The first table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 20 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 Scotland 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PRINCE 2
Rank 33 20 37
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +17
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 118 132 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 4.642% 5.004% 2.970%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.701% 7.838% 4.548%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 57 39
Average daily rate £360 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £243 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £445 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £385
% change year-on-year
- -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £108.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -67.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £24.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+56.25% -23.80%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1761 1684 1825
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.28% 63.84% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 810 977
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 61 45
Average hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.53% -15.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
PRINCE2
UK

PRINCE2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland PRINCE2 Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -10 60 £338 -2.17% 2
Edinburgh -14 37 £406 -4.41% 5
West Lothian +1 6 £390 - 1
Aberdeen 0 4 £368 -5.16% 2
Stirling -3 3 £386 - 3
Renfrewshire - - - -
PRINCE2
UK

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 115 (54.25%) Project Management
2 76 (35.85%) Finance
3 68 (32.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 36 (16.98%) Banking
6 30 (14.15%) PMI Certification
7 26 (12.26%) Programme Management
8 24 (11.32%) MS Project
9 23 (10.85%) Change Management
10 22 (10.38%) Microsoft
11 20 (9.434%) PMP
11 20 (9.434%) ITIL
11 20 (9.434%) Oracle
12 15 (7.075%) MS Excel
12 15 (7.075%) Degree
12 15 (7.075%) Resource Management
12 15 (7.075%) Waterfall
13 14 (6.604%) Time Management
13 14 (6.604%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 14 (6.604%) J2EE
14 13 (6.132%) Java
14 13 (6.132%) SharePoint
14 13 (6.132%) MS PowerPoint
14 13 (6.132%) Migration
15 12 (5.660%) Agile Software Development
16 11 (5.189%) MS Office
16 11 (5.189%) PMI
16 11 (5.189%) Project Planning
17 10 (4.717%) Document Management
17 10 (4.717%) PRINCE

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (6.604%) J2EE
2 5 (2.358%) .NET
3 3 (1.415%) CSS
4 2 (0.943%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.472%) Web Services
5 1 (0.472%) XML
5 1 (0.472%) Spring
5 1 (0.472%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 13 (6.132%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.302%) Lync
3 4 (1.887%) WordPress
4 2 (0.943%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.472%) CMS
5 1 (0.472%) LiveLink
5 1 (0.472%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.472%) IIS
5 1 (0.472%) Documentum
5 1 (0.472%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.472%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (0.472%) Apache
5 1 (0.472%) MTS
5 1 (0.472%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.472%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 24 (11.32%) MS Project
2 15 (7.075%) MS Excel
3 13 (6.132%) MS PowerPoint
4 11 (5.189%) MS Office
5 5 (2.358%) Office 365
6 2 (0.943%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.472%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.472%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.358%) Intranet
2 3 (1.415%) Wireless
2 3 (1.415%) VoIP
3 2 (0.943%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (0.943%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.943%) WLAN
3 2 (0.943%) WAN
3 2 (0.943%) LAN
3 2 (0.943%) Firewall
4 1 (0.472%) ADSL
4 1 (0.472%) VPN
4 1 (0.472%) Internet
4 1 (0.472%) Extranet
4 1 (0.472%) MPLS
4 1 (0.472%) BGP
4 1 (0.472%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.472%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.472%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.415%) SQL Server
1 3 (1.415%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.472%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 3 (1.415%) JIRA
2 1 (0.472%) Ant
2 1 (0.472%) JUnit
2 1 (0.472%) Subversion
2 1 (0.472%) Maven
2 1 (0.472%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.472%) Trac
2 1 (0.472%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (35.85%) Finance
2 36 (16.98%) Banking
3 7 (3.302%) Telecoms
4 5 (2.358%) Billing
5 3 (1.415%) Front Office
5 3 (1.415%) Retail
5 3 (1.415%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.943%) Retail Banking
6 2 (0.943%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.472%) Back Office
7 1 (0.472%) Legal
7 1 (0.472%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 131 (61.79%) Project Manager
2 21 (9.906%) Infrastructure Manager
3 20 (9.434%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 18 (8.491%) Analyst
5 14 (6.604%) Programme Manager
6 12 (5.660%) IT Project Manager
7 10 (4.717%) ICT Manager
7 10 (4.717%) Software Manager
7 10 (4.717%) Development Manager
8 9 (4.245%) Software Development Manager
9 8 (3.774%) SharePoint Project Manager
9 8 (3.774%) PMO Analyst
10 7 (3.302%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.302%) PMO Manager
11 6 (2.830%) Business Manager
11 6 (2.830%) Developer
11 6 (2.830%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.830%) Technical Project Manager
11 6 (2.830%) Technical Manager
11 6 (2.830%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.189%) PMI
2 7 (3.302%) Economics
3 5 (2.358%) Computer Science
4 4 (1.887%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.415%) LIMS
5 3 (1.415%) NHS
6 2 (0.943%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.943%) SaaS
6 2 (0.943%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.943%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.472%) Equities
7 1 (0.472%) VLE
7 1 (0.472%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.472%) PACS
7 1 (0.472%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.472%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.774%) Windows
2 5 (2.358%) Windows 7
3 2 (0.943%) UNIX
4 1 (0.472%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.472%) AIX
4 1 (0.472%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (54.25%) Project Management
2 68 (32.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (12.26%) Programme Management
4 23 (10.85%) Change Management
5 20 (9.434%) ITIL
6 15 (7.075%) Resource Management
6 15 (7.075%) Waterfall
7 14 (6.604%) Time Management
8 13 (6.132%) Migration
9 12 (5.660%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (5.189%) Project Planning
11 10 (4.717%) Document Management
11 10 (4.717%) PRINCE
12 9 (4.245%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (3.302%) Business Analysis
13 7 (3.302%) Supplier Management
13 7 (3.302%) Change Control
13 7 (3.302%) Infrastructure Management
14 6 (2.830%) Asset Management
14 6 (2.830%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.132%) Java
2 4 (1.887%) SQL
3 3 (1.415%) C#
4 2 (0.943%) C
Qualifications
1 53 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 30 (14.15%) PMI Certification
3 20 (9.434%) PMP
4 15 (7.075%) Degree
5 14 (6.604%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (1.887%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.415%) ISEB
8 2 (0.943%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.943%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.943%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.472%) MBA
9 1 (0.472%) CCVP
9 1 (0.472%) MCSE
9 1 (0.472%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.472%) CCNP
9 1 (0.472%) CBAP
9 1 (0.472%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.774%) QA
2 1 (0.472%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.943%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.472%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.434%) Oracle
3 4 (1.887%) Cisco
4 3 (1.415%) IBM
4 3 (1.415%) iSOFT
5 2 (0.943%) VMware
6 1 (0.472%) SAP
6 1 (0.472%) Nortel
6 1 (0.472%) Avaya
6 1 (0.472%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.472%) Lotus
6 1 (0.472%) Sage
6 1 (0.472%) Primavera
6 1 (0.472%) Planview
6 1 (0.472%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.472%) Cadis
Livingston, West Lothian
Our client, a renowned broadcaster and digital media provider, has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager for an initial 3 month contract starting asap based in Livingston.....
Experis IT
Rate: £450 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
My client a leader in it's field has an immediate need for an experienced Project Manager to join the business for a national Kronos & Northgate Implementation. Key...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will require excellent organisational and leadership skills, the ability to understand complex information and assess requirements, a methodical and structured approach to projects, a good understanding of...
FPSG Connect
Posted: 17 June 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
We are looking for a PM with years of experience in overseeing the launch of new offices in remote locations. This includes everything from laying cables to telecoms...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £360 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will require excellent organisational and leadership skills, the ability to understand complex information and assess requirements, a methodical and structured approach to projects, a good understanding of...
FPSG Connect
Posted: 17 June 2013
Stirling, Scotland
Huxley Associates
Rate: £350 - £400 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: £300 - £360 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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