PMI Certification Contract Job Trends

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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 246 299
Rank change year-on-year -35 +53 +127
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 431 319 303
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.08% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.74% 3.49% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 215 184
10th Percentile £390 £363 £390
25th Percentile £423 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £642 £673 £613
90th Percentile £750 £788 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 24
10th Percentile £52.50 £60.00 £23.29
25th Percentile £60.63 £62.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +178.85% -30.67%
75th Percentile £85.13 £84.04 £60.00
90th Percentile £92.20 £87.05 £86.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.00 £67.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.96% +159.62% -30.67%

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 15,704 9,152 13,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.35% 30.94% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,433 5,676 8,102
10th Percentile £350 £275 £309
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £614 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 578 1,115
10th Percentile £17.09 £17.74 £13.99
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.00 £18.35
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £28.90 £41.50
% change year-on-year +64.50% -30.36% -20.95%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PMI Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI Certification over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMI Certification over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PMI Certification in the UK

PMI Certification
Top 16 Contract Job 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 14 June 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
England -27 391 £534 -2.98% 144
London -49 206 £550 -8.33% 67
UK excluding London -28 190 £525 +5.00% 90
Work from Home -16 143 £550 - 75
South East -22 73 £550 +10.00% 22
North of England -48 39 £468 -14.91% 24
Midlands -38 29 £484 +18.63% 16
Yorkshire -39 21 £468 -14.91% 12
West Midlands -41 20 £554 +30.44% 6
South West -15 19 £472 +11.06% 12
North West -32 18 £483 -12.27% 11
Scotland -15 16 £525 +12.90% 6
East of England -19 16 £600 +20.72% 7
East Midlands -16 10 £340 -13.04% 10
Northern Ireland 0 2 £775 +31.91% 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

PMI Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 49 (11.37%) Confluence
2 19 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.16%) IIS
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 67 (15.55%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (3.02%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.62%) Trello
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.62%) Primavera
3 6 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.70%) DELMIA
4 3 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.46%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.46%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (17.87%) Azure
2 41 (9.51%) AWS
3 24 (5.57%) SaaS
4 21 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (4.87%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (4.18%) Smartsheet
7 11 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.62%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.39%) Asana
9 6 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.16%) GCP
10 5 (1.16%) IaaS
10 5 (1.16%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.16%) PaaS
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.70%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.70%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.71%) WAN
2 14 (3.25%) Firewall
2 14 (3.25%) LAN
3 7 (1.62%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.39%) Network Security
5 5 (1.16%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (0.93%) VLAN
6 4 (0.93%) Wireless
7 3 (0.70%) DNS
7 3 (0.70%) Internet
8 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.46%) NAS
8 2 (0.46%) SAN
9 1 (0.23%) 4G
9 1 (0.23%) 5G
9 1 (0.23%) TETRA
9 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.23%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.64%) Power BI
2 3 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (0.70%) Tableau
3 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (0.46%) Metadata
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.23%) EDMS
4 1 (0.23%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 71 (16.47%) JIRA
2 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.46%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Introscope
General
1 205 (47.56%) Social Skills
2 195 (45.24%) Finance
3 62 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (9.98%) Banking
5 28 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (5.57%) Legal
8 22 (5.10%) Marketing
9 21 (4.87%) Manufacturing
10 19 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.32%) Retail
12 10 (2.32%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.09%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.86%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.62%) German Language
16 6 (1.39%) Law
17 5 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 223 (51.74%) Project Manager
2 50 (11.60%) Senior
3 40 (9.28%) Analyst
4 35 (8.12%) Lead
5 34 (7.89%) Senior Manager
6 29 (6.73%) Senior Project Manager
7 28 (6.50%) Infrastructure Manager
8 27 (6.26%) Business Analyst
9 25 (5.80%) Technical Manager
10 23 (5.34%) Delivery Manager
10 23 (5.34%) IT Manager
10 23 (5.34%) Programme Manager
11 20 (4.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 20 (4.64%) Technical Project Manager
12 18 (4.18%) IT Project Manager
13 17 (3.94%) Migration Manager
13 17 (3.94%) Security Manager
14 16 (3.71%) Migration Project Manager
15 15 (3.48%) SAP Manager
15 15 (3.48%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.86%) ADO
1 8 (1.86%) REST
2 7 (1.62%) Middleware
2 7 (1.62%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.70%) CSS
4 3 (0.70%) FHIR
5 2 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.46%) SOAP
5 2 (0.46%) XML
5 2 (0.46%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.23%) EDI
6 1 (0.23%) Kafka
6 1 (0.23%) LDAP
6 1 (0.23%) OAuth
6 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.23%) Spring
6 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 125 (29.00%) PMI
2 23 (5.34%) Data Centre
3 22 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.25%) Operational Technology
5 14 (3.25%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.39%) CMDB
9 5 (1.16%) Life Science
10 4 (0.93%) CCTV
10 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.93%) FMCG
10 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.70%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.70%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.94%) Windows
2 7 (1.62%) Linux
3 3 (0.70%) AIX
4 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.46%) Solaris
4 2 (0.46%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (62.18%) PRINCE2
2 246 (57.08%) Project Management
3 237 (54.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 217 (50.35%) Agile
5 124 (28.77%) Project Delivery
6 117 (27.15%) Change Management
7 102 (23.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 90 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (18.56%) Decision-Making
10 76 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (17.17%) Migration
12 73 (16.94%) Risk Management
12 73 (16.94%) Waterfall
13 68 (15.78%) ITIL
14 66 (15.31%) Scrum
15 57 (13.23%) Budget Management
16 52 (12.06%) Programme Management
17 49 (11.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 47 (10.90%) Project Governance
19 44 (10.21%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.55%) SQL
2 4 (0.93%) ABAP
3 2 (0.46%) Java
3 2 (0.46%) VB
4 1 (0.23%) Bicep
4 1 (0.23%) Jython
4 1 (0.23%) Korn
4 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.23%) Python
4 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 338 (78.42%) PMP
2 145 (33.64%) Degree
3 79 (18.33%) Security Cleared
4 56 (12.99%) SC Cleared
5 31 (7.19%) CISSP
6 28 (6.50%) CISM
7 27 (6.26%) Master's Degree
8 22 (5.10%) CBAP
9 17 (3.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 12 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 12 (2.78%) DV Cleared
11 10 (2.32%) APMP
11 10 (2.32%) AWS Certification
11 10 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.09%) MBA
13 8 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.86%) CRISC
14 7 (1.62%) CAPM
14 7 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (1.62%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.85%) PMO
2 41 (9.51%) GDPR
3 40 (9.28%) NIST
3 40 (9.28%) QA
4 39 (9.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (4.18%) GRC
6 15 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (2.78%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.86%) Basel III
8 8 (1.86%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.86%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.62%) SLA
10 5 (1.16%) GxP
10 5 (1.16%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.16%) P3O
11 4 (0.93%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.70%) GAAP
12 3 (0.70%) HL7
12 3 (0.70%) IFRS
13 2 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) Docker
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.70%) Terraform
3 2 (0.46%) Control-M
3 2 (0.46%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.23%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
4 1 (0.23%) Istio
4 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.23%) linkerd
4 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.23%) Puppet
4 1 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.74%) SAP
3 34 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.64%) Oracle
5 14 (3.25%) CyberArk
6 11 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.09%) Workday
8 8 (1.86%) Cisco
9 6 (1.39%) VMware
10 5 (1.16%) Ariba
11 4 (0.93%) Aruba
11 4 (0.93%) Juniper
11 4 (0.93%) Okta
11 4 (0.93%) Planview
11 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.93%) Splunk
12 3 (0.70%) Databricks
13 2 (0.46%) Google
13 2 (0.46%) Informatica
13 2 (0.46%) Sitecore