Cheshire PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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 22 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 Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Conwy 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 Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire 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 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	56
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	2.273 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£475	£250
Average daily rate	£475	£265
% change on same period last year	+79.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£475	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£409	£394
% change on same period last year	+3.70 %
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	£31.71	£40.17
% change on same period last year	-21.07 %
Qualifications Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	78	88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	21	11
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£362
Average daily rate	£370	£384
% change on same period last year	-3.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.67	£26.08
Average hourly rate	£21.92	£27.94
% change on same period last year	-21.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.17	£29.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.80	£25.81
% change on same period last year	-3.91 %
PRINCE2 Certification North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

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
Knutsford	-	1	£450	-

PRINCE2 Certification North West

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (81.82 %) Project Management 3 4 (36.36 %) Finance 4 3 (27.27 %) Health 4 3 (27.27 %) NHS 4 3 (27.27 %) Banking 5 1 (9.091 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (9.091 %) Project Planning 5 1 (9.091 %) Degree 5 1 (9.091 %) ArcObjects 5 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science 5 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 5 1 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (9.091 %) C# 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL

5 1 (9.091 %) .NET 5 1 (9.091 %) SAP 5 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows 5 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (9.091 %) MCSE 5 1 (9.091 %) LAN 5 1 (9.091 %) WAN 5 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (9.091 %) Lotus 5 1 (9.091 %) Migration 5 1 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (9.091 %) GIS 5 1 (9.091 %) ArcGIS

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (9.091 %) ArcObjects 1 1 (9.091 %) .NET 1 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (9.091 %) ArcGIS 1 1 (9.091 %) ArcIMS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) LAN 1 1 (9.091 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) GIS
General 1 4 (36.36 %) Finance 2 3 (27.27 %) Health 2 3 (27.27 %) Banking 3 1 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Project Manager 2 2 (18.18 %) Delivery Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Systems Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) GIS Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Delivery Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) NHS 2 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (81.82 %) Project Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Planning 3 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 3 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 3 1 (9.091 %) Migration 3 1 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (9.091 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C# 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree 1 1 (9.091 %) MCSE 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP 1 1 (9.091 %) Lotus