Midlands PRINCE2 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Andover Argyll and Bute Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	24
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	54	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	8.780 %	7.127 %
Daily rates quoted	14	20
Average minimum daily rate	£402	£369
Average daily rate	£421	£396
% change on same period last year	+6.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£441	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£386
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£27.33
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£30.83
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£34.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.12	£31.95
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	615	884
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.829 %	0.884 %
Daily rates quoted	125	159
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£377
Average daily rate	£397	£403
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£429
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	53
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.69	£25.70
Average hourly rate	£26.41	£26.90
% change on same period last year	-1.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.13	£28.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.02 %
PRINCE2 England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 September 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 Midlands region.

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 35 (27.78 %) Project Management 2 29 (23.02 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 18 (14.29 %) NHS 4 16 (12.70 %) MS Project 5 15 (11.90 %) Finance 6 13 (10.32 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 10 (7.937 %) Stakeholder Management 7 10 (7.937 %) SAP 8 9 (7.143 %) ITIL 8 9 (7.143 %) Government 9 8 (6.349 %) PMI 9 8 (6.349 %) Security Cleared 10 7 (5.556 %) Oracle 10 7 (5.556 %) Risk Management 11 6 (4.762 %) Change Management

11 6 (4.762 %) Health 11 6 (4.762 %) Migration 11 6 (4.762 %) NPfIT 11 6 (4.762 %) Project Planning 11 6 (4.762 %) Matrix Management 12 5 (3.968 %) SC Cleared 12 5 (3.968 %) PMI Certification 12 5 (3.968 %) PRINCE 12 5 (3.968 %) MS Office 12 5 (3.968 %) ERP 12 5 (3.968 %) Education 13 4 (3.175 %) Telecoms 13 4 (3.175 %) Logistics 13 4 (3.175 %) CRM 13 4 (3.175 %) Microsoft

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (2.381 %) .NET 2 1 (0.794 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.794 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.794 %) SharePoint 1 1 (0.794 %) Commerce Server 1 1 (0.794 %) SharePoint Portal Server 1 1 (0.794 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 16 (12.70 %) MS Project 2 5 (3.968 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.381 %) MS Excel 4 2 (1.587 %) ArcView 5 1 (0.794 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.587 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (0.794 %) Navision 2 1 (0.794 %) SAP FI 2 1 (0.794 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (0.794 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.175 %) SAN 2 1 (0.794 %) LAN 2 1 (0.794 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.587 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (0.794 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 3 (2.381 %) TestDirector	General 1 15 (11.90 %) Finance 2 9 (7.143 %) Government 3 6 (4.762 %) Health 4 5 (3.968 %) Education 5 4 (3.175 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.587 %) Insurance 6 2 (1.587 %) Local Government 6 2 (1.587 %) Electric 6 2 (1.587 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.794 %) Banking 7 1 (0.794 %) Retail 7 1 (0.794 %) Billing 7 1 (0.794 %) Automotive 7 1 (0.794 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 80 (63.49 %) Project Manager 2 11 (8.730 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 3 10 (7.937 %) NHS Project Manager 4 8 (6.349 %) SAP Manager 4 8 (6.349 %) Senior Project Manager 4 8 (6.349 %) Programme Manager 4 8 (6.349 %) Senior Manager 5 7 (5.556 %) Analyst 6 6 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 6 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 6 (4.762 %) Business Manager 7 5 (3.968 %) Technical Project Manager 7 5 (3.968 %) Technical Manager 7 5 (3.968 %) Test Manager 8 4 (3.175 %) Business Project Manager 9 3 (2.381 %) Programme Office Analyst 9 3 (2.381 %) SAP Test Manager 9 3 (2.381 %) Consultant 9 3 (2.381 %) Service Manager 9 3 (2.381 %) SAP Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 18 (14.29 %) NHS 2 8 (6.349 %) PMI 3 6 (4.762 %) NPfIT 4 2 (1.587 %) PACS 5 1 (0.794 %) SCADA 5 1 (0.794 %) Informatics 5 1 (0.794 %) Fat Client 5 1 (0.794 %) Thin Client 5 1 (0.794 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (1.587 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (27.78 %) Project Management 2 10 (7.937 %) Stakeholder Management 3 9 (7.143 %) ITIL 4 8 (6.349 %) Security Cleared 5 7 (5.556 %) Risk Management 6 6 (4.762 %) Migration 6 6 (4.762 %) Matrix Management 6 6 (4.762 %) Project Planning 6 6 (4.762 %) Change Management 7 5 (3.968 %) ERP 7 5 (3.968 %) PRINCE 7 5 (3.968 %) SC Cleared 8 4 (3.175 %) Resource Management 8 4 (3.175 %) CRM 8 4 (3.175 %) Configuration Management 8 4 (3.175 %) Logistics 9 3 (2.381 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (2.381 %) SAP Implementation 9 3 (2.381 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (2.381 %) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages 1 2 (1.587 %) VB 1 2 (1.587 %) VB6 2 1 (0.794 %) VBA 2 1 (0.794 %) C 2 1 (0.794 %) COBOL 2 1 (0.794 %) Java 2 1 (0.794 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 29 (23.02 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 13 (10.32 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 5 (3.968 %) PMI Certification 4 4 (3.175 %) Degree 5 3 (2.381 %) MCSE 5 3 (2.381 %) CCNP 5 3 (2.381 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (2.381 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (1.587 %) ITIL Certification 6 2 (1.587 %) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.587 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (2.381 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 10 (7.937 %) SAP 2 7 (5.556 %) Oracle 3 4 (3.175 %) Microsoft 4 2 (1.587 %) Business Objects 5 1 (0.794 %) Chordiant 5 1 (0.794 %) Hyperion 5 1 (0.794 %) CODA 5 1 (0.794 %) Agresso 5 1 (0.794 %) Mercator 5 1 (0.794 %) Primavera 5 1 (0.794 %) Northgate