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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 84 118
Rank change year-on-year -7 +34 -32
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 149 78 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.35% 2.40% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.65% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 46 60
10th Percentile £343 £313 £362
25th Percentile £450 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +9.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £588
90th Percentile £725 £644 £653
England median daily rate £540 £508 £523
% change year-on-year +6.40% -3.03% +0.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 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 £70.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.71% +111.70% -26.52%

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 5,164 2,946 4,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.44% 90.65% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,245 1,831 2,752
10th Percentile £280 £250 £260
25th Percentile £413 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 243 449
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.59 £15.13 £18.32
Median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.08% -51.02% -2.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £67.81
90th Percentile £88.00 £74.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +5 97 £525 +13.51% 28
Berkshire +11 70 £525 +13.51% 7
Hampshire -15 45 £525 -4.55% 18
Buckinghamshire -18 24 £550 +15.79% 16
Oxfordshire -29 3 £198 - 5
Surrey -26 2 £631 +20.16% 12
Kent -2 1 - - 5
West Sussex -20 1 £700 +30.23% 3
East Sussex - 1 £725 - 3
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 7 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.68%) NEC Housing
2 4 (2.68%) Primavera
2 4 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.34%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.77%) Azure
2 12 (8.05%) AWS
3 11 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.04%) SaaS
6 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.01%) GCP
9 2 (1.34%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.67%) Apigee
10 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.67%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.67%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.67%) GitHub
10 1 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.38%) Firewall
2 10 (6.71%) WAN
3 9 (6.04%) LAN
4 8 (5.37%) SD-WAN
5 5 (3.36%) DNS
5 5 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (3.36%) Wireless
6 4 (2.68%) BGP
6 4 (2.68%) BIG-IP
6 4 (2.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (2.68%) Network Security
6 4 (2.68%) OSPF
7 3 (2.01%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (2.01%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (2.01%) IPsec
7 3 (2.01%) MPLS
7 3 (2.01%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.01%) VLAN
7 3 (2.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.71%) Power BI
2 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (17.45%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (8.05%) JIRA
3 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 46 (30.87%) Finance
2 45 (30.20%) Social Skills
3 37 (24.83%) Aerospace
4 15 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (8.72%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.70%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.01%) Billing
10 3 (2.01%) Local Government
11 2 (1.34%) Police
12 1 (0.67%) Automotive
12 1 (0.67%) Aviation
12 1 (0.67%) Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.67%) Marketing
12 1 (0.67%) Military
12 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (28.86%) Delivery Manager
1 43 (28.86%) Project Manager
2 37 (24.83%) Product Manager
3 31 (20.81%) Product Delivery Manager
4 21 (14.09%) Systems Delivery Manager
4 21 (14.09%) Systems Manager
5 15 (10.07%) Senior
6 13 (8.72%) Lead
7 11 (7.38%) Senior Manager
8 9 (6.04%) Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) Senior Project Manager
9 7 (4.70%) Technical Manager
10 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 6 (4.03%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (4.03%) Programme Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Network Delivery Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Network Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Technical Project Manager
12 4 (2.68%) Programme Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.68%) ADO
2 1 (0.67%) Kafka
2 1 (0.67%) OAuth
2 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.17%) Product Ownership
2 22 (14.77%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.37%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.37%) PMI
4 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.01%) NHS
7 3 (2.01%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.34%) FMCG
8 2 (1.34%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.34%) PKI
8 2 (1.34%) SCADA
8 2 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (69.13%) Agile
2 57 (38.26%) Project Management
3 56 (37.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (34.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 50 (33.56%) Change Control
5 50 (33.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 47 (31.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (27.52%) Programme Management
8 39 (26.17%) ITIL
9 37 (24.83%) Computer Science
10 30 (20.13%) Systems Engineering
11 29 (19.46%) Project Delivery
12 27 (18.12%) Risk Management
12 27 (18.12%) Waterfall
13 26 (17.45%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
13 26 (17.45%) Requirements Management
14 23 (15.44%) SysML
14 23 (15.44%) UML
15 22 (14.77%) DoDAF
16 21 (14.09%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.34%) Python
1 2 (1.34%) SQL
2 1 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 98 (65.77%) Security Cleared
2 50 (33.56%) Degree
3 38 (25.50%) SC Cleared
4 33 (22.15%) DV Cleared
5 31 (20.81%) PMP
6 30 (20.13%) PMI Certification
7 16 (10.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (4.70%) CCNP
8 7 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.36%) ISEB
10 4 (2.68%) CCNA
11 3 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.34%) APMG
12 2 (1.34%) APMP
12 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.34%) CBAP
12 2 (1.34%) CCIE
12 2 (1.34%) ISEB Practitioner
12 2 (1.34%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.74%) PMO
2 9 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.04%) NIST
3 6 (4.03%) NCSC
3 6 (4.03%) QA
4 5 (3.36%) GDPR
5 2 (1.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.67%) P3O
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.01%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.01%) Terraform
2 2 (1.34%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.67%) Istio
3 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) linkerd
3 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (17.45%) IBM
2 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.71%) Oracle
4 9 (6.04%) Cisco
5 7 (4.70%) SAP
5 7 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.70%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.68%) Aruba
6 4 (2.68%) F5
6 4 (2.68%) Juniper
6 4 (2.68%) NEC
6 4 (2.68%) VMware
7 3 (2.01%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.01%) Google
7 3 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.34%) IFS
8 2 (1.34%) Meraki
9 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) Splunk
9 1 (0.67%) Veeam