Berkshire PRINCE2 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Street Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	20
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	122	263
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.172 %	0.266 %
As % of the category below	6.566 %	10.29 %
Daily rates quoted	50	131
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£338
Average daily rate	£405	£355
% change on same period last year	+14.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£386
% change on same period last year	-1.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£29.55
Average hourly rate	£34.25	£32.37
% change on same period last year	+5.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	£35.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.16	£30.59
% change on same period last year	-1.39 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1858	2555
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.616 %	2.582 %
Daily rates quoted	524	891
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£358
Average daily rate	£395	£380
% change on same period last year	+3.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	97	209
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.13	£30.64
Average hourly rate	£28.85	£32.39
% change on same period last year	-10.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.57	£34.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
PRINCE2 South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

PRINCE2
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Berkshire region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Berkshire region.

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+2	36	£437	+14.59 %
Newbury	-2	16	£380	-9.15 %
Slough	+1	7	£346	+26.63 %
Bracknell	-5	6	-	-
Windsor	-	4	-	-
Maidenhead	+6	2	£475	+10.46 %
Wokingham	-	1	£450	-

PRINCE2 South East

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing PRINCE2 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PRINCE2.

1 102 (38.64 %) Project Management 2 69 (26.14 %) Telecoms 3 64 (24.24 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 48 (18.18 %) Government 5 45 (17.05 %) MS Project 6 39 (14.77 %) Finance 7 32 (12.12 %) ITIL 7 32 (12.12 %) Microsoft 7 32 (12.12 %) PMI 8 30 (11.36 %) Migration 9 25 (9.470 %) MS Excel 10 23 (8.712 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 11 22 (8.333 %) Oracle 12 21 (7.955 %) PRINCE 13 17 (6.439 %) Change Management

13 17 (6.439 %) MS Office 13 17 (6.439 %) PMP 13 17 (6.439 %) PMI Certification 13 17 (6.439 %) Programme Management 14 16 (6.061 %) Stakeholder Management 14 16 (6.061 %) Project Planning 15 15 (5.682 %) Matrix Management 15 15 (5.682 %) Business Intelligence 15 15 (5.682 %) Security Cleared 16 13 (4.924 %) MS Visio 17 12 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse 18 11 (4.167 %) ERP 18 11 (4.167 %) ISEB 19 10 (3.788 %) SC Cleared 20 9 (3.409 %) QA

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing PRINCE2 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PRINCE2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (1.136 %) WebServices 1 3 (1.136 %) XML 1 3 (1.136 %) .NET 2 2 (0.758 %) J2EE 2 2 (0.758 %) Struts 2 2 (0.758 %) Hibernate 2 2 (0.758 %) Spring 3 1 (0.379 %) WSH 3 1 (0.379 %) Middleware 3 1 (0.379 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (1.515 %) CMS 2 3 (1.136 %) ArcGIS 3 2 (0.758 %) ArcIMS 3 2 (0.758 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (0.758 %) Office Project Server 4 1 (0.379 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.379 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.379 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (0.379 %) Oracle Spatial 4 1 (0.379 %) ESB
Applications 1 45 (17.05 %) MS Project 2 25 (9.470 %) MS Excel 3 17 (6.439 %) MS Office 4 13 (4.924 %) MS Visio 5 9 (3.409 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.379 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 7 (2.652 %) Oracle ERP 2 1 (0.379 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.379 %) SAP IS-U 2 1 (0.379 %) BusinessWorks 2 1 (0.379 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 8 (3.030 %) SDH 2 7 (2.652 %) MPLS 3 6 (2.273 %) Firewall 3 6 (2.273 %) SAN 3 6 (2.273 %) LAN 4 5 (1.894 %) ATM 4 5 (1.894 %) WAN 5 2 (0.758 %) Broadband 5 2 (0.758 %) ISDN 5 2 (0.758 %) DWDM 5 2 (0.758 %) DVB 5 2 (0.758 %) BSS 6 1 (0.379 %) Intrusion Detection 6 1 (0.379 %) RNC 6 1 (0.379 %) LLU 6 1 (0.379 %) Wireless 6 1 (0.379 %) TETRA 6 1 (0.379 %) Internet 6 1 (0.379 %) 3G 6 1 (0.379 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse 2 9 (3.409 %) GIS 3 6 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (2.273 %) SQL Server 4 5 (1.894 %) BusinessObjects 5 4 (1.515 %) ETL 5 4 (1.515 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 4 (1.515 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 4 (1.515 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 3 (1.136 %) RDBMS 7 2 (0.758 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (0.379 %) EDMS 8 1 (0.379 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.379 %) MS Access
General 1 69 (26.14 %) Telecoms 2 48 (18.18 %) Government 3 39 (14.77 %) Finance 4 5 (1.894 %) Insurance 4 5 (1.894 %) Banking 4 5 (1.894 %) Retail 5 4 (1.515 %) Electric 6 3 (1.136 %) Pensions 6 3 (1.136 %) Marketing 7 2 (0.758 %) FMCG 7 2 (0.758 %) Construction 7 2 (0.758 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (0.758 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (0.758 %) Health 8 1 (0.379 %) Law 8 1 (0.379 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (0.379 %) Military 8 1 (0.379 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 127 (48.11 %) Project Manager 2 36 (13.64 %) Analyst 3 22 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 3 22 (8.333 %) Programme Manager 4 18 (6.818 %) Coordinator 5 16 (6.061 %) Technical Manager 6 15 (5.682 %) Technical Project Manager 7 14 (5.303 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 13 (4.924 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 9 10 (3.788 %) Project Coordinator 9 10 (3.788 %) Business Manager 10 9 (3.409 %) Senior Manager 10 9 (3.409 %) BI Manager 11 8 (3.030 %) Architect 11 8 (3.030 %) Implementation Manager 11 8 (3.030 %) Senior Project Manager 12 7 (2.652 %) Business Project Manager 13 6 (2.273 %) Project Implementation Manager 13 6 (2.273 %) Technical Architect 13 6 (2.273 %) Change Manager
Miscellaneous 1 32 (12.12 %) PMI 2 3 (1.136 %) DTV 2 3 (1.136 %) Management Information System 3 2 (0.758 %) EPoS 3 2 (0.758 %) Economics 4 1 (0.379 %) Photography 4 1 (0.379 %) NHS 4 1 (0.379 %) AS400 4 1 (0.379 %) Replication 4 1 (0.379 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 7 (2.652 %) Windows 2 3 (1.136 %) UNIX 3 2 (0.758 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (0.758 %) Solaris 3 2 (0.758 %) Linux 4 1 (0.379 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.379 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 102 (38.64 %) Project Management 2 32 (12.12 %) ITIL 3 30 (11.36 %) Migration 4 21 (7.955 %) PRINCE 5 17 (6.439 %) Change Management 5 17 (6.439 %) Programme Management 6 16 (6.061 %) Stakeholder Management 6 16 (6.061 %) Project Planning 7 15 (5.682 %) Matrix Management 7 15 (5.682 %) Security Cleared 7 15 (5.682 %) Business Intelligence 8 11 (4.167 %) ERP 9 10 (3.788 %) SC Cleared 10 8 (3.030 %) Risk Management 11 7 (2.652 %) Agile Software Development 11 7 (2.652 %) Service Delivery 12 6 (2.273 %) Data Management 12 6 (2.273 %) Supplier Management 13 5 (1.894 %) Resource Management 13 5 (1.894 %) GAP Analysis	Programming Languages 1 7 (2.652 %) Java 2 5 (1.894 %) SQL 3 1 (0.379 %) VBScript 3 1 (0.379 %) VB 3 1 (0.379 %) PowerShell 3 1 (0.379 %) JavaScript 3 1 (0.379 %) C 3 1 (0.379 %) C#
Qualifications 1 64 (24.24 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 23 (8.712 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 17 (6.439 %) PMP 3 17 (6.439 %) PMI Certification 4 11 (4.167 %) ISEB 5 7 (2.652 %) Degree 6 5 (1.894 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (1.136 %) Cisco Certification 7 3 (1.136 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 3 (1.136 %) MAPM 8 2 (0.758 %) MCSE 8 2 (0.758 %) Microsoft Certification 9 1 (0.379 %) CIPD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (3.409 %) QA 2 2 (0.758 %) EFQM 3 1 (0.379 %) ISO27001 3 1 (0.379 %) HL7 3 1 (0.379 %) JSP 440 3 1 (0.379 %) Basel II
System Software 1 6 (2.273 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (0.758 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (0.379 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 1 (0.379 %) MIIS 2 1 (0.379 %) OVSD 2 1 (0.379 %) OpenView 2 1 (0.379 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 32 (12.12 %) Microsoft 2 22 (8.333 %) Oracle 3 7 (2.652 %) Cisco 4 6 (2.273 %) Siebel 5 5 (1.894 %) Business Objects 5 5 (1.894 %) Nortel 6 4 (1.515 %) SAP 7 3 (1.136 %) HP 8 2 (0.758 %) ESRI 8 2 (0.758 %) Ab Initio 8 2 (0.758 %) VMware 8 2 (0.758 %) Teradata 9 1 (0.379 %) Atos Origin 9 1 (0.379 %) Netezza 9 1 (0.379 %) Accenture 9 1 (0.379 %) IBM 9 1 (0.379 %) CA 9 1 (0.379 %) Informatica 9 1 (0.379 %) Nokia 9 1 (0.379 %) VERITAS