The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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.

PRINCE 2
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank342825
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6Down-3
Matching contract IT job ads277030222729
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK4.680 %4.925 %4.956 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category7.005 %7.372 %7.879 %
Number of daily rates quoted167418051473
Average daily rate£400£450£390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11 %+15.38 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£260£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£388£350
% change year-on-year
-3.22 %+10.71 %
Number of hourly rates quoted443958
Average hourly rate£25.00£27.50£25.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %+8.91 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.78£17.80£10.58
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£39.69£59.60£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£30.50£25.00
% change year-on-year
-18.03 %+22.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
395424099234637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK66.81 %66.80 %62.91 %
Number of daily rates quoted227212330817347
Average daily rate£403£440£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.52 %+6.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£275£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£585£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£375£350
% change year-on-year
-2.66 %+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted127714631258
Average hourly rate£25.00£29.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79 %+16.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£13.50£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£30.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66 %+20.00 %

PRINCE2
Demand Trend

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

PRINCE2 Demand Trend

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK.

PRINCE2 Daily Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

PRINCE2 Daily Rate Histogram

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK.

PRINCE2 Hourly Rate Trend

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

PRINCE2 Hourly Rate Histogram

PRINCE2
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-62557£400-11.11 %
LondonUp+21217£430-11.34 %
South EastDown-1560£375-9.09 %
City of LondonUp+9334£470-4.56 %
South WestDown-13190£390-2.50 %
BerkshireDown-8150£399-0.31 %
East of EnglandDown-12146£400+6.66 %
North WestUp+9142£365+4.28 %
ScotlandUp+7133£400+6.66 %
YorkshireDown-8110£355+5.97 %
HampshireUp+15107£375-11.50 %
SurreyDown-893£360-24.26 %
West MidlandsDown-1293£340-9.33 %
BristolUp+579£350-4.10 %
West YorkshireDown-878£359+7.08 %
East MidlandsDown-863£375-0.99 %
ManchesterUp+562£400+14.28 %
EdinburghUp+653£425+13.33 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1952£388-1.89 %
ReadingDown-2446£363-4.60 %
LeedsDown-1445£374+12.48 %
GlasgowUp+2142£375+7.14 %
MiddlesexUp+640£320-36.00 %
CheshireUp+1439£400+37.93 %
WiltshireDown-638£440-1.89 %
Milton KeynesDown-1235£375+3.44 %
BedfordshireUp+534£344+10.00 %
HertfordshireDown-1633£413+9.63 %
WalesNo change032£356+26.10 %
NorthamptonshireUp+131£438+31.57 %

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

12715 (51.77 %)Project Management
21676 (31.96 %)Finance
3938 (17.89 %)PRINCE2 Certification
4888 (16.93 %)ITIL
5884 (16.86 %)Stakeholder Management
6784 (14.95 %)MS Project
7756 (14.42 %)PMI Certification
8719 (13.71 %)Banking
9669 (12.76 %)Microsoft
10563 (10.74 %)MS Excel
11548 (10.45 %)PRINCE
12545 (10.39 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
13496 (9.458 %)PMP
14490 (9.344 %)MS Office
15469 (8.944 %)Change Management
16424 (8.085 %)Degree
17417 (7.952 %)Security Cleared
18388 (7.399 %)PMI
19381 (7.265 %)Migration
20354 (6.751 %)Programme Management
21340 (6.484 %)Business Analysis
22334 (6.369 %)Risk Management
23333 (6.350 %)Telecoms
24331 (6.312 %)MS Visio
25297 (5.664 %)Retail
26294 (5.606 %)SharePoint
27277 (5.282 %)Change Control
28275 (5.244 %)Project Planning
29272 (5.187 %)SC Cleared
30268 (5.111 %)Oracle

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1169 (3.223 %).NET
272 (1.373 %)XML
370 (1.335 %)Web Services
462 (1.182 %)Middleware
544 (0.839 %)WebSphere
639 (0.744 %)J2EE
736 (0.686 %)HTML
825 (0.477 %)ASP.NET
921 (0.400 %)Ajax
1015 (0.286 %)jQuery
1015 (0.286 %)JMS
1015 (0.286 %)SOAP
1015 (0.286 %).NET Framework
1114 (0.267 %)Hibernate
1114 (0.267 %)ASP
1213 (0.248 %)CSS
1213 (0.248 %)JRules
1312 (0.229 %)Struts
1411 (0.210 %)DHTML
1411 (0.210 %)EJB
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1294 (5.606 %)SharePoint
255 (1.049 %)MS Exchange
352 (0.992 %)SharePoint 2010
448 (0.915 %)Office Project Server
543 (0.820 %)IIS
636 (0.686 %)Exchange Server 2010
727 (0.515 %)CMS
826 (0.496 %)WebLogic
923 (0.439 %)Lync
923 (0.439 %)Lotus Notes
1015 (0.286 %)Apache
1015 (0.286 %)BizTalk Server
1114 (0.267 %)SharePoint Server
1114 (0.267 %)JCAPS
1213 (0.248 %)Documentum
1311 (0.210 %)Exchange Server 2007
1410 (0.191 %)Oracle Application Server
159 (0.172 %)Tomcat
167 (0.133 %)Oracle Workflow
167 (0.133 %)ESB
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1784 (14.95 %)MS Project
2563 (10.74 %)MS Excel
3490 (9.344 %)MS Office
4331 (6.312 %)MS Visio
5233 (4.443 %)MS PowerPoint
627 (0.515 %)Spreadsheet
717 (0.324 %)Open Workbench
84 (0.076 %)InfoPath
93 (0.057 %)Office 365
102 (0.038 %)CATIA
111 (0.019 %)FreeHand
111 (0.019 %)Acrobat
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
158 (1.106 %)Dynamics CRM
229 (0.553 %)Oracle EBS R12
325 (0.477 %)Oracle EBS
421 (0.400 %)SAP CRM
520 (0.381 %)Oracle ERP
618 (0.343 %)Maximo
713 (0.248 %)Dynamics AX
812 (0.229 %)Oracle Applications
911 (0.210 %)SAP IS-U
911 (0.210 %)SAP HR
1010 (0.191 %)Agresso
119 (0.172 %)Oracle Financials
119 (0.172 %)ResourceLink
119 (0.172 %)Dynamics NAV
119 (0.172 %)SAP Oil and Gas
128 (0.153 %)RMDS
128 (0.153 %)SimCorp Dimension
128 (0.153 %)assyst
137 (0.133 %)Cognos Planning
137 (0.133 %)Summit
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1106 (2.021 %)WAN
289 (1.697 %)LAN
384 (1.602 %)SAN
471 (1.354 %)Firewall
559 (1.125 %)Internet
651 (0.973 %)VoIP
747 (0.896 %)Wireless
844 (0.839 %)Intranet
932 (0.610 %)Network Security
932 (0.610 %)MPLS
1026 (0.496 %)DNS
1123 (0.439 %)3G
1123 (0.439 %)Wi-Fi
1222 (0.420 %)VPN
1321 (0.400 %)TCP/IP
1420 (0.381 %)ATM
1420 (0.381 %)Unified Communications
1518 (0.343 %)Broadband
1616 (0.305 %)Radio Access Network
1714 (0.267 %)DHCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1136 (2.593 %)SQL Server
270 (1.335 %)Data Warehouse
336 (0.686 %)SQL Server Integration Services
427 (0.515 %)DB2
427 (0.515 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
525 (0.477 %)EDRMS
624 (0.458 %)ETL
723 (0.439 %)Oracle 11g
822 (0.420 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
920 (0.381 %)Crystal Reports
1019 (0.362 %)MS Access
1019 (0.362 %)Oracle 8/8i
1118 (0.343 %)SAP BW
1118 (0.343 %)Oracle 10g
1217 (0.324 %)SQL Server 2008
1316 (0.305 %)SQL Server 2005
1316 (0.305 %)Oracle Reports
1414 (0.267 %)Oracle BI EE
1513 (0.248 %)DTS
1513 (0.248 %)RDBMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
118 (0.343 %)Subversion
216 (0.305 %)JIRA
315 (0.286 %)ClearCase
410 (0.191 %)ClearQuest
410 (0.191 %)QuickTest Pro
410 (0.191 %)Oracle APEX
59 (0.172 %)Oracle Forms
68 (0.153 %)RequisitePro
68 (0.153 %)Rational DOORS
68 (0.153 %)Team Foundation Server
77 (0.133 %)Visual Studio
77 (0.133 %)TestDirector
77 (0.133 %)LoadRunner
85 (0.095 %)Rational Rose
85 (0.095 %)Ant
94 (0.076 %)Maven
94 (0.076 %)XDE
94 (0.076 %)JUnit
94 (0.076 %)Hudson
94 (0.076 %)Selenium
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11676 (31.96 %)Finance
2719 (13.71 %)Banking
3333 (6.350 %)Telecoms
4297 (5.664 %)Retail
5243 (4.634 %)Investment Banking
6110 (2.098 %)Legal
7104 (1.983 %)Marketing
898 (1.869 %)Financial Institution
987 (1.659 %)Back Office
1072 (1.373 %)Local Government
1166 (1.259 %)Retail Banking
1262 (1.182 %)Publishing
1262 (1.182 %)Front Office
1336 (0.686 %)Law
1336 (0.686 %)Billing
1435 (0.667 %)Manufacturing
1528 (0.534 %)Advertising
1619 (0.362 %)Pharmaceutical
1619 (0.362 %)Games
1718 (0.343 %)Corporate Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12809 (53.57 %)Project Manager
2740 (14.11 %)Analyst
3440 (8.391 %)Business Analyst
4285 (5.435 %)Programme Manager
5230 (4.386 %)Infrastructure Manager
6225 (4.291 %)IT Project Manager
7209 (3.986 %)Senior Manager
8208 (3.966 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
9191 (3.642 %)Senior Project Manager
10177 (3.375 %)PRINCE2 Project Manager
10177 (3.375 %)Technical Manager
11148 (2.822 %)Coordinator
12145 (2.765 %)Technical Project Manager
13131 (2.498 %)Consultant
14110 (2.098 %)Project Coordinator
15104 (1.983 %)PMO Analyst
16101 (1.926 %)Change Manager
16101 (1.926 %)Delivery Manager
1795 (1.812 %)Project Officer
1892 (1.754 %)Business Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1388 (7.399 %)PMI
2183 (3.490 %)NHS
3142 (2.708 %)Management Information System
460 (1.144 %)Credit Risk
550 (0.953 %)Derivative
647 (0.896 %)Fixed Income
742 (0.801 %)Market Risk
840 (0.763 %)Mainframe
939 (0.744 %)Computer Science
1033 (0.629 %)Equities
1033 (0.629 %)FMCG
1132 (0.610 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1229 (0.553 %)Clustering
1328 (0.534 %)CMDB
1328 (0.534 %)Reference Data
1425 (0.477 %)SWIFT
1517 (0.324 %)Hedge funds
1616 (0.305 %)iSeries
1715 (0.286 %)Digital Media
1715 (0.286 %)Kindle
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1267 (5.092 %)Windows
2114 (2.174 %)UNIX
393 (1.773 %)Linux
471 (1.354 %)Windows 7
555 (1.049 %)Windows Server 2003
648 (0.915 %)Solaris
739 (0.744 %)Windows Server 2008
817 (0.324 %)Windows XP
911 (0.210 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1010 (0.191 %)Windows 2000 Server
115 (0.095 %)Debian
124 (0.076 %)zOS
124 (0.076 %)Windows 2000
133 (0.057 %)Android
133 (0.057 %)pSOS
133 (0.057 %)Windows NT
133 (0.057 %)AIX
142 (0.038 %)Windows Vista
142 (0.038 %)NetWare
142 (0.038 %)VMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12715 (51.77 %)Project Management
2888 (16.93 %)ITIL
3884 (16.86 %)Stakeholder Management
4548 (10.45 %)PRINCE
5469 (8.944 %)Change Management
6381 (7.265 %)Migration
7354 (6.751 %)Programme Management
8340 (6.484 %)Business Analysis
9334 (6.369 %)Risk Management
10277 (5.282 %)Change Control
11275 (5.244 %)Project Planning
12244 (4.653 %)Agile Software Development
13221 (4.214 %)CRM
14196 (3.738 %)Service Delivery
15184 (3.509 %)Scrum
16178 (3.394 %)Service Management
17172 (3.280 %)E-Commerce
18163 (3.108 %)Supplier Management
19149 (2.841 %)UML
20146 (2.784 %)User Acceptance Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1194 (3.699 %)SQL
2100 (1.907 %)Java
365 (1.240 %)C
439 (0.744 %)JavaScript
532 (0.610 %)C#
629 (0.553 %)PL/SQL
728 (0.534 %)VB
816 (0.305 %)PowerShell
913 (0.248 %)Shell Script
1012 (0.229 %)VBScript
1110 (0.191 %)Korn
1110 (0.191 %)VBA
1110 (0.191 %)Bourne shell
128 (0.153 %)VB.NET
128 (0.153 %)T-SQL
137 (0.133 %)PHP
137 (0.133 %)VB6
145 (0.095 %)Python
145 (0.095 %)Perl
154 (0.076 %)C++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1938 (17.89 %)PRINCE2 Certification
2756 (14.42 %)PMI Certification
3545 (10.39 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
4496 (9.458 %)PMP
5424 (8.085 %)Degree
6417 (7.952 %)Security Cleared
7272 (5.187 %)SC Cleared
8239 (4.558 %)ISEB
9113 (2.155 %)APMP
10105 (2.002 %)ITIL Certification
1181 (1.545 %)DV Cleared
1247 (0.896 %)Cisco Certification
1343 (0.820 %)Microsoft Certification
1438 (0.725 %)CISSP
1534 (0.648 %)MCSE
1629 (0.553 %)CISM
1629 (0.553 %)ISEB Practitioner
1727 (0.515 %)CCNA
1826 (0.496 %)CISA
1826 (0.496 %)CCNP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1191 (3.642 %)QA
261 (1.163 %)SLA
339 (0.744 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
436 (0.686 %)Basel III
534 (0.648 %)Data Quality
632 (0.610 %)Basel II
632 (0.610 %)ISO 9001
730 (0.572 %)PCI DSS
730 (0.572 %)Solvency II
829 (0.553 %)ISO/IEC 27001
922 (0.420 %)COBIT
1013 (0.248 %)HL7
1111 (0.210 %)MiFID
1210 (0.191 %)ISO 9000
136 (0.114 %)FATCA
143 (0.057 %)WCAG
152 (0.038 %)BS15000
152 (0.038 %)ISO/IEC 20000
161 (0.019 %)BS25999
161 (0.019 %)JSP 440
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
192 (1.754 %)Active Directory
289 (1.697 %)VMware Infrastructure
326 (0.496 %)VMware ESX
422 (0.420 %)Hyper-V
520 (0.381 %)vSphere
612 (0.229 %)XenApp
711 (0.210 %)XenDesktop
810 (0.191 %)Oracle RMAN
95 (0.095 %)XenServer
95 (0.095 %)Terminal Services
104 (0.076 %)Xen
112 (0.038 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
112 (0.038 %)Terminal Server
112 (0.038 %)VMware Server
121 (0.019 %)Sendmail
121 (0.019 %)Novell eDirectory
121 (0.019 %)Citrix Presentation Server
121 (0.019 %)Xsan
121 (0.019 %)VMware ESXi
121 (0.019 %)OpenSSO
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
137 (0.706 %)HP Quality Center
223 (0.439 %)SCCM
311 (0.210 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
410 (0.191 %)SCOM
59 (0.172 %)NetBackup
68 (0.153 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
77 (0.133 %)BladeLogic
86 (0.114 %)OpenView
94 (0.076 %)OVSD
94 (0.076 %)Tivoli
103 (0.057 %)Novell Identity Manager
103 (0.057 %)BMC PATROL
103 (0.057 %)AppManager
103 (0.057 %)WSUS
112 (0.038 %)CiscoWorks
112 (0.038 %)Norton AntiVirus
112 (0.038 %)Cisco UCCX
112 (0.038 %)AppDNA
112 (0.038 %)Cisco CUCM
121 (0.019 %)EMC NetWorker
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1669 (12.76 %)Microsoft
2268 (5.111 %)Oracle
3196 (3.738 %)SAP
4155 (2.956 %)VMware
5137 (2.613 %)Cisco
687 (1.659 %)Citrix
778 (1.487 %)HP
867 (1.278 %)IBM
937 (0.706 %)Avaya
937 (0.706 %)Sun
937 (0.706 %)Primavera
1036 (0.686 %)NetApp
1135 (0.667 %)Remedy
1234 (0.648 %)Planview
1333 (0.629 %)Salesforce.com
1428 (0.534 %)JBoss
1527 (0.515 %)Business Objects
1527 (0.515 %)BT
1626 (0.496 %)CheckPoint
1724 (0.458 %)Siebel