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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 133 114
Rank change year-on-year +7 -19 +53
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 772 1,113 2,070
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.95% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 2.17% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 847 1,548
10th Percentile £307 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £607 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 92
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.41 -
25th Percentile £22.32 £42.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £33.07 £45.00 £34.69
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% +29.73% +30.16%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £87.24 £72.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £45.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -26.52% +165.80% -35.42%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +2 652 £525 - 397
UK excluding London -20 403 £475 - 303
London +48 297 £570 -0.44% 103
Work from Home +3 269 £500 - 155
South West +22 105 £475 -9.52% 40
South East -31 84 £510 +2.00% 85
Scotland +21 53 £450 +1.58% 9
North of England -35 53 £450 -7.69% 74
Midlands -26 49 £500 +5.26% 55
East of England +1 40 £300 -33.33% 35
North West -6 39 £391 -18.86% 48
West Midlands -14 35 £548 +12.31% 28
Wales +23 15 £600 +233.33% 11
East Midlands -20 14 £450 - 27
Yorkshire -16 11 £525 +0.48% 17
Northern Ireland +6 5 £363 -14.71% 1
North East +8 3 £525 +48.94% 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 62 (8.03%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (2.20%) 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
1 104 (13.47%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (4.02%) Spreadsheet
5 27 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 18 (2.33%) MS Visio
7 11 (1.42%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.91%) 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 Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 56 (7.25%) Azure
2 36 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (1.81%) AWS
4 10 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (1.30%) Power Platform
4 10 (1.30%) SaaS
5 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (0.65%) OCI
8 5 (0.65%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.52%) Smartsheet
10 3 (0.39%) FinancialForce
10 3 (0.39%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.26%) IaaS
11 2 (0.26%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.98%) Structured Cabling
2 22 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (2.07%) LAN
4 12 (1.55%) WAN
5 11 (1.42%) Firewall
6 8 (1.04%) SAN
7 7 (0.91%) Internet
8 6 (0.78%) Network Security
9 5 (0.65%) Intranet
10 4 (0.52%) DHCP
10 4 (0.52%) DNS
10 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.39%) 5G
11 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.39%) Skype
11 3 (0.39%) SMTP
11 3 (0.39%) VoIP
11 3 (0.39%) VPN
11 3 (0.39%) Wireless
12 2 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
2 7 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (0.91%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.78%) Power BI
4 5 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.26%) DB2
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.13%) Adabas
7 1 (0.13%) Metadata
7 1 (0.13%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (8.16%) 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
1 311 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 294 (38.08%) Finance
3 201 (26.04%) Public Sector
4 126 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (10.49%) Presentation Skills
6 59 (7.64%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (5.96%) Banking
9 45 (5.83%) Local Government
10 43 (5.57%) Marketing
11 34 (4.40%) Manufacturing
11 34 (4.40%) Telecoms
12 33 (4.27%) Legal
13 24 (3.11%) Retail
14 18 (2.33%) Military
15 17 (2.20%) Electronics
16 12 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.30%) Law
18 8 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 378 (48.96%) Project Manager
2 94 (12.18%) Senior
3 71 (9.20%) Senior Manager
4 61 (7.90%) Lead
5 58 (7.51%) IT Manager
6 46 (5.96%) IT Project Manager
7 45 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
8 42 (5.44%) Programme Manager
9 40 (5.18%) Senior Project Manager
10 36 (4.66%) Analyst
11 30 (3.89%) Contracts Manager
12 29 (3.76%) Architect
12 29 (3.76%) SC Cleared Project Manager
13 28 (3.63%) Project Leader
14 26 (3.37%) Security Manager
15 25 (3.24%) Infrastructure Manager
16 20 (2.59%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 17 (2.20%) Security Project Manager
18 16 (2.07%) Technical Manager
19 15 (1.94%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.91%) CSS
1 7 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (0.65%) .NET
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 52 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 33 (4.27%) PMI
3 18 (2.33%) NHS
4 15 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 14 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.17%) Mobile Banking
11 7 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.78%) FMCG
13 5 (0.65%) Robotics
14 4 (0.52%) Derivative
14 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.52%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.52%) Freedom of Information Act
14 4 (0.52%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.50%) Windows
2 11 (1.42%) Linux
3 10 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.65%) Unix
5 5 (0.65%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) zOS
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (68.78%) Project Management
2 391 (50.65%) Agile
3 219 (28.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 193 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 146 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (18.01%) Change Management
7 123 (15.93%) Risk Management
8 108 (13.99%) Decision-Making
9 105 (13.60%) ITIL
10 103 (13.34%) Scrum
11 95 (12.31%) Business Case
12 91 (11.79%) Programme Management
12 91 (11.79%) Waterfall
13 76 (9.84%) Project Planning
14 71 (9.20%) Migration
15 68 (8.81%) Budget Management
16 59 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (7.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 54 (6.99%) Workshop Facilitation
19 47 (6.09%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.20%) SQL
2 11 (1.42%) PowerShell
3 7 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.26%) C#
6 1 (0.13%) Natural
Qualifications
1 205 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 169 (21.89%) Degree
2 169 (21.89%) PMI Certification
2 169 (21.89%) PMP
3 142 (18.39%) SC Cleared
4 103 (13.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 69 (8.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 68 (8.81%) DV Cleared
7 55 (7.12%) APMP
8 19 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.94%) CISSP
11 13 (1.68%) ISEB
11 13 (1.68%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.42%) CISM
14 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.04%) CCNA
16 7 (0.91%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (12.82%) PMO
2 21 (2.72%) QA
3 18 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.81%) SLA
5 13 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.68%) P3O
6 11 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
7 9 (1.17%) ISO 22301
7 9 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.04%) COBIT
9 5 (0.65%) NIST
10 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.52%) GDPR
10 4 (0.52%) NCSC
11 3 (0.39%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 19 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.04%) 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%) Hyper-V
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 (1.04%) PingFederate
2 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.39%) OPNET
3 3 (0.39%) SCCM
3 3 (0.39%) SCOM
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.13%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 183 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.44%) SAP
3 19 (2.46%) Oracle
4 12 (1.55%) Adobe
4 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.42%) VMware
6 9 (1.17%) Cadence
7 8 (1.04%) Sparx
8 7 (0.91%) Cisco
9 5 (0.65%) Google
9 5 (0.65%) NEC
9 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow
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%) SolarWinds