Oxfordshire PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire 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 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Aberdeen Banstead Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby Cornwall Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rotherham Runcorn Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	41	46
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	8	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	6.957 %	3.704 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£550
Average daily rate	£379	£575
% change on same period last year	-34.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£396
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.32	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-14.73 %
Qualifications Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	115	81
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	35	15
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£306
Average daily rate	£339	£318
% change on same period last year	+6.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£363
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.84	£20.33
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£22.33
% change on same period last year	+26.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.66	£24.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£26.87
% change on same period last year	+4.86 %
PRINCE2 Certification South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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 Oxfordshire region.

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009. 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
Oxford	-	7	£379	-

PRINCE2 Certification South East

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (72.73 %) ITIL 3 7 (63.64 %) Project Management 4 4 (36.36 %) MS Project 4 4 (36.36 %) Degree 4 4 (36.36 %) Matrix Management 5 3 (27.27 %) Local Government 5 3 (27.27 %) Government 6 1 (9.091 %) Tandem 6 1 (9.091 %) Document Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (9.091 %) SAP 6 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 6 1 (9.091 %) MCSE 6 1 (9.091 %) CRM

6 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (9.091 %) IBM 6 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 6 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (9.091 %) SAP R/3 6 1 (9.091 %) EDRMS 6 1 (9.091 %) BPR

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 4 (36.36 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP R/3	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) EDRMS
General 1 3 (27.27 %) Government 1 3 (27.27 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Project Manager 2 4 (36.36 %) Bid Manager 2 4 (36.36 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 3 3 (27.27 %) ICT Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) Technical Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Principle Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Tandem	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (72.73 %) ITIL 3 7 (63.64 %) Project Management 4 4 (36.36 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Document Management 5 1 (9.091 %) CRM 5 1 (9.091 %) BPR
Qualifications 1 4 (36.36 %) Degree 2 1 (9.091 %) MCSE 2 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP 1 1 (9.091 %) IBM 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft