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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 107 87
Rank change year-on-year +8 -20 -24
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 65 77 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.86% 1.67% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.02% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 48 101
10th Percentile £153 £360 £300
25th Percentile £381 £408 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +11.68%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £688
90th Percentile £653 £703 £875
England median daily rate £525 £524 £525
% change year-on-year +0.15% -0.15% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 5
10th Percentile - £26.97 £13.33
25th Percentile - £27.00 £13.57
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +215.79% -57.78%
75th Percentile - £74.69 £68.75
90th Percentile - £75.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £32.29 £24.60
% change year-on-year +70.33% +31.26% -45.33%

All Process and 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 3,108 3,819 4,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.11% 82.59% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,937 2,283 3,316
10th Percentile £220 £255 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 254 252
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.08 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £31.44 £23.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.86 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PRINCE2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 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 18 September 2025.

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
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 18 September 2025. 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 +16 39 £525 +13.51% 39
Berkshire +20 31 £525 +19.32% 24
Hampshire +7 19 £550 +29.41% 18
Buckinghamshire +1 6 £513 +5.26% 7
Kent - 5 £155 - 5
West Sussex -5 3 £575 +6.98% 7
Oxfordshire -5 2 - - 9
Surrey +3 1 £650 -10.34% 10
Home Counties - 1 £550 -
PRINCE2
England

PRINCE2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (27.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) CMS
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.54%) Primavera
2 1 (1.54%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (12.31%) Azure
3 7 (10.77%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.23%) SaaS
5 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.69%) Miro
6 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.08%) AWS
7 2 (3.08%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) DNS
1 5 (7.69%) Firewall
1 5 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 5 (7.69%) VPN
2 2 (3.08%) 5G
2 2 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.08%) Wireless
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
3 1 (1.54%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Power BI
2 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) Metadata
2 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
General
1 30 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 24 (36.92%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Telecoms
4 8 (12.31%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Law
5 6 (9.23%) Legal
5 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.15%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.62%) Back Office
8 3 (4.62%) Retail
9 2 (3.08%) Automotive
9 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.08%) Local Government
10 1 (1.54%) Aviation
10 1 (1.54%) Banking
10 1 (1.54%) Billing
10 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Project Manager
2 7 (10.77%) Analyst
3 6 (9.23%) IT Support
3 6 (9.23%) Senior
3 6 (9.23%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (7.69%) DV Cleared Project Manager
4 5 (7.69%) Help Desk Officer
4 5 (7.69%) Help Desk Support
4 5 (7.69%) Service Desk Officer
4 5 (7.69%) Service Desk Support
5 4 (6.15%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.62%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Service Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) PMI
2 2 (3.08%) Life Science
2 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.54%) EPoS
3 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.54%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (1.54%) IoT
3 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.54%) SCADA
3 1 (1.54%) Smartcard
3 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 5 (7.69%) Windows 10
2 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Project Management
2 27 (41.54%) Agile
3 20 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (29.23%) Project Delivery
5 17 (26.15%) ITIL
5 17 (26.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (18.46%) Project Governance
8 11 (16.92%) Risk Management
9 10 (15.38%) CRM
10 9 (13.85%) Change Management
10 9 (13.85%) Scrum
11 8 (12.31%) Change Control
12 7 (10.77%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (10.77%) Contingency Planning
12 7 (10.77%) DevOps
12 7 (10.77%) Matrix Organization
13 6 (9.23%) Customer-Centricity
13 6 (9.23%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) PMI Certification
1 19 (29.23%) PMP
2 16 (24.62%) Security Cleared
3 14 (21.54%) Degree
4 13 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.69%) APMP
6 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) PMO
2 8 (12.31%) P3O
3 7 (10.77%) GDPR
3 7 (10.77%) QA
4 3 (4.62%) SLA
5 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.08%) PMBOK
6 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.54%) COBIT
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 5 (7.69%) Terminal Services
1 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) IFS
3 5 (7.69%) Citrix
3 5 (7.69%) Oracle
3 5 (7.69%) SAP
3 5 (7.69%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.54%) Niku
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) Workday