The first table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PRINCE2 Certification over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Leeds region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PRINCE2 Certification
Rank 61 63 50
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -13
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 7 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.931% 0.896% 0.644%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.147% 4.938% 3.960%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 1
Average daily rate £400 £500 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+95.45% -37.14%
All Qualifications
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
136 162 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 18.09% 18.14% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 101 45
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 10
Average hourly rate £13.58 £12.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.12% -45.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £50.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
PRINCE2 Certification
West Yorkshire

PRINCE2 Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Leeds PRINCE2 Certification Jobs Demand Trend

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds PRINCE2 Certification Daily Rate Trend

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Leeds PRINCE2 Certification Daily Rate Histogram

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds PRINCE2 Certification Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 17 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 8 (47.06%) Project Management
3 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (29.41%) PMI Certification
4 5 (29.41%) Matrix Management
5 4 (23.53%) Project Planning
5 4 (23.53%) PMP
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
6 3 (17.65%) VMware
6 3 (17.65%) Change Management
6 3 (17.65%) Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Retail
7 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.76%) Oracle
7 2 (11.76%) NHS
8 1 (5.882%) PRINCE
8 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
8 1 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (5.882%) PMI
8 1 (5.882%) UNIX
8 1 (5.882%) Windows
8 1 (5.882%) AIX
8 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
8 1 (5.882%) CRM
8 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
8 1 (5.882%) Law

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Unified Communications
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
3 1 (5.882%) Law
3 1 (5.882%) Legal
3 1 (5.882%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.882%) Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Project Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Junior
4 1 (5.882%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) CRM Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Junior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.882%) CRM Manager
4 1 (5.882%) NHS Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Records Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) NHS
2 1 (5.882%) PMI
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) AIX
1 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 8 (47.06%) Project Management
3 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (29.41%) Matrix Management
5 4 (23.53%) Project Planning
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
6 3 (17.65%) Change Management
6 3 (17.65%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (5.882%) PRINCE
8 1 (5.882%) CRM
8 1 (5.882%) Process Management
8 1 (5.882%) Network Architecture
8 1 (5.882%) Data Migration
8 1 (5.882%) Information Management
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) PMI Certification
2 4 (23.53%) PMP
3 1 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) Microsoft