Manchester PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Argyll and Bute Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	16
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	76	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.073 %
As % of the category below	10.92 %	15.45 %
Daily rates quoted	26	24
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£316
Average daily rate	£389	£334
% change on same period last year	+16.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£380
% change on same period last year	+4.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£35.83	£19.50
% change on same period last year	+83.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.17	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.59	£37.10
% change on same period last year	-20.23 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	696	453
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.918 %	0.474 %
Daily rates quoted	149	113
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£338
Average daily rate	£350	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	86	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.76	£21.87
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£23.83
% change on same period last year	-1.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.96	£25.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
PRINCE2 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing PRINCE2 within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Wigan	-	2	-	-
Cheadle	-3	1	-	-
Stockport	-	1	-	-

PRINCE2 North West

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 50 (38.76 %) Project Management 2 37 (28.68 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 37 (28.68 %) Finance 3 32 (24.81 %) MS Project 4 18 (13.95 %) PRINCE 5 17 (13.18 %) NHS 6 16 (12.40 %) Windows 7 15 (11.63 %) Stakeholder Management 7 15 (11.63 %) Degree 8 12 (9.302 %) ITIL 8 12 (9.302 %) Project Planning 9 10 (7.752 %) PMI 10 8 (6.202 %) ISEB 10 8 (6.202 %) WAN 10 8 (6.202 %) Migration

10 8 (6.202 %) Change Management 10 8 (6.202 %) VMware 10 8 (6.202 %) Risk Management 10 8 (6.202 %) Matrix Management 11 7 (5.426 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 11 7 (5.426 %) Telecoms 11 7 (5.426 %) Education 11 7 (5.426 %) Microsoft 11 7 (5.426 %) Citrix 11 7 (5.426 %) SAN 11 7 (5.426 %) MS Excel 11 7 (5.426 %) LAN 11 7 (5.426 %) Oracle 12 6 (4.651 %) SQL 12 6 (4.651 %) MS Office

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 3 (2.326 %) COM+ 1 3 (2.326 %) DCOM 2 1 (0.775 %) EDI 2 1 (0.775 %) Struts 2 1 (0.775 %) WebServices 2 1 (0.775 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (0.775 %) .NET 2 1 (0.775 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.775 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 6 (4.651 %) IIS 2 2 (1.550 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (0.775 %) Office Project Server 3 1 (0.775 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (0.775 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 32 (24.81 %) MS Project 2 7 (5.426 %) MS Excel 3 6 (4.651 %) MS Office 4 2 (1.550 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.775 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 4 (3.101 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 8 (6.202 %) WAN 2 7 (5.426 %) SAN 2 7 (5.426 %) LAN 3 3 (2.326 %) POP3 3 3 (2.326 %) SMTP 4 2 (1.550 %) IP Telephony 4 2 (1.550 %) Symposium 5 1 (0.775 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.775 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.550 %) EDRMS 1 2 (1.550 %) EDMS 2 1 (0.775 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (0.775 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.775 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 1 (0.775 %) JUnit	General 1 37 (28.68 %) Finance 2 7 (5.426 %) Telecoms 2 7 (5.426 %) Education 3 6 (4.651 %) Marketing 4 5 (3.876 %) Insurance 4 5 (3.876 %) Health 5 4 (3.101 %) Retail 6 3 (2.326 %) Local Government 6 3 (2.326 %) Banking 6 3 (2.326 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (2.326 %) Government 7 2 (1.550 %) General Ledger 7 2 (1.550 %) FMCG 8 1 (0.775 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (0.775 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 72 (55.81 %) Project Manager 2 13 (10.08 %) Analyst 3 11 (8.527 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 3 11 (8.527 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 10 (7.752 %) Project Coordinator 4 10 (7.752 %) Coordinator 4 10 (7.752 %) Business Analyst 4 10 (7.752 %) Programme Manager 5 8 (6.202 %) NHS Project Manager 6 7 (5.426 %) Technical Manager 7 6 (4.651 %) Delivery Manager 8 4 (3.101 %) Business Manager 8 4 (3.101 %) Infrastructure Specialist 8 4 (3.101 %) Business Project Manager 9 3 (2.326 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 9 3 (2.326 %) Server Specialist 9 3 (2.326 %) Project Officer 9 3 (2.326 %) IT Project Manager 9 3 (2.326 %) Project Support Officer 9 3 (2.326 %) Project Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 17 (13.18 %) NHS 2 10 (7.752 %) PMI 3 3 (2.326 %) NPfIT 4 1 (0.775 %) CCTV 4 1 (0.775 %) Tandem 4 1 (0.775 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.775 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.775 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 16 (12.40 %) Windows 2 3 (2.326 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (1.550 %) NetWare 3 2 (1.550 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.775 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (38.76 %) Project Management 2 18 (13.95 %) PRINCE 3 15 (11.63 %) Stakeholder Management 4 12 (9.302 %) ITIL 4 12 (9.302 %) Project Planning 5 8 (6.202 %) Migration 5 8 (6.202 %) Change Management 5 8 (6.202 %) Risk Management 5 8 (6.202 %) Matrix Management 6 5 (3.876 %) Business Analysis 6 5 (3.876 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 5 (3.876 %) UML 6 5 (3.876 %) CRM 7 4 (3.101 %) Logistics 7 4 (3.101 %) Resource Management 8 3 (2.326 %) Business Continuity 9 2 (1.550 %) Workflow 9 2 (1.550 %) Programme Management 9 2 (1.550 %) Systems Analysis 9 2 (1.550 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 6 (4.651 %) SQL 2 1 (0.775 %) C# 2 1 (0.775 %) COBOL 2 1 (0.775 %) Java 2 1 (0.775 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 37 (28.68 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 15 (11.63 %) Degree 3 8 (6.202 %) ISEB 4 7 (5.426 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 6 (4.651 %) Microsoft Certification 5 6 (4.651 %) MCSE 6 5 (3.876 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (2.326 %) PMP 7 3 (2.326 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.550 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (2.326 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.775 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (0.775 %) VMware ESX
Vendors 1 8 (6.202 %) VMware 2 7 (5.426 %) Microsoft 2 7 (5.426 %) Citrix 2 7 (5.426 %) Oracle 3 3 (2.326 %) Altiris 4 2 (1.550 %) Nortel 4 2 (1.550 %) Novell 4 2 (1.550 %) Lotus 5 1 (0.775 %) Northgate 5 1 (0.775 %) Brio 5 1 (0.775 %) SAP 5 1 (0.775 %) Macromedia