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 2 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 484 528
Rank change year-on-year -85 +44 +66
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Certification 32 36 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.40% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 46
10th Percentile £350 £383 £363
25th Percentile £469 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £456 £498
Median % change year-on-year +22.47% -8.38% -5.14%
75th Percentile £657 £566 £573
90th Percentile £739 £694 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £568 £450 £496
% change year-on-year +26.11% -9.27% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - -33.73% -7.78%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year - -33.73% -7.78%

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 14,084 9,061 13,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.03% 30.02% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,294 5,576 8,351
10th Percentile £331 £285 £288
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £614 £628 £650
90th Percentile £719 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,039 447 1,000
10th Percentile £16.15 £20.07 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.50 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.77 £42.50 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -39.36% +4.62% -17.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £82.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £47.81 £41.37
% change year-on-year -47.39% +15.57% -8.08%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -98 26 £601 +30.00% 21
UK excluding London -72 23 £568 +26.11% 16
London -52 8 £500 +8.11% 11
South West -14 6 £750 +66.67% 4
West Midlands -47 5 £725 +61.11% 3
Midlands -53 5 £725 +61.11% 3
Scotland +15 4 £509 +69.58%
South East -36 4 £635 +33.68% 7
Work from Home -29 3 £568 +22.70% 9
North West -33 2 - - 2
North of England -63 2 - - 2
Wales - 1 £413 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 -

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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.50%) SaaS
4 3 (9.38%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) OCI
5 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Advertising
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Project Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Technical Manager
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Manager
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Project Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
5 3 (9.38%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Manager
6 2 (6.25%) NHS Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Release Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Service Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Lead
7 1 (3.13%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Middleware
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) RESTful
1 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) CMDB
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.13%) IPTV
3 1 (3.13%) New Media
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Solaris
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 24 (75.00%) Project Management
3 22 (68.75%) Agile
4 14 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (31.25%) Waterfall
6 9 (28.13%) DevOps
6 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.00%) ITIL
8 7 (21.88%) Change Management
8 7 (21.88%) Scrum
8 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (18.75%) Budget Management
9 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
10 5 (15.63%) Analytics
10 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
10 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
10 5 (15.63%) ERP
11 4 (12.50%) Migration
11 4 (12.50%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) PMP
2 13 (40.63%) Degree
3 12 (37.50%) PMI Certification
4 6 (18.75%) APMP
5 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
1 3 (9.38%) ISO 19650
2 1 (3.13%) GAAP
2 1 (3.13%) IFRS
2 1 (3.13%) MiFID
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
1 5 (15.63%) SAP
2 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.38%) IBM
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Concur
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) Okta
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) Workday