Dorset PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Dorset 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	27
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	18	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	6.383 %	6.028 %
Daily rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£408
Average daily rate	£403	£419
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£386
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
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	£32.23	£33.47
% change on same period last year	-3.71 %
Processes & Methodologies Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	282	282
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.372 %	0.281 %
Daily rates quoted	117	157
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£365
Average daily rate	£378	£382
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.56	£32.06
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£33.76
% change on same period last year	-3.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.45	£35.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
PRINCE2 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Dorset 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 Dorset region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Dorset region.

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Bournemouth	+5	6	£381	-8.91 %
Poole	+3	6	£435	+3.69 %

PRINCE2 South West

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 23 (47.92 %) Project Management 2 20 (41.67 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 19 (39.58 %) Finance 4 13 (27.08 %) Banking 4 13 (27.08 %) Pensions 5 11 (22.92 %) PRINCE 6 10 (20.83 %) Stakeholder Management 7 9 (18.75 %) Change Management 8 8 (16.67 %) Programme Management 8 8 (16.67 %) Insurance 9 7 (14.58 %) Agile Software Development 10 5 (10.42 %) WFM 10 5 (10.42 %) Multimedia 10 5 (10.42 %) Six Sigma 11 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel

11 4 (8.333 %) CTI 11 4 (8.333 %) Avaya 11 4 (8.333 %) Retail 11 4 (8.333 %) MS PowerPoint 11 4 (8.333 %) Project Planning 12 3 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 3 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 12 3 (6.250 %) Data Migration 12 3 (6.250 %) Corporate Banking 12 3 (6.250 %) J2EE 12 3 (6.250 %) Sybase 12 3 (6.250 %) Regression Testing 12 3 (6.250 %) Back Office 12 3 (6.250 %) Service Delivery 12 3 (6.250 %) Migration

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (6.250 %) J2EE	Applications 1 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel 1 4 (8.333 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (4.167 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.333 %) CTI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.167 %) Data Cleansing
General 1 19 (39.58 %) Finance 2 13 (27.08 %) Banking 2 13 (27.08 %) Pensions 3 8 (16.67 %) Insurance 4 5 (10.42 %) Multimedia 5 4 (8.333 %) Retail 6 3 (6.250 %) Corporate Banking 6 3 (6.250 %) Back Office 7 2 (4.167 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (2.083 %) Local Government 8 1 (2.083 %) Investment Banking 8 1 (2.083 %) Government 8 1 (2.083 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 33 (68.75 %) Project Manager 2 4 (8.333 %) Coordinator 3 3 (6.250 %) Project Coordinator 3 3 (6.250 %) Programme Manager 4 2 (4.167 %) Junior 4 2 (4.167 %) IT Manager 4 2 (4.167 %) Junior Project Manager 4 2 (4.167 %) IT Project Manager 4 2 (4.167 %) Implementation Manager 4 2 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 5 1 (2.083 %) Programme Office Assistant 5 1 (2.083 %) PMO Consultant 5 1 (2.083 %) Programme Coordinator 5 1 (2.083 %) Applications Development Manager 5 1 (2.083 %) Applications Manager 5 1 (2.083 %) Senior IT Manager 5 1 (2.083 %) Communications Manager 5 1 (2.083 %) Programme Director 5 1 (2.083 %) Programme Planner 5 1 (2.083 %) Project Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.167 %) PMI	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (47.92 %) Project Management 2 11 (22.92 %) PRINCE 3 10 (20.83 %) Stakeholder Management 4 9 (18.75 %) Change Management 5 8 (16.67 %) Programme Management 6 7 (14.58 %) Agile Software Development 7 5 (10.42 %) WFM 7 5 (10.42 %) Six Sigma 8 4 (8.333 %) Project Planning 9 3 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 9 3 (6.250 %) Data Migration 9 3 (6.250 %) Regression Testing 9 3 (6.250 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (6.250 %) Migration 10 1 (2.083 %) Matrix Management 10 1 (2.083 %) Critical Path Analysis 10 1 (2.083 %) ERP 10 1 (2.083 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.167 %) Java	Qualifications 1 20 (41.67 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (2.083 %) Degree 3 1 (2.083 %) PMP 3 1 (2.083 %) PMI Certification
Vendors 1 4 (8.333 %) Avaya 2 3 (6.250 %) Sybase 3 1 (2.083 %) SAP