PRINCE2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

PRINCE 2
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for PRINCE2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PRINCE2 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 91 68
Rank change year-on-year -17 -23 +43
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 403 641 1,079
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.97% 2.74% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 3.06% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 490 842
10th Percentile £262 £233 £230
25th Percentile £391 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £602
UK median daily rate £505 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -0.98% +7.37% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 29 54
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.13 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £42.50 £15.90
Median hourly rate £33.07 £45.00 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% +165.80% -35.15%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.50 £32.49
90th Percentile £87.80 £73.00 £47.50
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £45.00 £34.69
% change year-on-year -26.52% +29.73% +30.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

PRINCE2 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PRINCE2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +22 102 £465 -11.43% 42
South East -27 85 £510 +2.00% 77
Scotland +12 53 £438 -1.24% 10
North of England -24 53 £450 -7.69% 90
Midlands -34 50 £500 +5.26% 54
East of England +2 40 £300 -35.14% 35
North West -2 39 £391 -19.90% 58
West Midlands -17 36 £550 +12.82% 28
Wales +18 16 £600 +233.33% 12
East Midlands -13 14 £450 -2.70% 26
Yorkshire -17 11 £525 - 23
Northern Ireland +6 5 £363 -14.71% 1
North East +13 3 £525 +56.72% 10
PRINCE2
UK

PRINCE2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.23%) Confluence
3 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) Moodle
4 1 (0.25%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 70 (17.37%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (6.45%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (2.73%) Acrobat
6 9 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (1.99%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.74%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Primavera
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (5.71%) Azure
2 11 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (1.49%) SaaS
4 4 (0.99%) OCI
5 3 (0.74%) AWS
5 3 (0.74%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.50%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.25%) IaaS
7 1 (0.25%) PaaS
7 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.98%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.99%) LAN
4 6 (1.49%) Internet
5 5 (1.24%) WAN
6 4 (0.99%) Firewall
6 4 (0.99%) Network Security
7 2 (0.50%) DHCP
7 2 (0.50%) DNS
7 2 (0.50%) SAN
7 2 (0.50%) Skype
7 2 (0.50%) SMTP
7 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.50%) Wireless
7 2 (0.50%) WLAN
8 1 (0.25%) Intranet
8 1 (0.25%) NAS
8 1 (0.25%) SNMP
8 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.24%) Electronic Patient Records
1 5 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.50%) Power BI
4 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 42 (10.42%) JIRA
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (45.66%) Social Skills
2 154 (38.21%) Finance
3 120 (29.78%) Public Sector
4 79 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (14.39%) Presentation Skills
6 33 (8.19%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (5.96%) Marketing
9 23 (5.71%) Manufacturing
10 21 (5.21%) Local Government
11 16 (3.97%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.48%) Legal
13 8 (1.99%) Banking
14 7 (1.74%) Electronics
14 7 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.49%) Law
16 5 (1.24%) Military
16 5 (1.24%) Retail
17 4 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 205 (50.87%) Project Manager
2 59 (14.64%) Senior
3 47 (11.66%) Senior Manager
4 42 (10.42%) Lead
5 39 (9.68%) IT Manager
6 33 (8.19%) IT Project Manager
7 27 (6.70%) Project Leader
8 21 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (4.96%) Analyst
10 19 (4.71%) Senior Project Manager
11 17 (4.22%) Programme Manager
12 14 (3.47%) SC Cleared Project Manager
13 13 (3.23%) Security Manager
14 11 (2.73%) Bid Manager
14 11 (2.73%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.73%) Senior Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.48%) Infrastructure Manager
15 10 (2.48%) Technical Manager
16 9 (2.23%) Security Project Manager
16 9 (2.23%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.50%) ADO
2 2 (0.50%) CSS
2 2 (0.50%) HTML
2 2 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (0.50%) Middleware
2 2 (0.50%) REST
2 2 (0.50%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.25%) .NET
3 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.20%) Management Information System
2 15 (3.72%) PMI
3 11 (2.73%) NHS
4 10 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (0.99%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.74%) Robotics
8 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.50%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.50%) FMCG
9 2 (0.50%) PKI
10 1 (0.25%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.25%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.25%) Smartcard
10 1 (0.25%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.22%) Windows
2 8 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.49%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.50%) Linux
4 2 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Solaris
5 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (73.70%) Project Management
2 215 (53.35%) Agile
3 138 (34.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 108 (26.80%) Project Delivery
5 84 (20.84%) Change Management
6 75 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (15.63%) Risk Management
8 56 (13.90%) Project Planning
9 49 (12.16%) Decision-Making
9 49 (12.16%) ITIL
10 47 (11.66%) Waterfall
11 43 (10.67%) Scrum
12 40 (9.93%) Budget Management
13 39 (9.68%) Business Case
14 37 (9.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 36 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (8.44%) Workshop Facilitation
17 31 (7.69%) Data Management
18 28 (6.95%) Programme Management
19 26 (6.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.49%) SQL
2 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
2 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 130 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 88 (21.84%) Degree
3 77 (19.11%) SC Cleared
4 74 (18.36%) PMI Certification
5 69 (17.12%) PMP
6 52 (12.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 48 (11.91%) DV Cleared
8 47 (11.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 42 (10.42%) APMP
10 9 (2.23%) ISEB
10 9 (2.23%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.74%) CCNA
11 7 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.49%) MCSE
12 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.99%) CISM
13 4 (0.99%) CISSP
13 4 (0.99%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (15.38%) PMO
2 11 (2.73%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (2.73%) QA
3 9 (2.23%) SLA
4 6 (1.49%) P3O
5 3 (0.74%) COBIT
6 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) COREP
7 1 (0.25%) FINREP
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.50%) OPNET
2 2 (0.50%) SCCM
2 2 (0.50%) SCOM
3 1 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.25%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 101 (25.06%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.46%) SAP
3 12 (2.98%) Adobe
3 12 (2.98%) Oracle
4 7 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.49%) Cadence
6 5 (1.24%) VMware
7 4 (0.99%) NEC
8 3 (0.74%) Sage
8 3 (0.74%) Siemens
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) Avaya
9 2 (0.50%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (0.50%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.50%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.50%) Remedy
9 2 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.50%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.25%) Isilon