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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 70 111
Rank change year-on-year -13 +41 -25
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 147 76 84
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.48% 2.54% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 2.78% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 46 61
10th Percentile £340 £331 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% +2.00%
75th Percentile £622 £550 £588
90th Percentile £670 £619 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 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 £39.03 £30.37
% change year-on-year +125.47% +28.53% -32.52%

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 4,787 2,732 4,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.67% 91.40% 84.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,122 1,751 2,665
10th Percentile £280 £250 £250
25th Percentile £410 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £625
90th Percentile £706 £663 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 171 434
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £15.00 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.76 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.13% -41.56% -4.04%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.24 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +2 101 £535 +18.89% 23
Berkshire +22 86 £535 +18.89% 8
Hampshire -11 43 £525 -1.87% 17
Buckinghamshire -33 12 £560 +13.42% 8
Surrey -8 6 £550 +7.32% 8
Oxfordshire -25 3 £438 -22.22% 7
Kent - 2 £375 - 2
West Sussex -19 1 £700 +30.23% 2
East Sussex - 1 £725 - 5
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 13 (8.84%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.08%) Confluence
3 3 (2.04%) CMS
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 31 (21.09%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Primavera
2 5 (3.40%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.36%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.97%) Azure
2 16 (10.88%) Power Platform
3 15 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (8.84%) SaaS
6 8 (5.44%) AWS
7 3 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.36%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.36%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.36%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.68%) Apigee
9 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.68%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.68%) GCP
9 1 (0.68%) IaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Miro
9 1 (0.68%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.76%) Firewall
1 7 (4.76%) WAN
2 5 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.72%) LAN
4 3 (2.04%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.04%) Wireless
5 2 (1.36%) DNS
5 2 (1.36%) NAS
5 2 (1.36%) Network Security
5 2 (1.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.68%) 2G
6 1 (0.68%) BGP
6 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.68%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.68%) OSPF
6 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.68%) VoIP
6 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) Power BI
2 9 (6.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 8 (5.44%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (17.69%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 47 (31.97%) Finance
2 43 (29.25%) Social Skills
3 36 (24.49%) Aerospace
4 19 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.36%) Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Billing
10 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Military
11 1 (0.68%) Police
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (31.97%) Project Manager
2 42 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
3 31 (21.09%) Product Delivery Manager
3 31 (21.09%) Product Manager
4 21 (14.29%) Systems Delivery Manager
4 21 (14.29%) Systems Manager
5 13 (8.84%) Lead
6 11 (7.48%) Project Planner
6 11 (7.48%) Senior
7 9 (6.12%) Senior Manager
7 9 (6.12%) Senior Project Manager
8 8 (5.44%) Analyst
8 8 (5.44%) Programme Manager
9 7 (4.76%) Integration Manager
10 6 (4.08%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 6 (4.08%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (4.08%) PMO Lead
10 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared Project Manager
10 6 (4.08%) Technical Manager
11 5 (3.40%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.72%) ADO
2 1 (0.68%) Kafka
2 1 (0.68%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.68%) OAuth
2 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.45%) Product Ownership
2 22 (14.97%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.16%) PMI
4 8 (5.44%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.72%) PKI
7 3 (2.04%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.36%) FMCG
8 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.36%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.36%) SCADA
8 2 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.44%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (64.63%) Agile
2 64 (43.54%) Project Management
3 51 (34.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 47 (31.97%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 45 (30.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (30.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (27.21%) Programme Management
7 39 (26.53%) Change Control
8 33 (22.45%) Computer Science
9 32 (21.77%) Project Delivery
9 32 (21.77%) Waterfall
10 31 (21.09%) ITIL
11 30 (20.41%) Systems Engineering
12 27 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (17.69%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 25 (17.01%) Requirements Management
15 23 (15.65%) SysML
15 23 (15.65%) UML
16 22 (14.97%) DoDAF
17 21 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.68%) Bicep
1 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (53.06%) Security Cleared
2 52 (35.37%) Degree
3 40 (27.21%) PMI Certification
4 37 (25.17%) PMP
5 31 (21.09%) SC Cleared
6 19 (12.93%) DV Cleared
7 10 (6.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (2.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.36%) APMG
9 2 (1.36%) CCNA
9 2 (1.36%) CCNP
9 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.36%) ISEB
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.68%) CISM
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.68%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.73%) PMO
2 9 (6.12%) NIST
3 8 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.08%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.40%) QA
6 3 (2.04%) NCSC
7 2 (1.36%) GDPR
7 2 (1.36%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.68%) P3O
8 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.68%) Grafana
1 1 (0.68%) Istio
1 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.68%) linkerd
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.68%) SCCM
1 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (17.69%) IBM
2 13 (8.84%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.16%) Oracle
4 8 (5.44%) SAP
4 8 (5.44%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco
6 2 (1.36%) Aruba
6 2 (1.36%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.36%) IFS
6 2 (1.36%) Juniper
6 2 (1.36%) Meraki
6 2 (1.36%) NetApp
6 2 (1.36%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.36%) VMware
7 1 (0.68%) BT
7 1 (0.68%) F5
7 1 (0.68%) Planview
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Veeam