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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 -14
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 15 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.37% 1.26% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.46% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 12
10th Percentile £303 £350 £230
25th Percentile £358 £396 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +1.94% -
75th Percentile £475 £497 £473
90th Percentile £489 £514 £521
England median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.76 -
England median hourly rate £88.00 £39.03 £30.37
% change year-on-year +125.47% +28.53% -32.52%

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 864 478 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.69% 86.13% 78.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 320 408
10th Percentile £200 £212 £200
25th Percentile £380 £326 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £411
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +7.06% -9.78%
75th Percentile £543 £525 £563
90th Percentile £619 £600 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 32 56
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.21 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.94 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +11.38% -15.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.78 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.55 £33.55 £38.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 - 6 £388 - 10
Northamptonshire -11 5 £438 -1.13% 5
Leicestershire -4 2 £391 - 3
Lincolnshire -12 1 £480 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (13.33%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Migration Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Document Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Junior
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Software Licensing Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Support Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) EMV
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Project Management
3 7 (46.67%) Project Delivery
3 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 4 (26.67%) Project Governance
7 3 (20.00%) Business Case
7 3 (20.00%) Change Control
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) Information Governance
7 3 (20.00%) ITIL
7 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
1 4 (26.67%) PMP
2 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
1 3 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) PSD2
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Autodesk
2 1 (6.67%) Planview
2 1 (6.67%) TSYS