Hertfordshire PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 16 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 Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London 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 Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	72
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	16	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	8.939 %	6.468 %
Daily rates quoted	12	6
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£279
Average daily rate	£438	£298
% change on same period last year	+46.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£386
% change on same period last year	+6.08 %
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	£31.95	£40.17
% change on same period last year	-20.47 %
Qualifications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	179	201
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.230 %	0.226 %
Daily rates quoted	78	76
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£292
Average daily rate	£379	£321
% change on same period last year	+18.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.92	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£22.45	£25.35
% change on same period last year	-11.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.98	£25.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.74	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
PRINCE2 Certification East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Hertfordshire region over the past 3 months.

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 Hertfordshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Watford	-5	5	£490	-
2	St Albans	-	1	-	-

PRINCE2 Certification East of England

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 41 (91.11 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (26.67 %) Project Management 3 9 (20.00 %) Telecoms 4 8 (17.78 %) MS Project 5 7 (15.56 %) Microsoft 5 7 (15.56 %) Validation 5 7 (15.56 %) Pharmaceutical 6 6 (13.33 %) PRINCE 6 6 (13.33 %) GMP 6 6 (13.33 %) Java 7 5 (11.11 %) WebLogic 7 5 (11.11 %) CMMI 8 4 (8.889 %) Finance 8 4 (8.889 %) Games 8 4 (8.889 %) MS Visio

9 3 (6.667 %) Project Planning 9 3 (6.667 %) Degree 9 3 (6.667 %) Use Case 9 3 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 9 3 (6.667 %) DSDM 9 3 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 9 3 (6.667 %) iDTV 9 3 (6.667 %) Oracle 9 3 (6.667 %) Internet 9 3 (6.667 %) Lotus 9 3 (6.667 %) EPoS 9 3 (6.667 %) Manufacturing 9 3 (6.667 %) Financial Institution 10 2 (4.444 %) NHS 10 2 (4.444 %) J2EE

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (4.444 %) J2EE 1 2 (4.444 %) CORBA 1 2 (4.444 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.222 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (2.222 %) HTML 2 1 (2.222 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (11.11 %) WebLogic 2 3 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (4.444 %) Tuxedo 4 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 8 (17.78 %) MS Project 2 4 (8.889 %) MS Visio 3 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.667 %) Internet 2 2 (4.444 %) GSM 2 2 (4.444 %) UMTS 3 1 (2.222 %) LDAP 3 1 (2.222 %) GPRS 3 1 (2.222 %) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server	General 1 9 (20.00 %) Telecoms 2 7 (15.56 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (8.889 %) Finance 3 4 (8.889 %) Games 4 3 (6.667 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (6.667 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (4.444 %) Retail 5 2 (4.444 %) Billing 6 1 (2.222 %) Education
Job Titles 1 29 (64.44 %) Project Manager 2 6 (13.33 %) Delivery Manager 3 4 (8.889 %) IT Manager 3 4 (8.889 %) IT Project Manager 3 4 (8.889 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 4 3 (6.667 %) Development Project Manager 4 3 (6.667 %) Programme Planner 4 3 (6.667 %) Business Analyst 4 3 (6.667 %) Analyst 4 3 (6.667 %) Development Manager 5 2 (4.444 %) Architect 5 2 (4.444 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 2 (4.444 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Java Architect 6 1 (2.222 %) Desktop Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Technical Architect 6 1 (2.222 %) Consultant 6 1 (2.222 %) Business Project Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Business Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Transition Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.667 %) iDTV 1 3 (6.667 %) EPoS 2 2 (4.444 %) NHS 3 1 (2.222 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.222 %) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.222 %) Unix 1 1 (2.222 %) Windows 1 1 (2.222 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 41 (91.11 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (26.67 %) Project Management 3 7 (15.56 %) Validation 4 6 (13.33 %) PRINCE 5 5 (11.11 %) CMMI 6 3 (6.667 %) DSDM 6 3 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 6 3 (6.667 %) Project Planning 6 3 (6.667 %) Use Case 7 2 (4.444 %) Release Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Risk Analysis 7 2 (4.444 %) Supplier Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Information Management 7 2 (4.444 %) ITIL 7 2 (4.444 %) CRM 8 1 (2.222 %) Change Management 8 1 (2.222 %) HOOD 8 1 (2.222 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (2.222 %) Web Design 8 1 (2.222 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (13.33 %) Java 2 1 (2.222 %) C++	Qualifications 1 3 (6.667 %) Degree 2 2 (4.444 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (13.33 %) GMP 2 2 (4.444 %) QA 3 1 (2.222 %) PCI DSS	Systems Management 1 1 (2.222 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 7 (15.56 %) Microsoft 2 3 (6.667 %) Lotus 2 3 (6.667 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.444 %) Infoflex 4 1 (2.222 %) Novell 4 1 (2.222 %) PeopleSoft 4 1 (2.222 %) SAP 4 1 (2.222 %) IBM