PMI Certification Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

PMI Certification UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	270	311	288
Rank change year-on-year	+41	-23
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification	380	399	429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.82%	0.75%	0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category	4.27%	3.43%	4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	262	266	285
Median daily rate	£460	£425	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.23%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£338	£300	£280
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£375	£400
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	-6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	4	6
Median hourly rate	£45.50	£45.00	£33.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+1.11%	+35.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£35.00	£38.00	£24.37
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£50.25	£48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.75	£45.00	£43.25
% change year-on-year	+6.11%	+4.04%

PMI Certification is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies.

Academic & Professional Certification UK
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	8905	11622	10650
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.24%	21.90%	19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	5328	7267	6206
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£240
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	486	440	554
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.50	£24.12
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+14.03%	+18.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£12.52	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£49.13	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£30.00	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	+24.37%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing PMI Certification as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

Job vacancy trend for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PMI Certification.

Contractor daily rate trend for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing PMI Certification over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMI Certification.

Contractor hourly rate trend for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing PMI Certification over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Top 30 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 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+46	357	£465	+3.38%	53
London	+34	175	£500	-	26
South East	+59	84	£475	+11.76%	10
Berkshire	+41	44	£488	-2.50%	2
South West	+33	40	£468	-10.85%	1
City of London	+8	38	£500	-13.04%	6
Wiltshire	+31	27	£461	+10.96%
Scotland	+16	14	£349	+8.64%	1
Surrey	+5	14	£450	-10.00%	2
Corsham	-	14	£560	-
East Midlands	-10	12	£375	-9.63%	3
West Midlands	+14	11	£413	+22.22%
North East	+42	10	£350	+12.00%
Coventry	+23	9	£413	-
North West	+8	9	£463	+23.33%	9
Glasgow	+7	9	£400	+10.34%
Oxfordshire	-2	9	£525	+5.00%	2
Derbyshire	-11	9	£378	-24.50%
Derby	-11	9	£378	-24.50%
Newcastle upon Tyne	+52	8	£355	+13.60%
Tyne and Wear	+48	8	£355	+13.60%
West Sussex	+26	8	£443	+33.58%	1
Yorkshire	+25	8	£400	-20.00%	1
Maidenhead	+2	8	-	-
West Yorkshire	+24	6	£400	-13.51%
Leeds	+21	6	£400	-13.51%
Reading	+12	6	£525	+5.00%
Swindon	+7	6	£425	+2.40%
Hampshire	-1	6	£450	+36.36%
East of England	-22	6	£438	+4.16%	3

PMI Certification
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing PMI Certification also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for PMI Certification.

1	523 (71.25%)	Project Management
2	516 (70.30%)	PRINCE2
3	459 (62.53%)	PMP
4	405 (55.18%)	PMI
5	291 (39.65%)	Finance
6	244 (33.24%)	Agile Software Development
7	184 (25.07%)	Stakeholder Management
8	167 (22.75%)	Degree
9	136 (18.53%)	Programme Management
10	134 (18.26%)	ITIL
11	120 (16.35%)	Microsoft
12	118 (16.08%)	Microsoft Project
13	114 (15.53%)	Risk Management
14	111 (15.12%)	PMO
15	95 (12.94%)	Change Management

16	93 (12.67%)	Migration
17	86 (11.72%)	Scrum
17	86 (11.72%)	Banking
18	81 (11.04%)	PRINCE
19	79 (10.76%)	Analytical Skills
20	74 (10.08%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
20	74 (10.08%)	Telecoms
21	70 (9.54%)	Security Cleared
22	68 (9.26%)	Data Centre
23	67 (9.13%)	CRM
24	66 (8.99%)	Matrix Organization
25	64 (8.72%)	Project Planning
26	63 (8.58%)	SDLC
27	62 (8.45%)	PRINCE2 Certification
28	60 (8.17%)	Waterfall

PMI Certification
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	28 (3.81%)	SharePoint
2	17 (2.32%)	Confluence
3	13 (1.77%)	MS Project Server
4	10 (1.36%)	JBoss
5	8 (1.09%)	CMS
5	8 (1.09%)	Skype for Business
6	7 (0.95%)	IIS
7	5 (0.68%)	BizTalk Server
7	5 (0.68%)	Documentum
7	5 (0.68%)	WebLogic
7	5 (0.68%)	WebSphere
8	4 (0.54%)	Apache
8	4 (0.54%)	MS Exchange
9	3 (0.41%)	Sitecore CMS
10	2 (0.27%)	Exchange Server 2010
10	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Workflow
10	2 (0.27%)	SharePoint 2013
11	1 (0.14%)	IBM Notes
11	1 (0.14%)	Smallworld
11	1 (0.14%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	118 (16.08%)	Microsoft Project
2	56 (7.63%)	Microsoft Office
3	55 (7.49%)	Microsoft Excel
4	53 (7.22%)	MS Visio
5	29 (3.95%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	11 (1.50%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	22 (3.00%)	Dynamics CRM
2	11 (1.50%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	10 (1.36%)	Dynamics AX
4	7 (0.95%)	SAP ERP
5	3 (0.41%)	Maximo
5	3 (0.41%)	Salesforce.com CRM
5	3 (0.41%)	Unit4 Business World
6	2 (0.27%)	Actimize
6	2 (0.27%)	CA PPM
6	2 (0.27%)	NetSuite
6	2 (0.27%)	Oracle BPM
6	2 (0.27%)	Oracle ERP
7	1 (0.14%)	HFM
7	1 (0.14%)	JDE EnterpriseOne
7	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Applications
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP HCM
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP PM
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP Travel Management
7	1 (0.14%)	Temenos T24
7	1 (0.14%)	TrackWise

Cloud Services
1	33 (4.50%)	Office 365
2	30 (4.09%)	Amazon AWS
3	26 (3.54%)	Microsoft Azure
4	9 (1.23%)	Dynamics 365
5	7 (0.95%)	SaaS
6	6 (0.82%)	IaaS
7	4 (0.54%)	Yammer
8	2 (0.27%)	Force.com
8	2 (0.27%)	GitHub
8	2 (0.27%)	IBM Cloud
8	2 (0.27%)	OneDrive
8	2 (0.27%)	SoftLayer
9	1 (0.14%)	Amazon EC2
9	1 (0.14%)	Amazon S3
9	1 (0.14%)	Asana
9	1 (0.14%)	Basecamp
9	1 (0.14%)	Cloud Computing
9	1 (0.14%)	PaaS
9	1 (0.14%)	SuccessFactors
9	1 (0.14%)	Veeva

Communications & Networking
1	20 (2.72%)	LAN
2	14 (1.91%)	VoIP
3	13 (1.77%)	WAN
4	10 (1.36%)	Firewall
5	8 (1.09%)	Internet
5	8 (1.09%)	Skype
6	5 (0.68%)	Unified Communications
7	4 (0.54%)	Wi-Fi
7	4 (0.54%)	WLAN
8	3 (0.41%)	HTTP
8	3 (0.41%)	SAN
8	3 (0.41%)	Wireless
9	2 (0.27%)	3G
9	2 (0.27%)	4G
9	2 (0.27%)	Cisco IPT
9	2 (0.27%)	CTI
9	2 (0.27%)	GGSN
9	2 (0.27%)	PSTN
9	2 (0.27%)	SGSN
9	2 (0.27%)	Telepresence

Database & Business Intelligence
1	17 (2.32%)	BusinessObjects
2	16 (2.18%)	SQL Server
3	15 (2.04%)	Data Warehouse
4	8 (1.09%)	Big Data
5	6 (0.82%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	3 (0.41%)	MS Access
6	3 (0.41%)	NoSQL
6	3 (0.41%)	QlikView
6	3 (0.41%)	RDBMS
6	3 (0.41%)	Relational Database
6	3 (0.41%)	SAP BW
7	2 (0.27%)	DB2
7	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Reports
7	2 (0.27%)	Pentaho
8	1 (0.14%)	Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8	1 (0.14%)	GIS
8	1 (0.14%)	Mixpanel
8	1 (0.14%)	Oracle BI EE
8	1 (0.14%)	SAP HANA

Development Applications
1	28 (3.81%)	JIRA
2	10 (1.36%)	Bitbucket
3	4 (0.54%)	Git (software)
3	4 (0.54%)	Team Foundation Server
4	3 (0.41%)	Oracle APEX
5	2 (0.27%)	ClearCase
5	2 (0.27%)	Gradle
5	2 (0.27%)	Subversion
5	2 (0.27%)	Visual Studio
6	1 (0.14%)	JIRA Agile
6	1 (0.14%)	VersionOne

General
1	291 (39.65%)	Finance
2	86 (11.72%)	Banking
3	74 (10.08%)	Telecoms
4	46 (6.27%)	Retail
5	41 (5.59%)	Legal
6	31 (4.22%)	Marketing
7	30 (4.09%)	Front Office
8	29 (3.95%)	Investment Banking
8	29 (3.95%)	Manufacturing
9	19 (2.59%)	Law
10	18 (2.45%)	Back Office
11	13 (1.77%)	Automotive
11	13 (1.77%)	Billing
12	11 (1.50%)	Electronics
13	9 (1.23%)	Corporate Banking
13	9 (1.23%)	Financial Institution
14	8 (1.09%)	French Language
14	8 (1.09%)	Pharmaceutical
14	8 (1.09%)	Publishing
15	7 (0.95%)	Advertising

Job Titles
1	445 (60.63%)	Project Manager
2	64 (8.72%)	IT Manager
3	53 (7.22%)	IT Project Manager
3	53 (7.22%)	Programme Manager
4	50 (6.81%)	Analyst
5	47 (6.40%)	Senior Manager
6	43 (5.86%)	Infrastructure Manager
6	43 (5.86%)	Senior Project Manager
7	41 (5.59%)	Business Analyst
8	34 (4.63%)	Infrastructure Project Manager
9	32 (4.36%)	Technical Manager
10	27 (3.68%)	Technical Project Manager
11	26 (3.54%)	CRM Manager
11	26 (3.54%)	PRINCE2 Project Manager
12	22 (3.00%)	Agile Project Manager
13	19 (2.59%)	Consultant
14	18 (2.45%)	CRM Project Manager
15	17 (2.32%)	Applications Manager
15	17 (2.32%)	SAP Manager
15	17 (2.32%)	SAP Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	19 (2.59%)	XML
2	9 (1.23%)	Velocity
3	8 (1.09%)	HTML
4	7 (0.95%)	AngularJS
4	7 (0.95%)	Web Services
5	6 (0.82%)	.NET
5	6 (0.82%)	ASP.NET
5	6 (0.82%)	jQuery
6	5 (0.68%)	FIX Protocol
6	5 (0.68%)	J2EE
7	4 (0.54%)	CSS
7	4 (0.54%)	XSL
8	3 (0.41%)	FpML
8	3 (0.41%)	GWT
8	3 (0.41%)	HTML5
8	3 (0.41%)	REST
8	3 (0.41%)	SAP Basis
8	3 (0.41%)	SOAP
8	3 (0.41%)	XML Schema
8	3 (0.41%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	405 (55.18%)	PMI
2	79 (10.76%)	Analytical Skills
3	68 (9.26%)	Data Centre
4	46 (6.27%)	Management Information System
5	31 (4.22%)	Computer Science
6	27 (3.68%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	27 (3.68%)	Virtual Team
7	15 (2.04%)	Derivative
7	15 (2.04%)	Equities
8	11 (1.50%)	Mobile App
9	10 (1.36%)	User Experience
10	8 (1.09%)	CCTV
11	7 (0.95%)	Fixed Income
11	7 (0.95%)	IVR
12	6 (0.82%)	Client/Server
12	6 (0.82%)	Enterprise Software
12	6 (0.82%)	EPoS
12	6 (0.82%)	Private Cloud
13	5 (0.68%)	Exotic Derivative
13	5 (0.68%)	NHS

Operating Systems
1	39 (5.31%)	Windows
2	14 (1.91%)	Windows 10
3	13 (1.77%)	Linux
4	11 (1.50%)	Unix
5	4 (0.54%)	AIX
5	4 (0.54%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	4 (0.54%)	Solaris
5	4 (0.54%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5	4 (0.54%)	Windows Server 2008
5	4 (0.54%)	Windows Server 2012
6	3 (0.41%)	Android
6	3 (0.41%)	Windows Server
7	2 (0.27%)	VMS
7	2 (0.27%)	Windows 7
8	1 (0.14%)	Apple iOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	523 (71.25%)	Project Management
2	516 (70.30%)	PRINCE2
3	244 (33.24%)	Agile Software Development
4	184 (25.07%)	Stakeholder Management
5	136 (18.53%)	Programme Management
6	134 (18.26%)	ITIL
7	114 (15.53%)	Risk Management
8	95 (12.94%)	Change Management
9	93 (12.67%)	Migration
10	86 (11.72%)	Scrum
11	81 (11.04%)	PRINCE
12	67 (9.13%)	CRM
13	66 (8.99%)	Matrix Organization
14	64 (8.72%)	Project Planning
15	63 (8.58%)	SDLC
16	60 (8.17%)	Waterfall
17	49 (6.68%)	Business Analysis
18	42 (5.72%)	Change Control
19	40 (5.45%)	Six Sigma
20	39 (5.31%)	Business Intelligence

Programming Languages
1	28 (3.81%)	SQL
2	16 (2.18%)	Java
3	15 (2.04%)	JavaScript
4	6 (0.82%)	C#
5	5 (0.68%)	C
5	5 (0.68%)	Perl
5	5 (0.68%)	VBA
5	5 (0.68%)	VBScript
6	4 (0.54%)	VB
7	3 (0.41%)	Apex Code
7	3 (0.41%)	C++
8	2 (0.27%)	ABAP
8	2 (0.27%)	Groovy
8	2 (0.27%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	459 (62.53%)	PMP
2	167 (22.75%)	Degree
3	74 (10.08%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
4	70 (9.54%)	Security Cleared
5	62 (8.45%)	PRINCE2 Certification
6	55 (7.49%)	SC Cleared
7	24 (3.27%)	APMP
7	24 (3.27%)	ISEB
8	23 (3.13%)	PgMP
9	19 (2.59%)	DV Cleared
9	19 (2.59%)	ITIL Certification
10	14 (1.91%)	CAPM
11	12 (1.63%)	CISSP
11	12 (1.63%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
12	11 (1.50%)	Chartered Engineer
12	11 (1.50%)	CITP
12	11 (1.50%)	MBCS
13	9 (1.23%)	Computer Science Degree
13	9 (1.23%)	Master's Degree
13	9 (1.23%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	111 (15.12%)	PMO
2	47 (6.40%)	QA
3	27 (3.68%)	MiFID
4	14 (1.91%)	ISO 9000
5	13 (1.77%)	EMIR
6	12 (1.63%)	SLA
7	10 (1.36%)	P3O
8	8 (1.09%)	GDPR
9	7 (0.95%)	COBIT
10	6 (0.82%)	Data Quality
10	6 (0.82%)	ISO/IEC 20000
11	5 (0.68%)	PCI DSS
12	4 (0.54%)	Dodd-Frank
13	3 (0.41%)	ISO/IEC 27001
13	3 (0.41%)	PMBOK
13	3 (0.41%)	SEPA
13	3 (0.41%)	Solvency II
14	2 (0.27%)	GxP
14	2 (0.27%)	ISO 22301
14	2 (0.27%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	10 (1.36%)	Active Directory
2	9 (1.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	2 (0.27%)	Docker
3	2 (0.27%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
3	2 (0.27%)	Virtual Servers
4	1 (0.14%)	Hyper-V
4	1 (0.14%)	Virtual Machines
4	1 (0.14%)	XenApp
4	1 (0.14%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	15 (2.04%)	MOM
2	7 (0.95%)	Ansible
2	7 (0.95%)	Puppet
3	6 (0.82%)	SCCM
4	5 (0.68%)	BladeLogic
5	3 (0.41%)	Microsoft Intune
6	2 (0.27%)	Cisco CUCM
6	2 (0.27%)	RSA Archer
6	2 (0.27%)	vCenter Server
7	1 (0.14%)	TrustSec

Vendors
1	120 (16.35%)	Microsoft
2	55 (7.49%)	SAP
3	30 (4.09%)	Oracle
4	26 (3.54%)	Salesforce.com
5	19 (2.59%)	Cisco
6	14 (1.91%)	IBM
7	12 (1.63%)	Atlassian
7	12 (1.63%)	HP
7	12 (1.63%)	VMware
8	7 (0.95%)	OpenText
8	7 (0.95%)	Tableau
9	6 (0.82%)	Avaya
9	6 (0.82%)	CA Agile Central
9	6 (0.82%)	Informatica
9	6 (0.82%)	Nokia
9	6 (0.82%)	Xerox
10	5 (0.68%)	BMC
10	5 (0.68%)	Fujitsu
10	5 (0.68%)	Guidewire
10	5 (0.68%)	Tripwire