The first table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Reading region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PRINCE 2
Rank 43 32 17
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -15
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 30 51 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.409% 4.431% 7.806%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.093% 6.764% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 48
Average daily rate £400 £370 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% +16.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £280 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £555 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £380
% change year-on-year
- -1.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £23.75 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+57.89% -24.60%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
589 754 680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.93% 65.51% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 288 313
Average daily rate £413 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.89% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £24.80 £24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
PRINCE2
Berkshire

PRINCE2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Reading PRINCE2 Jobs Demand Trend

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Reading region.

Reading PRINCE2 Daily Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading PRINCE2 Daily Rate Histogram

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading PRINCE2 Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 42 (60.00%) Project Management
2 23 (32.86%) Telecoms
3 16 (22.86%) PMP
3 16 (22.86%) PMI Certification
4 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
5 11 (15.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 11 (15.71%) Degree
6 10 (14.29%) MS Project
6 10 (14.29%) ITIL
6 10 (14.29%) Finance
7 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.86%) Configuration Management
7 9 (12.86%) Resource Management
8 8 (11.43%) PRINCE
8 8 (11.43%) SQL
9 7 (10.00%) MS Excel
9 7 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (8.571%) MS Office
10 6 (8.571%) ATM
10 6 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (8.571%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (8.571%) Niku
10 6 (8.571%) ISEB
10 6 (8.571%) Programme Management
11 5 (7.143%) 2G
11 5 (7.143%) 3G
11 5 (7.143%) TCP/IP
11 5 (7.143%) Change Control
11 5 (7.143%) Project Planning
12 4 (5.714%) Security Cleared

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

Application Development
1 2 (2.857%) WCF
1 2 (2.857%) J2EE
2 1 (1.429%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.429%) .NET
2 1 (1.429%) HTML
2 1 (1.429%) Swing
2 1 (1.429%) JavaFX
2 1 (1.429%) HTML5
2 1 (1.429%) Spring
2 1 (1.429%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.857%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.429%) CMS
2 1 (1.429%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) MS Project
2 7 (10.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (8.571%) MS Office
4 3 (4.286%) MS Visio
4 3 (4.286%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.429%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.429%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.571%) ATM
2 5 (7.143%) 2G
2 5 (7.143%) 3G
2 5 (7.143%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.714%) VPN
3 4 (5.714%) MPLS
4 3 (4.286%) SSL
4 3 (4.286%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (2.857%) GSM
5 2 (2.857%) LAN
5 2 (2.857%) SDH
5 2 (2.857%) UMTS
5 2 (2.857%) WAN
5 2 (2.857%) DWDM
5 2 (2.857%) DSL
5 2 (2.857%) Wireless
5 2 (2.857%) BSS
6 1 (1.429%) Firewall
6 1 (1.429%) SAN
6 1 (1.429%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.286%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.429%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.429%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.857%) Axure RP
General
1 23 (32.86%) Telecoms
2 10 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (5.714%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (5.714%) Retail
4 2 (2.857%) Banking
5 1 (1.429%) Billing
5 1 (1.429%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (51.43%) Project Manager
2 8 (11.43%) Analyst
3 6 (8.571%) Technical Manager
4 5 (7.143%) Technical Project Manager
5 4 (5.714%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.714%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.286%) Design Engineer
6 3 (4.286%) Change Manager
6 3 (4.286%) Business Manager
6 3 (4.286%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.286%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.857%) Change Project Manager
7 2 (2.857%) Business Project Manager
7 2 (2.857%) Business Change Project Manager
7 2 (2.857%) Integration Project Manager
7 2 (2.857%) Compliance Manager
7 2 (2.857%) Security Manager
7 2 (2.857%) IT Business Analyst
7 2 (2.857%) Telecoms Project Manager
7 2 (2.857%) PMO Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.714%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.286%) PMI
2 3 (4.286%) IaaS
3 2 (2.857%) NHS
4 1 (1.429%) Clustering
4 1 (1.429%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.857%) Windows
2 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.429%) Linux
2 1 (1.429%) Android
2 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.429%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.429%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (60.00%) Project Management
2 10 (14.29%) ITIL
3 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (12.86%) Configuration Management
3 9 (12.86%) Resource Management
4 8 (11.43%) PRINCE
5 6 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (8.571%) Programme Management
6 5 (7.143%) Change Control
6 5 (7.143%) Project Planning
7 4 (5.714%) Change Management
8 3 (4.286%) Information Security
8 3 (4.286%) Migration
8 3 (4.286%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (4.286%) Risk Management
8 3 (4.286%) Scrum
8 3 (4.286%) Waterfall
8 3 (4.286%) Time Management
8 3 (4.286%) IT Governance
8 3 (4.286%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) SQL
2 3 (4.286%) Java
3 1 (1.429%) C++
3 1 (1.429%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) PMP
1 16 (22.86%) PMI Certification
2 11 (15.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 11 (15.71%) Degree
3 7 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 6 (8.571%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (8.571%) ISEB
5 4 (5.714%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.857%) SSCP
6 2 (2.857%) CISSP
6 2 (2.857%) GIAC
6 2 (2.857%) CISA
6 2 (2.857%) CISM
6 2 (2.857%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.429%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.429%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.857%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.429%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.429%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.429%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.857%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (1.429%) Netcool
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.571%) Niku
3 4 (5.714%) Cisco
3 4 (5.714%) Juniper
4 2 (2.857%) iRise
4 2 (2.857%) Citrix
4 2 (2.857%) HP
4 2 (2.857%) Serena
5 1 (1.429%) NetCracker
5 1 (1.429%) VMware
5 1 (1.429%) Cramer
5 1 (1.429%) OPNET
5 1 (1.429%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.429%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.429%) BMC
5 1 (1.429%) Lotus
5 1 (1.429%) Dell
5 1 (1.429%) Remedy
5 1 (1.429%) Oracle
5 1 (1.429%) SAP
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