Scotland PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Scotland 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stirlingshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	111
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	28	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	9.121 %	2.639 %
Daily rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£300
Average daily rate	£354	£313
% change on same period last year	+13.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£386
% change on same period last year	+6.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£39.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.95	£40.17
% change on same period last year	-20.47 %
Qualifications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	307	341
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.394 %	0.383 %
Daily rates quoted	54	40
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£284
Average daily rate	£270	£296
% change on same period last year	-8.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£283	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.38	£18.15
Average hourly rate	£24.25	£19.76
% change on same period last year	+22.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.13	£21.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.74	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
PRINCE2 Certification UK

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the Scotland 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	Glasgow	+17	14	£308	-
2	Edinburgh	+9	9	£333	-5.00 %
3	Stirling	-	1	£315	-

PRINCE2 Certification UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 45 (97.83 %) PRINCE2 2 14 (30.43 %) Project Management 3 9 (19.57 %) Finance 4 8 (17.39 %) Change Management 5 7 (15.22 %) Banking 5 7 (15.22 %) MS Project 6 6 (13.04 %) ITIL 6 6 (13.04 %) Stakeholder Management 7 5 (10.87 %) PRINCE 7 5 (10.87 %) Project Planning 8 4 (8.696 %) Retail 9 3 (6.522 %) Migration 9 3 (6.522 %) Risk Management 9 3 (6.522 %) Nortel 9 3 (6.522 %) Cisco

9 3 (6.522 %) Pensions 9 3 (6.522 %) Retail Banking 10 2 (4.348 %) Supplier Management 10 2 (4.348 %) Microsoft 10 2 (4.348 %) MS Office 10 2 (4.348 %) Oracle 10 2 (4.348 %) Avaya 10 2 (4.348 %) Six Sigma 10 2 (4.348 %) Government 10 2 (4.348 %) Service Delivery 10 2 (4.348 %) IVR 11 1 (2.174 %) Data Analysis 11 1 (2.174 %) Insurance 11 1 (2.174 %) Data Management 11 1 (2.174 %) Agile Software Development

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (2.174 %) .NET	Applications 1 7 (15.22 %) MS Project 2 2 (4.348 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.174 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.174 %) LAN 1 1 (2.174 %) WAN 1 1 (2.174 %) Nortel Meridian	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.174 %) SAP BI
Development Applications 1 1 (2.174 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 9 (19.57 %) Finance 2 7 (15.22 %) Banking 3 4 (8.696 %) Retail 4 3 (6.522 %) Pensions 4 3 (6.522 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (4.348 %) Government 6 1 (2.174 %) Health 6 1 (2.174 %) Electric 6 1 (2.174 %) Marketing 6 1 (2.174 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 38 (82.61 %) Project Manager 2 3 (6.522 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 3 (6.522 %) Technical Project Manager 2 3 (6.522 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 3 (6.522 %) Technical Manager 2 3 (6.522 %) Project Support Officer 2 3 (6.522 %) Project Officer 3 2 (4.348 %) Web Project Manager 3 2 (4.348 %) Programme Planner 3 2 (4.348 %) Web Manager 3 2 (4.348 %) Business Project Manager 3 2 (4.348 %) Business Manager 3 2 (4.348 %) Project Leader 4 1 (2.174 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 1 (2.174 %) Release Manager 4 1 (2.174 %) Service Manager 4 1 (2.174 %) Senior Project Manager 4 1 (2.174 %) Development Project Manager 4 1 (2.174 %) Delivery Manager 4 1 (2.174 %) Development Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.348 %) IVR 2 1 (2.174 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (2.174 %) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies 1 45 (97.83 %) PRINCE2 2 14 (30.43 %) Project Management 3 8 (17.39 %) Change Management 4 6 (13.04 %) ITIL 4 6 (13.04 %) Stakeholder Management 5 5 (10.87 %) PRINCE 5 5 (10.87 %) Project Planning 6 3 (6.522 %) Risk Management 6 3 (6.522 %) Migration 7 2 (4.348 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (4.348 %) Six Sigma 7 2 (4.348 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (2.174 %) Resource Management 8 1 (2.174 %) Risk Analysis 8 1 (2.174 %) Matrix Management 8 1 (2.174 %) Time Management 8 1 (2.174 %) Service Management 8 1 (2.174 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (2.174 %) ERP 8 1 (2.174 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.174 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (2.174 %) Postgraduate 1 1 (2.174 %) CCSP 1 1 (2.174 %) CCNP 1 1 (2.174 %) CCNA 1 1 (2.174 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (2.174 %) CCSA 1 1 (2.174 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 1 (2.174 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 3 (6.522 %) Cisco 1 3 (6.522 %) Nortel 2 2 (4.348 %) Avaya 2 2 (4.348 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.348 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.174 %) SAP 3 1 (2.174 %) Progress 3 1 (2.174 %) Peregrine 3 1 (2.174 %) Agresso 3 1 (2.174 %) Primavera 3 1 (2.174 %) Stellent 3 1 (2.174 %) Planview