Hybrid/Remote PMI Certification Contract Job Trends

PMI Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for PMI Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 201 229
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +101
Contract jobs citing PMI Certification 167 110 100
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.10% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.55% 3.69% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 65 64
10th Percentile £415 £318 £333
25th Percentile £461 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £575
90th Percentile £725 £822 £646
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £53.88 - -
25th Percentile £61.56 - -
Median hourly rate £81.75 £60.00 £87.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.25% -31.66% +134.13%
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% - +60.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,700 2,979 3,346
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.82% 29.83% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,155 1,962 2,215
10th Percentile £363 £335 £329
25th Percentile £440 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £526
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.19% -2.23%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £706 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 102 187
10th Percentile £24.38 £15.27 £18.10
25th Percentile £43.96 £27.34 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £46.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -18.93%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 £72.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

PMI Certification
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMI Certification and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PMI Certification job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PMI Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PMI Certification over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

PMI Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PMI Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PMI Certification

PMI Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PMI Certification over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

PMI Certification hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

PMI Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (3.59%) Confluence
2 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (11.38%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.80%) Primavera
2 2 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.60%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.60%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.60%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.17%) Azure
2 14 (8.38%) Smartsheet
3 10 (5.99%) AWS
3 10 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.79%) SaaS
5 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.59%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.80%) Asana
8 3 (1.80%) GCP
8 3 (1.80%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) GitHub
9 2 (1.20%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.20%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.60%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) Firewall
1 5 (2.99%) Network Security
2 3 (1.80%) 4G
2 3 (1.80%) 5G
2 3 (1.80%) VoLTE
2 3 (1.80%) WAN
3 2 (1.20%) LAN
3 2 (1.20%) VLAN
4 1 (0.60%) DNS
4 1 (0.60%) Internet
4 1 (0.60%) NAS
4 1 (0.60%) SAN
4 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.80%) Power BI
2 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.60%) Git
2 1 (0.60%) Introscope
General
1 82 (49.10%) Social Skills
2 69 (41.32%) Finance
3 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.58%) Banking
4 11 (6.59%) Legal
4 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.79%) Marketing
5 8 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.19%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Electronics
10 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.80%) German Language
11 2 (1.20%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (55.69%) Project Manager
2 27 (16.17%) Senior
3 23 (13.77%) Senior Manager
4 18 (10.78%) Senior Project Manager
5 13 (7.78%) Delivery Manager
5 13 (7.78%) Lead
6 12 (7.19%) Bid Manager
6 12 (7.19%) Infrastructure Manager
6 12 (7.19%) Security Manager
6 12 (7.19%) Security Project Manager
7 11 (6.59%) Programme Manager
8 10 (5.99%) Analyst
8 10 (5.99%) IT Manager
9 9 (5.39%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.79%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 7 (4.19%) B2B Sales Manager
11 7 (4.19%) Change Manager
11 7 (4.19%) Programme Director
11 7 (4.19%) Sales Manager
12 6 (3.59%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.20%) ADO
1 2 (1.20%) FHIR
1 2 (1.20%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.60%) LDAP
2 1 (0.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (24.55%) PMI
2 11 (6.59%) Virtual Team
3 10 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.99%) Operational Technology
4 9 (5.39%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.19%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.40%) Life Science
8 2 (1.20%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Linux
1 2 (1.20%) Unix
1 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) AIX
2 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (67.07%) PRINCE2
2 105 (62.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (61.08%) Project Management
4 93 (55.69%) Agile
5 60 (35.93%) Change Management
6 55 (32.93%) Project Delivery
7 54 (32.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 35 (20.96%) Migration
8 35 (20.96%) Waterfall
9 33 (19.76%) Budget Management
10 31 (18.56%) Decision-Making
11 30 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (17.37%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (16.77%) Risk Management
14 25 (14.97%) ITIL
15 24 (14.37%) Matrix Organization
16 21 (12.57%) Programme Management
16 21 (12.57%) Service Management
17 20 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
18 19 (11.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.20%) SQL
2 1 (0.60%) Java
2 1 (0.60%) Jython
2 1 (0.60%) Korn
2 1 (0.60%) Python
2 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 137 (82.04%) PMP
2 38 (22.75%) Degree
3 31 (18.56%) Security Cleared
4 25 (14.97%) SC Cleared
5 21 (12.57%) CISM
5 21 (12.57%) CISSP
6 9 (5.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 8 (4.79%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.59%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 5 (2.99%) CBAP
9 5 (2.99%) CTC Cleared
9 5 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.80%) APMP
11 3 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.80%) MAPM
11 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.20%) MBA
12 2 (1.20%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.37%) PMO
2 19 (11.38%) NIST
3 16 (9.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (7.19%) GDPR
5 10 (5.99%) SOC 2
6 8 (4.79%) QA
7 6 (3.59%) P3O
8 4 (2.40%) EU AI Act
8 4 (2.40%) GxP
8 4 (2.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.20%) GMP
9 2 (1.20%) HL7
9 2 (1.20%) ITGC
9 2 (1.20%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.60%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.60%) GRC
10 1 (0.60%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.60%) PSD2
10 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.60%) CA Wily
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.98%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.99%) Google
3 5 (2.99%) Planview
3 5 (2.99%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.99%) SAP
4 4 (2.40%) CyberArk
4 4 (2.40%) Oracle
5 3 (1.80%) Cisco
6 2 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (1.20%) Okta
6 2 (1.20%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.60%) Aruba
7 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.60%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) Intapp
7 1 (0.60%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.60%) Varonis
7 1 (0.60%) Zscaler