Oxfordshire PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Aylesford Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Darwen Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	30
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	14	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	5.018 %	10.58 %
Daily rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£350
Average daily rate	£286	£350
% change on same period last year	-18.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£384
% change on same period last year	+1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.67	-
Average hourly rate	£34.17	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£35.93
% change on same period last year	-19.50 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	279	208
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.234 %
Daily rates quoted	67	30
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£315
Average daily rate	£323	£339
% change on same period last year	-4.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.23	£19.06
Average hourly rate	£24.72	£21.02
% change on same period last year	+17.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.21	£22.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£29.49
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
PRINCE2 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 across the Oxfordshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 across the Oxfordshire region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

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

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the Oxfordshire 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	Oxford	-9	12	£286	-18.39 %
2	Bicester	-10	1	-	-

PRINCE2 South East

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing PRINCE2 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.

1 9 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 7 (29.17 %) ITIL 3 6 (25.00 %) Migration 4 4 (16.67 %) Finance 4 4 (16.67 %) MS Project 4 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 5 3 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE 6 2 (8.333 %) Local Government 6 2 (8.333 %) Resource Management 6 2 (8.333 %) QA 6 2 (8.333 %) Matrix Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Back Office 6 2 (8.333 %) Risk Management

6 2 (8.333 %) Government 6 2 (8.333 %) Programme Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Intel 6 2 (8.333 %) PMP 6 2 (8.333 %) PMI Certification 6 2 (8.333 %) C 6 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel 6 2 (8.333 %) CRM 6 2 (8.333 %) SOA 7 1 (4.167 %) Ingres 7 1 (4.167 %) ADSL 7 1 (4.167 %) LAN 7 1 (4.167 %) WAN 7 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 7 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing PRINCE2 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Project 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) ADSL 1 1 (4.167 %) LAN 1 1 (4.167 %) WAN 1 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 1 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (4.167 %) VPN 1 1 (4.167 %) DNS 1 1 (4.167 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) Ingres
General 1 4 (16.67 %) Finance 2 2 (8.333 %) Government 2 2 (8.333 %) Local Government 2 2 (8.333 %) Back Office 3 1 (4.167 %) Construction 3 1 (4.167 %) Education	Job Titles 1 14 (58.33 %) Project Manager 2 5 (20.83 %) Senior Project Manager 2 5 (20.83 %) Senior Manager 3 4 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 3 4 (16.67 %) Programme Manager 4 3 (12.50 %) Project Coordinator 4 3 (12.50 %) Coordinator 5 2 (8.333 %) Delivery Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Implementation Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Controller 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Implementation Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Programme Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry 1 1 (4.167 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows NT 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 7 (29.17 %) ITIL 3 6 (25.00 %) Migration 4 3 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE 5 2 (8.333 %) Risk Management 5 2 (8.333 %) SOA 5 2 (8.333 %) CRM 5 2 (8.333 %) Programme Management 5 2 (8.333 %) Resource Management 5 2 (8.333 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Logistics 6 1 (4.167 %) Service Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 2 (8.333 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (8.333 %) PMP 2 2 (8.333 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (4.167 %) Degree 3 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (4.167 %) MCP 3 1 (4.167 %) MCSE 3 1 (4.167 %) MCSA 3 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.167 %) Terminal Services 1 1 (4.167 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.333 %) Intel 3 1 (4.167 %) Citrix 3 1 (4.167 %) Anite 3 1 (4.167 %) IBM