South East PRINCE Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PRINCE skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE
Location Aberdeen Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	175	191
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	57	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.108 %
As % of the category below	0.945 %	1.242 %
Daily rates quoted	26	52
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£322
Average daily rate	£369	£352
% change on same period last year	+4.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£378
% change on same period last year	-6.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.50	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£19.25	£15.50
% change on same period last year	+24.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.86	£24.92
% change on same period last year	+7.76 %
Processes & Methodologies South East
Matching contract IT job ads	6031	7974
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	9.841 %	8.736 %
Daily rates quoted	1750	2371
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£351
Average daily rate	£375	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	599	850
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.74	£28.66
Average hourly rate	£28.53	£30.28
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.32	£31.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.25	£29.44
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
PRINCE England

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.

PRINCE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

PRINCE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PRINCE across the South East region.

PRINCE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

PRINCE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE across the South East region.

PRINCE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE within the South East region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Middlesex	-1	16	£417	+10.01 %
Berkshire	+18	14	£336	+9.09 %
Buckinghamshire	+20	9	£346	+4.97 %
Surrey	+36	3	£600	+45.45 %
Hampshire	+10	3	£575	+51.02 %
Oxfordshire	-7	2	£211	-
Isle of Wight	-	2	£450	-
Kent	+2	1	-	-
Thames Valley	+17	1	£250	-
Home Counties	-	1	£250	-
Sussex	+13	1	-	-

PRINCE England

PRINCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE.

1 78 (49.68 %) Project Management 2 72 (45.86 %) PRINCE2 3 41 (26.11 %) MS Project 4 39 (24.84 %) ITIL 5 35 (22.29 %) Government 6 31 (19.75 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 27 (17.20 %) Security Cleared 8 24 (15.29 %) Microsoft 9 23 (14.65 %) Finance 10 22 (14.01 %) SC Cleared 11 18 (11.46 %) Telecoms 12 17 (10.83 %) Programme Management 12 17 (10.83 %) PMI 13 16 (10.19 %) IBM 13 16 (10.19 %) Project Planning

14 14 (8.917 %) MS Excel 15 11 (7.006 %) QA 16 10 (6.369 %) Stakeholder Management 16 10 (6.369 %) MS Office 17 9 (5.732 %) SAP 17 9 (5.732 %) Cisco 18 8 (5.096 %) MS Visio 18 8 (5.096 %) Degree 19 7 (4.459 %) Retail 19 7 (4.459 %) VoIP 19 7 (4.459 %) WAN 19 7 (4.459 %) Change Management 20 6 (3.822 %) Mainframe 20 6 (3.822 %) Service Delivery 20 6 (3.822 %) DB2

PRINCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.637 %) .NET 1 1 (0.637 %) SOAP 1 1 (0.637 %) XML 1 1 (0.637 %) JMS 1 1 (0.637 %) SAP Basis 1 1 (0.637 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.548 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (2.548 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 4 (2.548 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (1.911 %) CICS 3 1 (0.637 %) CMS 3 1 (0.637 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (0.637 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 41 (26.11 %) MS Project 2 14 (8.917 %) MS Excel 3 10 (6.369 %) MS Office 4 8 (5.096 %) MS Visio 5 3 (1.911 %) MS PowerPoint 6 2 (1.274 %) Spreadsheet 7 1 (0.637 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 1 (0.637 %) SAP FI 1 1 (0.637 %) SAP PP 1 1 (0.637 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (0.637 %) Oracle ERP 1 1 (0.637 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (0.637 %) SAP FI/CO 1 1 (0.637 %) Summit 1 1 (0.637 %) SAP CO 1 1 (0.637 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 7 (4.459 %) VoIP 1 7 (4.459 %) WAN 2 6 (3.822 %) LAN 3 4 (2.548 %) VPN 3 4 (2.548 %) SAN 4 2 (1.274 %) Internet 4 2 (1.274 %) 3G 5 1 (0.637 %) MPLS 5 1 (0.637 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.637 %) Wireless 5 1 (0.637 %) Frame Relay 5 1 (0.637 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (0.637 %) BSS 5 1 (0.637 %) Cisco IPT 5 1 (0.637 %) FTP 5 1 (0.637 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (3.822 %) DB2 2 2 (1.274 %) PowerCenter 2 2 (1.274 %) SAP BW 3 1 (0.637 %) EDRMS 3 1 (0.637 %) GIS 3 1 (0.637 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 1 (0.637 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 35 (22.29 %) Government 2 23 (14.65 %) Finance 3 18 (11.46 %) Telecoms 4 7 (4.459 %) Retail 5 6 (3.822 %) Banking 5 6 (3.822 %) Insurance 5 6 (3.822 %) Local Government 6 4 (2.548 %) Financial Institution 7 3 (1.911 %) Pensions 8 2 (1.274 %) Retail Banking 8 2 (1.274 %) Education 9 1 (0.637 %) Electric 9 1 (0.637 %) Health 9 1 (0.637 %) Manufacturing 9 1 (0.637 %) Automotive 9 1 (0.637 %) Billing 9 1 (0.637 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 68 (43.31 %) Project Manager 2 18 (11.46 %) Analyst 3 16 (10.19 %) Coordinator 4 15 (9.554 %) Project Coordinator 5 12 (7.643 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 5 12 (7.643 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 9 (5.732 %) Business Analyst 7 6 (3.822 %) Delivery Manager 8 5 (3.185 %) Programme Manager 8 5 (3.185 %) Test Manager 8 5 (3.185 %) Quality Manager 8 5 (3.185 %) Service Manager 9 4 (2.548 %) Project Administrator 9 4 (2.548 %) Administrator 9 4 (2.548 %) Services Delivery Manager 9 4 (2.548 %) Senior Manager 9 4 (2.548 %) Programme Planner 9 4 (2.548 %) PMO Analyst 10 3 (1.911 %) NHS Project Manager 10 3 (1.911 %) SAP Manager	Miscellaneous 1 17 (10.83 %) PMI 2 6 (3.822 %) Mainframe 3 5 (3.185 %) NHS 4 4 (2.548 %) Management Information System 4 4 (2.548 %) CCTV 4 4 (2.548 %) Computer Science 4 4 (2.548 %) IBM Mainframe 5 3 (1.911 %) Economics 6 1 (0.637 %) Spanish Language 6 1 (0.637 %) AS400 6 1 (0.637 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.637 %) IVR 6 1 (0.637 %) DTV 6 1 (0.637 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 5 (3.185 %) Windows 2 4 (2.548 %) AIX 3 2 (1.274 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (1.274 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.637 %) Windows Server 2008 4 1 (0.637 %) HPUX 4 1 (0.637 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 78 (49.68 %) Project Management 2 72 (45.86 %) PRINCE2 3 39 (24.84 %) ITIL 4 27 (17.20 %) Security Cleared 5 22 (14.01 %) SC Cleared 6 17 (10.83 %) Programme Management 7 16 (10.19 %) Project Planning 8 10 (6.369 %) Stakeholder Management 9 7 (4.459 %) Change Management 10 6 (3.822 %) Service Delivery 10 6 (3.822 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 5 (3.185 %) Risk Management 11 5 (3.185 %) Service Management 12 4 (2.548 %) Quality Management 12 4 (2.548 %) Six Sigma 12 4 (2.548 %) CRM 12 4 (2.548 %) Migration 12 4 (2.548 %) Configuration Management 13 3 (1.911 %) Systems Analysis 13 3 (1.911 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 5 (3.185 %) COBOL 2 2 (1.274 %) JCL 3 1 (0.637 %) Jython 3 1 (0.637 %) Java 3 1 (0.637 %) SQL 3 1 (0.637 %) VB 3 1 (0.637 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 31 (19.75 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 8 (5.096 %) Degree 3 4 (2.548 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 4 (2.548 %) PMP 3 4 (2.548 %) PMI Certification 4 2 (1.274 %) ITIL Certification 4 2 (1.274 %) MAPM 4 2 (1.274 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (0.637 %) CCDA 5 1 (0.637 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.637 %) ECDL 5 1 (0.637 %) CCSA 5 1 (0.637 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (7.006 %) QA 2 4 (2.548 %) COBIT 3 2 (1.274 %) Basel II 4 1 (0.637 %) SLA 4 1 (0.637 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.637 %) BS25999	System Software 1 5 (3.185 %) Active Directory 2 4 (2.548 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 1 (0.637 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 24 (15.29 %) Microsoft 2 16 (10.19 %) IBM 3 9 (5.732 %) SAP 3 9 (5.732 %) Cisco 4 4 (2.548 %) Oracle 4 4 (2.548 %) HP 4 4 (2.548 %) VMware 5 2 (1.274 %) Nortel 6 1 (0.637 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (0.637 %) 3Com 6 1 (0.637 %) ProCurve 6 1 (0.637 %) Sun