PRINCE2 Certification Contract Job Trends in the City of London

PRINCE2 Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for PRINCE2 Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 122 120
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +25
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.14% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.54% 0.93% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £518 £624 £479
25th Percentile £525 £641 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £676 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +8.11% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £704 £691
90th Percentile £583 £718 £696
Central London median daily rate £550 £676 £625
% change year-on-year -18.60% +8.11% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

PRINCE2 Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 552 432 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.81% 25.07% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 296 311
10th Percentile £400 £345 £363
25th Percentile £463 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.22% +0.45%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £768
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.18% -7.56% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £28.91 £92.44
90th Percentile £119.20 £50.91 £112.00
Central London median hourly rate £54.50 £28.15 £29.75
% change year-on-year +93.61% -5.38% -36.02%

PRINCE2 Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PRINCE2 Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

PRINCE2 Certification job vacancy trend in the City of London

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PRINCE2 Certification

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PRINCE2 Certification

PRINCE2 Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IAM Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PMP
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google