The first table below looks at the demand for PRINCE skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PRINCE over the 3 months to 19 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 North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PRINCE
Rank 88 113 95
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -18
Contract jobs citing PRINCE 29 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.215% 0.691% 0.992%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.735% 1.091% 1.559%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 18
Average daily rate £375 £375 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £274 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £429 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £21.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £41.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-12.65% +56.60%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1671 1924 1924
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.00% 63.33% 63.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 989 1018
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 85 88
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
PRINCE
England

PRINCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West PRINCE Jobs Demand Trend

PRINCE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PRINCE across the North West region.

North West PRINCE Daily Rate Trend

PRINCE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North West PRINCE Daily Rate Histogram

PRINCE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE across the North West region.

North West PRINCE Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 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
Cheshire -1 9 £440 +15.03% 4
Manchester +3 5 £450 +38.46% 1
Merseyside +11 4 £350 -9.67%
Lancashire - 2 - -
PRINCE
England

PRINCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE.

1 40 (70.18%) PRINCE2
2 34 (59.65%) Project Management
3 25 (43.86%) Finance
4 23 (40.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (31.58%) ITIL
6 17 (29.82%) PMI Certification
7 13 (22.81%) Banking
8 11 (19.30%) Programme Management
9 10 (17.54%) PMI
10 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
11 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
11 7 (12.28%) PMP
11 7 (12.28%) Change Management
12 6 (10.53%) Management Information System
12 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
12 6 (10.53%) CMMI
12 6 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (10.53%) SQL
12 6 (10.53%) Oracle
12 6 (10.53%) MS Project
12 6 (10.53%) Windows
13 5 (8.772%) JBoss
13 5 (8.772%) RUP
13 5 (8.772%) JMS
13 5 (8.772%) Chordiant
13 5 (8.772%) DB2
13 5 (8.772%) WebLogic
13 5 (8.772%) J2EE
13 5 (8.772%) Java
13 5 (8.772%) JavaScript

PRINCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (8.772%) JMS
1 5 (8.772%) J2EE
1 5 (8.772%) EJB
1 5 (8.772%) JSP
1 5 (8.772%) Servlets
1 5 (8.772%) Struts
1 5 (8.772%) Web Services
1 5 (8.772%) XML
1 5 (8.772%) XSD
1 5 (8.772%) WSDL
1 5 (8.772%) Hibernate
1 5 (8.772%) jQuery
1 5 (8.772%) Ajax
1 5 (8.772%) WebSphere
1 5 (8.772%) Struts2
2 2 (3.509%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.754%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.772%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.263%) CMS
3 2 (3.509%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.754%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.754%) Documentum
4 1 (1.754%) LiveLink
4 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.754%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) MS Project
2 3 (5.263%) MS Excel
3 2 (3.509%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.509%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.754%) SAP QM
1 1 (1.754%) TrackWise
1 1 (1.754%) Maximo
1 1 (1.754%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.509%) Intranet
2 1 (1.754%) 3G
2 1 (1.754%) DWDM
2 1 (1.754%) MPLS
2 1 (1.754%) SAN
2 1 (1.754%) GSM
2 1 (1.754%) SDH
2 1 (1.754%) UMTS
2 1 (1.754%) WAN
2 1 (1.754%) FTP
2 1 (1.754%) 2G
2 1 (1.754%) LTE
2 1 (1.754%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.772%) DB2
2 2 (3.509%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (8.772%) ClearCase
1 5 (8.772%) Subversion
2 3 (5.263%) Git (software)
2 3 (5.263%) Gradle
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 13 (22.81%) Banking
3 4 (7.018%) Local Government
4 2 (3.509%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.509%) Retail
5 1 (1.754%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.754%) Billing
5 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.754%) Publishing
5 1 (1.754%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Project Manager
2 7 (12.28%) Programme Manager
3 5 (8.772%) Developer
3 5 (8.772%) Test Manager
3 5 (8.772%) Senior Project Manager
3 5 (8.772%) Java Developer
3 5 (8.772%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (8.772%) Senior Manager
3 5 (8.772%) Senior Developer
4 4 (7.018%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (7.018%) Project Planner
5 3 (5.263%) Information Manager
5 3 (5.263%) Information Security Manager
5 3 (5.263%) Head of IT
5 3 (5.263%) Security Manager
5 3 (5.263%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (5.263%) Service Manager
5 3 (5.263%) Security Project Manager
5 3 (5.263%) Information Security Project Manager
6 2 (3.509%) PMO Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) PMI
2 6 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.772%) NHS
4 3 (5.263%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.509%) Informatics
6 1 (1.754%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.754%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (3.509%) Windows 7
2 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.754%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.754%) AIX
3 1 (1.754%) Linux
3 1 (1.754%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) PRINCE2
2 34 (59.65%) Project Management
3 23 (40.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (31.58%) ITIL
5 11 (19.30%) Programme Management
6 7 (12.28%) Change Management
7 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
7 6 (10.53%) CMMI
7 6 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (8.772%) RUP
8 5 (8.772%) Migration
8 5 (8.772%) Service Management
8 5 (8.772%) Waterfall
8 5 (8.772%) BDD
9 4 (7.018%) Supplier Management
9 4 (7.018%) Service Delivery
10 3 (5.263%) Content Management
10 3 (5.263%) Logistics
10 3 (5.263%) Quality Management
10 3 (5.263%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) SQL
2 5 (8.772%) Java
2 5 (8.772%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.263%) Groovy
4 1 (1.754%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) PMI Certification
2 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) PMP
4 4 (7.018%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (5.263%) ISTQB
5 3 (5.263%) Degree
6 2 (3.509%) APMP
6 2 (3.509%) BC Cleared
6 2 (3.509%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.509%) CCNA
7 1 (1.754%) CCNP
7 1 (1.754%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.754%) MCP
7 1 (1.754%) MCSE
7 1 (1.754%) MCSA
7 1 (1.754%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.754%) SLA
1 1 (1.754%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (1.754%) VMware Server
1 1 (1.754%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.754%) XenApp
1 1 (1.754%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.754%) SCCM
1 1 (1.754%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Oracle
2 5 (8.772%) JBoss
2 5 (8.772%) Chordiant
3 3 (5.263%) Citrix
3 3 (5.263%) SAP
4 2 (3.509%) VMware
4 2 (3.509%) HP
4 2 (3.509%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.754%) Cisco
5 1 (1.754%) IBM
5 1 (1.754%) EMC
5 1 (1.754%) Cramer
5 1 (1.754%) AppSense
5 1 (1.754%) Brocade
5 1 (1.754%) EPiServer
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