PRINCE2 Contracts in England

PRINCE 2
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PRINCE2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PRINCE2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 131 135
Rank change year-on-year -43 +4 -21
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 383 646 989
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.57% 1.74% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.01% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 488 747
10th Percentile £358 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £617 £621 £623
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £508 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 36
10th Percentile £25.64 £17.14 £24.77
25th Percentile £29.62 £18.35 £42.50
Median hourly rate £39.03 £33.07 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.04% -26.52% +28.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £42.87 £50.00
90th Percentile - £44.74 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £39.03 £33.07 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.04% -26.52% +28.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PRINCE2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 in England

PRINCE2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 in England.

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 in England

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in England

PRINCE2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 in England.

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 in England

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PRINCE2 in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PRINCE2 in England

PRINCE2
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -46 165 £550 -4.35% 208
South East +42 76 £488 -7.14% 136
North of England +23 60 £525 +16.67% 114
North West +9 32 £525 +34.44% 81
South West -25 27 £450 -9.27% 33
East of England +14 24 £545 +81.67% 66
Yorkshire +17 21 £500 -2.44% 29
Midlands -7 18 £488 -2.50% 64
West Midlands -10 10 £525 -3.67% 31
East Midlands +5 8 £459 +1.94% 28
North East +4 7 £575 +9.52% 6
PRINCE2
UK

PRINCE2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.18%) Confluence
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.26%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 61 (15.93%) Microsoft Project
2 30 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (6.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (2.61%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.83%) Trello
7 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.31%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.04%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.52%) Maximo
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.26%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (8.36%) Azure
2 16 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (3.92%) Entra ID
4 13 (3.39%) AWS
5 7 (1.83%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.57%) GCP
6 6 (1.57%) SaaS
6 6 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.31%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.04%) OCI
8 4 (1.04%) Smartsheet
9 3 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.52%) Asana
10 2 (0.52%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.52%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.26%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.26%) SAP Fieldglass
11 1 (0.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.87%) Firewall
2 7 (1.83%) WAN
3 5 (1.31%) DNS
3 5 (1.31%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.04%) 5G
4 4 (1.04%) LAN
4 4 (1.04%) Network Security
5 3 (0.78%) DHCP
5 3 (0.78%) Skype
6 2 (0.52%) Internet
6 2 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.26%) ATM
7 1 (0.26%) PPP
7 1 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.26%) SMTP
7 1 (0.26%) SWIFTNet
7 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.26%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.83%) Power BI
2 4 (1.04%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.52%) MS Access
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.52%) Tableau
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.26%) Big Data
5 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.26%) GIS
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.26%) QlikView
5 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (12.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 190 (49.61%) Social Skills
2 175 (45.69%) Finance
3 59 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.05%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (6.53%) Banking
8 22 (5.74%) Legal
9 18 (4.70%) Manufacturing
9 18 (4.70%) Telecoms
10 17 (4.44%) Local Government
11 14 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (3.13%) Billing
13 11 (2.87%) Retail
14 8 (2.09%) Marketing
15 7 (1.83%) Back Office
16 5 (1.31%) Aerospace
17 4 (1.04%) Automotive
17 4 (1.04%) Law
17 4 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 178 (46.48%) Project Manager
2 35 (9.14%) Programme Manager
3 30 (7.83%) IT Manager
4 27 (7.05%) Senior
5 26 (6.79%) Senior Manager
6 25 (6.53%) Delivery Manager
7 24 (6.27%) IT Project Manager
7 24 (6.27%) Lead
8 19 (4.96%) Senior Project Manager
9 18 (4.70%) Infrastructure Manager
10 16 (4.18%) Analyst
10 16 (4.18%) Implementation Manager
11 15 (3.92%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 15 (3.92%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 15 (3.92%) Technical Manager
12 14 (3.66%) SAP Manager
12 14 (3.66%) Technical Project Manager
13 13 (3.39%) ERP Manager
14 12 (3.13%) Migration Manager
15 11 (2.87%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.52%) .NET
2 2 (0.52%) .NET Framework
2 2 (0.52%) ADO
2 2 (0.52%) Middleware
3 1 (0.26%) FHIR
3 1 (0.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.14%) PMI
2 23 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.09%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.57%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.31%) NHS
7 5 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.04%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.04%) Life Science
8 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.78%) Learning Management System
9 3 (0.78%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.44%) Windows
2 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (70.23%) Project Management
2 202 (52.74%) Agile
3 146 (38.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 94 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (23.76%) Change Management
6 90 (23.50%) Project Delivery
7 76 (19.84%) Waterfall
8 58 (15.14%) Risk Management
9 53 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 49 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (12.79%) Programme Management
10 49 (12.79%) Scrum
11 48 (12.53%) ITIL
12 47 (12.27%) Budget Management
13 44 (11.49%) Decision-Making
14 39 (10.18%) Project Planning
15 38 (9.92%) Business Case
16 36 (9.40%) Project Governance
17 35 (9.14%) Migration
17 35 (9.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.35%) PowerShell
1 9 (2.35%) SQL
2 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.52%) C#
4 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (38.38%) PMI Certification
2 143 (37.34%) PMP
3 106 (27.68%) Degree
4 63 (16.45%) Security Cleared
5 46 (12.01%) SC Cleared
6 33 (8.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 21 (5.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 12 (3.13%) APMP
8 12 (3.13%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.57%) ISEB
10 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.31%) CISSP
12 4 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.78%) APMG
14 2 (0.52%) CBAP
14 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.52%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (14.36%) PMO
2 16 (4.18%) QA
3 10 (2.61%) GDPR
4 8 (2.09%) P3O
5 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.31%) PMBOK
7 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.78%) NIST
7 3 (0.78%) SLA
8 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.52%) ITGC
9 1 (0.26%) Basel III
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 8 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (1.57%) Amdocs OSS
3 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.04%) SCCM
4 2 (0.52%) SCOM
5 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.05%) SAP
3 18 (4.70%) Oracle
4 11 (2.87%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.09%) Apple
5 8 (2.09%) Samsung
5 8 (2.09%) SOTI
6 6 (1.57%) Cisco
6 6 (1.57%) Google
6 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.57%) Workday
7 5 (1.31%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.31%) VMware
8 4 (1.04%) Amdocs
8 4 (1.04%) Ciena
8 4 (1.04%) Databricks
8 4 (1.04%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.04%) NEC
8 4 (1.04%) NetCracker
8 4 (1.04%) Nokia