PRINCE2 Practitioner Contracts

PRINCE2 Practitioner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PRINCE2 Practitioner qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 504 572
Rank change year-on-year +9 +68 +47
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner 24 96 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% 0.72% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 79 101
10th Percentile £342 £347 £208
25th Percentile £463 £413 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +12.30% +2.19%
75th Percentile £560 £620 £550
90th Percentile £683 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.25% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £8.54
25th Percentile - - £15.86
Median hourly rate - - £29.33
75th Percentile - - £44.04
90th Percentile - - £52.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £29.33
% change year-on-year - - -0.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

PRINCE2 Practitioner 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 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 Practitioner in the UK

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 Practitioner in the UK

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 Practitioner in the UK

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 Practitioner in the UK

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +2 21 £543 +2.36% 44
UK excluding London +26 19 £536 +7.25% 41
Work from Home +13 7 £550 +10.00% 19
South East +39 6 £543 -4.82% 13
North of England +31 5 £633 +56.67% 10
South West +32 4 £503 +8.06% 3
North West +13 4 £649 +60.64% 9
London +1 4 £583 +1.30% 8
Scotland +4 3 £471 +57.08% 3
Midlands +17 1 - - 5
West Midlands +9 1 - - 5
North East 0 1 £550 -8.33%

PRINCE2 Practitioner
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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.17%) OCI
1 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.33%) Military
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Head of IT
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Network Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Programme Director
5 1 (4.17%) Transition Manager
5 1 (4.17%) WAN Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) PMI
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 20 (83.33%) Project Management
3 12 (50.00%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) Change Management
4 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (29.17%) Project Delivery
5 7 (29.17%) Risk Management
6 6 (25.00%) Business Case
6 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
7 5 (20.83%) Line Management
7 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) ITIL
9 3 (12.50%) Business Strategy
9 3 (12.50%) Contract Management
9 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 3 (12.50%) Resource Management
9 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (12.50%) Supplier Management
10 2 (8.33%) Database Migration
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) APMP
3 5 (20.83%) Degree
3 5 (20.83%) PMI Certification
3 5 (20.83%) PMP
4 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) ISEB
5 1 (4.17%) APMG
5 1 (4.17%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.17%) MAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Snow