Birmingham PRINCE2 Practitioner Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Practitioner in IT contracts within the Birmingham region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE2 Practitioner over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Location Amersham Avon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	64
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	4	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	4.819 %	2.970 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£230
Average daily rate	£324	£239
% change on same period last year	+35.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£249
UK excluding London average daily rate	£418	£401
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£55.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+57.14 %
Qualifications Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	83	101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.110 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	28	31
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£303
Average daily rate	£261	£322
% change on same period last year	-18.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.44	£26.26
Average hourly rate	£27.06	£28.13
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.31	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
PRINCE2 Practitioner West Midlands

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 Practitioner
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing PRINCE2 Practitioner 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 Practitioner.

1 16 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (62.50 %) MS Project 2 10 (62.50 %) Government 3 7 (43.75 %) Configuration Management 4 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 5 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Finance 6 1 (6.250 %) Northgate 6 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (6.250 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (6.250 %) Criminal Justice 6 1 (6.250 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing PRINCE2 Practitioner 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 Practitioner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 10 (62.50 %) MS Project 2 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel	General 1 10 (62.50 %) Government 2 2 (12.50 %) Finance 3 1 (6.250 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Project Manager 2 6 (37.50 %) Support Manager 2 6 (37.50 %) Project Support Manager 3 3 (18.75 %) Project Planner 4 2 (12.50 %) Coordinator 4 2 (12.50 %) Project Coordinator 4 2 (12.50 %) Project Office Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Project Support Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Programme Planner 5 1 (6.250 %) Project Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Programmer 5 1 (6.250 %) Support Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (43.75 %) Configuration Management 3 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (6.250 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (6.250 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Change Management
Vendors 1 1 (6.250 %) Northgate