North West PRINCE2 Practitioner Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Practitioner 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 PRINCE2 Practitioner over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the North West region.

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Location Aberdeen Avon Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorking East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Paddington Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	98	81	124
Rank change year-on-year	-17 +43
Matching contract IT job ads	7	19	13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West	0.311 %	0.837 %	0.329 %
As % of the Qualifications category	2.077 %	5.429 %	2.754 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7	3
Average daily rate	£306	£500	£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-38.75 % +42.85 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£375	£400
% change year-on-year	+6.530 % -6.250 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Average hourly rate	-	-	£33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.50	£27.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	+54.54 % +10.00 %
All Qualifications North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Qualifications category	337	350	472
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West	14.96 %	15.42 %	11.94 %
Daily rates quoted	134	114	106
Average daily rate	£275	£360	£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-23.61 % +2.850 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£192	£177	£213
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£500	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£350	£350
% change year-on-year	-7.140 % -
Hourly rates quoted	36	45	56
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£24.10	£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-17.01 % +7.110 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£12.00	£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£30.00	£32.50	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.50	£25.00	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-18.00 % -
PRINCE2 Practitioner England

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.

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Demand Trend

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

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Daily Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. 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	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
Lancashire	+8	3	£256	-59.00 %
Manchester	-17	3	£425	-
Cheshire	-17	1	-	-

PRINCE2 Practitioner England

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE2 Practitioner 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 Practitioner.

1 13 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (38.46 %) Government 3 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 4 2 (15.38 %) Requirements Management 4 2 (15.38 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 2 (15.38 %) Test Management 4 2 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (15.38 %) Budget Control 4 2 (15.38 %) ISEB 4 2 (15.38 %) NHS 4 2 (15.38 %) Health 4 2 (15.38 %) Risk Management 5 1 (7.692 %) Finance 5 1 (7.692 %) Validation

5 1 (7.692 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (7.692 %) Programme Management 5 1 (7.692 %) UNIX 5 1 (7.692 %) Service Management 5 1 (7.692 %) Change Management 5 1 (7.692 %) Management Information System 5 1 (7.692 %) Information Management 5 1 (7.692 %) Insurance 5 1 (7.692 %) Software Testing

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing PRINCE2 Practitioner 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 Practitioner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 5 (38.46 %) Government 2 2 (15.38 %) Health 3 1 (7.692 %) Finance 3 1 (7.692 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 6 (46.15 %) Project Manager 2 3 (23.08 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 3 (23.08 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 2 (15.38 %) Programme Manager 3 2 (15.38 %) Test Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) PMO Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (15.38 %) NHS 2 1 (7.692 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 1 (7.692 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 3 2 (15.38 %) Requirements Management 3 2 (15.38 %) Test Management 3 2 (15.38 %) Budget Control 3 2 (15.38 %) Risk Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Validation 4 1 (7.692 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Programme Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Service Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Change Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Information Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Software Testing	Qualifications 1 2 (15.38 %) ISEB Practitioner 1 2 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 1 2 (15.38 %) ISEB