The first table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 skills 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 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
PRINCE 2
Rank 30 31 17
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -14
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 43 43 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 5.718% 4.815% 6.602%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.832% 6.740% 9.809%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 13
Average daily rate £398 £355 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.11% +5.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £208 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £380
% change year-on-year
- -1.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.11 £25.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -23.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
549 638 418
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.01% 71.44% 67.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 377 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £451 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 22
Average hourly rate £33.50 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+139.28% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
PRINCE2
West Yorkshire

PRINCE2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds PRINCE2 Jobs Demand Trend

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds PRINCE2 Daily Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Leeds PRINCE2 Daily Rate Histogram

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds PRINCE2 Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 52 (46.02%) Project Management
2 38 (33.63%) ITIL
3 36 (31.86%) Finance
4 28 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (16.81%) .NET
6 17 (15.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
7 14 (12.39%) Oracle
7 14 (12.39%) ASP.NET
8 13 (11.50%) MS Excel
8 13 (11.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 12 (10.62%) Project Planning
9 12 (10.62%) PMI Certification
9 12 (10.62%) Migration
10 11 (9.735%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (9.735%) Process Management
10 11 (9.735%) SQL
11 10 (8.850%) MS Project
11 10 (8.850%) E-Commerce
11 10 (8.850%) NHS
11 10 (8.850%) Retail
12 9 (7.965%) SharePoint
12 9 (7.965%) Web Services
12 9 (7.965%) Matrix Management
13 8 (7.080%) Data Migration
13 8 (7.080%) MS Office
13 8 (7.080%) CRM
13 8 (7.080%) PMP
13 8 (7.080%) PRINCE
13 8 (7.080%) Internet

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 19 (16.81%) .NET
2 14 (12.39%) ASP.NET
3 9 (7.965%) Web Services
4 6 (5.310%) .NET Framework
4 6 (5.310%) XML
5 2 (1.770%) Ajax
5 2 (1.770%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.770%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.770%) Sinatra
5 2 (1.770%) RESTful
5 2 (1.770%) LINQ
5 2 (1.770%) XHTML
5 2 (1.770%) CSS
5 2 (1.770%) Lucene
6 1 (0.885%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.965%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.310%) GlassFish
3 4 (3.540%) FileNet
4 2 (1.770%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.770%) Apache
5 1 (0.885%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (0.885%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (11.50%) MS Excel
2 10 (8.850%) MS Project
3 8 (7.080%) MS Office
4 4 (3.540%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (2.655%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.885%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.425%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.885%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.080%) Internet
2 2 (1.770%) CTI
3 1 (0.885%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.310%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.540%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (3.540%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.770%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.770%) RavenDB
3 2 (1.770%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.885%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.885%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.885%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.885%) BODI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.770%) Git (software)
1 2 (1.770%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (31.86%) Finance
2 10 (8.850%) Retail
3 4 (3.540%) Legal
3 4 (3.540%) Financial Institution
4 3 (2.655%) Law
4 3 (2.655%) Banking
4 3 (2.655%) Local Government
5 2 (1.770%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.885%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (59.29%) Project Manager
2 9 (7.965%) Senior Project Manager
2 9 (7.965%) Senior Manager
3 8 (7.080%) Infrastructure Manager
4 7 (6.195%) IT Project Manager
4 7 (6.195%) Contracts Manager
4 7 (6.195%) Analyst
4 7 (6.195%) Consultant
4 7 (6.195%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 6 (5.310%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.425%) Technical Manager
6 5 (4.425%) Programme Manager
7 4 (3.540%) Agile Project Manager
7 4 (3.540%) FileNet Consultant
7 4 (3.540%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (3.540%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (3.540%) Senior Programme Manager
7 4 (3.540%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.540%) Applications Manager
7 4 (3.540%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.850%) NHS
2 4 (3.540%) PMI
3 3 (2.655%) Open Source
3 3 (2.655%) Informatics
4 2 (1.770%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.770%) Smart Meter
4 2 (1.770%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.885%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.885%) IaaS
5 1 (0.885%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.310%) Solaris
2 4 (3.540%) Windows 7
2 4 (3.540%) Windows
3 2 (1.770%) UNIX
4 1 (0.885%) Linux
4 1 (0.885%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.02%) Project Management
2 38 (33.63%) ITIL
3 28 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (10.62%) Project Planning
4 12 (10.62%) Migration
5 11 (9.735%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (9.735%) Process Management
6 10 (8.850%) E-Commerce
7 9 (7.965%) Matrix Management
8 8 (7.080%) Data Migration
8 8 (7.080%) CRM
8 8 (7.080%) PRINCE
9 7 (6.195%) Scrum
9 7 (6.195%) Supplier Management
10 6 (5.310%) ITIL V3
10 6 (5.310%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (5.310%) Service Management
10 6 (5.310%) Change Management
11 5 (4.425%) Programme Management
11 5 (4.425%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.735%) SQL
2 7 (6.195%) T-SQL
2 7 (6.195%) C#
3 6 (5.310%) Java
4 2 (1.770%) Ruby
4 2 (1.770%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (15.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 13 (11.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 12 (10.62%) PMI Certification
4 8 (7.080%) PMP
5 7 (6.195%) Degree
6 5 (4.425%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.540%) APMP
8 3 (2.655%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.770%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.770%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.770%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.770%) WAI
2 1 (0.885%) QA
2 1 (0.885%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.770%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
1 14 (12.39%) Oracle
2 6 (5.310%) Sun
3 4 (3.540%) IBM
4 3 (2.655%) VMware
5 1 (0.885%) Business Objects
5 1 (0.885%) SAP
5 1 (0.885%) Citrix
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