Northamptonshire PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Northamptonshire 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Conwy Corsham Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Redcar Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	25
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	5	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	26.32 %	29.63 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£432	£600
Average daily rate	£447	£600
% change on same period last year	-25.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£462	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£401	£398
% change on same period last year	+0.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
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	£31.66	£32.78
% change on same period last year	-3.42 %
Qualifications Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	19	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£465
Average daily rate	£326	£487
% change on same period last year	-33.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£509
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.43	£26.67
Average hourly rate	£13.29	£26.83
% change on same period last year	-50.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.14	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
PRINCE2 Certification East Midlands

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Northamptonshire 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 IT contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Northamptonshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton	-11	4	£465	-22.50 %

PRINCE2 Certification East Midlands

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification.

1 12 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (50.00 %) Banking 3 4 (33.33 %) PRINCE 4 3 (25.00 %) Retail 4 3 (25.00 %) Risk Management 4 3 (25.00 %) Finance 5 2 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (16.67 %) Project Management 5 2 (16.67 %) Change Management 5 2 (16.67 %) Insurance 6 1 (8.333 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (8.333 %) International Banking 6 1 (8.333 %) Project Planning 6 1 (8.333 %) Credit Risk 6 1 (8.333 %) Matrix Management

6 1 (8.333 %) Spreadsheet 6 1 (8.333 %) Six Sigma 6 1 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (8.333 %) Programme Office Management 6 1 (8.333 %) Programme Management 6 1 (8.333 %) UNIX 6 1 (8.333 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (8.333 %) Chordiant

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Spreadsheet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (8.333 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 6 (50.00 %) Banking 2 3 (25.00 %) Retail 2 3 (25.00 %) Finance 3 2 (16.67 %) Insurance 4 1 (8.333 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (8.333 %) International Banking	Job Titles 1 6 (50.00 %) Project Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 2 1 (8.333 %) Analyst 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Support Assistant 2 1 (8.333 %) Operations Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Delivery Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Risk Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) PMO Assistant 2 1 (8.333 %) Strategy Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (33.33 %) PRINCE 3 3 (25.00 %) Risk Management 4 2 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 4 2 (16.67 %) Project Management 4 2 (16.67 %) Change Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Six Sigma 5 1 (8.333 %) Programme Office Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Programme Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (8.333 %) Project Planning 5 1 (8.333 %) Matrix Management	Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) Chordiant