PMI Contract Job Trends in Reading

Project Management Institute (PMI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in contract job vacancies in Reading. 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 68 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing PMI 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.03% - 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.95% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £738 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +9.52% -10.64% +22.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 237 354 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 34.85% 32.99% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 166 215
10th Percentile £339 £315 £205
25th Percentile £413 £409 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +11.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £663 £706 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 8
10th Percentile £55.15 £25.70 £60.54
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £61.52
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -9.15% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.22 £65.55
90th Percentile £102.20 £71.76 £66.83
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £42.88 £61.65
% change year-on-year +35.26% -30.44% +39.31%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

PMI job vacancy trend in Reading

PMI
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PMI

PMI
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for PMI in Reading

PMI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Contentstack
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Project Manager
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Programme Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Web Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITSM
1 5 (71.43%) Project Management
1 5 (71.43%) Service Management
2 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Contract Negotiation
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Innovation
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (28.57%) Network Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Portfolio Management
3 2 (28.57%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Critical Path Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 5 (71.43%) MAPM
2 5 (71.43%) PMP
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) APMP
4 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) PMO
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft