PRINCE 2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PRINCE2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PRINCE2 over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 202 243
Rank change year-on-year 0 +41 -8
Permanent jobs citing PRINCE2 1,509 1,738 2,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.87% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.96% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,190 1,335 2,243
10th Percentile £37,199 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,098 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,700 £78,725
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,293 £60,000 £50,086
% change year-on-year -12.85% +19.79% +5.44%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2.

Salary trend for PRINCE2 in the UK

PRINCE2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PRINCE2 in the UK

PRINCE2
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +20 1,400 £54,048 -9.92% 380
UK excluding London -21 1,135 £52,293 -12.85% 307
Work from Home +3 604 £55,000 - 139
North of England +44 316 £52,500 -13.65% 73
London -10 306 £62,500 +2.63% 90
South East -47 275 £51,647 -13.92% 77
Midlands +5 228 £54,700 -5.69% 63
North West +34 186 £55,000 -9.54% 39
West Midlands +21 147 £47,501 -17.03% 39
South West -25 135 £50,000 -9.09% 38
East of England +10 123 £55,000 -7.56% 35
Yorkshire +30 75 £52,500 -10.28% 22
East Midlands -33 62 £52,500 -13.65% 24
North East +14 55 £49,367 -18.80% 12
Scotland -107 34 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Wales -8 19 £50,999 -15.00% 17
Northern Ireland +21 5 £54,408 +3.63% 2

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 87 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.79%) CMS
3 25 (1.66%) Confluence
4 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.66%) SAS
6 7 (0.46%) MS Project Server
7 6 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.27%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.066%) IIS
9 1 (0.066%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.066%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 146 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
2 115 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.53%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.33%) Trello
9 2 (0.13%) Revit
10 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.066%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 21 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.99%) Primavera
4 9 (0.60%) SAP CX
5 6 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 4 (0.27%) iTrent
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.20%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.13%) BambooHR
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.066%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.066%) Cognos Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.066%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 1 (0.066%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 103 (6.83%) Azure
1 103 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (2.98%) Power Platform
3 36 (2.39%) AWS
4 31 (2.05%) SaaS
5 27 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (0.99%) PaaS
8 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (0.73%) PowerApps
10 10 (0.66%) IaaS
10 10 (0.66%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.60%) Smartsheet
12 8 (0.53%) OCI
13 7 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.46%) Entra ID
13 7 (0.46%) Mavenlink
13 7 (0.46%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.33%) GCP
14 5 (0.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.84%) Wi-Fi
2 54 (3.58%) LAN
3 50 (3.31%) Firewall
4 48 (3.18%) WAN
5 34 (2.25%) VPN
6 28 (1.86%) DHCP
6 28 (1.86%) DNS
7 25 (1.66%) Wireless
8 22 (1.46%) Network Security
9 21 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
10 18 (1.19%) VLAN
11 17 (1.13%) MPLS
12 10 (0.66%) IPsec
12 10 (0.66%) IPv4
12 10 (0.66%) IPv6
12 10 (0.66%) LTE
12 10 (0.66%) SAN
12 10 (0.66%) TETRA
13 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.45%) Power BI
2 30 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
4 14 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (0.80%) Big Data
5 12 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.40%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 5 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.27%) DB2
10 4 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.27%) Tableau
11 3 (0.20%) GIS
12 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.066%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 106 (7.02%) JIRA
2 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.13%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.066%) Hudson
7 1 (0.066%) JMeter
7 1 (0.066%) Selenium
7 1 (0.066%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 652 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 377 (24.98%) Finance
3 205 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (8.02%) Presentation Skills
5 86 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
6 85 (5.63%) Manufacturing
7 84 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 81 (5.37%) Telecoms
9 78 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (4.57%) Marketing
11 62 (4.11%) Retail
12 55 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (3.18%) Legal
14 29 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.86%) Law
16 26 (1.72%) Local Government
17 23 (1.52%) Advertising
18 21 (1.39%) Health Technology
19 17 (1.13%) Banking
20 15 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 863 (57.19%) Project Manager
2 231 (15.31%) Senior
3 193 (12.79%) IT Manager
4 192 (12.72%) Senior Manager
5 163 (10.80%) IT Project Manager
6 149 (9.87%) Senior Project Manager
7 109 (7.22%) Analyst
8 95 (6.30%) Lead
9 78 (5.17%) Portfolio Manager
10 52 (3.45%) Digital Project Manager
11 49 (3.25%) Business Manager
12 45 (2.98%) Business Analyst
13 42 (2.78%) Programme Manager
14 36 (2.39%) Infrastructure Manager
15 35 (2.32%) Software Project Manager
16 32 (2.12%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 31 (2.05%) Senior Portfolio Manager
18 30 (1.99%) Service Manager
18 30 (1.99%) Software Manager
19 29 (1.92%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.52%) EDI
2 9 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (0.53%) .NET
4 7 (0.46%) CSS
4 7 (0.46%) HTML
5 6 (0.40%) IDoc
5 6 (0.40%) REST
5 6 (0.40%) Web Services
6 4 (0.27%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.27%) ASP.NET
6 4 (0.27%) Entity Framework
6 4 (0.27%) HTML5
6 4 (0.27%) LDAP
7 3 (0.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.20%) CSS3
7 3 (0.20%) jQuery
7 3 (0.20%) LESS
7 3 (0.20%) ODBC
7 3 (0.20%) SOAP
7 3 (0.20%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 156 (10.34%) PMI
2 77 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 52 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 49 (3.25%) Driving Licence
5 46 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (2.72%) NHS
7 32 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 28 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 21 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
11 19 (1.26%) IoT
12 18 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.93%) PKI
15 12 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.66%) FMCG
16 10 (0.66%) Mobile App
17 9 (0.60%) Digital Signage
17 9 (0.60%) Social Media
18 7 (0.46%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 62 (4.11%) Windows
2 28 (1.86%) Linux
3 23 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.66%) Android
6 6 (0.40%) SUSE
6 6 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.27%) VMS
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Vista
8 2 (0.13%) Unix
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,149 (76.14%) Project Management
2 669 (44.33%) Agile
3 413 (27.37%) Project Delivery
4 310 (20.54%) ITIL
5 266 (17.63%) Change Management
6 233 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 198 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
8 179 (11.86%) Business Case
9 157 (10.40%) Waterfall
10 150 (9.94%) Risk Management
11 145 (9.61%) Decision-Making
12 135 (8.95%) Scrum
13 128 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 127 (8.42%) Programme Management
15 122 (8.08%) Coaching
16 118 (7.82%) Roadmaps
17 117 (7.75%) Portfolio Management
17 117 (7.75%) Project Planning
18 116 (7.69%) Budget Management
18 116 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (3.11%) SQL
2 14 (0.93%) T-SQL
3 12 (0.80%) Java
4 11 (0.73%) C#
4 11 (0.73%) PL/SQL
5 9 (0.60%) PowerShell
6 8 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.53%) Python
7 6 (0.40%) VBA
8 5 (0.33%) Bash
9 4 (0.27%) RPG
10 3 (0.20%) C
10 3 (0.20%) C++
10 3 (0.20%) Objective-C
10 3 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.066%) Perl
Qualifications
1 399 (26.44%) Degree
2 383 (25.38%) PMI Certification
3 346 (22.93%) PMP
4 199 (13.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 181 (11.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 142 (9.41%) APMP
7 117 (7.75%) Security Cleared
8 90 (5.96%) SC Cleared
9 39 (2.58%) CAPM
10 34 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
11 32 (2.12%) DBS Check
12 29 (1.92%) PgMP
13 26 (1.72%) APMG
14 23 (1.52%) CISSP
15 22 (1.46%) ISEB
16 19 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (1.19%) Master's Degree
18 17 (1.13%) DV Cleared
19 15 (0.99%) ACCA
19 15 (0.99%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (10.54%) PMO
2 62 (4.11%) QA
3 33 (2.19%) GDPR
4 24 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.59%) SLA
5 17 (1.13%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.86%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.60%) P3O
8 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.40%) COBIT
10 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.27%) PMBOK
12 3 (0.20%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) EMIR
13 2 (0.13%) MiFID
14 1 (0.066%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.066%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.13%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (1.06%) WSUS
2 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.13%) SCCM
4 2 (0.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.066%) CASB
5 1 (0.066%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 294 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.97%) SAP
3 51 (3.38%) Salesforce
4 37 (2.45%) Oracle
5 31 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 28 (1.86%) VMware
7 23 (1.52%) Cisco
8 17 (1.13%) Ruckus Wireless
9 14 (0.93%) CheckPoint
10 13 (0.86%) Sage
11 12 (0.80%) SolarWinds
12 11 (0.73%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.66%) Adobe
13 10 (0.66%) BT
13 10 (0.66%) OpenText
13 10 (0.66%) Sun
14 9 (0.60%) NEC
15 8 (0.53%) Computacenter
15 8 (0.53%) Yardi
16 7 (0.46%) IFS