PRINCE2 Contract Job Trends in England

PRINCE 2
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PRINCE2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 167 144
Rank change year-on-year +3 -23 -9
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 535 451 651
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.57% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.77% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 279 500
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £428 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £616 £626
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.69% -2.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 10
10th Percentile £17.25 £23.49 £16.62
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.69 £22.05
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% +39.16% -51.00%
75th Percentile - £64.76 £28.71
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.88 £36.90
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £30.69 £22.05
% change year-on-year +48.15% +39.16% -51.00%

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 27,831 25,521 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.70% 88.62% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,689 15,759 22,371
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 840 1,378
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PRINCE2 job vacancy trend in England

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in England

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PRINCE2 in England over the 6 months to 21 December 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 21 December 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 +20 206 £533 -3.09% 71
South East +13 118 £525 +3.96% 75
North of England -41 62 £465 -8.28% 73
Midlands -19 56 £550 +10.44% 53
South West -17 48 £575 +16.46% 28
North West -27 33 £500 -5.44% 41
West Midlands -28 31 £550 -2.22% 32
East Midlands -1 27 £472 -0.74% 21
East of England -17 27 £475 -5.00% 35
Yorkshire -43 27 £419 -11.89% 31
North East -13 2 £775 +34.78% 4
PRINCE2
UK

PRINCE2
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 59 (11.03%) SharePoint
2 41 (7.66%) Confluence
3 9 (1.68%) CMS
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 2 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Moodle
6 1 (0.19%) Smallworld
Applications
1 97 (18.13%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (12.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 39 (7.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (2.99%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.31%) Trello
7 3 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.87%) Primavera
3 7 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.93%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.56%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.56%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.56%) Workfront
7 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (8.79%) Azure
2 42 (7.85%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (4.67%) SaaS
5 21 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (2.80%) AWS
7 14 (2.62%) Smartsheet
8 13 (2.43%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.31%) Miro
10 6 (1.12%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.75%) Asana
12 4 (0.75%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.56%) GCP
13 3 (0.56%) PaaS
14 2 (0.37%) Mimecast
14 2 (0.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.18%) Firewall
2 10 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.50%) DNS
3 8 (1.50%) Structured Cabling
3 8 (1.50%) VPN
3 8 (1.50%) WAN
4 6 (1.12%) 5G
4 6 (1.12%) Network Security
4 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (0.93%) Wireless
6 4 (0.75%) LAN
7 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.37%) DHCP
9 1 (0.19%) 2G
9 1 (0.19%) Intranet
9 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.19%) Multicast
9 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.10%) Power BI
2 6 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (1.12%) Tableau
3 5 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.56%) EDMS
6 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.37%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.19%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.19%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.19%) GIS
7 1 (0.19%) KNIME
7 1 (0.19%) Metadata
7 1 (0.19%) MySQL
7 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 81 (15.14%) JIRA
General
1 299 (55.89%) Social Skills
2 214 (40.00%) Finance
3 74 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 54 (10.09%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (8.79%) Banking
7 31 (5.79%) Legal
8 29 (5.42%) Manufacturing
9 28 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (4.30%) Retail
11 19 (3.55%) Local Government
12 15 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.80%) Law
13 14 (2.62%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.24%) Investment Banking
14 12 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.87%) Fire and Rescue
16 8 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.31%) Automotive
17 7 (1.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 253 (47.29%) Project Manager
2 46 (8.60%) Analyst
2 46 (8.60%) Lead
3 45 (8.41%) Senior
4 41 (7.66%) IT Manager
5 34 (6.36%) IT Project Manager
6 33 (6.17%) Infrastructure Manager
7 30 (5.61%) Delivery Manager
8 29 (5.42%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 29 (5.42%) Senior Manager
9 28 (5.23%) Programme Manager
10 25 (4.67%) Senior Project Manager
11 24 (4.49%) PMO Analyst
12 23 (4.30%) Technical Manager
13 18 (3.36%) Project Officer
14 16 (2.99%) SAP Manager
15 15 (2.80%) SAP Project Manager
16 13 (2.43%) Business Manager
16 13 (2.43%) Security Manager
16 13 (2.43%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.06%) EDI
2 6 (1.12%) Middleware
3 4 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.56%) ADO
4 3 (0.56%) FHIR
5 2 (0.37%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.19%) .NET
6 1 (0.19%) HTML
6 1 (0.19%) JSON
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.19%) SOAP
6 1 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.48%) PMI
2 32 (5.98%) Management Information System
3 30 (5.61%) Virtual Team
4 24 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 22 (4.11%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.24%) NHS
7 11 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.87%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.50%) Life Science
10 7 (1.31%) SCADA
11 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.12%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.75%) LIMS
13 4 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.56%) EPoS
14 3 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.36%) Windows
2 10 (1.87%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.56%) Linux
6 2 (0.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (64.86%) Project Management
2 326 (60.93%) Agile
3 204 (38.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 162 (30.28%) Project Delivery
5 157 (29.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 131 (24.49%) Change Management
7 114 (21.31%) Waterfall
8 113 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 87 (16.26%) ITIL
11 81 (15.14%) Risk Management
12 79 (14.77%) Project Governance
13 61 (11.40%) Migration
13 61 (11.40%) Scrum
14 60 (11.21%) Budget Management
15 59 (11.03%) Decision-Making
16 58 (10.84%) DevOps
17 49 (9.16%) Programme Management
18 47 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
19 43 (8.04%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.50%) SQL
2 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
2 2 (0.37%) Korn
3 1 (0.19%) Java
3 1 (0.19%) PHP
3 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 219 (40.93%) PMI Certification
2 213 (39.81%) PMP
3 167 (31.21%) Degree
4 85 (15.89%) Security Cleared
5 54 (10.09%) SC Cleared
6 38 (7.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 29 (5.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 28 (5.23%) APMP
9 27 (5.05%) DV Cleared
10 12 (2.24%) CISSP
11 11 (2.06%) CISM
12 7 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.31%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.93%) APMG
13 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.56%) IIBA
16 2 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (18.88%) PMO
2 42 (7.85%) QA
3 22 (4.11%) GDPR
4 18 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (3.18%) P3O
6 13 (2.43%) NIST
7 9 (1.68%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.50%) SLA
9 6 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.75%) PMBOK
12 3 (0.56%) COBIT
12 3 (0.56%) GMP
12 3 (0.56%) GRC
12 3 (0.56%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.56%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.56%) MiFID
12 3 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.50%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.93%) Terminal Services
5 4 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.37%) Ansible
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.19%) SCCM
3 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.41%) SAP
3 32 (5.98%) Oracle
4 21 (3.93%) Planview
5 17 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.06%) Workday
7 8 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.31%) VMware
9 6 (1.12%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.12%) Citrix
10 4 (0.75%) Adobe
10 4 (0.75%) Cisco
10 4 (0.75%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.56%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.56%) Databricks
11 3 (0.56%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.56%) Progress
12 2 (0.37%) Ariba
12 2 (0.37%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.37%) NEC