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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 231 280
Rank change year-on-year +27 +49 +26
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 201 122 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 0.94% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.22% 3.71% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 81 67
10th Percentile £400 £413 £363
25th Percentile £422 £475 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £768 £648
90th Percentile £750 £900 £845
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
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 £58.92 £26.00
% change year-on-year +40.88% +126.60% -57.55%

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 4,762 3,286 4,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.49% 25.39% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,175 2,944
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 64 128
10th Percentile £20.34 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.75 £34.87
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +5.41% -13.91%
75th Percentile £73.13 £56.88 £61.32
90th Percentile £76.69 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.22 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.06% +31.25% -20.00%

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 March 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 March 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 -18 33 £550 -12.70% 4
South London - 4 £500 -
East London - 2 £495 -
West London -21 1 £500 +5.26%
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 13 (6.47%) Confluence
2 8 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (9.95%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.49%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.99%) Trello
7 2 (1.00%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Endur
2 3 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (1.00%) DELMIA
3 2 (1.00%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.50%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (16.42%) Azure
2 20 (9.95%) AWS
3 14 (6.97%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.48%) SaaS
5 8 (3.98%) Smartsheet
6 7 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.49%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.49%) Asana
8 3 (1.49%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.49%) IaaS
8 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.49%) PaaS
9 2 (1.00%) Contentsquare
9 2 (1.00%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.00%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.00%) Miro
9 2 (1.00%) OCI
9 2 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.00%) Slack
9 2 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.98%) WAN
2 7 (3.48%) LAN
3 6 (2.99%) Network Security
4 3 (1.49%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.00%) Firewall
5 2 (1.00%) VLAN
5 2 (1.00%) VPN
6 1 (0.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.50%) Intranet
6 1 (0.50%) Multicast
6 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.97%) Power BI
2 4 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.00%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.50%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (16.42%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.50%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) Introscope
General
1 122 (60.70%) Social Skills
2 88 (43.78%) Finance
3 46 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (18.91%) Banking
5 22 (10.95%) Legal
6 18 (8.96%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (7.46%) Retail
8 11 (5.47%) Manufacturing
8 11 (5.47%) Marketing
9 10 (4.98%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.98%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.98%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.99%) Front Office
12 4 (1.99%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.49%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (58.71%) Project Manager
2 28 (13.93%) Analyst
2 28 (13.93%) Senior
3 27 (13.43%) Business Analyst
4 20 (9.95%) Lead
5 19 (9.45%) Infrastructure Manager
5 19 (9.45%) Senior Manager
6 17 (8.46%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 15 (7.46%) Senior Project Manager
8 14 (6.97%) Technical Manager
9 12 (5.97%) IT Manager
9 12 (5.97%) IT Project Manager
9 12 (5.97%) Migration Manager
10 11 (5.47%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (5.47%) Programme Manager
11 10 (4.98%) Technical Project Manager
12 8 (3.98%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (3.98%) Lead Project Manager
12 8 (3.98%) Security Manager
12 8 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.49%) XML
2 4 (1.99%) Middleware
3 3 (1.49%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.00%) ADO
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.00%) REST
4 2 (1.00%) SOAP
4 2 (1.00%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.50%) .NET
5 1 (0.50%) EDI
5 1 (0.50%) RESTful
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (29.35%) PMI
2 15 (7.46%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.47%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.98%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.99%) CMDB
7 3 (1.49%) CCTV
7 3 (1.49%) Derivative
7 3 (1.49%) Digital Wallet
7 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.00%) Life Science
8 2 (1.00%) LIMS
8 2 (1.00%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.48%) Windows
2 6 (2.99%) Linux
3 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) AIX
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (68.16%) PRINCE2
2 133 (66.17%) Project Management
3 132 (65.67%) Agile
4 116 (57.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 71 (35.32%) Project Delivery
6 48 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (22.89%) Change Management
8 45 (22.39%) Risk Management
9 39 (19.40%) Migration
9 39 (19.40%) Waterfall
10 38 (18.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 36 (17.91%) Scrum
12 29 (14.43%) Programme Management
13 28 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (13.43%) Decision-Making
15 26 (12.94%) Project Governance
16 25 (12.44%) Requirements Gathering
17 22 (10.95%) Validation
18 21 (10.45%) Business Analysis
18 21 (10.45%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.48%) SQL
2 3 (1.49%) Korn
3 2 (1.00%) Java
4 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.50%) Jython
4 1 (0.50%) PHP
4 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.50%) Python
4 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 152 (75.62%) PMP
2 68 (33.83%) Degree
3 19 (9.45%) CBAP
4 13 (6.47%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.97%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.97%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.48%) CISSP
7 8 (3.98%) CISM
7 8 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.99%) APMP
9 4 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.99%) CRISC
9 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (1.49%) CCNA
10 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 2 (1.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.42%) PMO
2 27 (13.43%) QA
3 26 (12.94%) GDPR
4 16 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (7.46%) NIST
6 10 (4.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.99%) Basel III
7 4 (1.99%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.49%) GRC
9 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.00%) EMIR
9 2 (1.00%) GAAP
9 2 (1.00%) IFRS
9 2 (1.00%) IFRS 17
9 2 (1.00%) IFRS 9
9 2 (1.00%) MiFID
9 2 (1.00%) P3O
9 2 (1.00%) PSD2
9 2 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.50%) PowerHA
2 1 (0.50%) RACF
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.00%) Control-M
1 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.50%) CA Wily
2 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.96%) SAP
3 14 (6.97%) CyberArk
4 11 (5.47%) Oracle
4 11 (5.47%) Workday
5 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.99%) Planview
7 5 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.49%) Ariba
8 3 (1.49%) Cisco
8 3 (1.49%) Databricks
8 3 (1.49%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.49%) Remedy
8 3 (1.49%) VMware
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) Google
9 2 (1.00%) Informatica
9 2 (1.00%) Okta
9 2 (1.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.00%) Zscaler