PRINCE2 Contracts in the Midlands

PRINCE 2
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 93 86 57
Rank change year-on-year -7 -29 +10
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 18 47 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 1.70% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 2.07% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 42 94
10th Percentile £411 £275 £313
25th Percentile £434 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £575
90th Percentile £555 £650 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £25.73 - £15.03
25th Percentile £27.99 - £19.57
Median hourly rate £31.76 - £27.13
75th Percentile - - £37.32
90th Percentile - - £43.43
England median hourly rate £39.03 £33.07 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.04% -26.52% +28.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 in the Midlands

PRINCE2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 in the Midlands

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the Midlands

PRINCE2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 in the Midlands

PRINCE2
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -10 10 £525 -3.67% 31
East Midlands +5 8 £459 +1.94% 28
PRINCE2
England

PRINCE2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
1 1 (5.56%) PPP
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
1 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Project Manager
2 4 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 4 (22.22%) IT Project Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) PMO Lead
3 2 (11.11%) PMO Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Project Officer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PMI
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Project Management
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 3 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (11.11%) Budget Management
6 2 (11.11%) Business Case
6 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Contract Management
6 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Project Governance
6 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.11%) PMP
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) PMO
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) Basel III
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) MiFID
3 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Workday
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) VMware