North West PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE2 Certification over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stirlingshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	76
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	63	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	15.87 %	12.99 %
Daily rates quoted	14	17
Average minimum daily rate	£418	£340
Average daily rate	£443	£347
% change on same period last year	+27.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£407	£386
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.82	-
Average hourly rate	£31.82	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.82	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.95	£40.17
% change on same period last year	-20.47 %
Qualifications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	397	431
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.509 %	0.484 %
Daily rates quoted	102	78
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£373
Average daily rate	£354	£385
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.39	£27.64
Average hourly rate	£29.69	£29.35
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£31.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.84	£25.88
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 Certification across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the North West region over the past 3 months.

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 Certification across the North West region.

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the North West region over the past 3 months.

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Manchester	+1	24	£387	+7.42 %
2	Merseyside	-2	9	£350	-
3	Lancashire	-14	6	-	-
4	Cheshire	-22	5	£475	+79.24 %

PRINCE2 Certification England

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE2 Certification also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PRINCE2 Certification.

1 115 (97.46 %) PRINCE2 2 36 (30.51 %) Project Management 3 22 (18.64 %) MS Project 3 22 (18.64 %) Finance 4 21 (17.80 %) PRINCE 5 17 (14.41 %) NHS 5 17 (14.41 %) Stakeholder Management 6 13 (11.02 %) Government 6 13 (11.02 %) Health 6 13 (11.02 %) Retail 7 12 (10.17 %) Banking 8 9 (7.627 %) Retail Banking 9 8 (6.780 %) Project Planning 9 8 (6.780 %) Oracle 10 7 (5.932 %) Migration

11 6 (5.085 %) Change Management 11 6 (5.085 %) Programme Management 11 6 (5.085 %) .NET 12 5 (4.237 %) C# 12 5 (4.237 %) ASP.NET 12 5 (4.237 %) CRM 12 5 (4.237 %) Marketing 12 5 (4.237 %) Statistics 13 4 (3.390 %) Matrix Management 13 4 (3.390 %) Supplier Management 13 4 (3.390 %) Oracle CRM 13 4 (3.390 %) ArcIMS 13 4 (3.390 %) Telecoms 13 4 (3.390 %) Microsoft 13 4 (3.390 %) ITIL

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE2 Certification also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PRINCE2 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (5.085 %) .NET 2 5 (4.237 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (1.695 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.847 %) ArcObjects	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.390 %) ArcIMS 2 3 (2.542 %) ArcGIS 3 1 (0.847 %) ArcSDE 3 1 (0.847 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (0.847 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 22 (18.64 %) MS Project 2 4 (3.390 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.542 %) MS Excel 4 1 (0.847 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.847 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 4 (3.390 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.542 %) SAN 2 2 (1.695 %) LAN 2 2 (1.695 %) WAN 3 1 (0.847 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (2.542 %) GIS 2 2 (1.695 %) EDMS 3 1 (0.847 %) SQL Server 3 1 (0.847 %) EDRMS
General 1 22 (18.64 %) Finance 2 13 (11.02 %) Government 2 13 (11.02 %) Health 2 13 (11.02 %) Retail 3 12 (10.17 %) Banking 4 9 (7.627 %) Retail Banking 5 5 (4.237 %) Marketing 6 4 (3.390 %) Telecoms 7 2 (1.695 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (1.695 %) Education 7 2 (1.695 %) Insurance 7 2 (1.695 %) Local Government 7 2 (1.695 %) Home Office 8 1 (0.847 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 80 (67.80 %) Project Manager 2 17 (14.41 %) Programme Manager 3 8 (6.780 %) Business Manager 4 7 (5.932 %) Business Project Manager 5 5 (4.237 %) NHS Project Manager 5 5 (4.237 %) Business Analyst 5 5 (4.237 %) Project Planner 5 5 (4.237 %) Analyst 5 5 (4.237 %) Technical Manager 6 4 (3.390 %) Delivery Manager 6 4 (3.390 %) Technical Project Manager 6 4 (3.390 %) Developer 7 3 (2.542 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 7 3 (2.542 %) Senior Manager 7 3 (2.542 %) Delivery Project Manager 7 3 (2.542 %) IT Manager 7 3 (2.542 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 3 (2.542 %) Senior Project Manager 7 3 (2.542 %) IT Project Manager 8 2 (1.695 %) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 17 (14.41 %) NHS 2 5 (4.237 %) Statistics 3 2 (1.695 %) Mainframe 3 2 (1.695 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (0.847 %) NPfIT 4 1 (0.847 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 3 (2.542 %) Windows 2 1 (0.847 %) Solaris 2 1 (0.847 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 115 (97.46 %) PRINCE2 2 36 (30.51 %) Project Management 3 21 (17.80 %) PRINCE 4 17 (14.41 %) Stakeholder Management 5 8 (6.780 %) Project Planning 6 7 (5.932 %) Migration 7 6 (5.085 %) Programme Management 7 6 (5.085 %) Change Management 8 5 (4.237 %) CRM 9 4 (3.390 %) ITIL 9 4 (3.390 %) Supplier Management 9 4 (3.390 %) Matrix Management 10 3 (2.542 %) Logistics 10 3 (2.542 %) Identity Management 10 3 (2.542 %) Service Delivery 10 3 (2.542 %) Quality Management 11 2 (1.695 %) E-Commerce 11 2 (1.695 %) Risk Management 11 2 (1.695 %) Risk Analysis 11 2 (1.695 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 5 (4.237 %) C# 2 4 (3.390 %) Java 2 4 (3.390 %) SQL 3 1 (0.847 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (2.542 %) Citrix Certification 1 3 (2.542 %) Degree 2 1 (0.847 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (0.847 %) MCSE 2 1 (0.847 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.847 %) PMP 2 1 (0.847 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (0.847 %) MBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.847 %) SLA
Vendors 1 8 (6.780 %) Oracle 2 4 (3.390 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.695 %) Citrix 3 2 (1.695 %) SAP 3 2 (1.695 %) IBM 4 1 (0.847 %) Novell 4 1 (0.847 %) Lotus 4 1 (0.847 %) ESRI 4 1 (0.847 %) VMware