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 25 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 440 480
Rank change year-on-year -133 +40 +68
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 20 32 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.42% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 44
10th Percentile £490 £396 £313
25th Percentile £500 £430 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £463 £496
Median % change year-on-year +37.30% -6.75% -9.82%
75th Percentile £738 £588 £591
90th Percentile £860 £640 £723
UK median daily rate £635 £456 £474
% change year-on-year +39.18% -3.69% -13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £33.14
25th Percentile - £26.25 £34.41
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £36.90
Median % change year-on-year - -25.46% -18.01%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £39.76
90th Percentile - - £41.25
UK median hourly rate - £27.50 £36.90
% change year-on-year - -25.46% -18.01%

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 13,197 7,554 11,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.88% 31.51% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,855 4,814 6,924
10th Percentile £350 £278 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £530
% change year-on-year +0.38% -1.32% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 989 430 981
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.27 £18.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.36 £80.10 £75.24
UK median hourly rate £47.54 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.28% -18.75% -27.27%

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 25 May 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 25 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
South West - 6 - - 1
Midlands -58 5 £725 +61.11% 2
South East -59 4 £635 +51.64% 2
West Midlands -60 4 £725 +61.11% 1
North West -42 2 - - 1
North of England -83 2 - - 1
London -90 2 £500 -9.09% 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (15.00%) SaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Advertising
6 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Military
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Integration Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) CRM Manager
4 1 (5.00%) CRM Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Healthcare Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Healthcare Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (5.00%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 14 (70.00%) Project Management
3 11 (55.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Waterfall
5 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (25.00%) ERP
6 5 (25.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (15.00%) AI
8 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (15.00%) Change Management
8 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (15.00%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) APMP
3 5 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 5 (25.00%) PMP
4 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 19650
2 1 (5.00%) GAAP
2 1 (5.00%) IFRS
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) BT
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.00%) Dell
2 1 (5.00%) Meraki
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Okta
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) SAP