Dorset PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Dorset 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Conwy Corsham Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Redcar Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	43
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	11	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	32.35 %	5.882 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£392
Average daily rate	£425	£404
% change on same period last year	+5.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£401	£398
% change on same period last year	+0.82 %
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	£31.66	£32.78
% change on same period last year	-3.42 %
Qualifications Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	34	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.069 %
Daily rates quoted	12	38
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£321
Average daily rate	£375	£332
% change on same period last year	+13.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.56	£30.45
Average hourly rate	£25.33	£31.77
% change on same period last year	-20.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.11	£33.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
PRINCE2 Certification South 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Dorset 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 IT contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Dorset region.

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Poole	-	4	£542	-
Bournemouth	+8	3	£250	-33.33 %

PRINCE2 Certification South West

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification.

1 21 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (47.62 %) Banking 3 8 (38.10 %) Finance 3 8 (38.10 %) Project Management 4 5 (23.81 %) PRINCE 4 5 (23.81 %) Pensions 5 3 (14.29 %) Corporate Banking 5 3 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 3 (14.29 %) Performance Testing 5 3 (14.29 %) Data Migration 5 3 (14.29 %) J2EE 5 3 (14.29 %) Sybase 5 3 (14.29 %) Migration 5 3 (14.29 %) Regression Testing 6 2 (9.524 %) Change Management

6 2 (9.524 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (9.524 %) Programme Management 6 2 (9.524 %) Java 6 2 (9.524 %) PMI 6 2 (9.524 %) Data Cleansing 7 1 (4.762 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 1 (4.762 %) Six Sigma 7 1 (4.762 %) SAP 7 1 (4.762 %) ERP 7 1 (4.762 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (4.762 %) Government 7 1 (4.762 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (4.762 %) Risk Management 7 1 (4.762 %) Local Government

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (14.29 %) J2EE	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.524 %) Data Cleansing
General 1 10 (47.62 %) Banking 2 8 (38.10 %) Finance 3 5 (23.81 %) Pensions 4 3 (14.29 %) Corporate Banking 5 1 (4.762 %) Government 5 1 (4.762 %) Retail 5 1 (4.762 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (4.762 %) Local Government 5 1 (4.762 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 12 (57.14 %) Project Manager 2 3 (14.29 %) Project Coordinator 2 3 (14.29 %) Coordinator 3 2 (9.524 %) Applications Manager 3 2 (9.524 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 3 2 (9.524 %) Financial Analyst 3 2 (9.524 %) Junior Project Manager 3 2 (9.524 %) Implementation Manager 3 2 (9.524 %) Junior 3 2 (9.524 %) Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Development Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) Programme Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) Applications Development Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.524 %) PMI	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (38.10 %) Project Management 3 5 (23.81 %) PRINCE 4 3 (14.29 %) Regression Testing 4 3 (14.29 %) Migration 4 3 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (14.29 %) Performance Testing 4 3 (14.29 %) Data Migration 5 2 (9.524 %) Change Management 5 2 (9.524 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (9.524 %) Programme Management 6 1 (4.762 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (4.762 %) Risk Management 6 1 (4.762 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (4.762 %) Six Sigma 6 1 (4.762 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 2 (9.524 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors 1 3 (14.29 %) Sybase 2 1 (4.762 %) SAP