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 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 578 508 791
Rank change year-on-year -70 +283 -215
Permanent jobs citing PMI 114 430 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.44% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 1.23% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 66 265 170
10th Percentile £41,875 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,688
90th Percentile £90,625 £92,000 £78,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -18.18%

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 18,030 35,099 45,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.65% 35.64% 43.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,845 23,059 23,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PMI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PMI in the UK

PMI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PMI.

Salary trend for PMI in the UK

PMI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PMI in the UK

PMI
Top 12 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 1 May 2025. 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 -97 86 £60,000 +0.75% 114
UK excluding London -18 61 £60,000 +4.35% 71
Work from Home +19 41 £65,000 +1.44% 65
South East +47 34 £49,055 +3.27% 27
London +28 34 £70,000 - 62
Scotland +132 9 £61,000 +31.89% 8
North of England -8 8 £70,000 +9.24% 14
South West +84 6 £62,500 +66.67% 7
Yorkshire +46 5 £80,000 +52.38% 7
East of England +54 3 £55,000 -29.03% 3
North West -17 3 £60,000 -10.45% 7
Wales +46 1 £42,500 -29.75% 2

PMI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (6.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (17.54%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (11.40%) MS Visio
4 12 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (6.14%) Maya
7 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (8.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (6.14%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.63%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.16%) Azure
2 9 (7.89%) AWS
2 9 (7.89%) GCP
3 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (5.26%) SaaS
4 5 (4.39%) Smartsheet
5 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.88%) Algolia
6 1 (0.88%) Amplience
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.88%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.88%) Bloomreach
6 1 (0.88%) Cloudinary
6 1 (0.88%) Commercetools
6 1 (0.88%) Contentful
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.88%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.89%) BGP
1 9 (7.89%) WAN
2 6 (5.26%) LAN
2 6 (5.26%) OSPF
3 3 (2.63%) MPLS
3 3 (2.63%) Network Security
3 3 (2.63%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) SAP BW
2 7 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.51%) Power BI
4 1 (0.88%) Big Data
4 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (14.91%) JIRA
General
1 71 (62.28%) Finance
2 68 (59.65%) Social Skills
3 52 (45.61%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (27.19%) Manufacturing
5 29 (25.44%) Telecoms
6 24 (21.05%) Law
7 22 (19.30%) Marketing
8 21 (18.42%) Electronics
9 19 (16.67%) Public Sector
10 7 (6.14%) Automotive
10 7 (6.14%) Banking
10 7 (6.14%) Games
11 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (3.51%) Retail
13 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.63%) Public Speaking
13 3 (2.63%) Publishing
14 1 (0.88%) Legal
14 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (24.56%) Senior
2 27 (23.68%) Project Manager
3 22 (19.30%) Product Manager
4 16 (14.04%) Senior Manager
5 13 (11.40%) Senior Project Manager
6 11 (9.65%) IT Manager
7 8 (7.02%) Architect
7 8 (7.02%) Network Engineer
7 8 (7.02%) SAP Architect
8 7 (6.14%) IT Architect
8 7 (6.14%) SAP Functional Architect
8 7 (6.14%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
9 6 (5.26%) Senior IT Manager
10 5 (4.39%) 1st Line Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Analyst
10 5 (4.39%) Senior IT Project Manager
11 4 (3.51%) Business Analyst
12 3 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 3 (2.63%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.02%) Middleware
2 3 (2.63%) XML
3 2 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (0.88%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.42%) Product Ownership
2 17 (14.91%) FMCG
3 7 (6.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.14%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.63%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.63%) New Media
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.88%) IoT
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
1 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
1 1 (0.88%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (68.42%) Project Management
2 62 (54.39%) Agile
3 58 (50.88%) PRINCE2
4 47 (41.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (36.84%) Project Delivery
6 36 (31.58%) Risk Management
6 36 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (26.32%) Business Strategy
9 28 (24.56%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (22.81%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (22.81%) Workshop Facilitation
11 24 (21.05%) Coaching
11 24 (21.05%) Scrum
12 23 (20.18%) DevOps
12 23 (20.18%) Performance Metrics
13 22 (19.30%) Budget Management
13 22 (19.30%) ITIL
13 22 (19.30%) Product Management
14 21 (18.42%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.39%) SQL
2 1 (0.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 114 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 30 (26.32%) Degree
3 19 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 19 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 17 (14.91%) PMP
5 9 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (6.14%) Master's Degree
7 6 (5.26%) CCNA
8 5 (4.39%) CBAP
8 5 (4.39%) MBA
9 4 (3.51%) CSPO
10 3 (2.63%) CCNP
10 3 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.75%) CISM
12 1 (0.88%) APMG
12 1 (0.88%) CFA
12 1 (0.88%) CIMA
12 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.88%) IIBA
12 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.39%) PMO
1 5 (4.39%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) P3O
3 2 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 31 (27.19%) SAP
2 20 (17.54%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.89%) Cisco
3 9 (7.89%) Fortinet
3 9 (7.89%) Juniper
4 7 (6.14%) Ariba
5 6 (5.26%) VMware
6 5 (4.39%) Planview
7 4 (3.51%) Google
8 3 (2.63%) Adobe
8 3 (2.63%) Pegasus
8 3 (2.63%) TikTok
9 1 (0.88%) Adyen
9 1 (0.88%) JDA
9 1 (0.88%) NEC
9 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.88%) RedPrairie
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) Splunk