%) NIST
5 17 (8.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.89%) Basel III
7 4 (1.89%) P3O
8 3 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.42%) GxP
9 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.94%) GAAP
9 2 (0.94%) GRC
9 2 (0.94%) IFRS
9 2 (0.94%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.94%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.94%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.94%) PSD2
9 2 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) PowerHA
2 1 (0.47%) RACF
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.94%) Control-M
1 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.47%) CA Wily
2 1 (0.47%) Puppet
2 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.49%) SAP
3 15 (7.08%) CyberArk
4 13 (6.13%) Oracle
5 11 (5.19%) Workday
6 10 (4.72%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.89%) Cisco
9 3 (1.42%) Ariba
9 3 (1.42%) Databricks
9 3 (1.42%) Google
9 3 (1.42%) Planview
9 3 (1.42%) Remedy
10 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.94%) Okta
10 2 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.94%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.94%) Splunk
10 2 (0.94%) VMware
10 2 (0.94%) Zscaler