Somerset PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Argyll and Bute Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands 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 Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport 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 Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian 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 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	31
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	27	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	13.99 %	3.756 %
Daily rates quoted	13	6
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£246
Average daily rate	£446	£333
% change on same period last year	+33.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£484	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£381
% change on same period last year	+4.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.65	£36.63
% change on same period last year	-19.05 %
Processes & Methodologies Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	193	213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.254 %	0.226 %
Daily rates quoted	49	40
Average minimum daily rate	£430	£284
Average daily rate	£466	£339
% change on same period last year	+37.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£503	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.20	£30.88
Average hourly rate	£37.92	£32.53
% change on same period last year	+16.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.64	£34.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
PRINCE2 South West

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 Somerset 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 Somerset region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 4 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 Somerset region.

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing PRINCE2 within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Bath	-6	6	£515	+51.64 %
Yeovil	-	4	£350	-
Taunton	-	3	£375	-
Street	-	2	£463	-

PRINCE2 South West

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 21 (36.21 %) Project Management 2 19 (32.76 %) Security Cleared 3 17 (29.31 %) SC Cleared 3 17 (29.31 %) Government 4 15 (25.86 %) Scrum 5 13 (22.41 %) Retail 6 12 (20.69 %) ITIL 6 12 (20.69 %) RAD 7 11 (18.97 %) DSDM 7 11 (18.97 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 10 (17.24 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 9 (15.52 %) Service Delivery 10 8 (13.79 %) Programme Management 10 8 (13.79 %) E-Commerce 10 8 (13.79 %) Agile Software Development

11 6 (10.34 %) PCI DSS 12 5 (8.621 %) CRM 12 5 (8.621 %) RUP 13 4 (6.897 %) ERP 13 4 (6.897 %) MS Visio 13 4 (6.897 %) Migration 13 4 (6.897 %) Stakeholder Management 13 4 (6.897 %) Use Case 14 3 (5.172 %) IT Governance 14 3 (5.172 %) Marketing 14 3 (5.172 %) Project Planning 14 3 (5.172 %) COBIT 14 3 (5.172 %) TOGAF 14 3 (5.172 %) SAP CRM 14 3 (5.172 %) Health

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 Platforms 1 1 (1.724 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.724 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 4 (6.897 %) MS Visio 2 3 (5.172 %) MS Office 3 2 (3.448 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.724 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 3 (5.172 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (1.724 %) SalesLogix	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.724 %) Internet
General 1 17 (29.31 %) Government 2 13 (22.41 %) Retail 3 3 (5.172 %) Finance 3 3 (5.172 %) Health 3 3 (5.172 %) Marketing 4 2 (3.448 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.724 %) Online Banking 5 1 (1.724 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.724 %) Legal 5 1 (1.724 %) Military 5 1 (1.724 %) Banking 5 1 (1.724 %) Education 5 1 (1.724 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 25 (43.10 %) Project Manager 2 14 (24.14 %) Programme Manager 3 12 (20.69 %) Analyst 4 9 (15.52 %) Business Analyst 5 6 (10.34 %) Senior Project Manager 5 6 (10.34 %) Senior Manager 6 3 (5.172 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 7 2 (3.448 %) Product Manager 7 2 (3.448 %) Delivery Manager 7 2 (3.448 %) Consultant 8 1 (1.724 %) Development Manager 8 1 (1.724 %) Implementation Consultant 8 1 (1.724 %) Sales Manager 8 1 (1.724 %) Implementation Manager 8 1 (1.724 %) Development Project Manager 8 1 (1.724 %) Applications Consultant 8 1 (1.724 %) Technical Consultant 8 1 (1.724 %) Senior Business Analyst 8 1 (1.724 %) Operations Manager 8 1 (1.724 %) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.724 %) Client/Server 1 1 (1.724 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 2 (3.448 %) Windows 1 2 (3.448 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (36.21 %) Project Management 2 19 (32.76 %) Security Cleared 3 17 (29.31 %) SC Cleared 4 15 (25.86 %) Scrum 5 12 (20.69 %) ITIL 5 12 (20.69 %) RAD 6 11 (18.97 %) DSDM 7 9 (15.52 %) Service Delivery 8 8 (13.79 %) Programme Management 8 8 (13.79 %) Agile Software Development 8 8 (13.79 %) E-Commerce 9 5 (8.621 %) CRM 9 5 (8.621 %) RUP 10 4 (6.897 %) ERP 10 4 (6.897 %) Use Case 10 4 (6.897 %) Migration 10 4 (6.897 %) Stakeholder Management 11 3 (5.172 %) IT Governance 11 3 (5.172 %) Project Planning 11 3 (5.172 %) TOGAF	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.448 %) VBA 2 1 (1.724 %) C
Qualifications 1 11 (18.97 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 10 (17.24 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (3.448 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (1.724 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (10.34 %) PCI DSS 2 3 (5.172 %) COBIT 3 2 (3.448 %) SLA
Vendors 1 3 (5.172 %) Microsoft 1 3 (5.172 %) SAP 2 2 (3.448 %) Cognos 3 1 (1.724 %) Cisco 3 1 (1.724 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.724 %) Dell 3 1 (1.724 %) EMC 3 1 (1.724 %) Agresso 3 1 (1.724 %) Sage 3 1 (1.724 %) CheckPoint