Northamptonshire PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Northamptonshire 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	12
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	20	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	9.615 %	12.22 %
Daily rates quoted	18	14
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£433
Average daily rate	£394	£456
% change on same period last year	-13.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£381
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
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	£30.82	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Processes & Methodologies Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	208	180
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.182 %
Daily rates quoted	115	66
Average minimum daily rate	£416	£349
Average daily rate	£438	£374
% change on same period last year	+17.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£461	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.04	£23.39
Average hourly rate	£24.96	£24.08
% change on same period last year	+3.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.87	£24.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
PRINCE2 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 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	-12	10	£430	-14.52 %

PRINCE2 East Midlands

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 17 (40.48 %) Finance 1 17 (40.48 %) Banking 2 14 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 14 (33.33 %) PRINCE 3 12 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 9 (21.43 %) NHS 4 9 (21.43 %) Retail 4 9 (21.43 %) Stakeholder Management 5 7 (16.67 %) Retail Banking 5 7 (16.67 %) Health 5 7 (16.67 %) NPfIT 6 6 (14.29 %) Change Management 7 5 (11.90 %) Service Delivery 7 5 (11.90 %) Risk Management 7 5 (11.90 %) MS Project

8 3 (7.143 %) MS Office 8 3 (7.143 %) Migration 8 3 (7.143 %) Programme Management 8 3 (7.143 %) CA Clarity 8 3 (7.143 %) Spreadsheet 9 2 (4.762 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 2 (4.762 %) Project Planning 9 2 (4.762 %) Credit Risk 9 2 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 9 2 (4.762 %) Insurance 9 2 (4.762 %) MS Excel 9 2 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse 9 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft 9 2 (4.762 %) ISEB 9 2 (4.762 %) Six Sigma

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

Applications 1 5 (11.90 %) MS Project 2 3 (7.143 %) MS Office 2 3 (7.143 %) CA Clarity 2 3 (7.143 %) Spreadsheet 3 2 (4.762 %) MS Excel 4 1 (2.381 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Findur
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 17 (40.48 %) Finance 1 17 (40.48 %) Banking 2 9 (21.43 %) Retail 3 7 (16.67 %) Health 3 7 (16.67 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (4.762 %) Insurance 5 1 (2.381 %) International Banking 5 1 (2.381 %) Marketing 5 1 (2.381 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 24 (57.14 %) Project Manager 2 6 (14.29 %) Implementation Project Manager 2 6 (14.29 %) Implementation Manager 3 3 (7.143 %) Analyst 3 3 (7.143 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (4.762 %) Programme Manager 4 2 (4.762 %) Risk Manager 4 2 (4.762 %) Business Manager 4 2 (4.762 %) Implementation Specialist 4 2 (4.762 %) NHS Project Manager 4 2 (4.762 %) Test Manager 4 2 (4.762 %) Programme Office Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) IT Project Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) Project Office Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) Development Project Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) CRM Project Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) Delivery Manager 5 1 (2.381 %) IT Manager	Miscellaneous 1 9 (21.43 %) NHS 2 7 (16.67 %) NPfIT 3 2 (4.762 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.381 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (33.33 %) PRINCE 1 14 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 9 (21.43 %) Stakeholder Management 3 6 (14.29 %) Change Management 4 5 (11.90 %) Risk Management 4 5 (11.90 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (7.143 %) Programme Management 5 3 (7.143 %) Migration 6 2 (4.762 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (4.762 %) Project Planning 6 2 (4.762 %) Six Sigma 7 1 (2.381 %) CRM 7 1 (2.381 %) ERP 7 1 (2.381 %) Workflow 7 1 (2.381 %) Risk Analysis 7 1 (2.381 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (2.381 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (2.381 %) Information Management 7 1 (2.381 %) Programme Office Management
Qualifications 1 12 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (4.762 %) ISEB 3 1 (2.381 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.381 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.381 %) Niku 2 1 (2.381 %) Chordiant