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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 181 257
Rank change year-on-year -33 +76 +65
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 257 196 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.47% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.53% 5.55% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 127 68
10th Percentile £406 £363 £423
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £639 £713 £645
90th Percentile £763 £788 £741
England median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £58.44 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £59.75 £69.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £16.17
% change year-on-year +15.38% +301.98% -70.60%

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 5,674 3,532 3,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.17% 26.42% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,088 2,374 2,585
10th Percentile £369 £355 £350
25th Percentile £457 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £763
England median daily rate £529 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 57
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.13 - £24.15
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -25.48% -35.71%
75th Percentile £78.75 £35.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £98.50 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.12%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +7 57 £600 +20.00% 31
West London -22 7 £500 -1.23% 6
East London - 1 - - 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 17 (6.61%) Confluence
2 12 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.95%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 33 (12.84%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (10.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.39%) Trello
6 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.17%) Changepoint
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.78%) Endur
4 1 (0.39%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.39%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.39%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.39%) Maximo
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.39%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.39%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.51%) Azure
2 19 (7.39%) AWS
2 19 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (7.39%) SaaS
3 17 (6.61%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.06%) Smartsheet
5 10 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.11%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.33%) GCP
8 5 (1.95%) Asana
8 5 (1.95%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.56%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.56%) GitHub
9 4 (1.56%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.78%) AWS KMS
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.78%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) Firewall
2 7 (2.72%) Network Security
3 5 (1.95%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.56%) 4G
4 4 (1.56%) 5G
4 4 (1.56%) LAN
4 4 (1.56%) WAN
5 3 (1.17%) Internet
5 3 (1.17%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.78%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.78%) NAS
6 2 (0.78%) SAN
6 2 (0.78%) SSL
6 2 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.39%) DNS
7 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.39%) VoIP
7 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.67%) Power BI
2 7 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.17%) Metadata
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.39%) Big Data
5 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (14.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) Gemini Tracker
2 1 (0.39%) GitLab
2 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (51.75%) Finance
2 122 (47.47%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.12%) Banking
4 33 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.17%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (6.61%) Marketing
7 16 (6.23%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (4.28%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (3.89%) Legal
10 10 (3.89%) Retail
10 10 (3.89%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.11%) Law
11 8 (3.11%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.95%) Front Office
12 5 (1.95%) German Language
13 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.56%) International Banking
13 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (51.75%) Project Manager
2 31 (12.06%) Senior
3 23 (8.95%) Senior Manager
4 22 (8.56%) Analyst
4 22 (8.56%) IT Manager
5 21 (8.17%) Lead
6 19 (7.39%) IT Project Manager
6 19 (7.39%) Technical Manager
7 18 (7.00%) Business Analyst
7 18 (7.00%) Delivery Manager
8 17 (6.61%) Programme Manager
8 17 (6.61%) Senior Project Manager
9 12 (4.67%) Infrastructure Manager
10 11 (4.28%) Transformation Manager
11 10 (3.89%) Bid Manager
11 10 (3.89%) Technical Project Manager
11 10 (3.89%) Transformation Project Manager
12 9 (3.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
13 8 (3.11%) Business Manager
14 7 (2.72%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.33%) REST
2 3 (1.17%) SOAP
2 3 (1.17%) Web Services
3 2 (0.78%) Middleware
4 1 (0.39%) ADO
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.29%) PMI
2 19 (7.39%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.06%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.28%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.89%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.11%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.33%) Life Science
9 5 (1.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.56%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.17%) CMDB
11 3 (1.17%) FMCG
11 3 (1.17%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) AS400
12 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.89%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (74.32%) PRINCE2
2 166 (64.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 150 (58.37%) Agile
4 149 (57.98%) Project Management
5 85 (33.07%) Project Delivery
6 79 (30.74%) Change Management
7 57 (22.18%) Migration
8 52 (20.23%) Decision-Making
9 48 (18.68%) Scrum
10 47 (18.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (18.29%) Waterfall
11 45 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (16.73%) Budget Management
13 42 (16.34%) Roadmaps
14 41 (15.95%) Programme Management
15 39 (15.18%) Risk Management
16 38 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (14.40%) Cybersecurity
18 34 (13.23%) ITIL
19 32 (12.45%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.28%) SQL
2 4 (1.56%) Python
3 2 (0.78%) COBOL
3 2 (0.78%) RPG
4 1 (0.39%) Bash
4 1 (0.39%) C#
4 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 224 (87.16%) PMP
2 80 (31.13%) Degree
3 30 (11.67%) Security Cleared
4 22 (8.56%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.06%) CISSP
5 13 (5.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 11 (4.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 10 (3.89%) CISM
8 8 (3.11%) CBAP
8 8 (3.11%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.72%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.33%) CTC Cleared
10 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.95%) CAPM
11 5 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.17%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.67%) PMO
2 17 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.23%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.84%) GDPR
5 12 (4.67%) NIST
6 10 (3.89%) P3O
7 9 (3.50%) QA
7 9 (3.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.11%) GRC
9 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.95%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.95%) SEPA
11 4 (1.56%) SLA
11 4 (1.56%) SOC 2
12 3 (1.17%) GMP
12 3 (1.17%) GxP
12 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
12 3 (1.17%) TARGET2
13 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.78%) ITGC
System Software
1 7 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.78%) RSA Archer
1 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.39%) Kibana
2 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.78%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.67%) Planview
4 11 (4.28%) SAP
5 8 (3.11%) Oracle
6 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.95%) VMware
8 4 (1.56%) Cisco
8 4 (1.56%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.56%) Databricks
8 4 (1.56%) Google
9 3 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.17%) IBM
9 3 (1.17%) Murex
9 3 (1.17%) UiPath
10 2 (0.78%) Charles River
10 2 (0.78%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.78%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.39%) Intapp
11 1 (0.39%) Wrike