PMI Certification Contracts

PMI Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 321 420
Rank change year-on-year +69 +99 -34
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 311 297 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 0.68% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.46% 2.22% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 177 203
10th Percentile £316 £390 £405
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £671 £625 £673
90th Percentile £788 £688 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.43% +5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 24 6
10th Percentile £37.06 £23.29 £37.50
25th Percentile £50.63 £25.50 £38.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -45.55% +7.30%
75th Percentile £81.03 £60.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £87.05 £86.96 £70.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +130.77% -36.97% -45.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMI Certification.

Daily rate trend for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI Certification over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMI Certification.

Hourly rate trend for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMI Certification over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +66 263 £517 -6.00% 367
London +57 150 £550 -8.33% 204
UK excluding London +47 118 £476 -9.43% 187
Work from Home +46 115 £535 -2.73% 216
South East +38 36 £525 -1.41% 58
North of England +33 34 £550 +18.92% 46
Midlands +21 18 £414 -12.84% 34
Yorkshire +25 16 £530 +3.41% 17
Scotland +20 15 £465 +3.33% 14
North West +7 14 £550 +40.66% 29
West Midlands +11 13 £422 -11.26% 11
South West +45 8 £425 -26.09% 15
East of England +32 7 £475 -7.32% 12
East Midlands +12 5 £414 -10.49% 21
North East +1 4 £575 +9.52% 2

PMI Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (4.50%) Confluence
2 8 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.32%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 71 (22.83%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (5.47%) Trello
5 15 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (5.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.96%) Endur
2 3 (0.96%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.64%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.32%) Aligne
4 1 (0.32%) Maximo
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.32%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.61%) Azure
2 26 (8.36%) AWS
3 14 (4.50%) Asana
4 10 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.22%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.57%) GCP
6 7 (2.25%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.61%) SaaS
7 5 (1.61%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.96%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.64%) Google Drive
10 2 (0.64%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.64%) IaaS
10 2 (0.64%) Miro
10 2 (0.64%) OCI
10 2 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.89%) Firewall
2 6 (1.93%) WAN
3 5 (1.61%) VPN
4 4 (1.29%) 5G
4 4 (1.29%) LAN
5 3 (0.96%) Network Security
5 3 (0.96%) Wireless
6 2 (0.64%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.32%) ATM
7 1 (0.32%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) MPLS
7 1 (0.32%) MQTT
7 1 (0.32%) SMS
7 1 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.22%) Power BI
2 6 (1.93%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.61%) Tableau
4 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.64%) Looker
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.32%) GIS
6 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.32%) QlikView
6 1 (0.32%) Tableau Desktop
6 1 (0.32%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 54 (17.36%) JIRA
2 2 (0.64%) Postman
3 1 (0.32%) Ant
3 1 (0.32%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 187 (60.13%) Social Skills
2 117 (37.62%) Finance
3 72 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.36%) Presentation Skills
5 22 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (6.11%) Legal
7 17 (5.47%) Banking
7 17 (5.47%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.50%) Telecoms
9 12 (3.86%) Marketing
9 12 (3.86%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.54%) Retail
11 7 (2.25%) Back Office
12 6 (1.93%) Automotive
12 6 (1.93%) Billing
12 6 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.96%) Agriculture
14 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (49.84%) Project Manager
2 32 (10.29%) Lead
3 19 (6.11%) Programme Manager
4 18 (5.79%) Analyst
5 17 (5.47%) IT Manager
6 16 (5.14%) Infrastructure Manager
7 15 (4.82%) Consultant
7 15 (4.82%) IT Project Manager
8 14 (4.50%) Senior
9 13 (4.18%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
10 12 (3.86%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 12 (3.86%) SAP Manager
10 12 (3.86%) Security Manager
11 11 (3.54%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.89%) Coordinator
12 9 (2.89%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 9 (2.89%) Project Coordinator
12 9 (2.89%) Security Project Manager
12 9 (2.89%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.96%) SOAP
2 2 (0.64%) Middleware
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.32%) ADO
3 1 (0.32%) CSS
3 1 (0.32%) FHIR
3 1 (0.32%) HTML
3 1 (0.32%) REST
3 1 (0.32%) RESTful
3 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (27.65%) PMI
2 17 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.22%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.22%) Life Science
3 10 (3.22%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.22%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.57%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.93%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.61%) IoT
6 5 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.61%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.29%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.29%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.96%) CCTV
8 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.96%) PKI
8 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.86%) Windows
2 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.32%) Android
3 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (78.78%) Project Management
2 170 (54.66%) PRINCE2
3 157 (50.48%) Agile
4 135 (43.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 110 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (27.01%) Project Delivery
7 69 (22.19%) Waterfall
8 64 (20.58%) Change Management
9 60 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (18.97%) Risk Management
11 52 (16.72%) Scrum
12 48 (15.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 43 (13.83%) Resource Allocation
14 39 (12.54%) ITIL
15 38 (12.22%) Migration
16 34 (10.93%) Budget Management
16 34 (10.93%) Decision-Making
16 34 (10.93%) Programme Management
16 34 (10.93%) Roadmaps
17 33 (10.61%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.89%) SQL
2 5 (1.61%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.29%) Python
4 3 (0.96%) ABAP
5 1 (0.32%) Java
5 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 242 (77.81%) PMP
2 149 (47.91%) Degree
3 28 (9.00%) Master's Degree
4 20 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.47%) Security Cleared
6 13 (4.18%) CISSP
6 13 (4.18%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.86%) CBAP
8 11 (3.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 7 (2.25%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.25%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.93%) CISM
10 6 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.61%) CAPM
11 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (1.29%) APMP
12 4 (1.29%) CISA
12 4 (1.29%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.96%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.83%) PMO
2 18 (5.79%) QA
3 10 (3.22%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.93%) GDPR
5 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.29%) GxP
6 4 (1.29%) MiFID
6 4 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.96%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.96%) NIST
7 3 (0.96%) PMBOK
8 2 (0.64%) EMIR
8 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.32%) COBIT
9 1 (0.32%) HL7
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
9 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (1.93%) Amdocs OSS
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.64%) SCCM
4 2 (0.64%) Terraform
5 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.90%) SAP
3 12 (3.86%) Ariba
4 10 (3.22%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.57%) Cisco
5 8 (2.57%) Oracle
6 6 (1.93%) Databricks
7 5 (1.61%) Google
8 4 (1.29%) Amdocs
8 4 (1.29%) Ciena
8 4 (1.29%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.29%) F5
8 4 (1.29%) NetCracker
8 4 (1.29%) Nokia
9 3 (0.96%) HP
9 3 (0.96%) Marketo
9 3 (0.96%) Planview
9 3 (0.96%) Workday
9 3 (0.96%) Zscaler