PRINCE2 Certification Contract Job Trends

PRINCE2 Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PRINCE2 Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 540 518
Rank change year-on-year -104 -22 +51
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 36 25 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.077% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% 0.24% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 33
10th Percentile £436 £420 £340
25th Percentile £500 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £700
90th Percentile - £819 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £490 £538
% change year-on-year +17.35% -8.84% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year - +85.82% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,176 10,258 11,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.60% 31.41% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 6,403 6,889
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,375 840 647
10th Percentile £17.07 £17.87 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.03% -48.67% -9.26%
75th Percentile £72.54 £43.75 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.00 £76.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £52.35
% change year-on-year +88.87% -51.95% +0.88%

PRINCE2 Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PRINCE2 Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PRINCE2 Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PRINCE2 Certification

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PRINCE2 Certification

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 September 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
England -104 34 £550 - 58
London -69 22 £513 -18.00% 36
Work from Home -61 12 £525 -4.55% 20
UK excluding London -106 12 £575 +17.35% 27
South East -57 7 £575 - 11
North West -50 2 £513 -41.43% 1
North of England -70 2 £513 +13.76% 5
East of England -29 1 £450 -6.01%
South West -39 1 £775 +3.33% 3
West Midlands -48 1 £525 +7.14% 3
Midlands -48 1 £525 +7.14% 7

PRINCE2 Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (19.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) Network Security
1 2 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) eggPlant
2 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Aerospace
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Japanese Language
5 3 (8.33%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Automotive
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Project Manager
2 10 (27.78%) Delivery Manager
3 7 (19.44%) Product Delivery Manager
3 7 (19.44%) Product Manager
4 6 (16.67%) IT Manager
4 6 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Data Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Digital Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Digital Product Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Environment Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Digital Project Manager
8 1 (2.78%) ERP Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Migration Project Manager
8 1 (2.78%) PMO Lead
8 1 (2.78%) Programme Test Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Test Programme Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) Web Services
1 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) CMDB
3 2 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 25 (69.44%) Agile
3 16 (44.44%) Project Management
4 14 (38.89%) Project Delivery
5 12 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (30.56%) Project Planning
7 10 (27.78%) Change Management
7 10 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (27.78%) ITIL
8 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 9 (25.00%) Migration
8 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (22.22%) Budget Management
9 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (22.22%) People Management
9 8 (22.22%) Service Management
10 7 (19.44%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 7 (19.44%) Digital Engineering
10 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
10 7 (19.44%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) Java
1 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Degree
1 17 (47.22%) PMI Certification
1 17 (47.22%) PMP
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) ISEB
5 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) PMO
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.78%) P3O
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Google
3 3 (8.33%) SAP
4 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) IFS
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Parasoft
5 1 (2.78%) Planview
5 1 (2.78%) Sage
5 1 (2.78%) SOASTA