Milton Keynes PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Milton Keynes 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Argyll and Bute Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle 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 Harrogate Havant Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough 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 Southport Southwark 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 Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	26
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	38	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.056 %
As % of the category below	6.291 %	10.56 %
Daily rates quoted	15	14
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£455
Average daily rate	£366	£471
% change on same period last year	-22.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£487
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£381
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.82	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Processes & Methodologies Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	604	521
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.805 %	0.527 %
Daily rates quoted	210	102
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£361
Average daily rate	£356	£380
% change on same period last year	-6.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	79	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.56	£23.36
Average hourly rate	£29.03	£24.48
% change on same period last year	+18.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.50	£25.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
PRINCE2 Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 25 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 Milton Keynes region.

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 45 (42.86 %) Project Management 2 43 (40.95 %) Security Cleared 3 34 (32.38 %) SC Cleared 4 30 (28.57 %) Finance 4 30 (28.57 %) Government 5 29 (27.62 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 19 (18.10 %) Migration 7 18 (17.14 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 17 (16.19 %) Banking 9 15 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 10 13 (12.38 %) Systems Analysis 11 11 (10.48 %) MS Project 11 11 (10.48 %) Windows 11 11 (10.48 %) Microsoft 12 9 (8.571 %) Windows NT

12 9 (8.571 %) SSADM 12 9 (8.571 %) Oracle 12 9 (8.571 %) Change Management 13 8 (7.619 %) Sage 13 8 (7.619 %) SQL Server 13 8 (7.619 %) CRM 13 8 (7.619 %) Project Planning 13 8 (7.619 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 8 (7.619 %) System Testing 14 7 (6.667 %) Retail 14 7 (6.667 %) Requirements Analysis 14 7 (6.667 %) Risk Management 14 7 (6.667 %) MS Office 14 7 (6.667 %) .NET 15 6 (5.714 %) PMI

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (6.667 %) .NET 2 5 (4.762 %) XML 3 4 (3.810 %) HTML 4 3 (2.857 %) .NET Framework 4 3 (2.857 %) ASP 5 2 (1.905 %) Middleware 6 1 (0.952 %) AJAX 6 1 (0.952 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (2.857 %) CICS 2 2 (1.905 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (1.905 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 11 (10.48 %) MS Project 2 7 (6.667 %) MS Office 3 4 (3.810 %) MS Excel 4 2 (1.905 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 6 (5.714 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.810 %) Intranet 1 4 (3.810 %) Internet 2 2 (1.905 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (7.619 %) SQL Server 2 6 (5.714 %) SQL Server 7 3 3 (2.857 %) DB2 4 2 (1.905 %) PowerCenter 5 1 (0.952 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 30 (28.57 %) Finance 1 30 (28.57 %) Government 2 17 (16.19 %) Banking 3 7 (6.667 %) Retail 4 4 (3.810 %) Retail Banking 5 3 (2.857 %) Insurance 5 3 (2.857 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (1.905 %) Automotive 6 2 (1.905 %) Marketing 7 1 (0.952 %) Corporate Banking 7 1 (0.952 %) Telecoms 7 1 (0.952 %) Investment Banking 7 1 (0.952 %) Criminal Justice	Job Titles 1 60 (57.14 %) Project Manager 2 7 (6.667 %) Programme Manager 2 7 (6.667 %) Developer 2 7 (6.667 %) Analyst 2 7 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 3 6 (5.714 %) Applications Developer 3 6 (5.714 %) Project Support Officer 3 6 (5.714 %) Project Officer 4 5 (4.762 %) Coordinator 4 5 (4.762 %) CRM Project Manager 4 5 (4.762 %) Team Leader 4 5 (4.762 %) Senior Manager 4 5 (4.762 %) IT Manager 4 5 (4.762 %) Project Coordinator 4 5 (4.762 %) CRM Manager 5 4 (3.810 %) IT Project Manager 6 3 (2.857 %) Project Administrator 6 3 (2.857 %) Programme Office Analyst 6 3 (2.857 %) Deployment Manager 6 3 (2.857 %) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.714 %) PMI 2 4 (3.810 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.905 %) Spanish Language 4 1 (0.952 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (0.952 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.952 %) IPTV 4 1 (0.952 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 11 (10.48 %) Windows 2 9 (8.571 %) Windows NT 3 3 (2.857 %) UNIX 3 3 (2.857 %) AIX 3 3 (2.857 %) HPUX 3 3 (2.857 %) Solaris 3 3 (2.857 %) Linux 3 3 (2.857 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 45 (42.86 %) Project Management 2 43 (40.95 %) Security Cleared 3 34 (32.38 %) SC Cleared 4 19 (18.10 %) Migration 5 15 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 6 13 (12.38 %) Systems Analysis 7 9 (8.571 %) Change Management 7 9 (8.571 %) SSADM 8 8 (7.619 %) CRM 8 8 (7.619 %) Project Planning 8 8 (7.619 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 8 (7.619 %) System Testing 9 7 (6.667 %) Requirements Analysis 9 7 (6.667 %) Risk Management 10 6 (5.714 %) ERP 10 6 (5.714 %) Stakeholder Management 10 6 (5.714 %) DSDM 11 5 (4.762 %) PRINCE 11 5 (4.762 %) ITIL 11 5 (4.762 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 6 (5.714 %) VB 2 4 (3.810 %) VB.NET 2 4 (3.810 %) SQL 3 3 (2.857 %) COBOL 3 3 (2.857 %) Java 3 3 (2.857 %) JCL 3 3 (2.857 %) VB6 4 2 (1.905 %) C++ 5 1 (0.952 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 29 (27.62 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 18 (17.14 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (1.905 %) PMP 3 2 (1.905 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (0.952 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (0.952 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 11 (10.48 %) Microsoft 2 9 (8.571 %) Oracle 3 8 (7.619 %) Sage 4 2 (1.905 %) IBM