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 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 134
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +52
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.76% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £624 £479 £398
25th Percentile £641 £541 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £676 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +25.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £704 £691 £597
90th Percentile £718 £696 £681
Central London median daily rate £676 £625 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% +25.00% -3.85%

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 430 529 588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.56% 25.02% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 311 353
10th Percentile £325 £354 £348
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -4.26%
75th Percentile £669 £660 £688
90th Percentile £738 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £19.68 £23.10 £23.45
25th Percentile £23.58 £27.00 £31.63
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -30.11% +7.84%
75th Percentile £37.96 £112.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £54.53 - £71.55
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +80.56% -58.26%

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
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) International Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Continuity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Testing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Culture Change
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft