PMI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Project Management Institute (PMI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 323 434
Rank change year-on-year +53 +111 +86
Contract jobs citing PMI 34 22 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 0.50% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 18
10th Percentile £367 £498 £389
25th Percentile £448 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% +11.63% +7.66%
75th Percentile £600 £925 £650
90th Percentile £683 - £713
UK median daily rate £507 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -7.82% -6.38% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year - +18.81% +146.34%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

PMI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

PMI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PMI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PMI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PMI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PMI.

PMI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PMI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PMI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

PMI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PMI
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PMI.

PMI hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PMI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) Asana
1 2 (5.88%) AWS
1 2 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.94%) IaaS
2 1 (2.94%) Miro
2 1 (2.94%) PaaS
2 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.94%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (41.18%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Back Office
5 3 (8.82%) Automotive
5 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Military
6 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 2 (5.88%) Spanish Language
7 1 (2.94%) Billing
7 1 (2.94%) Electronics
7 1 (2.94%) Publishing
7 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Lead
3 3 (8.82%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Environment And Release Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Environment Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) PMO Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Security Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
1 3 (8.82%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Life Science
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) PRINCE2
1 21 (61.76%) Project Management
2 20 (58.82%) Agile
3 16 (47.06%) Project Delivery
4 15 (44.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) Change Management
8 7 (20.59%) Programme Management
8 7 (20.59%) Project Governance
8 7 (20.59%) Resource Allocation
9 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
9 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
10 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
10 5 (14.71%) PRINCE
10 5 (14.71%) Programme Governance
10 5 (14.71%) Scrum
10 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
11 4 (11.76%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) SQL
1 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 21 (61.76%) Degree
3 13 (38.24%) PMP
4 5 (14.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) APMG
6 1 (2.94%) APMP
6 1 (2.94%) CFA
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) CSPO
6 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (38.24%) PMO
2 2 (5.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 2 (5.88%) PMBOK
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Ariba
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Aruba
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) F5
3 2 (5.88%) Imperva
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) eFront
4 1 (2.94%) HP