PRINCE2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

PRINCE 2
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring PRINCE2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 96 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 175 72 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.63% 2.03% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 2.27% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 41 51
10th Percentile £375 £153 £363
25th Percentile £456 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £711
England median daily rate £550 £525 £522
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.63% +0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 2 12
10th Percentile £60.00 - £19.18
25th Percentile £75.94 - £26.92
Median hourly rate £88.00 £75.00 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +84.05% -
75th Percentile - - £74.06
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £81.50 £66.00 £30.59
% change year-on-year +23.48% +115.76% +24.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,363 3,173 3,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.61% 89.36% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 1,973 2,337
10th Percentile £280 £238 £260
25th Percentile £421 £393 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £674 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 308 294
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.30 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%
75th Percentile £71.00 £53.56 £70.39
90th Percentile £87.99 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

PRINCE2 job vacancy trend in the South East

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PRINCE2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in the South East over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the South East

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PRINCE2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PRINCE2

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PRINCE2 in the South East over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the South East

PRINCE2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Thames Valley +11 111 £551 +6.18% 48
Berkshire +17 75 £570 +8.57% 26
Hampshire -2 47 £550 - 28
Buckinghamshire -10 34 £552 +7.64% 11
Surrey -12 9 £525 -19.23% 11
Kent -2 2 £550 +254.84% 9
West Sussex -22 2 - - 2
Oxfordshire -27 2 £253 - 15
PRINCE2
England

PRINCE2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (17.71%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.00%) NEC Housing
2 6 (3.43%) Primavera
3 5 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.29%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.14%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.29%) Azure
2 12 (6.86%) Power Platform
3 11 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.71%) AWS
4 10 (5.71%) SaaS
5 6 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.43%) Smartsheet
6 4 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.29%) IaaS
7 3 (1.71%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) GCP
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.57%) GitHub
9 1 (0.57%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.14%) Firewall
2 7 (4.00%) LAN
2 7 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 7 (4.00%) WAN
3 5 (2.86%) DNS
4 4 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.71%) BGP
5 3 (1.71%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.71%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.71%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (1.71%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.71%) IPsec
5 3 (1.71%) MPLS
5 3 (1.71%) Network Security
5 3 (1.71%) OSPF
5 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.71%) VLAN
5 3 (1.71%) VPN
5 3 (1.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.86%) Power BI
2 3 (1.71%) Metadata
3 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 18 (10.29%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (9.71%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
General
1 56 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.14%) Finance
3 38 (21.71%) Aerospace
4 22 (12.57%) Public Sector
5 21 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.71%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (9.14%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (5.71%) Telecoms
9 9 (5.14%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.43%) Local Government
11 2 (1.14%) Billing
11 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Legal
11 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Aviation
12 1 (0.57%) Banking
12 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 42 (24.00%) Delivery Manager
3 36 (20.57%) Product Manager
4 28 (16.00%) Product Delivery Manager
5 18 (10.29%) Senior
6 17 (9.71%) Systems Manager
7 15 (8.57%) Systems Delivery Manager
8 13 (7.43%) Lead
9 12 (6.86%) Senior Manager
9 12 (6.86%) Test Manager
10 9 (5.14%) Analyst
10 9 (5.14%) Technical Manager
11 8 (4.57%) Senior Project Manager
12 7 (4.00%) Technical Project Manager
13 6 (3.43%) Business Analyst
13 6 (3.43%) IT Manager
14 5 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
14 5 (2.86%) Programme Manager
14 5 (2.86%) Programme Planner
14 5 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.29%) ADO
2 2 (1.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.57%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.14%) Data Structures
3 15 (8.57%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.29%) PMI
5 8 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.71%) NHS
8 3 (1.71%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.71%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) FMCG
9 2 (1.14%) PKI
9 2 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (68.00%) Agile
2 81 (46.29%) Project Management
3 72 (41.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (38.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (30.86%) ITIL
5 54 (30.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 53 (30.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 43 (24.57%) Change Control
8 40 (22.86%) Programme Management
8 40 (22.86%) Project Delivery
9 37 (21.14%) Computer Science
10 31 (17.71%) Waterfall
11 28 (16.00%) Change Management
11 28 (16.00%) Risk Management
12 26 (14.86%) Roadmaps
13 24 (13.71%) Scrum
14 22 (12.57%) Configuration Management
14 22 (12.57%) Project Planning
14 22 (12.57%) Systems Engineering
15 21 (12.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.29%) SQL
2 2 (1.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 111 (63.43%) Security Cleared
2 71 (40.57%) Degree
3 53 (30.29%) SC Cleared
4 38 (21.71%) PMI Certification
5 37 (21.14%) PMP
6 35 (20.00%) DV Cleared
7 28 (16.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 12 (6.86%) ISTQB
9 7 (4.00%) ISEB
10 6 (3.43%) CCNP
10 6 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (2.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.71%) CBAP
12 3 (1.71%) CCNA
12 3 (1.71%) ISEB Practitioner
12 3 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.14%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.00%) PMO
2 10 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.14%) QA
4 7 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.43%) NIST
6 5 (2.86%) GDPR
7 4 (2.29%) NCSC
8 2 (1.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.71%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.14%) Ansible
1 2 (1.14%) MOM
2 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.29%) IBM
3 11 (6.29%) Oracle
4 10 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.00%) Cisco
5 7 (4.00%) NEC
6 6 (3.43%) SAP
6 6 (3.43%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.29%) VMware
8 3 (1.71%) Aruba
8 3 (1.71%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.71%) EMC
8 3 (1.71%) F5
8 3 (1.71%) Google
8 3 (1.71%) Juniper
8 3 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.14%) IFS
10 1 (0.57%) Databricks
10 1 (0.57%) Meraki