Chester PRINCE2 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Chester 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 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Street Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	19
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	13	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	9.353 %	13.21 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£415	£200
Average daily rate	£433	£200
% change on same period last year	+116.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£387
% change on same period last year	-1.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£13.00
Average hourly rate	£31.67	£13.00
% change on same period last year	+143.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.33	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.49	£30.66
% change on same period last year	-3.80 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	139	106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.198 %	0.107 %
Daily rates quoted	26	18
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£221
Average daily rate	£329	£234
% change on same period last year	+40.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£246
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.10	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£22.70	£19.50
% change on same period last year	+16.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.30	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
PRINCE2 Cheshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Chester 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 IT contract jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Chester region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Chester region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Chester region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing PRINCE2 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.

1 13 (41.94 %) Project Management 2 12 (38.71 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 10 (32.26 %) ITIL 4 8 (25.81 %) Government 5 7 (22.58 %) LAN 5 7 (22.58 %) WAN 6 6 (19.35 %) Local Government 7 5 (16.13 %) Change Management 8 3 (9.677 %) IP Telephony 8 3 (9.677 %) QA 8 3 (9.677 %) Stakeholder Management 8 3 (9.677 %) ESRI 8 3 (9.677 %) ArcIMS 8 3 (9.677 %) Avaya 8 3 (9.677 %) ASP.NET

8 3 (9.677 %) Cisco 8 3 (9.677 %) Active Directory 8 3 (9.677 %) Citrix 8 3 (9.677 %) Cisco Certification 8 3 (9.677 %) C# 8 3 (9.677 %) SQL 8 3 (9.677 %) .NET 9 2 (6.452 %) Oracle 9 2 (6.452 %) Broadband 9 2 (6.452 %) SSL 9 2 (6.452 %) EIGRP 9 2 (6.452 %) Service Delivery 9 2 (6.452 %) Firewall 9 2 (6.452 %) Risk Management 9 2 (6.452 %) Migration

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing PRINCE2 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (9.677 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (9.677 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (9.677 %) ArcIMS 2 1 (3.226 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.226 %) MS Excel 1 1 (3.226 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (3.226 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 7 (22.58 %) LAN 1 7 (22.58 %) WAN 2 3 (9.677 %) IP Telephony 3 2 (6.452 %) Broadband 3 2 (6.452 %) SSL 3 2 (6.452 %) EIGRP 3 2 (6.452 %) Firewall 3 2 (6.452 %) VLAN 4 1 (3.226 %) Internet 4 1 (3.226 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (3.226 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 8 (25.81 %) Government 2 6 (19.35 %) Local Government 3 2 (6.452 %) FMCG 4 1 (3.226 %) General Ledger 4 1 (3.226 %) Finance 4 1 (3.226 %) Back Office 4 1 (3.226 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 19 (61.29 %) Project Manager 2 6 (19.35 %) Technical Project Manager 2 6 (19.35 %) Technical Manager 3 4 (12.90 %) Project Support Officer 3 4 (12.90 %) Project Officer 4 3 (9.677 %) Developer 5 2 (6.452 %) Network Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) Business Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Risk Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Service Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Junior Project Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Analyst 6 1 (3.226 %) Business Process Analyst 6 1 (3.226 %) Process Analyst 6 1 (3.226 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (3.226 %) Junior
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (41.94 %) Project Management 2 10 (32.26 %) ITIL 3 5 (16.13 %) Change Management 4 3 (9.677 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (6.452 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (6.452 %) Risk Management 5 2 (6.452 %) Migration 6 1 (3.226 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (3.226 %) Data Migration 6 1 (3.226 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (3.226 %) Asset Management 6 1 (3.226 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (3.226 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (9.677 %) C# 1 3 (9.677 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 12 (38.71 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (9.677 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (3.226 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (3.226 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (9.677 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (9.677 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (9.677 %) ESRI 1 3 (9.677 %) Avaya 1 3 (9.677 %) Cisco 1 3 (9.677 %) Citrix 2 2 (6.452 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.226 %) Anite