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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 47 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 28 8 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.11% 1.43% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 1.64% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 12
10th Percentile - £310 £228
25th Percentile £373 £317 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £398 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% -11.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £731
90th Percentile £638 - £750
England median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.76 -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £29.00 £23.35
% change year-on-year +56.76% +24.20% -48.11%

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 767 488 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.32% 87.14% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 296 429
10th Percentile £188 £240 £211
25th Percentile £350 £324 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £565
90th Percentile £625 £631 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 23 43
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.48 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.44 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 January 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 January 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
Leicestershire +6 14 £375 - 3
Northamptonshire -16 7 £588 +85.77% 1
Lincolnshire -7 4 £423 - 2
Nottinghamshire -12 2 - - 5
Derbyshire -2 1 - - 4
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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (7.14%) EDMS
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
General
1 19 (67.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 10 (35.71%) Fire and Rescue
3 10 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (35.71%) Local Government
4 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.71%) Finance
6 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Automotive
6 2 (7.14%) Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Project Officer
2 9 (32.14%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Workstream Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) ERP Manager
5 1 (3.57%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Junior
5 1 (3.57%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) EDI
2 3 (10.71%) FHIR
3 2 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.29%) SCADA
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (7.14%) NHS
3 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 2 (7.14%) Robotics
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Project Management
2 14 (50.00%) Project Governance
3 12 (42.86%) Agile
4 11 (39.29%) Business Analysis
5 7 (25.00%) Change Management
5 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (21.43%) Project Delivery
6 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (17.86%) ERP
8 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (10.71%) Change Control
9 3 (10.71%) Migration
10 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
10 2 (7.14%) Data Migration
10 2 (7.14%) Logistics
10 2 (7.14%) Regression Testing
10 2 (7.14%) Scrum
10 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) PMP
2 7 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) GRC
1 1 (3.57%) HL7
1 1 (3.57%) PMO
1 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Planview
2 1 (3.57%) Workday