PRINCE2 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

PRINCE 2
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring PRINCE2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 86 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +38
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 54 34 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.34% 1.95% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.08% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 33
10th Percentile £421 £456 £415
25th Percentile £513 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £508 £570
Median % change year-on-year +30.05% -10.96% -5.00%
75th Percentile £750 £644 £650
90th Percentile £788 £700 £775
Central London median daily rate £660 £575 £569
% change year-on-year +14.78% +1.10% -1.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

PRINCE2 falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 1,631 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.98% 93.41% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,030 1,393
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

PRINCE2 job vacancy trend in the City of London

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the City of London

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

PRINCE2
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 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) CMS
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.85%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.70%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.85%) OCI
6 1 (1.85%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
1 2 (3.70%) LAN
1 2 (3.70%) WAN
1 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Power BI
2 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.70%) Tableau
3 1 (1.85%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 29 (53.70%) Finance
2 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Banking
4 9 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Law
5 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) German Language
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing
7 1 (1.85%) Front Office
7 1 (1.85%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.85%) International Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 11 (20.37%) Migration Manager
2 11 (20.37%) Migration Project Manager
3 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 8 (14.81%) Senior Manager
4 8 (14.81%) Senior Project Manager
5 7 (12.96%) Transformation Manager
6 6 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
7 5 (9.26%) Finance Manager
7 5 (9.26%) Finance Project Manager
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Finance Project Manager
8 4 (7.41%) Programme Manager
9 3 (5.56%) Analyst
9 3 (5.56%) Lead
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Transformation Manager
10 2 (3.70%) Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.70%) IT Manager
10 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow Manager
10 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) ADO
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.85%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) PMI
2 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Equities
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) Agile
2 33 (61.11%) Project Management
3 30 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (42.59%) Project Delivery
5 17 (31.48%) Migration
6 13 (24.07%) Project Governance
6 13 (24.07%) Validation
7 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 12 (22.22%) Waterfall
8 11 (20.37%) Security Architecture
9 10 (18.52%) Change Control
10 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (11.11%) Change Management
12 6 (11.11%) Data Migration
13 5 (9.26%) Matrix Organization
13 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (9.26%) Programme Management
13 5 (9.26%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) SQL
2 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (59.26%) PMP
2 30 (55.56%) PMI Certification
3 8 (14.81%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) APMP
4 2 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) CFA
5 1 (1.85%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.85%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.07%) GDPR
2 12 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (22.22%) NIST
3 9 (16.67%) PMO
4 4 (7.41%) QA
5 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (3.70%) Basel III
6 2 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.85%) GAAP
7 1 (1.85%) IFRS
7 1 (1.85%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.85%) MiFID
7 1 (1.85%) P3O
7 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.85%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) CyberArk
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 3 (5.56%) Planview
4 3 (5.56%) SAP
4 3 (5.56%) Workday
5 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.85%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (1.85%) Charles River
6 1 (1.85%) Informatica
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.85%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.85%) VMware