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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 470 565
Rank change year-on-year -23 +95 +49
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 Practitioner 28 103 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.80% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 86 101
10th Percentile £350 £364 £190
25th Percentile £463 £419 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £510 £465
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +9.68% -0.53%
75th Percentile £581 £619 £538
90th Percentile £663 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 £474 £450
% change year-on-year +13.19% +5.28% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £3.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £3.65
% change year-on-year - - -87.60%

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 9,061 12,823 15,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.04% 30.13% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,694 7,942 10,365
10th Percentile £283 £307 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -3.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £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 506 1,052 789
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.26 £17.72 £20.47
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -25.93% +23.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.35 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.35 £76.15 £79.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.63 £49.94
% change year-on-year -7.71% -18.63% +42.68%

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 16 May 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 13 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 16 May 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 +4 25 £536 +2.14% 46
UK excluding London +20 24 £536 +13.19% 41
Work from Home -13 9 £515 +3.00% 22
South East +42 6 £543 +10.29% 16
North of England +21 5 £633 +56.67% 6
South West +29 4 £503 +8.06% 3
North West +10 4 £649 +60.64% 5
East of England +26 3 £350 -12.50% 4
Midlands +9 3 £575 -6.12% 8
West Midlands +6 3 £575 -6.12% 7
Scotland +3 3 £471 +34.64% 3
London -10 3 £500 -9.09% 11
North East -1 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 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.71%) Billing
6 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Military
7 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Project Manager
2 4 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (3.57%) IT Programme Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Network Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Programme Director
5 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.57%) WAN Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) PMI
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 20 (71.43%) Project Management
3 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 14 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (39.29%) Project Delivery
5 8 (28.57%) Project Governance
5 8 (28.57%) Risk Management
6 7 (25.00%) Change Management
7 6 (21.43%) Business Case
7 6 (21.43%) Supplier Management
7 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
8 5 (17.86%) Line Management
8 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (10.71%) Contract Management
10 3 (10.71%) ITIL
10 3 (10.71%) Programme Delivery
10 3 (10.71%) Resource Management
11 2 (7.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) Degree
3 6 (21.43%) PMI Certification
3 6 (21.43%) PMP
4 5 (17.86%) APMP
5 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
5 3 (10.71%) ISEB
6 1 (3.57%) APMG
6 1 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.57%) MAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) PMBOK
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Snow