Suffolk PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 Certification in IT contracts within the Suffolk 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 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 Certification
Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	29
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	13.79 %	5.405 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£250
Average daily rate	£344	£275
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£379
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
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	£34.31	£29.43
% change on same period last year	+16.55 %
Qualifications Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	29	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.037 %
Daily rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£328
Average daily rate	£344	£339
% change on same period last year	+1.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£331
% change on same period last year	+0.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.84	£17.69
Average hourly rate	£26.84	£18.38
% change on same period last year	+46.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.84	£19.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.66	£25.83
% change on same period last year	-4.51 %
PRINCE2 Certification East of 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.

PRINCE2 Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Ipswich	-	3	£344	-

PRINCE2 Certification East of England

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification.

1 8 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (50.00 %) Project Management 3 4 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 4 (33.33 %) PRINCE 4 3 (25.00 %) Firewall 4 3 (25.00 %) PMP 4 3 (25.00 %) PMI Certification 4 3 (25.00 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (16.67 %) Robotics 5 2 (16.67 %) Network Security 5 2 (16.67 %) UNIX 5 2 (16.67 %) Windows 6 1 (8.333 %) Solaris 6 1 (8.333 %) Apache

6 1 (8.333 %) LDAP 6 1 (8.333 %) Broadband 6 1 (8.333 %) SSL 6 1 (8.333 %) Cisco 6 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 6 1 (8.333 %) Active Directory 6 1 (8.333 %) Internet 6 1 (8.333 %) Netcool 6 1 (8.333 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 6 1 (8.333 %) Java 6 1 (8.333 %) Oracle 6 1 (8.333 %) MS Project 6 1 (8.333 %) MS Office 6 1 (8.333 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (8.333 %) e-Health

PRINCE2 Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing PRINCE2 Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (8.333 %) Apache	Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Project 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 3 (25.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (16.67 %) Network Security 3 1 (8.333 %) LDAP 3 1 (8.333 %) Broadband 3 1 (8.333 %) SSL 3 1 (8.333 %) Internet	General 1 4 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (8.333 %) Construction 2 1 (8.333 %) Government 2 1 (8.333 %) Games 2 1 (8.333 %) Music
Job Titles 1 10 (83.33 %) Project Manager 2 2 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 2 (16.67 %) Technical Project Manager 2 2 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 2 (16.67 %) Technical Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Software Project Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Project Officer 3 1 (8.333 %) Software Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Telecoms Project Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Development Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Junior Project Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Project Support Officer 3 1 (8.333 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 2 (16.67 %) Robotics 2 1 (8.333 %) EPoS 2 1 (8.333 %) e-Health
Operating Systems 1 2 (16.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (16.67 %) Windows 2 1 (8.333 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (50.00 %) Project Management 3 4 (33.33 %) PRINCE 4 3 (25.00 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (8.333 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (8.333 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (8.333 %) Java	Qualifications 1 3 (25.00 %) PMP 1 3 (25.00 %) PMI Certification
System Software 1 1 (8.333 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (8.333 %) Netcool 1 1 (8.333 %) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) Oracle 1 1 (8.333 %) Cisco 1 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft