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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 260 287
Rank change year-on-year +60 +27 +36
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 198 129 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 0.82% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.93% 3.20% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 68 70
10th Percentile £376 £417 £350
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +1.12%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £662
90th Percentile £750 £838 £875
England median daily rate £550 £550 £559
% change year-on-year - -1.57% +1.59%
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 £70.00 £49.14 £60.00
% change year-on-year +42.45% -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 4,019 4,035 4,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.97% 25.55% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,807 2,564 3,031
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 54 94
10th Percentile £19.38 £20.15 £19.33
25th Percentile - £27.00 £23.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £45.00 £60.56 £65.59
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.20 £85.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.78 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.44% -7.09% +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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -14 21 £475 -22.92% 12
West London -11 5 £500 -9.09% 1
South London - 3 £513 - 3
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 22 (11.11%) Confluence
2 7 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (16.16%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (4.04%) MS Visio
6 7 (3.54%) Trello
7 1 (0.51%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 11 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.03%) Endur
3 4 (2.02%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.52%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.52%) Workfront
5 2 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.51%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.51%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.51%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.51%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.11%) Azure
2 15 (7.58%) Power Platform
3 12 (6.06%) AWS
4 8 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.04%) Smartsheet
5 7 (3.54%) SaaS
6 4 (2.02%) Asana
6 4 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.52%) Miro
7 3 (1.52%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.52%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.01%) Canva
8 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.01%) Slack
8 2 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.51%) GitHub
9 1 (0.51%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.51%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.04%) Network Security
2 5 (2.53%) Firewall
3 3 (1.52%) VPN
3 3 (1.52%) WAN
4 2 (1.01%) LAN
4 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.51%) DHCP
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) Intranet
5 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.51%) Multicast
5 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.07%) Power BI
2 5 (2.53%) Tableau
3 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.51%) Metadata
4 1 (0.51%) MySQL
4 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (22.73%) JIRA
General
1 130 (65.66%) Social Skills
2 101 (51.01%) Finance
3 41 (20.71%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (20.71%) Banking
4 14 (7.07%) Legal
4 14 (7.07%) Manufacturing
4 14 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.56%) Marketing
7 10 (5.05%) Retail
8 9 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.04%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.53%) Publishing
12 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.02%) Front Office
12 4 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.52%) Aviation
13 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (52.53%) Project Manager
2 30 (15.15%) Analyst
3 26 (13.13%) Business Analyst
3 26 (13.13%) Senior
4 22 (11.11%) Senior Manager
5 16 (8.08%) Senior Project Manager
6 15 (7.58%) IT Manager
6 15 (7.58%) Lead
7 14 (7.07%) Infrastructure Manager
8 12 (6.06%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 11 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
10 10 (5.05%) Technical Manager
11 9 (4.55%) SAP Manager
11 9 (4.55%) Transformation Manager
11 9 (4.55%) Transformation Project Manager
12 8 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (4.04%) Digital Project Manager
12 8 (4.04%) Programme Manager
12 8 (4.04%) SAP Project Manager
13 7 (3.54%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.52%) XML
2 2 (1.01%) .NET
2 2 (1.01%) HTML
2 2 (1.01%) Middleware
3 1 (0.51%) ADO
3 1 (0.51%) HTML5
3 1 (0.51%) Kafka
3 1 (0.51%) RESTful
3 1 (0.51%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (33.84%) PMI
2 17 (8.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.53%) Life Science
6 5 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.52%) Derivative
7 3 (1.52%) Digital Wallet
7 3 (1.52%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.01%) FMCG
8 2 (1.01%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.01%) LIMS
8 2 (1.01%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.02%) Windows
2 3 (1.52%) Linux
3 2 (1.01%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (65.66%) Project Management
2 127 (64.14%) Agile
3 126 (63.64%) PRINCE2
4 96 (48.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (25.76%) Project Delivery
7 50 (25.25%) Change Management
8 48 (24.24%) Risk Management
9 47 (23.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 41 (20.71%) Waterfall
11 40 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (19.70%) Migration
13 31 (15.66%) Scrum
14 28 (14.14%) Programme Management
15 27 (13.64%) Budget Management
16 23 (11.62%) Decision-Making
16 23 (11.62%) Resource Allocation
17 22 (11.11%) Business Analysis
18 20 (10.10%) Workshop Facilitation
19 19 (9.60%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.03%) SQL
2 3 (1.52%) Java
3 2 (1.01%) Korn
3 2 (1.01%) Python
4 1 (0.51%) C++
4 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 142 (71.72%) PMP
2 83 (41.92%) Degree
3 21 (10.61%) CBAP
4 15 (7.58%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.53%) CISM
6 5 (2.53%) CISSP
6 5 (2.53%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.02%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.52%) MBA
8 3 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.01%) CAPM
9 2 (1.01%) IIBA
9 2 (1.01%) ISEB
9 2 (1.01%) PgMP
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.64%) PMO
2 23 (11.62%) QA
3 9 (4.55%) GDPR
4 6 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.02%) GMP
6 4 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.02%) PSD2
6 4 (2.02%) SLA
7 3 (1.52%) Basel III
7 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.52%) GRC
7 3 (1.52%) MiFID
7 3 (1.52%) NIST
8 2 (1.01%) EMIR
8 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.01%) P3O
8 2 (1.01%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.51%) PowerHA
1 1 (0.51%) RACF
1 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.60%) SAP
3 10 (5.05%) Planview
4 9 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.03%) Adobe
5 6 (3.03%) Oracle
6 4 (2.02%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.52%) Databricks
7 3 (1.52%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.52%) Workday
8 2 (1.01%) Ariba
8 2 (1.01%) UiPath
8 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.51%) Calypso
9 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) Misys
9 1 (0.51%) Murex
9 1 (0.51%) Temenos