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 May 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 May 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	263	277	285
Rank change year-on-year	+14	+8
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification	411	462	426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.90%	0.86%	0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category	4.64%	3.99%	4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	277	314	275
Median daily rate	£475	£425	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.76%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£410
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	-2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	3	1
Median hourly rate	£47.00	£45.00	£36.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+4.44%	+23.28%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£48.50	£45.00	£36.50
% change year-on-year	+7.77%	+23.28%

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	8866	11586	10547
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.44%	21.57%	19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted	5387	7192	6022
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£265	£250	£240
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£530
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£380	£375
% change year-on-year	+7.89%	+1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	483	414	540
Median hourly rate	£31.50	£32.50	£23.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-3.07%	+36.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£31.50	£35.00	£24.12
% change year-on-year	-10.00%	+45.10%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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	+19	385	£475	+8.44%	49
London	+25	192	£518	+2.22%	15
South East	+39	90	£456	+7.35%	14
Berkshire	+43	46	£475	-2.56%	5
City of London	-1	41	£500	-9.09%	5
South West	+41	40	£468	+17.00%
Wiltshire	+23	27	£461	+15.12%
West Midlands	+16	15	£438	+23.67%	5
Surrey	+10	14	£463	-7.50%	3
East Midlands	-13	14	£373	-6.87%	2
Scotland	+15	13	£400	+25.00%
Corsham	+10	13	£560	+40.00%
West Sussex	+36	12	£444	+1.42%
North East	+28	12	£350	+12.90%	1
Hampshire	+16	11	£450	+45.16%	1
Reading	+19	10	£425	-15.00%	1
Tyne and Wear	+30	8	£355	+14.51%
Newcastle upon Tyne	+28	8	£355	+14.51%
Coventry	+17	8	£419	+2.13%
Crawley	+12	8	£425	-2.85%
Glasgow	+3	8	£413	+13.79%
Maidenhead	0	8	-	-	1
Derby	-11	8	£375	-12.79%
Derbyshire	-12	8	£375	-25.00%
Swindon	-	8	£425	-
North West	-4	7	£460	+8.23%	4
East of England	-35	7	£425	-	5
Docklands, London	-	7	£613	-
Yorkshire	+18	6	£409	-11.56%	3
South Wales	-	6	£350	-

PMI Certification
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 May 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	515 (71.53%)	Project Management
2	503 (69.86%)	PRINCE2
3	448 (62.22%)	PMP
4	403 (55.97%)	PMI
5	286 (39.72%)	Finance
6	237 (32.92%)	Agile Software Development
7	185 (25.69%)	Stakeholder Management
8	153 (21.25%)	Degree
9	131 (18.19%)	Programme Management
10	118 (16.39%)	ITIL
11	113 (15.69%)	Microsoft
12	112 (15.56%)	Microsoft Project
12	112 (15.56%)	Risk Management
13	109 (15.14%)	PMO
14	89 (12.36%)	Change Management

15	86 (11.94%)	Scrum
16	85 (11.81%)	Banking
17	83 (11.53%)	Migration
18	81 (11.25%)	Analytical Skills
19	76 (10.56%)	Telecoms
20	75 (10.42%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
21	72 (10.00%)	PRINCE
22	70 (9.72%)	Security Cleared
23	67 (9.31%)	CRM
24	65 (9.03%)	Project Planning
25	62 (8.61%)	Matrix Organization
25	62 (8.61%)	Data Centre
26	61 (8.47%)	Waterfall
27	59 (8.19%)	SDLC
28	57 (7.92%)	SAP

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	26 (3.61%)	SharePoint
2	16 (2.22%)	Confluence
3	12 (1.67%)	MS Project Server
4	10 (1.39%)	JBoss
5	7 (0.97%)	CMS
5	7 (0.97%)	IIS
6	6 (0.83%)	BizTalk Server
6	6 (0.83%)	Skype for Business
7	5 (0.69%)	WebLogic
7	5 (0.69%)	WebSphere
8	4 (0.56%)	Apache
8	4 (0.56%)	Documentum
9	2 (0.28%)	MS Exchange
9	2 (0.28%)	Oracle Workflow
9	2 (0.28%)	SharePoint 2013
10	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Service Bus
10	1 (0.14%)	SAS
10	1 (0.14%)	SharePoint 2010
10	1 (0.14%)	Sitecore CMS
10	1 (0.14%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	112 (15.56%)	Microsoft Project
2	50 (6.94%)	Microsoft Excel
2	50 (6.94%)	Microsoft Office
3	39 (5.42%)	MS Visio
4	25 (3.47%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	11 (1.53%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	22 (3.06%)	Dynamics CRM
2	9 (1.25%)	Dynamics AX
2	9 (1.25%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	8 (1.11%)	SAP ERP
4	5 (0.69%)	Unit4 Business World
5	3 (0.42%)	Maximo
5	3 (0.42%)	Salesforce.com CRM
6	2 (0.28%)	Actimize
6	2 (0.28%)	CA PPM
6	2 (0.28%)	NetSuite
6	2 (0.28%)	Oracle BPM
6	2 (0.28%)	Oracle ERP
7	1 (0.14%)	HFM
7	1 (0.14%)	JDE EnterpriseOne
7	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Applications
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP CRM
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP Payroll
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP PM
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP Travel Management
7	1 (0.14%)	Temenos T24

Cloud Services
1	30 (4.17%)	Office 365
2	22 (3.06%)	Microsoft Azure
3	20 (2.78%)	Amazon AWS
4	8 (1.11%)	Dynamics 365
5	6 (0.83%)	IaaS
5	6 (0.83%)	SaaS
6	4 (0.56%)	Force.com
7	3 (0.42%)	Yammer
8	2 (0.28%)	Cloud Computing
8	2 (0.28%)	GitHub
8	2 (0.28%)	IBM Cloud
8	2 (0.28%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
8	2 (0.28%)	SoftLayer
9	1 (0.14%)	Basecamp
9	1 (0.14%)	PaaS
9	1 (0.14%)	SuccessFactors
9	1 (0.14%)	Trello
9	1 (0.14%)	Veeva

Communications & Networking
1	23 (3.19%)	LAN
2	18 (2.50%)	WAN
3	12 (1.67%)	VoIP
4	11 (1.53%)	Firewall
5	8 (1.11%)	Internet
6	5 (0.69%)	Skype
7	4 (0.56%)	Telepresence
7	4 (0.56%)	Wireless
8	3 (0.42%)	3G
8	3 (0.42%)	4G
8	3 (0.42%)	HTTP
8	3 (0.42%)	Wi-Fi
8	3 (0.42%)	WLAN
9	2 (0.28%)	Cisco Nexus
9	2 (0.28%)	CTI
9	2 (0.28%)	DSL
9	2 (0.28%)	Ethernet
9	2 (0.28%)	LTE
9	2 (0.28%)	PSTN
9	2 (0.28%)	Unified Communications

Database & Business Intelligence
1	17 (2.36%)	BusinessObjects
1	17 (2.36%)	SQL Server
2	15 (2.08%)	Data Warehouse
3	8 (1.11%)	Big Data
4	7 (0.97%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	3 (0.42%)	NoSQL
5	3 (0.42%)	QlikView
5	3 (0.42%)	RDBMS
5	3 (0.42%)	Relational Database
5	3 (0.42%)	SAP BW
6	2 (0.28%)	Data Mining
6	2 (0.28%)	DB2
6	2 (0.28%)	MS Access
6	2 (0.28%)	Oracle Reports
6	2 (0.28%)	Pentaho
7	1 (0.14%)	Oracle BI EE
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP HANA

Development Applications
1	28 (3.89%)	JIRA
2	9 (1.25%)	Bitbucket
3	4 (0.56%)	Git (software)
4	3 (0.42%)	Oracle APEX
4	3 (0.42%)	Team Foundation Server
5	2 (0.28%)	ClearCase
5	2 (0.28%)	Gradle
5	2 (0.28%)	Subversion
5	2 (0.28%)	Visual Studio
6	1 (0.14%)	Eclipse
6	1 (0.14%)	JIRA Agile
6	1 (0.14%)	Rational Rose
6	1 (0.14%)	VersionOne

General
1	286 (39.72%)	Finance
2	85 (11.81%)	Banking
3	76 (10.56%)	Telecoms
4	46 (6.39%)	Retail
5	41 (5.69%)	Legal
6	29 (4.03%)	Investment Banking
6	29 (4.03%)	Marketing
7	28 (3.89%)	Manufacturing
8	26 (3.61%)	Front Office
9	18 (2.50%)	Law
10	16 (2.22%)	Automotive
11	13 (1.81%)	Billing
12	11 (1.53%)	Corporate Banking
13	9 (1.25%)	Back Office
13	9 (1.25%)	Electronics
14	8 (1.11%)	French Language
15	7 (0.97%)	Advertising
15	7 (0.97%)	Publishing
16	5 (0.69%)	Financial Institution
16	5 (0.69%)	German Language

Job Titles
1	439 (60.97%)	Project Manager
2	61 (8.47%)	IT Manager
3	54 (7.50%)	Programme Manager
4	50 (6.94%)	IT Project Manager
5	46 (6.39%)	Analyst
6	45 (6.25%)	Senior Manager
7	43 (5.97%)	Infrastructure Manager
8	41 (5.69%)	Senior Project Manager
9	36 (5.00%)	Business Analyst
10	33 (4.58%)	Infrastructure Project Manager
11	27 (3.75%)	PRINCE2 Project Manager
12	26 (3.61%)	CRM Manager
12	26 (3.61%)	Technical Manager
13	21 (2.92%)	Technical Project Manager
14	20 (2.78%)	Agile Project Manager
15	18 (2.50%)	CRM Project Manager
16	17 (2.36%)	Applications Manager
16	17 (2.36%)	Consultant
16	17 (2.36%)	Security Manager
17	16 (2.22%)	Delivery Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	20 (2.78%)	XML
2	9 (1.25%)	Velocity
2	9 (1.25%)	Web Services
3	8 (1.11%)	HTML
4	7 (0.97%)	AngularJS
5	6 (0.83%)	.NET
5	6 (0.83%)	ASP.NET
5	6 (0.83%)	jQuery
6	5 (0.69%)	FIX Protocol
6	5 (0.69%)	J2EE
7	4 (0.56%)	CSS
7	4 (0.56%)	Visualforce
7	4 (0.56%)	XSL
8	3 (0.42%)	FpML
8	3 (0.42%)	GWT
8	3 (0.42%)	HTML5
8	3 (0.42%)	REST
8	3 (0.42%)	SOAP
8	3 (0.42%)	XML Schema
8	3 (0.42%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	403 (55.97%)	PMI
2	81 (11.25%)	Analytical Skills
3	62 (8.61%)	Data Centre
4	42 (5.83%)	Management Information System
5	27 (3.75%)	Computer Science
6	25 (3.47%)	Virtual Team
7	23 (3.19%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
8	14 (1.94%)	Derivative
9	13 (1.81%)	Equities
9	13 (1.81%)	Mobile App
10	10 (1.39%)	User Experience
11	9 (1.25%)	CCTV
12	7 (0.97%)	Fixed Income
12	7 (0.97%)	IVR
13	6 (0.83%)	Enterprise Software
14	5 (0.69%)	Client/Server
14	5 (0.69%)	EPoS
14	5 (0.69%)	Exotic Derivative
14	5 (0.69%)	NHS
14	5 (0.69%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	30 (4.17%)	Windows
2	13 (1.81%)	Windows 10
3	12 (1.67%)	Linux
4	9 (1.25%)	Unix
5	3 (0.42%)	Android
5	3 (0.42%)	Windows Server
6	2 (0.28%)	AIX
6	2 (0.28%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	2 (0.28%)	Solaris
6	2 (0.28%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6	2 (0.28%)	VMS
6	2 (0.28%)	Windows 7
6	2 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2008
6	2 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2012
7	1 (0.14%)	Apple iOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	515 (71.53%)	Project Management
2	503 (69.86%)	PRINCE2
3	237 (32.92%)	Agile Software Development
4	185 (25.69%)	Stakeholder Management
5	131 (18.19%)	Programme Management
6	118 (16.39%)	ITIL
7	112 (15.56%)	Risk Management
8	89 (12.36%)	Change Management
9	86 (11.94%)	Scrum
10	83 (11.53%)	Migration
11	72 (10.00%)	PRINCE
12	67 (9.31%)	CRM
13	65 (9.03%)	Project Planning
14	62 (8.61%)	Matrix Organization
15	61 (8.47%)	Waterfall
16	59 (8.19%)	SDLC
17	53 (7.36%)	Business Analysis
18	37 (5.14%)	Six Sigma
19	36 (5.00%)	Change Control
20	35 (4.86%)	ERP

Programming Languages
1	25 (3.47%)	SQL
2	14 (1.94%)	Java
3	13 (1.81%)	JavaScript
4	6 (0.83%)	C
4	6 (0.83%)	C#
5	5 (0.69%)	VBA
6	4 (0.56%)	Apex Code
6	4 (0.56%)	VB
7	3 (0.42%)	ABAP
7	3 (0.42%)	C++
7	3 (0.42%)	T-SQL
8	2 (0.28%)	Groovy
8	2 (0.28%)	Perl
8	2 (0.28%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	448 (62.22%)	PMP
2	153 (21.25%)	Degree
3	75 (10.42%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
4	70 (9.72%)	Security Cleared
5	57 (7.92%)	PRINCE2 Certification
6	55 (7.64%)	SC Cleared
7	25 (3.47%)	APMP
8	24 (3.33%)	ISEB
9	23 (3.19%)	PgMP
10	18 (2.50%)	DV Cleared
11	16 (2.22%)	ITIL Certification
12	11 (1.53%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
13	10 (1.39%)	CAPM
13	10 (1.39%)	Chartered Engineer
13	10 (1.39%)	CISSP
13	10 (1.39%)	CITP
13	10 (1.39%)	MBCS
13	10 (1.39%)	Microsoft Certification
14	9 (1.25%)	Master's Degree
15	8 (1.11%)	IIBA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	109 (15.14%)	PMO
2	46 (6.39%)	QA
3	23 (3.19%)	MiFID
4	14 (1.94%)	ISO 9000
5	11 (1.53%)	P3O
6	10 (1.39%)	PMBOK
7	9 (1.25%)	EMIR
8	8 (1.11%)	SLA
9	7 (0.97%)	COBIT
9	7 (0.97%)	Data Quality
9	7 (0.97%)	GDPR
10	4 (0.56%)	Dodd-Frank
10	4 (0.56%)	ISO/IEC 20000
10	4 (0.56%)	PCI DSS
11	3 (0.42%)	ISO/IEC 27001
11	3 (0.42%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
11	3 (0.42%)	SEPA
11	3 (0.42%)	Solvency II
12	2 (0.28%)	CRD IV
12	2 (0.28%)	ISO27002

System Software
1	10 (1.39%)	Active Directory
2	9 (1.25%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	2 (0.28%)	Docker
3	2 (0.28%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
3	2 (0.28%)	Virtual Machines
3	2 (0.28%)	Virtual Servers
4	1 (0.14%)	Hyper-V
4	1 (0.14%)	XenApp
4	1 (0.14%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	15 (2.08%)	MOM
2	7 (0.97%)	Ansible
2	7 (0.97%)	Puppet
3	6 (0.83%)	SCCM
4	3 (0.42%)	Microsoft Intune
5	2 (0.28%)	BladeLogic
5	2 (0.28%)	Cisco CUCM
5	2 (0.28%)	RSA Archer
5	2 (0.28%)	vCenter Server
6	1 (0.14%)	TrustSec

Vendors
1	113 (15.69%)	Microsoft
2	57 (7.92%)	SAP
3	32 (4.44%)	Oracle
4	28 (3.89%)	Salesforce.com
5	27 (3.75%)	Cisco
6	14 (1.94%)	IBM
7	12 (1.67%)	HP
8	11 (1.53%)	Atlassian
8	11 (1.53%)	VMware
9	8 (1.11%)	Informatica
9	8 (1.11%)	Tableau
10	7 (0.97%)	CA Agile Central
10	7 (0.97%)	Nokia
10	7 (0.97%)	OpenText
11	6 (0.83%)	Avaya
11	6 (0.83%)	CheckPoint
11	6 (0.83%)	Citrix
12	5 (0.69%)	Fujitsu
12	5 (0.69%)	Guidewire
13	4 (0.56%)	Cadence