The first table below looks at the demand for PRINCE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PRINCE over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PRINCE
Rank 38 48 36
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Contract jobs citing PRINCE 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.305% 0.237% 0.383%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.546% 0.450% 0.680%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £425 £550 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% +69.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £390 £400
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £41.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-18.67% +22.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
183 222 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.79% 52.61% 56.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 109 92
Average daily rate £350 £350 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 18
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.20 £33.25 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.85 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
PRINCE
Cambridgeshire

PRINCE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridge PRINCE Jobs Demand Trend

PRINCE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PRINCE across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge PRINCE Daily Rate Trend

PRINCE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge PRINCE Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE.

1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) AppSense
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL V3
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler

PRINCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) AppSense