PRINCE2 Practitioner Contract Job Trends in Scotland

PRINCE2 Practitioner
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for PRINCE2 Practitioner qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 116 114
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +45
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.18% 0.12% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.80% 0.48% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 £467 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £468 £350
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% +33.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £581 £468 £441
90th Percentile £660 - £465
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

PRINCE2 Practitioner falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 502 418 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.44% 24.23% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 258 305
10th Percentile £303 £181 £178
25th Percentile £358 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -3.49%
75th Percentile £580 £525 £588
90th Percentile £756 £591 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 42
10th Percentile £16.09 £16.84 £12.32
25th Percentile £25.19 £18.04 £13.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £20.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.50% +11.11% -43.90%
75th Percentile £64.00 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £72.60 £42.31 £54.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% -33.73% -24.98%

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PRINCE2 Practitioner job vacancy trend in Scotland

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PRINCE2 Practitioner

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 Practitioner in Scotland

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
Edinburgh - 3 £525 -
Glasgow -1 1 £500 +6.95% 1
PRINCE2 Practitioner
UK

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (75.00%) PMP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft