Birmingham PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Birmingham 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Aylesford Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Darwen Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	15
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	40	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	9.877 %	12.53 %
Daily rates quoted	15	16
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£356
Average daily rate	£350	£380
% change on same period last year	-7.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£384
% change on same period last year	+1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.65
Average hourly rate	-	£40.40
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£42.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£35.93
% change on same period last year	-19.50 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	405	415
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.466 %
Daily rates quoted	115	82
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£349
Average daily rate	£369	£370
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.41	£23.91
Average hourly rate	£21.02	£25.13
% change on same period last year	-16.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.63	£26.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
PRINCE2 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 across the Birmingham 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 contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 across the Birmingham region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing PRINCE2 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PRINCE2.

1 36 (35.64 %) MS Project 2 26 (25.74 %) Project Management 3 24 (23.76 %) Government 4 19 (18.81 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 15 (14.85 %) Finance 5 15 (14.85 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 14 (13.86 %) CA Clarity 6 14 (13.86 %) MS Excel 7 12 (11.88 %) MS Office 8 11 (10.89 %) Stakeholder Management 9 9 (8.911 %) ITIL 10 8 (7.921 %) Configuration Management 11 6 (5.941 %) PRINCE 11 6 (5.941 %) Management Information System 11 6 (5.941 %) ISEB

11 6 (5.941 %) Programme Management 11 6 (5.941 %) Thunderhead 11 6 (5.941 %) Project Planning 11 6 (5.941 %) DOC1 11 6 (5.941 %) MS PowerPoint 12 5 (4.950 %) Microsoft 13 4 (3.960 %) NHS 13 4 (3.960 %) Change Management 13 4 (3.960 %) Windows 13 4 (3.960 %) WebServices 13 4 (3.960 %) Resource Management 13 4 (3.960 %) Pensions 14 3 (2.970 %) Criminal Justice 14 3 (2.970 %) Business Objects 14 3 (2.970 %) BusinessObjects

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing PRINCE2 also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PRINCE2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (3.960 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.941 %) DOC1 2 3 (2.970 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (1.980 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.990 %) SAS 4 1 (0.990 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 36 (35.64 %) MS Project 2 14 (13.86 %) MS Excel 2 14 (13.86 %) CA Clarity 3 12 (11.88 %) MS Office 4 6 (5.941 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.990 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (0.990 %) Great Plains 1 1 (0.990 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.980 %) LAN 1 2 (1.980 %) WAN 1 2 (1.980 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (2.970 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (1.980 %) MS Access 2 2 (1.980 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (0.990 %) GIS 3 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server
General 1 24 (23.76 %) Government 2 15 (14.85 %) Finance 3 4 (3.960 %) Pensions 4 3 (2.970 %) Criminal Justice 5 2 (1.980 %) Legal 5 2 (1.980 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.990 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (0.990 %) Police 6 1 (0.990 %) Home Office 6 1 (0.990 %) Banking 6 1 (0.990 %) Retail 6 1 (0.990 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.990 %) Health	Job Titles 1 54 (53.47 %) Project Manager 2 13 (12.87 %) Analyst 3 9 (8.911 %) Administrator 4 8 (7.921 %) Project Office Manager 4 8 (7.921 %) Support Manager 5 7 (6.931 %) Coordinator 6 6 (5.941 %) Project Coordinator 6 6 (5.941 %) Project Administrator 7 5 (4.950 %) Junior 7 5 (4.950 %) Business Analyst 7 5 (4.950 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 8 4 (3.960 %) Project Planner 8 4 (3.960 %) Programme Manager 8 4 (3.960 %) Junior Project Manager 9 3 (2.970 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 9 3 (2.970 %) E-Commerce Manager 10 2 (1.980 %) Project Office Administrator 10 2 (1.980 %) PMO Administrator 10 2 (1.980 %) Support Analyst 10 2 (1.980 %) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.941 %) Management Information System 2 4 (3.960 %) NHS 3 2 (1.980 %) PMI 4 1 (0.990 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 4 (3.960 %) Windows 2 3 (2.970 %) Windows XP 3 1 (0.990 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (25.74 %) Project Management 2 11 (10.89 %) Stakeholder Management 3 9 (8.911 %) ITIL 4 8 (7.921 %) Configuration Management 5 6 (5.941 %) Project Planning 5 6 (5.941 %) PRINCE 5 6 (5.941 %) Programme Management 6 4 (3.960 %) Change Management 6 4 (3.960 %) Resource Management 7 3 (2.970 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (2.970 %) Risk Management 8 2 (1.980 %) ERP 8 2 (1.980 %) BPR 8 2 (1.980 %) Matrix Management 8 2 (1.980 %) Data Protection 8 2 (1.980 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (1.980 %) Supplier Management 9 1 (0.990 %) Strategic Planning 9 1 (0.990 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (0.990 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 1 (0.990 %) C 1 1 (0.990 %) Java
Qualifications 1 19 (18.81 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 15 (14.85 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 6 (5.941 %) ISEB 4 2 (1.980 %) PMP 4 2 (1.980 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (0.990 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 1 (0.990 %) CIPD 5 1 (0.990 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (0.990 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (0.990 %) MCSE 5 1 (0.990 %) MCSA 5 1 (0.990 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.990 %) COBIT 1 1 (0.990 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (0.990 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 6 (5.941 %) Thunderhead 2 5 (4.950 %) Microsoft 3 3 (2.970 %) Business Objects 4 2 (1.980 %) Oracle 4 2 (1.980 %) Lotus 5 1 (0.990 %) Northgate 5 1 (0.990 %) LANDesk 5 1 (0.990 %) SAP 5 1 (0.990 %) Hyperion