PMI Contracts in the Thames Valley

Project Management Institute (PMI)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 132 144
Rank change year-on-year +35 +12 0
Contract jobs citing PMI 5 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.48% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 1.62% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 4
10th Percentile £405 £59 -
25th Percentile £563 £286 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +23.53% -22.73%
75th Percentile - £588 £591
90th Percentile - £650 £596
South East median daily rate £650 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +23.81% - +7.14%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PMI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PMI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMI in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PMI in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMI in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PMI in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +23 5 £650 +23.81% 6
PMI
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Infotainment
1 2 (40.00%) IoT
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
1 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Telematics
4 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CISA
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) PgMP
3 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow