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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 236 270
Rank change year-on-year +46 +34 +24
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 206 135 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 0.92% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.95% 3.57% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 78 71
10th Percentile £397 £417 £350
25th Percentile £448 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £650
90th Percentile £732 £883 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.18% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
England median hourly rate £72.88 £49.14 £60.00
% change year-on-year +48.30% -18.10% -2.04%

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 4,160 3,782 4,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.85% 25.87% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,383 2,927
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £657
90th Percentile £750 £774 £773
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 60 92
10th Percentile £20.77 £21.13 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.25 £60.19 £65.27
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.48
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.35
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.79% +16.34%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 25 £483 -22.80% 23
West London -13 5 £500 -2.44%
South London - 4 £500 - 4
East London - 1 £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 20 (9.71%) Confluence
2 8 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (13.11%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (3.88%) MS Visio
6 6 (2.91%) Trello
7 2 (0.97%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 12 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.91%) Endur
3 5 (2.43%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.46%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.46%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.46%) Workfront
5 2 (0.97%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.49%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (13.59%) Azure
2 18 (8.74%) Power Platform
3 15 (7.28%) AWS
4 8 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.88%) SaaS
5 7 (3.40%) Smartsheet
6 5 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.94%) Asana
7 4 (1.94%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.46%) IaaS
8 3 (1.46%) Miro
8 3 (1.46%) PaaS
8 3 (1.46%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.97%) Contentsquare
9 2 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.97%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.97%) OCI
9 2 (0.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.88%) Network Security
2 5 (2.43%) Firewall
2 5 (2.43%) WAN
3 4 (1.94%) LAN
4 3 (1.46%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.46%) VPN
5 2 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.49%) DNS
6 1 (0.49%) Intranet
6 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.49%) Multicast
6 1 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.25%) Power BI
2 5 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.43%) Tableau
3 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.49%) Metadata
4 1 (0.49%) MySQL
4 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (21.84%) JIRA
General
1 136 (66.02%) Social Skills
2 101 (49.03%) Finance
3 49 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (21.36%) Banking
5 19 (9.22%) Legal
6 15 (7.28%) Manufacturing
7 13 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (6.31%) Retail
8 11 (5.34%) Marketing
8 11 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.34%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.40%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.43%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.43%) Front Office
12 4 (1.94%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.46%) Aviation
13 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (54.37%) Project Manager
2 33 (16.02%) Analyst
3 30 (14.56%) Business Analyst
4 26 (12.62%) Senior
5 20 (9.71%) Lead
5 20 (9.71%) Senior Manager
6 16 (7.77%) Senior Project Manager
7 15 (7.28%) Infrastructure Manager
8 12 (5.83%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 12 (5.83%) IT Manager
9 11 (5.34%) IT Project Manager
10 9 (4.37%) Security Manager
10 9 (4.37%) Technical Manager
10 9 (4.37%) Transformation Manager
10 9 (4.37%) Transformation Project Manager
11 8 (3.88%) Digital Project Manager
11 8 (3.88%) Programme Manager
11 8 (3.88%) SAP Manager
11 8 (3.88%) SAP Project Manager
12 7 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.43%) XML
2 4 (1.94%) Middleware
3 2 (0.97%) ADO
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.97%) XML Messaging
4 1 (0.49%) .NET
4 1 (0.49%) EDI
4 1 (0.49%) HTML
4 1 (0.49%) HTML5
4 1 (0.49%) Kafka
4 1 (0.49%) REST
4 1 (0.49%) RESTful
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.49%) SOAP
4 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (33.01%) PMI
2 19 (9.22%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.80%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (4.37%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.91%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.43%) Life Science
8 4 (1.94%) Derivative
9 3 (1.46%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.97%) FMCG
10 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.97%) LIMS
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.43%) Linux
1 5 (2.43%) Windows
2 2 (0.97%) Unix
3 1 (0.49%) VMS
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (66.50%) Agile
2 135 (65.53%) PRINCE2
2 135 (65.53%) Project Management
3 108 (52.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (31.07%) Project Delivery
5 60 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (26.70%) Risk Management
7 50 (24.27%) Change Management
8 45 (21.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 45 (21.84%) Waterfall
9 38 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (17.96%) Migration
11 36 (17.48%) Scrum
12 29 (14.08%) Programme Management
13 27 (13.11%) Decision-Making
14 26 (12.62%) Budget Management
15 25 (12.14%) Requirements Gathering
16 22 (10.68%) Workshop Facilitation
17 21 (10.19%) Business Analysis
17 21 (10.19%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.34%) SQL
2 3 (1.46%) Java
3 2 (0.97%) Korn
3 2 (0.97%) Python
4 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.49%) PHP
4 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (72.33%) PMP
2 86 (41.75%) Degree
3 24 (11.65%) CBAP
4 20 (9.71%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.37%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.88%) CISSP
7 8 (3.88%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.40%) CISM
9 4 (1.94%) APMP
9 4 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.94%) MBA
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.46%) CRISC
10 3 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.97%) CAPM
11 2 (0.97%) CCNA
11 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.97%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.53%) PMO
2 29 (14.08%) QA
3 18 (8.74%) GDPR
4 10 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.37%) NIST
5 9 (4.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.43%) Basel III
6 5 (2.43%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.94%) GMP
7 4 (1.94%) GRC
7 4 (1.94%) PSD2
8 3 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.46%) MiFID
8 3 (1.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.97%) EMIR
9 2 (0.97%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.97%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.49%) PowerHA
1 1 (0.49%) RACF
1 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) Control-M
Vendors
1 24 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.68%) SAP
3 10 (4.85%) Planview
4 9 (4.37%) Oracle
5 8 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.88%) Workday
6 6 (2.91%) Adobe
6 6 (2.91%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.94%) Ariba
8 4 (1.94%) Databricks
9 3 (1.46%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.46%) Remedy
10 2 (0.97%) Google
10 2 (0.97%) Informatica
10 2 (0.97%) VMware
10 2 (0.97%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.49%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (0.49%) Synthesia
11 1 (0.49%) UiPath