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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 74 107
Rank change year-on-year -8 +33 -12
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 172 89 77
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.54% 2.50% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.78% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 52 44
10th Percentile £375 £218 £357
25th Percentile £456 £412 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £712
England median daily rate £550 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 8 13
10th Percentile £60.00 £66.39 £18.35
25th Percentile £80.75 - £26.68
Median hourly rate £88.00 £75.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +158.62% -56.23%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £84.00 £75.00 £29.80
% change year-on-year +12.00% +151.72% -30.71%

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 5,469 3,199 4,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.79% 89.91% 82.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 1,997 2,464
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £415 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £701 £665 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 297 319
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.58 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +154.92% -62.38% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.60 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.17% +3.59%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -2 113 £550 +6.02% 44
Berkshire +13 77 £550 +4.76% 26
Hampshire -12 42 £550 - 23
Buckinghamshire -13 34 £552 +7.64% 8
Surrey -14 9 £525 -19.23% 11
Kent -2 2 £550 +254.84% 8
West Sussex -27 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire -32 2 £253 - 10
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 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (17.44%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.07%) NEC Housing
2 6 (3.49%) Primavera
3 4 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.16%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.95%) Azure
2 11 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (6.40%) Power Platform
2 11 (6.40%) SaaS
3 10 (5.81%) AWS
4 6 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.49%) Smartsheet
5 4 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.33%) IaaS
6 3 (1.74%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) GCP
8 1 (0.58%) GitHub
8 1 (0.58%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.23%) Firewall
2 7 (4.07%) LAN
2 7 (4.07%) SD-WAN
2 7 (4.07%) WAN
3 5 (2.91%) DNS
4 4 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.74%) BGP
5 3 (1.74%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.74%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.74%) IPsec
5 3 (1.74%) MPLS
5 3 (1.74%) Network Security
5 3 (1.74%) OSPF
5 3 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.74%) VLAN
5 3 (1.74%) VPN
5 3 (1.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 26 (15.12%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (9.88%) JIRA
3 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 53 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.58%) Aerospace
3 42 (24.42%) Finance
4 22 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 21 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (8.72%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (5.81%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.49%) Local Government
9 6 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.16%) Billing
10 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Aviation
11 1 (0.58%) Banking
11 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (26.74%) Project Manager
2 45 (26.16%) Delivery Manager
3 42 (24.42%) Product Manager
4 34 (19.77%) Product Delivery Manager
5 23 (13.37%) Systems Manager
6 21 (12.21%) Systems Delivery Manager
7 19 (11.05%) Senior
8 13 (7.56%) Lead
8 13 (7.56%) Senior Manager
9 10 (5.81%) Test Manager
10 9 (5.23%) Analyst
10 9 (5.23%) Senior Project Manager
10 9 (5.23%) Technical Manager
11 7 (4.07%) Technical Project Manager
12 6 (3.49%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.49%) IT Manager
13 5 (2.91%) Programme Manager
13 5 (2.91%) Programme Planner
13 5 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (2.91%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.33%) ADO
2 1 (0.58%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 45 (26.16%) Product Ownership
2 22 (12.79%) Data Structures
3 14 (8.14%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.81%) PMI
5 8 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.74%) NHS
8 3 (1.74%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.74%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) FMCG
9 2 (1.16%) PKI
9 2 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (65.70%) Agile
2 71 (41.28%) Project Management
3 68 (39.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (38.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (31.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 54 (31.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (30.23%) Change Control
7 52 (30.23%) ITIL
8 45 (26.16%) Programme Management
9 42 (24.42%) Computer Science
10 40 (23.26%) Project Delivery
11 31 (18.02%) Systems Engineering
12 29 (16.86%) Waterfall
13 28 (16.28%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 27 (15.70%) Risk Management
15 26 (15.12%) Requirements Management
16 25 (14.53%) Configuration Management
17 24 (13.95%) Roadmaps
18 23 (13.37%) SysML
18 23 (13.37%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.33%) SQL
2 2 (1.16%) Python
Qualifications
1 113 (65.70%) Security Cleared
2 70 (40.70%) Degree
3 47 (27.33%) SC Cleared
4 35 (20.35%) DV Cleared
5 34 (19.77%) PMI Certification
6 31 (18.02%) PMP
7 27 (15.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (5.81%) ISTQB
9 7 (4.07%) ISEB
10 6 (3.49%) CCNP
10 6 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.74%) CBAP
12 3 (1.74%) CCNA
12 3 (1.74%) ISEB Practitioner
12 3 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.16%) CCIE
13 2 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.56%) PMO
2 11 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (5.23%) NIST
4 9 (5.23%) QA
5 5 (2.91%) GDPR
6 4 (2.33%) NCSC
7 2 (1.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 3 (1.74%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.74%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Ansible
1 2 (1.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.58%) MOM
Vendors
1 26 (15.12%) IBM
2 25 (14.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.40%) Oracle
4 9 (5.23%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.07%) Cisco
5 7 (4.07%) NEC
6 6 (3.49%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.91%) SAP
8 4 (2.33%) VMware
9 3 (1.74%) Aruba
9 3 (1.74%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.74%) F5
9 3 (1.74%) Google
9 3 (1.74%) Juniper
9 3 (1.74%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.16%) EMC
10 2 (1.16%) IFS
11 1 (0.58%) Commvault
11 1 (0.58%) Meraki