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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 507 513
Rank change year-on-year -112 +6 +69
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 18 30 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.32% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 49
10th Percentile £433 £418 £313
25th Percentile £450 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +1.32% -11.63%
75th Percentile £576 £609 £600
90th Percentile £932 £641 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year - -14.83% -28.24%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.50 -

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 15,865 9,299 12,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.24% 31.03% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 5,774 8,010
10th Percentile £350 £275 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +1.20% -6.19% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,166 618 1,129
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.24 £19.17
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +70.88% -27.30% -26.82%
75th Percentile £72.54 £62.44 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £76.25 £75.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.84 £27.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.80% -34.26% -20.80%

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 23 June 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 13 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 23 June 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 -134 17 £500 +3.90% 10
UK excluding London -105 11 £450 - 8
London -81 7 £500 -11.11% 3
Work from Home -47 5 £500 +1.27% 6
Midlands -49 3 £1,300 +188.89% 1
North West -41 2 - - 2
West Midlands -56 2 £1,300 +188.89% 1
South East -60 2 £543 +14.21% 4
North of England -78 2 - - 3
South West - 2 - -
East of England -29 1 £450 -14.29%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £413 -

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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Maximo
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Japanese Language
3 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) IT Manager
2 5 (27.78%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Network Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Manager
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ERP Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Migration Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Digital Signage
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (5.56%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 12 (66.67%) Project Management
3 7 (38.89%) Project Delivery
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) Project Planning
6 4 (22.22%) CRM
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) Change Management
7 3 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
7 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (11.11%) Business Case
8 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 2 (11.11%) ERP
8 2 (11.11%) ITIL
8 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 6 (33.33%) PMP
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (11.11%) APMP
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PMO
2 1 (5.56%) GAAP
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS
2 1 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) BT
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) IFS
3 1 (5.56%) Meraki
3 1 (5.56%) Okta
3 1 (5.56%) Sage
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP