PRINCE2 Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

PRINCE 2
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring PRINCE2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 31 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 30 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.17% 2.58% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 2.78% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 8
10th Percentile £398 £271 £443
25th Percentile £496 £359 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £559 £510
90th Percentile £674 £584 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £552 £513 £487
% change year-on-year +7.64% +5.26% -5.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 567 216 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.86% 92.70% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 151 189
10th Percentile £360 £213 £232
25th Percentile £456 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.29% -5.25%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £635 £640
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £436 £458
% change year-on-year +20.34% -4.64% -10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 6
10th Percentile £13.89 £14.23 £18.24
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £23.44
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -51.56% +142.98%
75th Percentile £43.75 £18.00 £36.56
90th Percentile £49.05 £25.15 £37.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.05 £15.71 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.17% -42.89% +67.68%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

PRINCE2 job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing PRINCE2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in Milton Keynes

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing PRINCE2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) BGP
1 3 (10.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) IPsec
1 3 (10.00%) LAN
1 3 (10.00%) MPLS
1 3 (10.00%) OSPF
1 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (10.00%) VLAN
1 3 (10.00%) VPN
1 3 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) ICMP
2 1 (3.33%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Influencing Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Senior
2 8 (26.67%) Product Manager
3 7 (23.33%) Project Manager
3 7 (23.33%) Senior Manager
4 5 (16.67%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Product Manager
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Project Officer
6 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Leader
7 2 (6.67%) ITIL Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Project Control Officer
7 2 (6.67%) SDLC Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Agile
2 15 (50.00%) ITIL
3 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (30.00%) Project Management
4 9 (30.00%) Scrum
5 8 (26.67%) Project Delivery
5 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 8 (26.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 7 (23.33%) Decision-Making
6 7 (23.33%) Risk Management
6 7 (23.33%) Service Delivery
6 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (20.00%) Service Design
8 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
8 5 (16.67%) SDLC
9 4 (13.33%) Regression Testing
9 4 (13.33%) System Testing
9 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Python
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (73.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (30.00%) Degree
5 6 (20.00%) ISEB
6 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (10.00%) CBAP
7 3 (10.00%) CCNP
7 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (10.00%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
7 3 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (6.67%) CCIE
8 2 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (3.33%) APMP
9 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) NCSC
1 3 (10.00%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) GRC
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco
2 3 (10.00%) F5
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow