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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 211 261
Rank change year-on-year +6 +50 +48
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 209 130 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.03% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.25% 4.05% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 85 69
10th Percentile £400 £410 £363
25th Percentile £422 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +4.58%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £645
90th Percentile £750 £853 £875
England median daily rate £525 £525 £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 £81.25 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +188.46% -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 4,921 3,210 4,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.43% 25.40% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,496 2,173 2,956
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £658
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 65 119
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.35 £14.21
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -12.35%
75th Percentile £76.58 £58.75 £61.39
90th Percentile £84.25 £70.10 £83.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £50.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year -31.03% +35.33% -25.00%

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 27 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 27 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 -15 34 £550 +2.80% 16
South London - 4 £500 -
West London -18 2 £550 +15.79% 3
East London - 2 £495 -
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 14 (6.70%) Confluence
2 9 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.48%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.87%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.44%) Trello
7 2 (0.96%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.48%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Endur
2 3 (1.44%) DELMIA
3 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.96%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.48%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.48%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.79%) Azure
2 24 (11.48%) AWS
3 15 (7.18%) Power Platform
4 13 (6.22%) SaaS
5 12 (5.74%) Smartsheet
6 6 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.39%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.44%) Asana
8 3 (1.44%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.44%) IaaS
8 3 (1.44%) PaaS
9 2 (0.96%) Contentsquare
9 2 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.96%) GCP
9 2 (0.96%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.96%) Miro
9 2 (0.96%) OCI
9 2 (0.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.35%) WAN
2 6 (2.87%) LAN
2 6 (2.87%) Network Security
3 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.96%) Firewall
4 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.96%) VLAN
4 2 (0.96%) VPN
5 1 (0.48%) DNS
5 1 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.18%) Power BI
2 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.96%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.96%) Tableau
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.48%) Git
2 1 (0.48%) Introscope
General
1 122 (58.37%) Social Skills
2 91 (43.54%) Finance
3 46 (22.01%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (18.66%) Banking
5 23 (11.00%) Legal
6 20 (9.57%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.70%) Marketing
8 13 (6.22%) Retail
9 11 (5.26%) Manufacturing
10 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
11 9 (4.31%) Financial Institution
11 9 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (3.35%) Investment Banking
14 5 (2.39%) Front Office
15 4 (1.91%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.91%) General Ledger
15 4 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (1.44%) Retail Finance
16 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (58.37%) Project Manager
2 29 (13.88%) Analyst
3 27 (12.92%) Business Analyst
3 27 (12.92%) Senior
4 19 (9.09%) Lead
5 18 (8.61%) Infrastructure Manager
5 18 (8.61%) Senior Manager
6 16 (7.66%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 15 (7.18%) Technical Manager
8 14 (6.70%) Senior Project Manager
9 13 (6.22%) Migration Manager
10 12 (5.74%) Migration Project Manager
11 11 (5.26%) Programme Manager
11 11 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
12 10 (4.78%) IT Manager
12 10 (4.78%) IT Project Manager
13 9 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
13 9 (4.31%) Security Manager
14 8 (3.83%) Lead Project Manager
14 8 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.39%) XML
2 4 (1.91%) Middleware
3 3 (1.44%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.96%) ADO
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.96%) REST
4 2 (0.96%) SOAP
4 2 (0.96%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.48%) .NET
5 1 (0.48%) EDI
5 1 (0.48%) RESTful
5 1 (0.48%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (29.67%) PMI
2 15 (7.18%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.74%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.83%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.91%) CMDB
8 3 (1.44%) CCTV
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.44%) Life Science
9 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.96%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.96%) LIMS
9 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.35%) Windows
2 6 (2.87%) Linux
3 4 (1.91%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) AIX
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (66.99%) Project Management
2 139 (66.51%) PRINCE2
3 134 (64.11%) Agile
4 121 (57.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 77 (36.84%) Project Delivery
6 46 (22.01%) Change Management
7 45 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (21.53%) Risk Management
8 40 (19.14%) Waterfall
9 37 (17.70%) Migration
9 37 (17.70%) Scrum
10 35 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (14.83%) Programme Management
12 29 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (13.88%) Decision-Making
13 28 (13.40%) Project Governance
14 26 (12.44%) Requirements Gathering
15 22 (10.53%) DevOps
15 22 (10.53%) Validation
16 21 (10.05%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.31%) SQL
2 3 (1.44%) Korn
3 2 (0.96%) Java
4 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.48%) Jython
4 1 (0.48%) PHP
4 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.48%) Python
4 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (76.56%) PMP
2 69 (33.01%) Degree
3 18 (8.61%) CBAP
4 13 (6.22%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.26%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.31%) CISSP
7 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.83%) CISM
9 6 (2.87%) APMP
10 5 (2.39%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.91%) CRISC
11 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (1.44%) CCNA
12 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.96%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 2 (0.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.27%) PMO
2 28 (13.40%) QA
3 26 (12.44%) GDPR
4 16 (7.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (7.66%) NIST
5 10 (4.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.91%) Basel III
7 3 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.44%) GRC
8 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.96%) EMIR
8 2 (0.96%) GAAP
8 2 (0.96%) GxP
8 2 (0.96%) IFRS
8 2 (0.96%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.96%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.96%) P3O
8 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.96%) PSD2
8 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) PowerHA
2 1 (0.48%) RACF
2 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.96%) Control-M
1 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.48%) CA Wily
2 1 (0.48%) Puppet
2 1 (0.48%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.13%) SAP
3 14 (6.70%) CyberArk
3 14 (6.70%) Oracle
4 11 (5.26%) Workday
5 10 (4.78%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.35%) Planview
7 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.91%) Databricks
9 3 (1.44%) Ariba
9 3 (1.44%) Cisco
9 3 (1.44%) Google
9 3 (1.44%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.44%) Remedy
10 2 (0.96%) Adobe
10 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.96%) Informatica
10 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.96%) VMware