Reading PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Reading 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	50	24
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching contract IT job ads	22	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.062 %
As % of the category below	3.748 %	9.823 %
Daily rates quoted	9	19
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£356
Average daily rate	£388	£389
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£423
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£381
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£31.50
Average hourly rate	-	£34.49
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.82	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Processes & Methodologies Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	587	621
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.782 %	0.628 %
Daily rates quoted	187	207
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£340
Average daily rate	£347	£374
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.78	£32.63
Average hourly rate	£31.99	£34.25
% change on same period last year	-6.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.19	£35.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
PRINCE2 Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Reading 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 Reading region.

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 22 (48.89 %) Government 2 20 (44.44 %) Project Management 3 14 (31.11 %) Finance 4 12 (26.67 %) Microsoft 5 9 (20.00 %) Oracle 5 9 (20.00 %) MS Project 5 9 (20.00 %) ITIL 5 9 (20.00 %) SAN 6 7 (15.56 %) Management Information System 7 6 (13.33 %) MS Office 7 6 (13.33 %) ERP 8 5 (11.11 %) Firewall 8 5 (11.11 %) PRINCE 8 5 (11.11 %) Cisco 8 5 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner

9 4 (8.889 %) Programme Management 9 4 (8.889 %) Service Management 9 4 (8.889 %) Change Management 10 3 (6.667 %) MS Excel 10 3 (6.667 %) Active Directory 10 3 (6.667 %) UNIX 10 3 (6.667 %) Java 10 3 (6.667 %) Migration 10 3 (6.667 %) Oracle ERP 10 3 (6.667 %) QA 10 3 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 11 2 (4.444 %) Release Management 11 2 (4.444 %) Performance Management 11 2 (4.444 %) ISO27001 11 2 (4.444 %) Technical Architecture

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 1 (2.222 %) HTML 1 1 (2.222 %) .NET 1 1 (2.222 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 9 (20.00 %) MS Project 2 6 (13.33 %) MS Office 3 3 (6.667 %) MS Excel 4 1 (2.222 %) MS Visio 4 1 (2.222 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) Oracle ERP 2 2 (4.444 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 9 (20.00 %) SAN 2 5 (11.11 %) Firewall 3 2 (4.444 %) ATM 3 2 (4.444 %) ISDN 3 2 (4.444 %) LAN 4 1 (2.222 %) VoIP 4 1 (2.222 %) WAN 4 1 (2.222 %) Ethernet 4 1 (2.222 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (2.222 %) Intrusion Detection 4 1 (2.222 %) DWDM 4 1 (2.222 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server
General 1 22 (48.89 %) Government 2 14 (31.11 %) Finance 3 2 (4.444 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (4.444 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.222 %) Construction 4 1 (2.222 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.222 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 22 (48.89 %) Project Manager 2 7 (15.56 %) Coordinator 2 7 (15.56 %) Analyst 2 7 (15.56 %) Technical Project Manager 2 7 (15.56 %) Technical Manager 3 5 (11.11 %) Technical Architect 3 5 (11.11 %) Architect 4 4 (8.889 %) Business Analyst 4 4 (8.889 %) Programme Coordinator 5 3 (6.667 %) Programme Manager 5 3 (6.667 %) Project Coordinator 6 2 (4.444 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 2 (4.444 %) CRM Project Manager 6 2 (4.444 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 2 (4.444 %) CRM Manager 7 1 (2.222 %) Implementation Project Manager 7 1 (2.222 %) Data Manager 7 1 (2.222 %) Financial Business Analyst 7 1 (2.222 %) Data Centre Manager 7 1 (2.222 %) IT Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (15.56 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.222 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 3 (6.667 %) UNIX 2 2 (4.444 %) Windows 2 2 (4.444 %) Solaris 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (44.44 %) Project Management 2 9 (20.00 %) ITIL 3 6 (13.33 %) ERP 4 5 (11.11 %) PRINCE 5 4 (8.889 %) Service Management 5 4 (8.889 %) Change Management 5 4 (8.889 %) Programme Management 6 3 (6.667 %) Migration 6 3 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (4.444 %) Technical Architecture 7 2 (4.444 %) Release Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Performance Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Risk Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Workflow 7 2 (4.444 %) Contact Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Document Management 7 2 (4.444 %) CRM 8 1 (2.222 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (2.222 %) Disaster Recovery 8 1 (2.222 %) Data Security	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.667 %) Java 2 1 (2.222 %) JavaScript 2 1 (2.222 %) SQL 2 1 (2.222 %) C
Qualifications 1 5 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (4.444 %) MCSE 2 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (4.444 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (2.222 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (2.222 %) MAPM	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.667 %) QA 2 2 (4.444 %) ISO27001 3 1 (2.222 %) Basel II
System Software 1 3 (6.667 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (2.222 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 12 (26.67 %) Microsoft 2 9 (20.00 %) Oracle 3 5 (11.11 %) Cisco 4 2 (4.444 %) VERITAS 5 1 (2.222 %) Accenture 5 1 (2.222 %) VMware 5 1 (2.222 %) Atos Origin 5 1 (2.222 %) IBM 5 1 (2.222 %) SAP 5 1 (2.222 %) HP 5 1 (2.222 %) Citrix 5 1 (2.222 %) Nokia