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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 233 276
Rank change year-on-year +55 +43 +26
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 207 129 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 0.92% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.98% 3.54% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 76 71
10th Percentile £394 £416 £363
25th Percentile £425 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £650
90th Percentile £723 £888 £800
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
England median hourly rate £72.88 £30.78 £60.00
% change year-on-year +136.76% -48.70% -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 4,156 3,647 4,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.29% 25.88% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 2,279 2,913
10th Percentile £363 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 58 93
10th Percentile £19.94 £20.88 £18.81
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.79 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 10 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 10 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 -12 26 £444 -28.96% 8
West London -14 5 £500 -2.44% 1
South London - 4 £500 - 3
East London - 1 £495 - 2
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 21 (10.14%) Confluence
2 9 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (11.59%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (3.86%) MS Visio
6 5 (2.42%) Trello
7 2 (0.97%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.90%) Endur
3 5 (2.42%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.45%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.45%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.45%) Workfront
5 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.97%) DELMIA
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 (0.48%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.48%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.01%) Azure
2 16 (7.73%) AWS
2 16 (7.73%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (3.86%) SaaS
4 7 (3.38%) Smartsheet
5 5 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.93%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.45%) Asana
7 3 (1.45%) IaaS
7 3 (1.45%) Miro
7 3 (1.45%) PaaS
7 3 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.97%) Contentsquare
8 2 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.97%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.97%) OCI
8 2 (0.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Slack
8 2 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.38%) Network Security
2 6 (2.90%) WAN
3 5 (2.42%) LAN
4 4 (1.93%) Firewall
5 3 (1.45%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.97%) VLAN
6 2 (0.97%) VPN
7 1 (0.48%) DNS
7 1 (0.48%) Intranet
7 1 (0.48%) Multicast
7 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.25%) Power BI
2 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.93%) Tableau
3 3 (1.45%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.48%) MySQL
4 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (21.74%) JIRA
General
1 135 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 100 (48.31%) Finance
3 46 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (22.22%) Banking
4 19 (9.18%) Legal
5 16 (7.73%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.76%) Retail
7 13 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (4.83%) Marketing
11 7 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.38%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.90%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.42%) Front Office
14 4 (1.93%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.45%) Aviation
15 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (54.11%) Project Manager
2 37 (17.87%) Analyst
3 34 (16.43%) Business Analyst
4 29 (14.01%) Senior
5 22 (10.63%) Lead
6 20 (9.66%) Senior Manager
7 16 (7.73%) Senior Project Manager
8 15 (7.25%) Infrastructure Manager
9 13 (6.28%) IT Manager
10 12 (5.80%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 12 (5.80%) IT Project Manager
11 10 (4.83%) Technical Manager
12 9 (4.35%) Transformation Manager
12 9 (4.35%) Transformation Project Manager
13 8 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (3.86%) Digital Project Manager
13 8 (3.86%) Lead Project Manager
13 8 (3.86%) SAP Manager
13 8 (3.86%) SAP Project Manager
13 8 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.42%) XML
2 4 (1.93%) Middleware
3 3 (1.45%) ADO
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.97%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.48%) .NET
5 1 (0.48%) EDI
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) HTML5
5 1 (0.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) RESTful
5 1 (0.48%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (33.82%) PMI
2 19 (9.18%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.76%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.31%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.42%) Life Science
8 3 (1.45%) Derivative
8 3 (1.45%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.45%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.97%) FMCG
9 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.42%) Linux
1 5 (2.42%) Windows
2 2 (0.97%) Unix
3 1 (0.48%) VMS
3 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (66.18%) Agile
1 137 (66.18%) Project Management
2 132 (63.77%) PRINCE2
3 112 (54.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (32.37%) Project Delivery
5 57 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (25.60%) Risk Management
7 50 (24.15%) Change Management
8 45 (21.74%) Waterfall
9 41 (19.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 39 (18.84%) Migration
11 35 (16.91%) Scrum
12 33 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (15.46%) Programme Management
14 27 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
15 26 (12.56%) Budget Management
15 26 (12.56%) Decision-Making
16 25 (12.08%) Business Analysis
17 24 (11.59%) Workshop Facilitation
18 20 (9.66%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.80%) SQL
2 3 (1.45%) Java
3 2 (0.97%) Korn
3 2 (0.97%) Python
4 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.48%) PHP
4 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (71.50%) PMP
2 87 (42.03%) Degree
3 27 (13.04%) CBAP
4 20 (9.66%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.83%) Security Cleared
6 9 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.38%) CISSP
9 6 (2.90%) CISM
10 5 (2.42%) APMP
11 4 (1.93%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.93%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.93%) MBA
12 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.45%) CCNA
12 3 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.45%) CRISC
12 3 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.97%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.49%) PMO
2 29 (14.01%) QA
3 18 (8.70%) GDPR
4 10 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.35%) NIST
5 9 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.93%) Basel III
7 4 (1.93%) GMP
7 4 (1.93%) GRC
7 4 (1.93%) PSD2
8 3 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.97%) GAAP
9 2 (0.97%) IFRS
9 2 (0.97%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.97%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.97%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.97%) MiFID
9 2 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.48%) PowerHA
1 1 (0.48%) RACF
1 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 23 (11.11%) SAP
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle
2 10 (4.83%) Planview
3 8 (3.86%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.86%) Workday
4 7 (3.38%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.90%) Adobe
6 4 (1.93%) Ariba
6 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.45%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.45%) Remedy
8 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.97%) Databricks
8 2 (0.97%) Google
8 2 (0.97%) Informatica
8 2 (0.97%) VMware
8 2 (0.97%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.48%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.48%) UiPath