PMI Contract Job Trends in London

Project Management Institute (PMI)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMI over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 317 366
Rank change year-on-year -96 +49 +29
Contract jobs citing PMI 44 56 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 1.07% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 11
10th Percentile £413 £290 £459
25th Percentile £423 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.70%
75th Percentile £750 £656 £623
90th Percentile £1,098 £750 £645
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Generic Skills
London

PMI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,719 5,216 5,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.30% 38.91% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,360 3,530
10th Percentile £354 £344 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -3.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £730
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.27% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 122 71
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -19.70% +13.30%
75th Percentile £57.44 £46.94 £56.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.63 £78.40
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +24.59%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

PMI job vacancy trend in London

PMI
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI

PMI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI in London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMI in London

PMI
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMI

PMI
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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 -22 8 £775 +169.57% 5
West London - 2 £450 -
PMI
England

PMI
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 5 (11.36%) Confluence
1 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Changepoint
2 1 (2.27%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) SaaS
3 5 (11.36%) Smartsheet
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.09%) OneDrive
4 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) AWS
6 2 (4.55%) IaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.27%) Twilio
7 1 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Unified Communications
1 2 (4.55%) VoIP
2 1 (2.27%) CTI
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) JIRA
General
1 17 (38.64%) Finance
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Marketing
4 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Banking
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.36%) German Language
6 4 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (6.82%) Law
7 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.55%) Legal
8 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.27%) French Language
9 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.27%) Police
9 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Analyst
2 9 (20.45%) Business Analyst
2 9 (20.45%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.36%) Lead
3 5 (11.36%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) B2B Sales Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Integration Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) Migration Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Migration Project Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Sales Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Payments Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Scrum Master
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Strategy Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.27%) FMCG
4 1 (2.27%) IVR
4 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Synthetic Data
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (38.64%) PRINCE2
3 16 (36.36%) Project Management
4 15 (34.09%) Agile
4 15 (34.09%) Change Management
5 9 (20.45%) Scrum
6 8 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 7 (15.91%) Migration
7 7 (15.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (15.91%) Waterfall
8 6 (13.64%) AI
8 6 (13.64%) Analytics
8 6 (13.64%) B2B
8 6 (13.64%) B2B Sales
8 6 (13.64%) Customer Retention
8 6 (13.64%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (11.36%) Budget Management
9 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.36%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 16 (36.36%) Degree
3 11 (25.00%) PMP
4 10 (22.73%) CBAP
5 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
6 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
7 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (4.55%) CISA
8 2 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (2.27%) CAPM
9 1 (2.27%) CIPD
9 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.27%) CSPO
9 1 (2.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) PMO
2 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.55%) P3O
3 2 (4.55%) SEPA
4 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.27%) GRC
4 1 (2.27%) QA
4 1 (2.27%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kibana
1 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle
2 2 (4.55%) Planview
2 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (2.27%) Avaya
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Genesys
3 1 (2.27%) Intapp
3 1 (2.27%) Progress
3 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.27%) Wrike