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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 79 110
Rank change year-on-year -13 +31 -25
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 131 74 84
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.18% 2.51% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.74% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 44 60
10th Percentile £340 £319 £355
25th Percentile £419 £415 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £625 £553 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £653
England median daily rate £525 £504 £523
% change year-on-year +4.22% -3.75% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 4
10th Percentile £80.75 £66.39 -
25th Percentile £84.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 £75.00 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +308.72% -59.22%
75th Percentile - - £20.43
90th Percentile - - £24.18
England median hourly rate £88.00 £72.50 £32.68
% change year-on-year +21.38% +121.87% -27.38%

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 4,854 2,696 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.74% 91.33% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,096 1,725 2,696
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -1.67% +0.20%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £660 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 184 455
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.00 £18.26
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £59.06 £62.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -3 86 £510 +13.33% 26
Berkshire +11 73 £523 +16.11% 14
Hampshire -11 42 £525 -4.55% 16
Buckinghamshire -40 10 £515 +8.47% 8
Oxfordshire -32 3 £198 -60.37% 5
Surrey -21 2 £631 +23.09% 12
Kent - 2 £375 - 5
West Sussex -23 1 £700 +30.23% 3
East Sussex - 1 £725 - 6
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 8 (6.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.29%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 21 (16.03%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Primavera
2 4 (3.05%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.29%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.53%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.74%) Azure
2 12 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.63%) SaaS
5 6 (4.58%) AWS
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.29%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.53%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.53%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.76%) Apigee
8 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.76%) GCP
8 1 (0.76%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.76%) IaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Kong
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) Firewall
1 6 (4.58%) WAN
2 4 (3.05%) LAN
3 3 (2.29%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.29%) Wireless
4 2 (1.53%) DNS
4 2 (1.53%) NAS
4 2 (1.53%) Network Security
4 2 (1.53%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) BGP
5 1 (0.76%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.76%) OSPF
5 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.40%) Power BI
2 6 (4.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (6.11%) JIRA
General
1 43 (32.82%) Finance
2 37 (28.24%) Aerospace
3 34 (25.95%) Social Skills
4 17 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.53%) Banking
8 2 (1.53%) Billing
8 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Police
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Aviation
9 1 (0.76%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (32.06%) Project Manager
2 40 (30.53%) Delivery Manager
3 31 (23.66%) Product Delivery Manager
3 31 (23.66%) Product Manager
4 21 (16.03%) Systems Delivery Manager
4 21 (16.03%) Systems Manager
5 10 (7.63%) Project Planner
6 9 (6.87%) Lead
7 8 (6.11%) Analyst
7 8 (6.11%) Senior
8 7 (5.34%) Technical Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Project Manager
10 5 (3.82%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Integration Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Programme Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Technical Project Manager
11 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) ADO
2 1 (0.76%) Kafka
2 1 (0.76%) OAuth
2 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.19%) Product Ownership
2 22 (16.79%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.63%) PMI
4 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.29%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) FMCG
8 2 (1.53%) NHS
8 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.53%) PKI
8 2 (1.53%) SCADA
8 2 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.76%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (64.89%) Agile
2 57 (43.51%) Project Management
3 46 (35.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 43 (32.82%) Change Control
5 42 (32.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (31.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 38 (29.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (29.01%) Programme Management
8 33 (25.19%) Computer Science
9 30 (22.90%) Systems Engineering
10 27 (20.61%) ITIL
10 27 (20.61%) Project Delivery
10 27 (20.61%) Waterfall
11 26 (19.85%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 25 (19.08%) Requirements Management
13 23 (17.56%) SysML
13 23 (17.56%) UML
14 22 (16.79%) DoDAF
14 22 (16.79%) Risk Management
15 21 (16.03%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 75 (57.25%) Security Cleared
2 45 (34.35%) Degree
3 31 (23.66%) PMI Certification
4 30 (22.90%) PMP
5 28 (21.37%) SC Cleared
6 17 (12.98%) DV Cleared
7 9 (6.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (2.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.53%) APMG
9 2 (1.53%) CCNA
9 2 (1.53%) CCNP
9 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.53%) ISEB
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.76%) CBAP
10 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.76%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.79%) PMO
2 9 (6.87%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.11%) NIST
4 6 (4.58%) QA
5 4 (3.05%) GDPR
6 3 (2.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.76%) P3O
7 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.76%) Grafana
1 1 (0.76%) Istio
1 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.76%) linkerd
1 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (19.85%) IBM
2 8 (6.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) Oracle
3 7 (5.34%) SAP
4 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.05%) Cisco
6 3 (2.29%) NEC
7 2 (1.53%) Aruba
7 2 (1.53%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.53%) IFS
7 2 (1.53%) Juniper
7 2 (1.53%) Meraki
7 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.76%) Ariba
8 1 (0.76%) F5
8 1 (0.76%) Google
8 1 (0.76%) Planview
8 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.76%) Splunk
8 1 (0.76%) Veeam