Lancashire PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Lancashire 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Aberdeen Banstead Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rotherham Salford Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	39
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	5.000 %	10.64 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£130
Average daily rate	-	£130
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£130
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£397
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.42	£30.91
% change on same period last year	-24.22 %
Qualifications Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	20	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£346
Average daily rate	£385	£350
% change on same period last year	+10.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£327
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£21.02
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£23.51
% change on same period last year	+6.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£25.15
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

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 Lancashire region.

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Blackpool	+1	1	-	-

PRINCE2 Certification North West

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (50.00 %) NHS 2 1 (50.00 %) Disaster Recovery

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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.

Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) NHS Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (50.00 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (50.00 %) Disaster Recovery