PRINCE2 Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

PRINCE 2
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PRINCE2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 59 56
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 10 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.74% 1.45% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.69% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 10
10th Percentile £252 £373 £185
25th Percentile £369 £432 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £291
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +80.41% -38.74%
75th Percentile £631 £616 £372
90th Percentile £653 £646 £488
England median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -0.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,004 712 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.37% 86.30% 83.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 491 389
10th Percentile £231 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £449
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -7.57% -10.20%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £550
90th Percentile £650 £625 £620
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 65 30
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.87 £15.10
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -5.44% -12.29%
75th Percentile £26.20 £25.15 £48.06
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

PRINCE2 job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PRINCE2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the East Midlands

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PRINCE2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 7 £500 - 18
Derbyshire -8 3 £575 - 6
PRINCE2
England

PRINCE2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (10.00%) Siemens NX
1 1 (10.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
1 2 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (10.00%) Asana
2 1 (10.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Modbus
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Cutover Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SAP Cutover Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Information Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Coordinator
3 1 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (10.00%) Project Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Project Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Support Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Industry 4.0
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) PMI
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Project Management
2 5 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) CAD
4 2 (20.00%) Change Control
4 2 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) PMI Certification
2 5 (50.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Concur
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Autodesk
3 1 (10.00%) Siemens