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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +17
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 21 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.79% 3.96% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 4.21% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 13
10th Percentile £419 £335 £415
25th Percentile £486 £435 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% -6.86% +15.65%
75th Percentile £610 £531 £638
90th Percentile £769 £550 £645
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £475 £474
% change year-on-year +15.79% +0.13% +6.72%

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 596 190 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.26% 94.06% 84.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 129 219
10th Percentile £354 £212 £245
25th Percentile £456 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +20.69% -8.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 16
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.39 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.38 £15.12 £17.19
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -17.60% +51.46%
75th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £18.32 £23.83 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.21% -39.00% +52.44%

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 5 July 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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) BGP
1 3 (14.29%) BIG-IP
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) IPsec
1 3 (14.29%) LAN
1 3 (14.29%) MPLS
1 3 (14.29%) OSPF
1 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 3 (14.29%) VLAN
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
1 3 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) ICMP
2 1 (4.76%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
1 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 7 (33.33%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Product Manager
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Leader
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Network Technical Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Product Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) ITIL
3 9 (42.86%) Project Management
3 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (33.33%) Scrum
4 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 6 (28.57%) Project Delivery
5 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 6 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
6 5 (23.81%) Service Design
7 3 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
7 3 (14.29%) Budget Management
7 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 3 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
7 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (52.38%) DV Cleared
4 7 (33.33%) Degree
5 4 (19.05%) ISEB
5 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (14.29%) CCNP
6 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (9.52%) APMP
7 2 (9.52%) CBAP
7 2 (9.52%) CCIE
7 2 (9.52%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (4.76%) CSPO
8 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) F5
2 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow