PRINCE2 Certification Contract Job Trends in England

PRINCE2 Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PRINCE2 Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 475 492
Rank change year-on-year -130 +17 +47
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 18 27 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.041% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.33% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 45
10th Percentile £450 £410 £313
25th Percentile £456 £443 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £519 £625 £600
90th Percentile £938 £645 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £496
% change year-on-year - +0.81% -7.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year - -14.83% -28.24%
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £32.29
% change year-on-year - +85.82% -28.24%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,927 8,209 11,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.55% 30.92% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,380 5,173 7,041
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £716 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £522 £525
% change year-on-year +0.62% -0.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,048 551 988
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £24.24 £20.07 £20.75
Median hourly rate £53.90 £28.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.27% -33.69% -22.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £77.19 £77.14
UK median hourly rate £51.72 £27.65 £40.94
% change year-on-year +87.09% -32.47% -26.12%

PRINCE2 Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PRINCE2 Certification job vacancy trend in England

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PRINCE2 Certification

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 Certification in England

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PRINCE2 Certification

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
London -80 8 £500 -13.04% 5
North West -41 3 £500 +11.11% 11
Midlands -58 3 £1,300 +188.89%
North of England -76 3 £500 +11.11% 12
West Midlands -56 2 £1,300 +188.89%
South West - 2 - - 4
East of England -31 1 £450 -14.29% 1
South East -52 1 £450 -5.26% 5
East Midlands - 1 - -
PRINCE2 Certification
UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Japanese Language
3 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 4 (22.22%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Network Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Healthcare Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ITSM Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Project Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Digital Signage
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (5.56%) Video on Demand
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 14 (77.78%) Project Management
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (38.89%) Project Delivery
5 6 (33.33%) Migration
5 6 (33.33%) Project Planning
6 5 (27.78%) Change Management
7 4 (22.22%) CRM
7 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (22.22%) Scrum
8 3 (16.67%) Change Control
8 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 3 (16.67%) DevOps
8 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
9 2 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
9 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) PMI Certification
1 7 (38.89%) PMP
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (11.11%) APMP
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PMO
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GAAP
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) BT
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) IFS
2 1 (5.56%) Meraki
2 1 (5.56%) Okta
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Sage
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) SAP