PRINCE 2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PRINCE2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PRINCE2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 131 118
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 +49
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 763 1,174 2,076
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.76% 1.96% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.18% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 890 1,544
10th Percentile £305 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +7.34%
75th Percentile £619 £604 £575
90th Percentile £713 £689 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.70% +5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 38 93
10th Percentile £18.35 £25.71 -
25th Percentile £21.64 £42.50 £15.90
Median hourly rate £33.07 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% +28.57% +31.33%
75th Percentile £44.74 £63.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £87.80 £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £45.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -26.52% +165.80% -35.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

PRINCE2 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 in the UK

PRINCE2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 in the UK

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the UK

PRINCE2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 in the UK

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PRINCE2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PRINCE2 in the UK

PRINCE2
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +2 640 £525 +0.96% 353
UK excluding London -19 400 £475 - 260
London +38 295 £575 +4.55% 97
Work from Home -10 259 £500 - 169
South West +20 102 £496 -5.07% 47
South East -33 77 £523 +4.50% 78
Scotland +14 58 £425 -5.56% 16
North of England -29 55 £450 -6.49% 62
Midlands -39 47 £500 +5.26% 39
East of England +1 40 £300 -36.84% 23
North West -11 40 £391 -19.90% 37
West Midlands -8 34 £545 +9.00% 22
Wales +18 17 £600 +233.33% 2
East Midlands -18 13 £450 - 17
Yorkshire -19 12 £513 +2.50% 16
Northern Ireland +7 5 £363 -9.38% 1
North East +16 3 £525 +87.50% 10

PRINCE2
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 60 (7.86%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.49%) Confluence
4 3 (0.39%) govService
5 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.13%) CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Moodle
6 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 93 (12.19%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (2.49%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.44%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.39%) OPENHousing
4 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 57 (7.47%) Azure
2 35 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (1.97%) AWS
4 12 (1.57%) SaaS
5 10 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (1.31%) Power Platform
6 8 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (0.66%) OneDrive
8 4 (0.52%) OCI
8 4 (0.52%) Smartsheet
9 3 (0.39%) FinancialForce
9 3 (0.39%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.26%) IaaS
10 2 (0.26%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.28%) Structured Cabling
2 21 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (1.97%) LAN
4 11 (1.44%) Firewall
4 11 (1.44%) WAN
5 8 (1.05%) SAN
6 6 (0.79%) Internet
6 6 (0.79%) Network Security
7 5 (0.66%) 5G
7 5 (0.66%) Intranet
7 5 (0.66%) SNA
8 4 (0.52%) DHCP
8 4 (0.52%) DNS
8 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.39%) Skype
9 3 (0.39%) SMTP
9 3 (0.39%) Wireless
10 2 (0.26%) VoIP
10 2 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
2 6 (0.79%) Power BI
2 6 (0.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.26%) DB2
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.13%) Adabas
6 1 (0.13%) Metadata
6 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (8.26%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.26%) JMeter
3 2 (0.26%) Selenium
3 2 (0.26%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 303 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 282 (36.96%) Finance
3 202 (26.47%) Public Sector
4 126 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (10.22%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (7.60%) Influencing Skills
7 52 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (5.77%) Banking
8 44 (5.77%) Marketing
9 43 (5.64%) Local Government
10 35 (4.59%) Manufacturing
10 35 (4.59%) Telecoms
11 33 (4.33%) Legal
12 24 (3.15%) Retail
13 22 (2.88%) Military
14 18 (2.36%) Electronics
15 10 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.05%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 376 (49.28%) Project Manager
2 98 (12.84%) Senior
3 76 (9.96%) Senior Manager
4 61 (7.99%) IT Manager
5 56 (7.34%) Lead
6 48 (6.29%) IT Project Manager
7 47 (6.16%) Delivery Manager
8 43 (5.64%) Programme Manager
9 42 (5.50%) Senior Project Manager
10 36 (4.72%) Analyst
11 29 (3.80%) Architect
11 29 (3.80%) Contracts Manager
12 28 (3.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
12 28 (3.67%) Security Manager
13 23 (3.01%) Infrastructure Manager
13 23 (3.01%) Project Leader
14 18 (2.36%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 18 (2.36%) Senior Delivery Manager
15 17 (2.23%) Security Project Manager
16 16 (2.10%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.92%) CSS
2 5 (0.66%) .NET
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.52%) .NET Framework
3 4 (0.52%) ADO
3 4 (0.52%) HTML
3 4 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (0.52%) REST
3 4 (0.52%) Visualforce
4 3 (0.39%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (0.39%) jQuery
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.39%) Middleware
4 3 (0.39%) XML
5 2 (0.26%) SOAP
6 1 (0.13%) Ajax
6 1 (0.13%) EDI
6 1 (0.13%) EntireX
6 1 (0.13%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.21%) Management Information System
2 31 (4.06%) PMI
3 17 (2.23%) NHS
4 16 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (1.70%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 12 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
10 7 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
11 6 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.79%) FMCG
11 6 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.66%) Fixed Income
12 5 (0.66%) Robotics
13 4 (0.52%) Derivative
13 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.52%) Freedom of Information Act
13 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.28%) Windows
2 10 (1.31%) Linux
3 9 (1.18%) Windows 10
3 9 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.52%) Unix
4 4 (0.52%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) zOS
6 1 (0.13%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (68.94%) Project Management
2 398 (52.16%) Agile
3 214 (28.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 190 (24.90%) Project Delivery
5 143 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (17.96%) Change Management
7 125 (16.38%) Risk Management
8 108 (14.15%) Decision-Making
9 105 (13.76%) ITIL
10 103 (13.50%) Scrum
11 92 (12.06%) Business Case
11 92 (12.06%) Waterfall
12 87 (11.40%) Programme Management
13 70 (9.17%) Migration
14 69 (9.04%) Project Planning
15 62 (8.13%) Budget Management
16 54 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (6.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 48 (6.29%) Workshop Facilitation
19 46 (6.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (2.10%) SQL
2 11 (1.44%) PowerShell
3 7 (0.92%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.26%) C#
6 1 (0.13%) Natural
Qualifications
1 199 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 176 (23.07%) PMP
3 170 (22.28%) PMI Certification
4 162 (21.23%) Degree
5 143 (18.74%) SC Cleared
6 96 (12.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 64 (8.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 61 (7.99%) DV Cleared
9 44 (5.77%) APMP
10 21 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (1.97%) CISSP
12 13 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.44%) CISM
15 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.05%) CCNA
17 7 (0.92%) APMG
17 7 (0.92%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (12.32%) PMO
2 20 (2.62%) QA
3 18 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 12 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.57%) SLA
6 11 (1.44%) P3O
7 9 (1.18%) COBIT
7 9 (1.18%) ISO 22301
7 9 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (0.66%) NIST
9 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.52%) GDPR
9 4 (0.52%) NCSC
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.26%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) COREP
System Software
1 19 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (1.05%) PingFederate
2 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (0.39%) OPNET
2 3 (0.39%) SCCM
2 3 (0.39%) SCOM
3 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 173 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.64%) SAP
3 15 (1.97%) Oracle
4 12 (1.57%) Adobe
4 12 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.44%) VMware
6 9 (1.18%) Cisco
7 8 (1.05%) Sparx
8 7 (0.92%) Cadence
9 5 (0.66%) Google
10 4 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.39%) Capita
11 3 (0.39%) HP
11 3 (0.39%) IBM
11 3 (0.39%) Planview
11 3 (0.39%) Proofpoint
11 3 (0.39%) Sage
11 3 (0.39%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.39%) SolarWinds