PRINCE2 Certification Contracts

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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 523 571
Rank change year-on-year +16 +48 +8
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 29 68 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.30% 0.53% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 50 85
10th Percentile £410 £313 £354
25th Percentile £443 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -7.52% +11.41%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £645 £738 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £538
% change year-on-year - -16.28% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £33.00 - -
25th Percentile £43.13 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £32.29 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.82% -28.24% -
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £49.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 - £45.00

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 9,535 12,865 14,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.95% 29.80% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,884 7,943 9,926
10th Percentile £275 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £701 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 1,115 732
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.15 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.94 £55.68
Median % change year-on-year -31.61% -26.47% +25.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.28 £43.00 £54.11
% change year-on-year -38.88% -20.54% +53.73%

PRINCE2 Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PRINCE2 Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification.

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PRINCE2 Certification in the UK

PRINCE2 Certification
Top 11 Contract 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 1 July 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
England +28 27 £500 +0.40% 116
London +43 15 £575 -14.81% 59
UK excluding London +6 10 £450 - 74
Work from Home +23 8 £575 +31.43% 34
North of England +10 4 £450 - 14
East of England +20 3 £525 +75.00% 2
Yorkshire 0 3 £450 +0.06% 5
South East +42 2 £475 -9.52% 22
Midlands +9 1 £450 +16.88% 10
West Midlands +2 1 £450 +16.88% 6
North West - 1 £450 - 8

PRINCE2 Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.90%) Trello
4 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.45%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Asana
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) Smartsheet
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Fieldglass
2 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
2 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) ATM
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) QlikView
2 1 (3.45%) Tableau
2 1 (3.45%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) JIRA
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) International Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) Project Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Migration Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Migration Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) HR Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Banking Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) IAM Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) SAP Manager
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) SDLC Manager
5 1 (3.45%) SDLC Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
1 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.45%) Learning Management System
1 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.45%) PMI
1 1 (3.45%) Replication
1 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 21 (72.41%) Agile
3 18 (62.07%) Project Management
4 9 (31.03%) Scrum
5 8 (27.59%) Waterfall
6 7 (24.14%) Project Delivery
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.69%) Migration
8 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (10.34%) Budgeting
9 3 (10.34%) Business Case
9 3 (10.34%) Change Management
9 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
9 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (10.34%) Resource Allocation
9 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (6.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 2 (6.90%) Risk Management
10 2 (6.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 2 (6.90%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) C#
1 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
1 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) PMI Certification
1 12 (41.38%) PMP
2 10 (34.48%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) APMP
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) VMware
2 3 (10.34%) Workday
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce