Leeds PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Leeds 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 15 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	48
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	33	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	20.25 %	17.46 %
Daily rates quoted	8	5
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£296
Average daily rate	£395	£313
% change on same period last year	+26.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£407	£386
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
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 Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	163	126
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.209 %	0.142 %
Daily rates quoted	46	36
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£270
Average daily rate	£311	£285
% change on same period last year	+9.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.43	£26.20
Average hourly rate	£18.07	£27.60
% change on same period last year	-34.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.70	£29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.84	£25.88
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
PRINCE2 Certification West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds 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 40 (81.63 %) PRINCE2 2 15 (30.61 %) Project Management 3 14 (28.57 %) NHS 3 14 (28.57 %) Health 4 13 (26.53 %) PRINCE 5 9 (18.37 %) Firewall 6 8 (16.33 %) Government 6 8 (16.33 %) MS Project 7 7 (14.29 %) ITIL 8 6 (12.24 %) MS Excel 8 6 (12.24 %) DNS 8 6 (12.24 %) Finance 9 5 (10.20 %) Data Protection Act 9 5 (10.20 %) Freedom of Information Act 9 5 (10.20 %) Freedom of Information

9 5 (10.20 %) Data Protection 9 5 (10.20 %) EDRMS 9 5 (10.20 %) Workflow 10 4 (8.163 %) Stakeholder Management 10 4 (8.163 %) SharePoint 10 4 (8.163 %) Windows 10 4 (8.163 %) Business Analysis 11 3 (6.122 %) Project Planning 11 3 (6.122 %) Document Management 11 3 (6.122 %) Matrix Management 11 3 (6.122 %) WAN 11 3 (6.122 %) VPN 11 3 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 11 3 (6.122 %) Service Delivery 11 3 (6.122 %) Change Management

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds 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 1 (2.041 %) .NET 1 1 (2.041 %) J2EE 1 1 (2.041 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.163 %) SharePoint 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 8 (16.33 %) MS Project 2 6 (12.24 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.041 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.041 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 9 (18.37 %) Firewall 2 6 (12.24 %) DNS 3 3 (6.122 %) WAN 3 3 (6.122 %) VPN 4 2 (4.082 %) SAN 4 2 (4.082 %) Internet 4 2 (4.082 %) MPLS 5 1 (2.041 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (10.20 %) EDRMS 2 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 14 (28.57 %) Health 2 8 (16.33 %) Government 3 6 (12.24 %) Finance 4 2 (4.082 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (4.082 %) Banking 4 2 (4.082 %) Retail 4 2 (4.082 %) Insurance 5 1 (2.041 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.041 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 15 (30.61 %) Project Manager 2 13 (26.53 %) Analyst 3 6 (12.24 %) Business Analyst 3 6 (12.24 %) Deployment Analyst 4 4 (8.163 %) Senior Manager 4 4 (8.163 %) Service Manager 4 4 (8.163 %) Senior Project Manager 5 3 (6.122 %) Programme Manager 5 3 (6.122 %) Consultant 5 3 (6.122 %) PMO Manager 5 3 (6.122 %) Transition Manager 6 2 (4.082 %) Technical Consultant 6 2 (4.082 %) Project Consultant 6 2 (4.082 %) Project Planner 7 1 (2.041 %) Test Analyst 7 1 (2.041 %) IT Manager 7 1 (2.041 %) Senior Consultant 7 1 (2.041 %) Programme Office Manager 7 1 (2.041 %) IT Project Manager 7 1 (2.041 %) Project Support Officer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (28.57 %) NHS 2 5 (10.20 %) Freedom of Information 2 5 (10.20 %) Data Protection Act 2 5 (10.20 %) Freedom of Information Act 3 2 (4.082 %) Clustering 4 1 (2.041 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 4 (8.163 %) Windows 2 3 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (4.082 %) Windows XP 4 1 (2.041 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.041 %) Linux 4 1 (2.041 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (81.63 %) PRINCE2 2 15 (30.61 %) Project Management 3 13 (26.53 %) PRINCE 4 7 (14.29 %) ITIL 5 5 (10.20 %) Workflow 5 5 (10.20 %) Data Protection 6 4 (8.163 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (8.163 %) Stakeholder Management 7 3 (6.122 %) Service Delivery 7 3 (6.122 %) Change Management 7 3 (6.122 %) Document Management 7 3 (6.122 %) Project Planning 7 3 (6.122 %) Matrix Management 8 2 (4.082 %) Use Case 8 2 (4.082 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 2 (4.082 %) Data Migration 8 2 (4.082 %) Risk Management 8 2 (4.082 %) Network Load Balancing 8 2 (4.082 %) Workflow Management 8 2 (4.082 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.082 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (4.082 %) MCSE 1 2 (4.082 %) ISEB 1 2 (4.082 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (4.082 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.041 %) Degree 2 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (4.082 %) Active Directory 1 2 (4.082 %) VMware ESX
Vendors 1 2 (4.082 %) Microsoft 1 2 (4.082 %) Primavera 1 2 (4.082 %) VMware 2 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.041 %) Cisco