PMI Certification Contract Job Trends in the South East

PMI Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 132 154
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 +21
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 90 37 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.34% 1.04% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.59% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 25 23
10th Percentile £413 £415 £118
25th Percentile £463 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% +0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £631
90th Percentile £725 £763 £712
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £83.50 £61.50 -
25th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £87.00 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £65.63
90th Percentile £88.90 £73.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +60.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,985 1,426 2,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.49% 40.15% 44.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 916 1,321
10th Percentile £350 £241 £350
25th Percentile £463 £415 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £635 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 125 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £17.80
25th Percentile £38.25 £19.79 £34.25
Median hourly rate £65.50 £28.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +133.93% -51.18% -6.94%
75th Percentile £85.00 £68.50 £70.39
90th Percentile £94.75 £81.00 £87.46
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £48.00
% change year-on-year +110.74% -47.60% -12.73%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

PMI Certification job vacancy trend in the South East

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in the South East

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

PMI Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
Thames Valley -8 55 £600 +20.00% 10
Berkshire +2 48 £600 +14.29% 6
Hampshire -16 20 £550 -18.52% 15
Surrey -14 11 £500 -23.08% 4
Buckinghamshire -33 6 £610 +171.11% 2
West Sussex -25 2 - -
Kent - 1 £550 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £460 - 2
PMI Certification
England

PMI Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Primavera
2 2 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.22%) SAP QM
2 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.11%) Azure
2 7 (7.78%) AWS
3 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.67%) Smartsheet
4 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.44%) IaaS
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.11%) GCP
5 1 (1.11%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) LAN
2 4 (4.44%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.44%) WAN
3 3 (3.33%) Network Security
3 3 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.33%) Wireless
4 2 (2.22%) DNS
4 2 (2.22%) NAS
4 2 (2.22%) SAN
5 1 (1.11%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 42 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 30 (33.33%) Finance
3 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.78%) Aerospace
6 6 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.33%) Aviation
9 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.22%) Billing
10 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.11%) Banking
11 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Project Manager
2 11 (12.22%) Risk Manager
3 10 (11.11%) Change Manager
4 9 (10.00%) Lead
4 9 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 9 (10.00%) Security Project Manager
5 7 (7.78%) IT Manager
5 7 (7.78%) Senior
6 6 (6.67%) Analyst
6 6 (6.67%) Technical Manager
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Programme Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Project Assurance Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Security Assurance Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Project Manager
9 3 (3.33%) IT Change Manager
9 3 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (3.33%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.11%) ADO
1 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.11%) PMI
2 7 (7.78%) Operational Technology
3 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) FMCG
6 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.11%) CCTV
7 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.11%) Replication
7 1 (1.11%) SCADA
7 1 (1.11%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (65.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (42.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 36 (40.00%) Agile
3 36 (40.00%) PRINCE2
4 35 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (38.89%) Project Management
5 34 (37.78%) Change Management
6 28 (31.11%) ITIL
7 22 (24.44%) Risk Management
8 21 (23.33%) Project Delivery
9 20 (22.22%) Decision-Making
10 18 (20.00%) Budget Management
10 18 (20.00%) Waterfall
11 16 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (17.78%) Service Management
11 16 (17.78%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (16.67%) Service Delivery
13 14 (15.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 14 (15.56%) Programme Delivery
13 14 (15.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (73.33%) PMP
2 50 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 33 (36.67%) SC Cleared
4 30 (33.33%) Degree
5 15 (16.67%) CISM
5 15 (16.67%) CISSP
6 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (3.33%) APMP
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.33%) CBAP
8 3 (3.33%) CCNA
8 3 (3.33%) CCNP
8 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.33%) MBA
9 2 (2.22%) CAPM
9 2 (2.22%) MAPM
10 1 (1.11%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.00%) NIST
2 13 (14.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.89%) PMO
3 8 (8.89%) SOC 2
4 6 (6.67%) GDPR
4 6 (6.67%) QA
5 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
6 4 (4.44%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.11%) GRC
7 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) Ansible
1 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) ServiceNow
2 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) SAP
4 3 (3.33%) Aruba
4 3 (3.33%) Cisco
4 3 (3.33%) Juniper
4 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.22%) Planview
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) Commvault
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) EMC
6 1 (1.11%) NetApp
6 1 (1.11%) Veeam
6 1 (1.11%) Veritas