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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 247 287
Rank change year-on-year +46 +40 +24
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 191 135 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 0.89% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.69% 3.47% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 75 73
10th Percentile £379 £415 £353
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £642 £720 £656
90th Percentile £739 £838 £863
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £49.14 £60.00
% change year-on-year +39.91% -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 4,072 3,889 4,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.35% 25.68% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,840 2,458 2,998
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £427 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £669
90th Percentile £750 £774 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 57 89
10th Percentile £19.48 £20.75 £19.20
25th Percentile - £27.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -28.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +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 16 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 16 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 -11 21 £475 -24.00% 11
West London -12 5 £500 -2.44%
South London - 2 £600 - 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 21 (10.99%) Confluence
2 7 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (15.18%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (3.66%) MS Visio
5 7 (3.66%) Trello
6 2 (1.05%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 11 (5.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.14%) Endur
3 4 (2.09%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.57%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.57%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.57%) Workfront
5 2 (1.05%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.52%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.52%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.52%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.04%) Azure
2 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
3 12 (6.28%) AWS
4 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.66%) Smartsheet
6 5 (2.62%) SaaS
7 4 (2.09%) Asana
7 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.57%) Miro
8 3 (1.57%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.57%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.05%) Canva
9 2 (1.05%) Contentsquare
9 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.05%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Slack
10 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.19%) Network Security
2 5 (2.62%) Firewall
3 3 (1.57%) VPN
3 3 (1.57%) WAN
4 2 (1.05%) LAN
4 2 (1.05%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Intranet
5 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.52%) Multicast
5 1 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.85%) Power BI
2 4 (2.09%) Tableau
3 3 (1.57%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) MySQL
5 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (22.51%) JIRA
General
1 125 (65.45%) Social Skills
2 94 (49.21%) Finance
3 42 (21.99%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (19.90%) Banking
5 15 (7.85%) Legal
6 14 (7.33%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.28%) Marketing
7 12 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.76%) Retail
9 10 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.66%) Investment Banking
12 6 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
13 4 (2.09%) Front Office
13 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (2.09%) Publishing
14 3 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (54.45%) Project Manager
2 28 (14.66%) Analyst
3 25 (13.09%) Business Analyst
4 24 (12.57%) Senior
5 21 (10.99%) Senior Manager
6 16 (8.38%) Senior Project Manager
7 14 (7.33%) Infrastructure Manager
7 14 (7.33%) Lead
8 12 (6.28%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 12 (6.28%) IT Manager
9 10 (5.24%) IT Project Manager
10 9 (4.71%) Technical Manager
10 9 (4.71%) Transformation Manager
10 9 (4.71%) Transformation Project Manager
11 8 (4.19%) Digital Project Manager
11 8 (4.19%) SAP Manager
11 8 (4.19%) SAP Project Manager
12 7 (3.66%) Banking Project Manager
12 7 (3.66%) Programme Manager
13 6 (3.14%) Digital Transformation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.57%) XML
2 2 (1.05%) .NET
2 2 (1.05%) HTML
2 2 (1.05%) Middleware
3 1 (0.52%) ADO
3 1 (0.52%) HTML5
3 1 (0.52%) Kafka
3 1 (0.52%) RESTful
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (34.55%) PMI
2 17 (8.90%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.66%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.14%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.62%) Life Science
9 4 (2.09%) Derivative
10 3 (1.57%) Digital Wallet
10 3 (1.57%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.05%) FMCG
11 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.05%) Learning Management System
11 2 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.57%) Linux
1 3 (1.57%) Windows
2 2 (1.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (66.49%) Project Management
2 125 (65.45%) Agile
3 122 (63.87%) PRINCE2
4 93 (48.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (27.75%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (25.65%) Project Delivery
7 47 (24.61%) Risk Management
8 46 (24.08%) Change Management
9 45 (23.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 40 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (20.42%) Waterfall
12 33 (17.28%) Migration
13 30 (15.71%) Scrum
14 25 (13.09%) Programme Management
15 22 (11.52%) Budget Management
15 22 (11.52%) Decision-Making
16 21 (10.99%) Requirements Gathering
16 21 (10.99%) Resource Allocation
17 18 (9.42%) Business Analysis
17 18 (9.42%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.14%) SQL
2 3 (1.57%) Java
3 2 (1.05%) Korn
3 2 (1.05%) Python
4 1 (0.52%) C++
4 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 136 (71.20%) PMP
2 77 (40.31%) Degree
3 20 (10.47%) CBAP
4 14 (7.33%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.62%) CISSP
6 5 (2.62%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.09%) CISM
7 4 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.09%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.57%) MBA
8 3 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.05%) CAPM
9 2 (1.05%) IIBA
9 2 (1.05%) PgMP
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.52%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.66%) PMO
2 24 (12.57%) QA
3 11 (5.76%) GDPR
4 6 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.62%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.09%) GMP
6 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.09%) PSD2
7 3 (1.57%) Basel III
7 3 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.57%) GRC
7 3 (1.57%) MiFID
7 3 (1.57%) NIST
7 3 (1.57%) SLA
8 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.05%) EMIR
8 2 (1.05%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.05%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.52%) PowerHA
1 1 (0.52%) RACF
1 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 20 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.42%) SAP
3 10 (5.24%) Planview
4 9 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.66%) Adobe
5 7 (3.66%) Oracle
6 5 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.62%) Workday
7 4 (2.09%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.09%) Databricks
8 3 (1.57%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.05%) Ariba
9 2 (1.05%) Google
9 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.52%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (0.52%) ComArch
10 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.52%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.52%) Synthesia
10 1 (0.52%) UiPath