The first table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Manchester 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PRINCE 2
Rank 20 37 27
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -10
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 67 50 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 6.872% 4.055% 4.451%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.970% 6.418% 7.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 28
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £185 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £388
% change year-on-year
- -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Average hourly rate £92.50 £22.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.11% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.75 £24.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+54.08% -24.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
672 779 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.92% 63.18% 63.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 388 312
Average daily rate £338 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 34
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.06
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £30.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
PRINCE2
North West

PRINCE2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester PRINCE2 Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oldham - 3 £250 -
Rochdale - - - -
Salford - - - -
Stockport - - - -
Altrincham - - - -
Bolton - - - -
PRINCE2
North West

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 81 (61.36%) Project Management
2 44 (33.33%) ITIL
3 37 (28.03%) Finance
4 34 (25.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 25 (18.94%) Windows
6 23 (17.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 23 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (15.91%) Microsoft
8 18 (13.64%) MS Project
9 16 (12.12%) MS Excel
9 16 (12.12%) Change Management
10 15 (11.36%) Management Information System
10 15 (11.36%) NHS
11 13 (9.848%) Mainframe
12 12 (9.091%) SharePoint
12 12 (9.091%) MS Office
12 12 (9.091%) UNIX
12 12 (9.091%) Business Analysis
12 12 (9.091%) Degree
13 11 (8.333%) PRINCE
14 9 (6.818%) PMI Certification
14 9 (6.818%) Data Management
15 8 (6.061%) Project Planning
15 8 (6.061%) Data Integration
15 8 (6.061%) Banking
15 8 (6.061%) Retail
15 8 (6.061%) Data Security
15 8 (6.061%) Data Modelling
15 8 (6.061%) E-Commerce
15 8 (6.061%) Continuous Improvement

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (3.788%) .NET
1 5 (3.788%) XML
2 3 (2.273%) Web Services
3 2 (1.515%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.515%) LINQ
3 2 (1.515%) RESTful
3 2 (1.515%) Sinatra
3 2 (1.515%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.515%) CSS
3 2 (1.515%) SOAP
3 2 (1.515%) XHTML
3 2 (1.515%) Lucene
3 2 (1.515%) Ajax
3 2 (1.515%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.758%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.758%) XSLT
4 1 (0.758%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 12 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.303%) MS Exchange
3 6 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (3.030%) CMS
5 2 (1.515%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.515%) Apache
6 1 (0.758%) EPiServer CMS
6 1 (0.758%) IBM Connections
6 1 (0.758%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.758%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.758%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.758%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.758%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 18 (13.64%) MS Project
2 16 (12.12%) MS Excel
3 12 (9.091%) MS Office
4 6 (4.545%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.515%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.515%) Mingle
6 1 (0.758%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.758%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.758%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.758%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.758%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.758%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.545%) Firewall
2 5 (3.788%) Internet
3 3 (2.273%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.758%) LTE
4 1 (0.758%) 4G
4 1 (0.758%) 3G
4 1 (0.758%) 2G
4 1 (0.758%) GSM
4 1 (0.758%) UMTS
4 1 (0.758%) VoIP
4 1 (0.758%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.545%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.515%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (1.515%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (1.515%) RavenDB
3 1 (0.758%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (0.758%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.758%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.758%) OLAP
3 1 (0.758%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.758%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.758%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.758%) EDMS
3 1 (0.758%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.758%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.515%) Visual Studio
1 2 (1.515%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.758%) Selenium
General
1 37 (28.03%) Finance
2 8 (6.061%) Banking
2 8 (6.061%) Retail
3 6 (4.545%) Local Government
4 3 (2.273%) Retail Banking
4 3 (2.273%) Marketing
4 3 (2.273%) Legal
5 2 (1.515%) Advertising
5 2 (1.515%) Law
5 2 (1.515%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.515%) Back Office
5 2 (1.515%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.515%) German Language
6 1 (0.758%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.758%) Publishing
6 1 (0.758%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (47.73%) Project Manager
2 14 (10.61%) Analyst
3 12 (9.091%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 12 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
4 11 (8.333%) Senior Manager
4 11 (8.333%) Senior Project Manager
5 9 (6.818%) PMO Manager
6 8 (6.061%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.061%) Architect
7 7 (5.303%) Project Analyst
7 7 (5.303%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
8 6 (4.545%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.788%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.788%) Developer
9 5 (3.788%) NHS Project Manager
9 5 (3.788%) Service Manager
10 4 (3.030%) ICT Project Manager
10 4 (3.030%) Head of Service Delivery
10 4 (3.030%) IT Project Manager
10 4 (3.030%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) NHS
1 15 (11.36%) Management Information System
2 13 (9.848%) Mainframe
3 8 (6.061%) Data Integration
4 5 (3.788%) PMI
5 2 (1.515%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.515%) Open Source
5 2 (1.515%) Social Media
6 1 (0.758%) Health Informatics
6 1 (0.758%) Visualisation
6 1 (0.758%) EMV
6 1 (0.758%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.758%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.758%) Clustering
6 1 (0.758%) Derivative
6 1 (0.758%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.94%) Windows
2 12 (9.091%) UNIX
3 7 (5.303%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (5.303%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (4.545%) Windows XP
5 3 (2.273%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.758%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.758%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.758%) AIX
6 1 (0.758%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (61.36%) Project Management
2 44 (33.33%) ITIL
3 23 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (12.12%) Change Management
5 12 (9.091%) Business Analysis
6 11 (8.333%) PRINCE
7 9 (6.818%) Data Management
8 8 (6.061%) Data Security
8 8 (6.061%) E-Commerce
8 8 (6.061%) Data Modelling
8 8 (6.061%) Project Planning
8 8 (6.061%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (5.303%) Service Delivery
9 7 (5.303%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (4.545%) ERP
10 6 (4.545%) Waterfall
10 6 (4.545%) Software Testing
10 6 (4.545%) Master Data Management
11 5 (3.788%) Programme Management
11 5 (3.788%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.545%) SQL
2 3 (2.273%) T-SQL
2 3 (2.273%) C#
3 2 (1.515%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.515%) Ruby
4 1 (0.758%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.758%) COBOL
4 1 (0.758%) VB
4 1 (0.758%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.758%) VBA
4 1 (0.758%) VB6
Qualifications
1 34 (25.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 23 (17.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 12 (9.091%) Degree
4 9 (6.818%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.788%) PMP
5 5 (3.788%) CCNP
5 5 (3.788%) CCNA
5 5 (3.788%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.030%) ECDL
6 4 (3.030%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.273%) ISEB
8 2 (1.515%) HNC
8 2 (1.515%) HND
9 1 (0.758%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.758%) MCSE
9 1 (0.758%) MCSA
9 1 (0.758%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.758%) MCP
9 1 (0.758%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.758%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.030%) SLA
2 3 (2.273%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.515%) GMP
4 1 (0.758%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.758%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.303%) vSphere
2 6 (4.545%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.758%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (4.545%) SCCM
1 6 (4.545%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.303%) VMware
3 6 (4.545%) NetApp
4 5 (3.788%) Planview
4 5 (3.788%) Cisco
5 3 (2.273%) Google
6 2 (1.515%) Facebook
6 2 (1.515%) Twitter
6 2 (1.515%) Oracle
6 2 (1.515%) SAP
7 1 (0.758%) IBM
7 1 (0.758%) Adobe
7 1 (0.758%) HP
7 1 (0.758%) EMC
7 1 (0.758%) Citrix
7 1 (0.758%) Avaya
7 1 (0.758%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.758%) Brocade
7 1 (0.758%) Novell
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