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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -4
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 35 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.66% 2.76% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.13% 2.99% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 3 8
10th Percentile £384 £271 £443
25th Percentile £515 £359 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £610 £559 £510
90th Percentile £843 £584 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £562 £513 £487
% change year-on-year +9.66% +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 491 234 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.45% 92.13% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 159 181
10th Percentile £360 £229 £250
25th Percentile £450 £327 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.29% -7.11%
75th Percentile £598 £536 £538
90th Percentile £638 £635 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £428 £463
% change year-on-year +22.81% -7.57% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 7
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.71 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.81 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.49% -20.65% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £29.61 £36.37
90th Percentile £70.25 - £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.05 £18.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.94% -40.00% +82.93%

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 October 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 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) AWS
1 3 (8.57%) Azure
1 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) GCP
2 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) BGP
1 3 (8.57%) BIG-IP
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
1 3 (8.57%) IPsec
1 3 (8.57%) LAN
1 3 (8.57%) MPLS
1 3 (8.57%) OSPF
1 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
1 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
1 3 (8.57%) VLAN
1 3 (8.57%) VPN
1 3 (8.57%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) ICMP
2 1 (2.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
4 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Product Manager
2 11 (31.43%) Senior
3 7 (20.00%) Senior Manager
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Product Manager
5 5 (14.29%) Analyst
5 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Project Officer
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow Manager
7 3 (8.57%) Architect
7 3 (8.57%) ITIL Manager
7 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) Lead Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Project Control Officer
7 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
7 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Technical Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
8 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Agile
1 19 (54.29%) ITIL
2 15 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (34.29%) Roadmaps
3 12 (34.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 12 (34.29%) Scrum
4 11 (31.43%) Service Delivery
5 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 10 (28.57%) Project Management
5 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (25.71%) Project Delivery
6 9 (25.71%) Service Design
7 6 (17.14%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (17.14%) Product Backlog
7 6 (17.14%) Product Roadmap
7 6 (17.14%) Product Strategy
8 5 (14.29%) Contract Management
8 5 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Python
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (94.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (74.29%) SC Cleared
3 16 (45.71%) DV Cleared
4 8 (22.86%) Degree
4 8 (22.86%) ISEB
5 7 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (8.57%) CBAP
6 3 (8.57%) CCNP
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (8.57%) ISEB Practitioner
6 3 (8.57%) ISTQB
6 3 (8.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (5.71%) CCIE
7 2 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
7 2 (5.71%) PMP
8 1 (2.86%) APMP
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) PMO
2 3 (8.57%) GRC
2 3 (8.57%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle
4 3 (8.57%) Cisco
4 3 (8.57%) F5
4 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.57%) SolarWinds
4 3 (8.57%) VMware
5 2 (5.71%) Google
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint