North East PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the North East 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	19	41
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	45	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	12.43 %	6.804 %
Daily rates quoted	16	9
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£311
Average daily rate	£414	£342
% change on same period last year	+21.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£381
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.82	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Processes & Methodologies North East
Matching contract IT job ads	362	485
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.483 %	0.491 %
Daily rates quoted	99	116
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£311
Average daily rate	£370	£325
% change on same period last year	+13.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.92	£24.68
Average hourly rate	£25.14	£25.91
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.37	£27.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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 North East 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 North East region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the North East 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 North East region.

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 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
Tyne and Wear	+12	27	£436	+47.05 %
Durham	-	6	£419	-
Northumberland	-2	1	-	-

PRINCE2 England

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 36 (37.89 %) Government 2 34 (35.79 %) ISEB 3 28 (29.47 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 24 (25.26 %) Project Management 5 19 (20.00 %) NHS 6 10 (10.53 %) Stakeholder Management 7 9 (9.474 %) Finance 7 9 (9.474 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 9 (9.474 %) MS Project 8 8 (8.421 %) ITIL 9 7 (7.368 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 7 (7.368 %) Programme Management 9 7 (7.368 %) Change Management 10 6 (6.316 %) PRINCE 11 5 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000

11 5 (5.263 %) SQL Server 11 5 (5.263 %) Service Delivery 11 5 (5.263 %) Pensions 11 5 (5.263 %) Performance Management 12 4 (4.211 %) ISEB Practitioner 12 4 (4.211 %) Strategic Planning 12 4 (4.211 %) Systems Analysis 12 4 (4.211 %) Release Management 12 4 (4.211 %) Service Management 12 4 (4.211 %) CMMI 12 4 (4.211 %) .NET 12 4 (4.211 %) ASP.NET 12 4 (4.211 %) HTML 12 4 (4.211 %) C 12 4 (4.211 %) XML

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 4 (4.211 %) HTML 1 4 (4.211 %) .NET 1 4 (4.211 %) ASP.NET 1 4 (4.211 %) XML 2 3 (3.158 %) XHTML 2 3 (3.158 %) .NET Framework 2 3 (3.158 %) CSS 3 2 (2.105 %) JSP 3 2 (2.105 %) Servlets 3 2 (2.105 %) WebServices 3 2 (2.105 %) ASP 3 2 (2.105 %) WebSphere 3 2 (2.105 %) XSL 4 1 (1.053 %) COM+ 4 1 (1.053 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.105 %) IIS 1 2 (2.105 %) JBoss 2 1 (1.053 %) MTS 2 1 (1.053 %) Documentum
Applications 1 9 (9.474 %) MS Project 2 3 (3.158 %) MS Excel 3 2 (2.105 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.053 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.053 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.053 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.053 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.263 %) SQL Server 1 5 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (3.158 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (2.105 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.105 %) EDMS 3 2 (2.105 %) DB2 4 1 (1.053 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 2 (2.105 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (2.105 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (1.053 %) TestDirector	General 1 36 (37.89 %) Government 2 9 (9.474 %) Finance 3 5 (5.263 %) Pensions 4 3 (3.158 %) Telecoms 4 3 (3.158 %) Health 4 3 (3.158 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 34 (35.79 %) Project Manager 2 17 (17.89 %) Programme Manager 3 13 (13.68 %) Analyst 4 8 (8.421 %) Business Analyst 5 6 (6.316 %) Test Manager 6 5 (5.263 %) Junior 6 5 (5.263 %) Developer 6 5 (5.263 %) Project Leader 6 5 (5.263 %) Junior Project Manager 6 5 (5.263 %) Business Manager 7 4 (4.211 %) Relationships Manager 7 4 (4.211 %) Senior Manager 7 4 (4.211 %) Architect 8 3 (3.158 %) Coordinator 8 3 (3.158 %) Support Analyst 8 3 (3.158 %) Applications Support 8 3 (3.158 %) Administrator 8 3 (3.158 %) Business Project Manager 8 3 (3.158 %) Systems Architect 8 3 (3.158 %) Applications Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 19 (20.00 %) NHS 2 3 (3.158 %) Management Information System 3 2 (2.105 %) NPfIT 3 2 (2.105 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.053 %) PMI 4 1 (1.053 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (2.105 %) UNIX 1 2 (2.105 %) AIX 1 2 (2.105 %) Linux 1 2 (2.105 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (1.053 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (25.26 %) Project Management 2 10 (10.53 %) Stakeholder Management 3 8 (8.421 %) ITIL 4 7 (7.368 %) Change Management 4 7 (7.368 %) Programme Management 4 7 (7.368 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 6 (6.316 %) PRINCE 6 5 (5.263 %) Service Delivery 6 5 (5.263 %) Performance Management 7 4 (4.211 %) Release Management 7 4 (4.211 %) Systems Analysis 7 4 (4.211 %) Strategic Planning 7 4 (4.211 %) CMMI 7 4 (4.211 %) Service Management 8 3 (3.158 %) Quality Management 8 3 (3.158 %) Risk Management 8 3 (3.158 %) Data Protection 9 2 (2.105 %) Document Management 9 2 (2.105 %) Project Planning 9 2 (2.105 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 4 (4.211 %) C 2 2 (2.105 %) C# 2 2 (2.105 %) Java 2 2 (2.105 %) JavaScript 2 2 (2.105 %) VB 2 2 (2.105 %) VB6 3 1 (1.053 %) VBA 3 1 (1.053 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 34 (35.79 %) ISEB 2 28 (29.47 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 9 (9.474 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 4 (4.211 %) ITIL Certification 4 4 (4.211 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 2 (2.105 %) Degree 6 1 (1.053 %) HNC 6 1 (1.053 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.158 %) QA 2 2 (2.105 %) EFQM	Vendors 1 4 (4.211 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.105 %) Atlassian 3 1 (1.053 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.053 %) EMC