PMI Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Project Management Institute (PMI)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMI over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 122 133
Rank change year-on-year -36 +11 +51
Contract jobs citing PMI 5 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.31% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 1.13% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £333 £405 £445
25th Percentile £376 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £414 £600 £606
90th Percentile £436 - £625
England median daily rate £561 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +6.86% -14.29% +8.89%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,096 710 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.18% 27.83% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 405 568
10th Percentile £243 £235 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £623
90th Percentile £638 £713 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 24 50
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.14 £16.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.23 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +32.86% +28.39%
75th Percentile £31.00 £49.06 £64.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.18 £68.88
England median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.98% -10.11% +27.14%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

PMI job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

PMI
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMI in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

PMI
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
East Midlands -9 3 £400 +18.52% 2
West Midlands -28 2 £450 -23.40% 1
PMI
England

PMI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (20.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Payments Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Finance Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Change
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) KYC
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CBAP
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) PMP
3 1 (20.00%) CAPM
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) MBA
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (20.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) ISO 8583
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (40.00%) PSD2
3 1 (20.00%) Basel III
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP