Buckinghamshire PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire 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 Certification over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stirlingshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	74
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	20	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	9.434 %	7.263 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£428	£383
Average daily rate	£457	£390
% change on same period last year	+17.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£485	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£386
% change on same period last year	+6.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£55.00
Average hourly rate	-	£55.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.95	£40.17
% change on same period last year	-20.47 %
Qualifications Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	212	179
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.272 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	79	43
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£306
Average daily rate	£348	£320
% change on same period last year	+8.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.37	£21.63
Average hourly rate	£32.24	£22.70
% change on same period last year	+42.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.12	£23.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.74	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Milton Keynes	-13	16	£483	+26.97 %
2	Aylesbury	-	2	£405	-
3	High Wycombe	-	1	-	-

PRINCE2 Certification South East

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification.

1 32 (96.97 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (36.36 %) Project Management 3 10 (30.30 %) Finance 3 10 (30.30 %) Government 4 7 (21.21 %) Migration 5 6 (18.18 %) PRINCE 6 5 (15.15 %) MS Project 6 5 (15.15 %) Business Analysis 7 4 (12.12 %) Project Planning 7 4 (12.12 %) Systems Analysis 7 4 (12.12 %) Insurance 7 4 (12.12 %) Stakeholder Management 8 3 (9.091 %) Unified Process 8 3 (9.091 %) .NET 8 3 (9.091 %) Java

8 3 (9.091 %) RUP 8 3 (9.091 %) Business Development 8 3 (9.091 %) Banking 9 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 2 (6.061 %) Windows 9 2 (6.061 %) Windows 2000 9 2 (6.061 %) SQL 9 2 (6.061 %) C# 9 2 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (6.061 %) Change Management 9 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft 9 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 10 1 (3.030 %) Automotive 10 1 (3.030 %) Criminal Justice 10 1 (3.030 %) Financial Institution

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (9.091 %) .NET 2 2 (6.061 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.030 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel
General 1 10 (30.30 %) Finance 1 10 (30.30 %) Government 2 4 (12.12 %) Insurance 3 3 (9.091 %) Banking 4 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 5 1 (3.030 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (3.030 %) Automotive 5 1 (3.030 %) Retail 5 1 (3.030 %) Criminal Justice 5 1 (3.030 %) International Banking	Job Titles 1 29 (87.88 %) Project Manager 2 3 (9.091 %) IT Manager 2 3 (9.091 %) IT Project Manager 3 2 (6.061 %) Project Support Officer 3 2 (6.061 %) Project Officer 3 2 (6.061 %) Senior Manager 3 2 (6.061 %) Senior Project Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Project Coordinator 4 1 (3.030 %) Junior Project Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Coordinator 4 1 (3.030 %) Deployment Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Programme Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Junior 4 1 (3.030 %) Web Project Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Web Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Chief Information Officer 4 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms Project Manager 4 1 (3.030 %) Deployment Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) Management Information System 1 1 (3.030 %) Fund Management	Operating Systems 1 2 (6.061 %) Windows 1 2 (6.061 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (3.030 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (96.97 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (36.36 %) Project Management 3 7 (21.21 %) Migration 4 6 (18.18 %) PRINCE 5 5 (15.15 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (12.12 %) Project Planning 6 4 (12.12 %) Systems Analysis 6 4 (12.12 %) Stakeholder Management 7 3 (9.091 %) Unified Process 7 3 (9.091 %) RUP 7 3 (9.091 %) Business Development 8 2 (6.061 %) Change Management 9 1 (3.030 %) CRM 9 1 (3.030 %) Configuration Management 9 1 (3.030 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (9.091 %) Java 2 2 (6.061 %) SQL 2 2 (6.061 %) C# 3 1 (3.030 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Vendors 1 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft