The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PRINCE2 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 22 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.

PRINCE 2
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank605148
Rank change year-on-year
Down-9Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads464450684002
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.851 %4.133 %4.192 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category5.223 %5.676 %5.919 %
Number of salaries quoted402443593316
Average salary£50,000£52,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %+5.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£33,900£35,050£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£75,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£47,500£50,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00 %+11.11 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
889158928967609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.73 %72.82 %70.81 %
Number of salaries quoted755227477355328
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

PRINCE2
Demand Trend

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

PRINCE2 Demand Trend

PRINCE2
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK.

PRINCE2 Salary Trend

PRINCE2
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

PRINCE2 Salary Histogram

PRINCE2
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-94334£50,000-4.76 %
LondonDown-131979£55,000-
South EastDown-6993£50,000-3.84 %
City of LondonDown-17480£55,000-7.56 %
East of EnglandDown-18312£46,000-3.15 %
SurreyUp+11271£52,500+5.00 %
North WestDown-5236£42,500-10.52 %
South WestNo change0219£43,000-4.44 %
BerkshireDown-19201£50,000-9.09 %
YorkshireUp+13189£42,500-5.55 %
HampshireDown-8182£50,000-9.09 %
West MidlandsDown-8173£42,500-5.55 %
East MidlandsDown-8156£47,500+14.28 %
ScotlandDown-9141£45,000-
HertfordshireUp+21126£50,000-9.09 %
ManchesterDown-3125£40,000-15.78 %
West YorkshireUp+4109£45,000-
BuckinghamshireDown-8102£47,500-5.00 %
NottinghamshireUp+886£45,000-
WalesUp+3585£35,000-17.64 %
WiltshireUp+1184£42,000-6.66 %
South WalesUp+3283£35,000-17.64 %
LeedsUp+483£39,250-12.77 %
NottinghamUp+276£45,000-
CheshireDown-675£40,000-5.88 %
West SussexDown-1671£48,000-7.69 %
BirminghamUp+269£42,500-14.14 %
Milton KeynesUp+2568£46,250-7.50 %
ReadingDown-2368£52,500-4.54 %
EdinburghDown-565£45,000-10.00 %

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PRINCE2.

14989 (55.95 %)Project Management
23006 (33.71 %)Finance
31905 (21.36 %)ITIL
41582 (17.74 %)PRINCE2 Certification
51384 (15.52 %)PMI Certification
61316 (14.76 %)Microsoft
71168 (13.10 %)Degree
81135 (12.73 %)Stakeholder Management
91001 (11.23 %)Scrum
10945 (10.60 %)MS Excel
11942 (10.56 %)PMP
12909 (10.19 %)Change Management
13873 (9.790 %)MS Project
14850 (9.532 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
15830 (9.308 %)Agile Software Development
16811 (9.095 %)Oracle
17734 (8.231 %).NET
18729 (8.175 %)Banking
19699 (7.839 %)PRINCE
20691 (7.749 %)Retail
21689 (7.727 %)Windows
22678 (7.603 %)Programme Management
23633 (7.099 %)PMI
24625 (7.009 %)Business Analysis
25591 (6.628 %)SQL
26586 (6.572 %)ERP
27573 (6.426 %)E-Commerce
28556 (6.235 %)SharePoint
29555 (6.224 %)Service Delivery
30554 (6.213 %)Risk Management

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PRINCE2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1734 (8.231 %).NET
2200 (2.243 %)XML
3195 (2.187 %)HTML
4190 (2.131 %)ASP.NET
5163 (1.828 %)Web Services
6125 (1.402 %)CSS
7123 (1.379 %)J2EE
892 (1.032 %)WebSphere
986 (0.964 %)Middleware
1080 (0.897 %).NET Framework
1155 (0.617 %)WCF
1246 (0.516 %)Ajax
1344 (0.493 %)ASP
1440 (0.449 %)Silverlight
1538 (0.426 %)jQuery
1633 (0.370 %)WPF
1732 (0.359 %)Flash
1830 (0.336 %)Oracle Fusion
1929 (0.325 %)XSL
2028 (0.314 %)EDI
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1556 (6.235 %)SharePoint
2156 (1.749 %)MS Exchange
3123 (1.379 %)CMS
4102 (1.144 %)IIS
591 (1.021 %)SharePoint 2010
690 (1.009 %)SharePoint Server
786 (0.964 %)Exchange Server 2010
869 (0.774 %)Apache
964 (0.718 %)Office Project Server
1042 (0.471 %)Exchange Server 2003
1141 (0.460 %)BizTalk Server
1239 (0.437 %)WebLogic
1334 (0.381 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1433 (0.370 %)Exchange Server 2007
1531 (0.348 %)Drupal
1627 (0.303 %)Oracle Workflow
1627 (0.303 %)Tomcat
1725 (0.280 %)Lotus Notes
1822 (0.247 %)SAS
1921 (0.236 %)Confluence
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1945 (10.60 %)MS Excel
2873 (9.790 %)MS Project
3454 (5.091 %)MS Office
4406 (4.553 %)MS Visio
5247 (2.770 %)MS PowerPoint
617 (0.191 %)Spreadsheet
714 (0.157 %)Office 365
714 (0.157 %)InfoPath
88 (0.090 %)Google Apps
94 (0.045 %)Final Cut Pro
103 (0.034 %)Mingle
103 (0.034 %)Photoshop
112 (0.022 %)Open Workbench
112 (0.022 %)Acrobat
112 (0.022 %)AutoCAD
112 (0.022 %)MATLAB
121 (0.011 %)Revit
121 (0.011 %)ProjectWise
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1156 (1.749 %)Oracle EBS
1156 (1.749 %)Dynamics CRM
2146 (1.637 %)Oracle EBS R12
372 (0.807 %)Oracle ERP
460 (0.673 %)Dynamics NAV
559 (0.662 %)Dynamics AX
638 (0.426 %)Oracle Applications
737 (0.415 %)Oracle Financials
830 (0.336 %)Pivotal CRM
929 (0.325 %)SAP FI
1025 (0.280 %)Oracle 11i
1025 (0.280 %)SAP FI/CO
1025 (0.280 %)SAP CO
1121 (0.236 %)Oracle CRM
1121 (0.236 %)SAP ERP
1218 (0.202 %)Google Analytics
1218 (0.202 %)Oracle Payroll
1317 (0.191 %)Oracle iRecruitment
1317 (0.191 %)Agresso
1414 (0.157 %)Oracle BPM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1343 (3.847 %)WAN
2338 (3.791 %)Internet
3243 (2.725 %)Firewall
4229 (2.568 %)SAN
5207 (2.321 %)LAN
6137 (1.536 %)Intranet
7106 (1.189 %)DNS
895 (1.065 %)VPN
982 (0.920 %)MPLS
1075 (0.841 %)DHCP
1173 (0.819 %)Wireless
1173 (0.819 %)Network Security
1270 (0.785 %)Extranet
1364 (0.718 %)VoIP
1457 (0.639 %)Unified Communications
1552 (0.583 %)NAS
1650 (0.561 %)TCP/IP
1748 (0.538 %)Cisco ASA
1846 (0.516 %)HTTP
1846 (0.516 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1503 (5.641 %)SQL Server
2173 (1.940 %)Data Warehouse
3106 (1.189 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
480 (0.897 %)Oracle Reports
578 (0.875 %)SQL Server Integration Services
674 (0.830 %)SQL Server 2008
773 (0.819 %)RDBMS
866 (0.740 %)SQL Server 2005
960 (0.673 %)ETL
1059 (0.662 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1156 (0.628 %)Crystal Reports
1244 (0.493 %)SQL Server 2000
1342 (0.471 %)Oracle 8/8i
1342 (0.471 %)MySQL
1436 (0.404 %)Oracle 10g
1531 (0.348 %)Data Mining
1531 (0.348 %)DB2
1531 (0.348 %)Oracle 11g
1629 (0.325 %)Oracle BI EE
1725 (0.280 %)SAP BW
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
162 (0.695 %)JIRA
241 (0.460 %)QuickTest Pro
339 (0.437 %)Visual Studio
434 (0.381 %)TestDirector
528 (0.314 %)Team Foundation Server
627 (0.303 %)Subversion
723 (0.258 %)Selenium
821 (0.236 %)LoadRunner
821 (0.236 %)Synon
918 (0.202 %)Eclipse
1011 (0.123 %)Ant
1011 (0.123 %)Rational Rose
1110 (0.112 %)ClearCase
1110 (0.112 %)Hudson
128 (0.090 %)Oracle Forms
128 (0.090 %)NUnit
128 (0.090 %)ProC
137 (0.079 %)Maven
146 (0.067 %)XDE
155 (0.056 %)ERwin
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13006 (33.71 %)Finance
2729 (8.175 %)Banking
3691 (7.749 %)Retail
4502 (5.630 %)Telecoms
5286 (3.207 %)Marketing
6195 (2.187 %)Back Office
7180 (2.019 %)Legal
8156 (1.749 %)Manufacturing
9134 (1.503 %)Advertising
10123 (1.379 %)Investment Banking
11112 (1.256 %)Publishing
12109 (1.222 %)Law
1396 (1.077 %)Games
1463 (0.707 %)Retail Banking
1552 (0.583 %)Front Office
1646 (0.516 %)Automotive
1745 (0.505 %)Financial Institution
1843 (0.482 %)Billing
1940 (0.449 %)Pharmaceutical
2036 (0.404 %)International Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14624 (51.86 %)Project Manager
21107 (12.41 %)Analyst
3716 (8.030 %)Business Analyst
4704 (7.895 %)Senior Manager
5617 (6.919 %)Programme Manager
6600 (6.729 %)Senior Project Manager
7492 (5.518 %)IT Project Manager
8491 (5.506 %)PRINCE2 Project Manager
9395 (4.430 %)Infrastructure Manager
10376 (4.217 %)Consultant
11297 (3.331 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
12259 (2.905 %)Technical Manager
13251 (2.815 %)Developer
14235 (2.635 %)Agile Project Manager
15208 (2.333 %)Delivery Manager
16204 (2.288 %)Architect
17202 (2.265 %)Technical Project Manager
18199 (2.232 %)Business Manager
19174 (1.951 %)Software Manager
20171 (1.918 %)Service Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1633 (7.099 %)PMI
2246 (2.759 %)Management Information System
3109 (1.222 %)Computer Science
472 (0.807 %)FMCG
571 (0.796 %)EPoS
669 (0.774 %)NHS
767 (0.751 %)SaaS
860 (0.673 %)Mathematics
953 (0.594 %)Clustering
1052 (0.583 %)SWIFT
1151 (0.572 %)Data Integration
1151 (0.572 %)Online Games
1250 (0.561 %)Social Media
1349 (0.550 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1447 (0.527 %)Digital Media
1537 (0.415 %)W3C
1635 (0.393 %)Cloud Computing
1734 (0.381 %)Economics
1831 (0.348 %)Client/Server
1929 (0.325 %)Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1689 (7.727 %)Windows
2279 (3.129 %)UNIX
3256 (2.871 %)Linux
4176 (1.974 %)Windows Server 2008
5148 (1.660 %)Windows Server 2003
6133 (1.492 %)Windows 7
787 (0.976 %)Solaris
867 (0.751 %)Windows XP
931 (0.348 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1030 (0.336 %)AIX
1114 (0.157 %)Windows Vista
1114 (0.157 %)Android
1213 (0.146 %)Windows 2000 Server
1213 (0.146 %)Apple iOS
1311 (0.123 %)HPUX
1410 (0.112 %)Windows 2000
157 (0.079 %)Windows NT
157 (0.079 %)IRIX
166 (0.067 %)Windows Mobile
166 (0.067 %)Mac OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14989 (55.95 %)Project Management
21905 (21.36 %)ITIL
31135 (12.73 %)Stakeholder Management
41001 (11.23 %)Scrum
5909 (10.19 %)Change Management
6830 (9.308 %)Agile Software Development
7699 (7.839 %)PRINCE
8678 (7.603 %)Programme Management
9625 (7.009 %)Business Analysis
10586 (6.572 %)ERP
11573 (6.426 %)E-Commerce
12555 (6.224 %)Service Delivery
13554 (6.213 %)Risk Management
14548 (6.146 %)CRM
15546 (6.123 %)Waterfall
16474 (5.316 %)Project Planning
17361 (4.048 %)UML
18340 (3.813 %)Service Management
19332 (3.723 %)Change Control
20331 (3.712 %)Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1591 (6.628 %)SQL
2423 (4.744 %)Java
3332 (3.723 %)C#
4144 (1.615 %)JavaScript
5119 (1.335 %)C
681 (0.908 %)PHP
774 (0.830 %)VB.NET
871 (0.796 %)C++
955 (0.617 %)Perl
955 (0.617 %)T-SQL
1054 (0.606 %)Python
1149 (0.550 %)VB
1246 (0.516 %)PL/SQL
1330 (0.336 %)VBA
1425 (0.280 %)Shell Script
1522 (0.247 %)ActionScript
1621 (0.236 %)RPG
1720 (0.224 %)Ruby
1816 (0.179 %)VBScript
1913 (0.146 %)ABAP
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11582 (17.74 %)PRINCE2 Certification
21384 (15.52 %)PMI Certification
31168 (13.10 %)Degree
4942 (10.56 %)PMP
5850 (9.532 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
6534 (5.989 %)ISEB
7278 (3.118 %)ITIL Certification
8256 (2.871 %)Security Cleared
9187 (2.097 %)Cisco Certification
10183 (2.052 %)Microsoft Certification
11166 (1.862 %)APMP
12134 (1.503 %)MCSE
13129 (1.447 %)SC Cleared
14110 (1.234 %)CCNP
15101 (1.133 %)CCNA
1693 (1.043 %)CISSP
1785 (0.953 %)ISTQB
1869 (0.774 %)MCP
1962 (0.695 %)ISEB Practitioner
2039 (0.437 %)CISA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1417 (4.676 %)QA
2164 (1.839 %)SLA
388 (0.987 %)ISO/IEC 27001
388 (0.987 %)ISO 9001
466 (0.740 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
555 (0.617 %)PCI DSS
648 (0.538 %)Solvency II
740 (0.449 %)COBIT
821 (0.236 %)ISO 9000
920 (0.224 %)Basel III
920 (0.224 %)Basel II
1012 (0.135 %)Data Quality
1110 (0.112 %)FATCA
129 (0.101 %)ISO/IEC 17799
137 (0.079 %)HIPAA
146 (0.067 %)TickIT
154 (0.045 %)ISO 14001
154 (0.045 %)HL7
154 (0.045 %)COSO
154 (0.045 %)IEC 61508
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1290 (3.252 %)Active Directory
2263 (2.949 %)VMware Infrastructure
384 (0.942 %)vSphere
469 (0.774 %)VMware ESX
567 (0.751 %)Hyper-V
637 (0.415 %)XenApp
735 (0.393 %)XenDesktop
826 (0.292 %)Snort
920 (0.224 %)Squid
1015 (0.168 %)Oracle RAC
1112 (0.135 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1112 (0.135 %)ISA Server
129 (0.101 %)XenServer
137 (0.079 %)MetaFrame
137 (0.079 %)Xen
146 (0.067 %)VMware ESXi
155 (0.056 %)NFS
155 (0.056 %)VMware Server
164 (0.045 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
172 (0.022 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
197 (1.088 %)HP Quality Center
222 (0.247 %)SCOM
321 (0.236 %)SCCM
418 (0.202 %)BMC PATROL
515 (0.168 %)Tivoli
614 (0.157 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
614 (0.157 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
614 (0.157 %)NetBackup
711 (0.123 %)OpenView
89 (0.101 %)MOM
98 (0.090 %)CA SiteMinder
107 (0.079 %)Nessus
107 (0.079 %)Cisco CUCM
116 (0.067 %)Puppet
116 (0.067 %)WMI
116 (0.067 %)BladeLogic
125 (0.056 %)Backup Exec
125 (0.056 %)Ionix
125 (0.056 %)WSUS
125 (0.056 %)EMC NetWorker
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11316 (14.76 %)Microsoft
2811 (9.095 %)Oracle
3493 (5.529 %)VMware
4428 (4.800 %)Cisco
5401 (4.497 %)SAP
6237 (2.658 %)HP
7190 (2.131 %)Citrix
8139 (1.559 %)Siebel
9100 (1.121 %)IBM
1083 (0.931 %)CheckPoint
1180 (0.897 %)EMC
1269 (0.774 %)Sun
1355 (0.617 %)Juniper
1454 (0.606 %)JD Edwards
1546 (0.516 %)NetApp
1643 (0.482 %)Cognos
1740 (0.449 %)Business Objects
1839 (0.437 %)Avaya
1938 (0.426 %)Red Hat
1938 (0.426 %)Google