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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 24 36
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 27 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.48% 5.36% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 5.77% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 7
10th Percentile £390 £376 £394
25th Percentile £477 £454 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +2.50% +12.49%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £510
90th Percentile £705 £568 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £513 £474
% change year-on-year +7.32% +8.18% -0.26%

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 617 208 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.51% 92.86% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 142 194
10th Percentile £351 £220 £239
25th Percentile £451 £352 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £429 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -4.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £646
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £444 £450
% change year-on-year +18.31% -1.39% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 7
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.39 £16.89
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -44.38% +127.79%
75th Percentile £18.32 £18.00 £36.37
90th Percentile £43.75 £23.83 £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.91 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.77% -42.15% +83.52%

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 4 August 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) BGP
1 3 (11.11%) BIG-IP
1 3 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
1 3 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) IPsec
1 3 (11.11%) LAN
1 3 (11.11%) MPLS
1 3 (11.11%) OSPF
1 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 3 (11.11%) VLAN
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
1 3 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (3.70%) ICMP
2 1 (3.70%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Project Manager
3 6 (22.22%) Product Manager
4 5 (18.52%) Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Business Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Manager
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Lead
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Project Officer
6 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (11.11%) Technical Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Technical Leader
7 2 (7.41%) Network Technical Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Project Control Officer
7 2 (7.41%) SDLC Business Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
2 12 (44.44%) ITIL
2 12 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (33.33%) Project Management
4 8 (29.63%) Project Delivery
5 7 (25.93%) Scrum
5 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 6 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 6 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 6 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (18.52%) Business Analysis
7 5 (18.52%) Impact Assessments
7 5 (18.52%) SDLC
7 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
7 5 (18.52%) Service Design
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.81%) Defect Management
8 4 (14.81%) System Testing
8 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Python
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (92.59%) Security Cleared
2 20 (74.07%) SC Cleared
3 12 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 9 (33.33%) Degree
5 6 (22.22%) ISEB
6 5 (18.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (11.11%) CBAP
7 3 (11.11%) CCNP
7 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (11.11%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (11.11%) ISTQB
7 3 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (7.41%) CCIE
8 2 (7.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (3.70%) APMP
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) NCSC
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco
2 3 (11.11%) F5
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow