PMI Certification Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

PMI Certification
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 115 129
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +66
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 20 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 0.62% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.30% 2.10% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £422 £314 £473
25th Percentile £453 £380 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £669
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -22.24% +16.30%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £725
90th Percentile £725 £618 £753
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.28 - -
25th Percentile £56.06 - -
Median hourly rate £58.25 - -
75th Percentile £59.56 - -
90th Percentile £59.83 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £38.09 £55.00
% change year-on-year +70.67% -30.75% +4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 869 808 791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.66% 29.61% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 495 496
10th Percentile £201 £310 £313
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £601
90th Percentile £650 £725 £701
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 37 33
10th Percentile £17.87 £13.20 £14.96
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +5.13% +16.96%
75th Percentile £28.18 £51.91 £67.50
90th Percentile £47.00 £54.40 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing PMI Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PMI Certification in the Midlands

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PMI Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in the Midlands

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PMI Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
West Midlands -9 14 £550 -4.35% 9
East Midlands 0 6 £625 +92.31% 5
PMI Certification
England

PMI Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (20.00%) Trello
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Asana
1 2 (10.00%) Smartsheet
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.00%) Automotive
6 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Implementation Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) ERP Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.00%) Head of IT Security
3 1 (5.00%) Head of Security
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Software Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Educational Technology
1 3 (15.00%) Learning Management System
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (15.00%) PMI
1 3 (15.00%) SCADA
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 1 (5.00%) Animation
3 1 (5.00%) SCORM
3 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Project Management
2 15 (75.00%) Agile
3 11 (55.00%) PRINCE2
4 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (30.00%) Project Delivery
8 5 (25.00%) ERP
8 5 (25.00%) User Experience
9 4 (20.00%) Change Management
9 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
10 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
10 3 (15.00%) Contract Negotiation
10 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
10 3 (15.00%) Migration
10 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
10 3 (15.00%) Validation
11 2 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
11 2 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) PMP
2 16 (80.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CAPM
4 1 (5.00%) CBAP
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) MCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) PMBOK
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
3 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Progress
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Marketo
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.00%) Workday