PRINCE2 Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2 Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for PRINCE2 Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 347 381
Rank change year-on-year +28 +34 -12
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 15 47 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.61% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 50
10th Percentile £308 £313 £396
25th Percentile £414 £381 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.48% +16.11%
75th Percentile £506 £578 £575
90th Percentile £536 £600 £592
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £40.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.73% -7.78% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £42.25 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.73% -7.78% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

PRINCE2 Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,548 7,661 7,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.60% 37.01% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 4,410 5,340
10th Percentile £210 £269 £280
25th Percentile £390 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +0.19% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 936 667
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.96
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.09 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

PRINCE2 Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PRINCE2 Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2 Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2 Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK excluding London

PRINCE2 Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
South East +26 5 £450 -10.00% 11
North of England +12 5 £450 - 10
East of England +35 3 £525 +75.00% 4
Yorkshire +8 3 £450 - 4
North West - 2 £488 - 8
Scotland +10 1 £300 - 1
Midlands +9 1 £450 +0.56% 2
West Midlands +4 1 £450 +0.56% 1
PRINCE2 Certification
UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Asana
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) QlikView
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Local Government
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Assistant Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Business Change Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Change Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Manager
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Planner
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Project Change Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) PMI
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 11 (73.33%) Project Management
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) Resource Allocation
5 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
7 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (13.33%) Budget Management
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Scrum
8 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
8 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
8 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 5 (33.33%) PMP
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) APMP
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) ISEB
4 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) NEC
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SAP