Project Management Institute (PMI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PMI over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 572 586
Rank change year-on-year -101 +14 +82
Permanent jobs citing PMI 114 110 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.54% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 72 58 158
10th Percentile £40,250 £33,950 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £60,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.44% +34.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £99,500 £93,875 £79,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,080
% change year-on-year - -6.37% +42.40%

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 27,422 20,557 27,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.12% 41.44% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 17,268 10,324 16,494
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,473 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% -5.00% -9.09%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PMI job vacancy trend in the UK

PMI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PMI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PMI

PMI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMI over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PMI in the UK

PMI
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMI within the UK over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -68 112 £60,000 -4.00% 92
UK excluding London -35 94 £60,000 - 40
Work from Home -16 46 £60,000 -7.69% 60
North of England -21 33 £52,000 -35.00% 6
Midlands -10 25 £60,000 +44.58% 10
South East -35 23 £81,250 +146.21% 20
North West +7 18 £52,500 +50.00%
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 7
London -57 15 £80,000 -4.76% 52
Yorkshire -14 12 £52,000 -35.00% 6
East Midlands -19 9 £55,000 +32.53% 3
East of England -23 7 £60,000 +7.14%
South West -64 4 - - 2
North East - 3 £44,447 -
Scotland +17 2 - - 3

PMI
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 12 (10.53%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) WordPress
3 1 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.75%) InDesign
4 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.75%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Primavera
2 4 (3.51%) Sage 200
2 4 (3.51%) SAP Business One
2 4 (3.51%) SAP EHS
3 3 (2.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.54%) Azure
2 13 (11.40%) AWS
3 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (7.89%) SaaS
4 4 (3.51%) Google Ads
4 4 (3.51%) Smartsheet
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.75%) Miro
6 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.75%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Wireless
2 4 (3.51%) VoIP
3 3 (2.63%) DHCP
3 3 (2.63%) DNS
4 2 (1.75%) Firewall
4 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) MySQL
2 2 (1.75%) Big Data
2 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.75%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.75%) Power BI
3 1 (0.88%) DTS
3 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.88%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 29 (25.44%) JIRA
2 3 (2.63%) Taiga
2 3 (2.63%) VersionOne
3 2 (1.75%) Git
General
1 40 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 31 (27.19%) Finance
3 16 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.53%) Aerospace
5 9 (7.89%) Legal
5 9 (7.89%) Manufacturing
5 9 (7.89%) Retail
6 7 (6.14%) Aviation
6 7 (6.14%) Marketing
7 5 (4.39%) Games
7 5 (4.39%) Military
8 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Billing
10 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.88%) Advertising
11 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (17.54%) Senior
2 18 (15.79%) Lead
2 18 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 14 (12.28%) Senior Manager
4 13 (11.40%) IT Manager
5 11 (9.65%) Software Manager
6 8 (7.02%) Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) Portfolio Manager
6 8 (7.02%) Programme Manager
7 7 (6.14%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.14%) IT Programme Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Business Development Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Business Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Development Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Software Engineering Manager
9 5 (4.39%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.39%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Software Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.75%) GraphQL
1 2 (1.75%) JSON
1 2 (1.75%) Laravel
1 2 (1.75%) XML
2 1 (0.88%) .NET
2 1 (0.88%) FHIR
2 1 (0.88%) React
2 1 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.14%) EPoS
4 7 (6.14%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.39%) Fat Client
6 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.39%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.39%) Thin Client
7 4 (3.51%) Blog
7 4 (3.51%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.75%) Life Science
9 2 (1.75%) NHS
9 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.88%) iSeries
10 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.02%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.86%) Agile
1 50 (43.86%) PRINCE2
2 43 (37.72%) Project Management
3 41 (35.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (32.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (23.68%) Roadmaps
7 26 (22.81%) Project Delivery
8 21 (18.42%) Mentoring
9 20 (17.54%) ERP
10 18 (15.79%) Coaching
10 18 (15.79%) ITIL
11 17 (14.91%) Scrum
12 16 (14.04%) Decision-Making
12 16 (14.04%) Portfolio Management
13 15 (13.16%) Risk Management
13 15 (13.16%) Service Management
14 14 (12.28%) Change Management
14 14 (12.28%) DevOps
14 14 (12.28%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.51%) SQL
2 2 (1.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 114 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 30 (26.32%) Degree
3 24 (21.05%) PMP
4 20 (17.54%) Security Cleared
5 11 (9.65%) DV Cleared
6 10 (8.77%) CAPM
7 8 (7.02%) APMP
7 8 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (7.02%) PgMP
7 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
8 6 (5.26%) CBAP
9 5 (4.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.63%) IIBA
11 2 (1.75%) MAPM
11 2 (1.75%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.88%) CEH
12 1 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.88%) CISM
12 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) PMO
1 10 (8.77%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) SLA
3 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.75%) GRC
4 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.88%) DO-254
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Argo
1 1 (0.88%) Grafana
1 1 (0.88%) Graylog
1 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (12.28%) SAP
2 8 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.39%) Oracle
5 4 (3.51%) HubSpot
5 4 (3.51%) Sage
6 3 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.63%) Databricks
6 3 (2.63%) Workday
7 2 (1.75%) Adobe
7 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.88%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.88%) Foundry
8 1 (0.88%) Palantir
8 1 (0.88%) VMware