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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 133 114
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +47
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 766 1,113 2,092
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 1.94% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.17% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 850 1,558
10th Percentile £305 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £606 £609 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 30 89
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.27 -
25th Percentile £22.32 £41.75 £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 £47.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £87.24 £72.75 -
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +4 651 £525 - 422
UK excluding London -22 403 £475 - 340
London +39 292 £565 -1.74% 108
Work from Home +1 264 £500 - 172
South West +17 107 £486 -7.52% 38
South East -24 83 £505 +1.00% 96
North of England -28 53 £450 -8.86% 72
Midlands -37 51 £500 +5.26% 70
Scotland +12 48 £450 - 17
East of England -1 41 £300 -35.14% 34
North West -9 39 £391 -18.86% 47
West Midlands -16 37 £548 +9.50% 33
Wales +22 16 £600 +233.33% 17
East Midlands -16 14 £450 - 37
Yorkshire -16 11 £525 -2.33% 16
Northern Ireland +3 5 £363 -14.71% 2
North East +9 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 64 (8.36%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.09%) 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
1 103 (13.45%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (9.40%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (4.05%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 18 (2.35%) MS Visio
7 11 (1.44%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.39%) 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
5 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
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%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 53 (6.92%) Azure
2 34 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (1.96%) AWS
4 13 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (1.31%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.31%) SaaS
6 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.78%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.65%) OCI
10 4 (0.52%) Smartsheet
11 3 (0.39%) FinancialForce
11 3 (0.39%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.26%) IaaS
12 2 (0.26%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.26%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.00%) Structured Cabling
2 22 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (2.35%) LAN
4 13 (1.70%) WAN
5 11 (1.44%) Firewall
6 8 (1.04%) Internet
6 8 (1.04%) SAN
7 5 (0.65%) Intranet
7 5 (0.65%) Network Security
8 4 (0.52%) DHCP
8 4 (0.52%) DNS
8 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.52%) VPN
9 3 (0.39%) 5G
9 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.39%) Skype
9 3 (0.39%) SMTP
9 3 (0.39%) VoIP
9 3 (0.39%) Wireless
9 3 (0.39%) 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 (8.22%) 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
1 309 (40.34%) Social Skills
2 293 (38.25%) Finance
3 194 (25.33%) Public Sector
4 122 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (10.18%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (7.57%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
8 45 (5.87%) Banking
9 43 (5.61%) Local Government
9 43 (5.61%) Marketing
10 34 (4.44%) Legal
10 34 (4.44%) Manufacturing
10 34 (4.44%) Telecoms
11 24 (3.13%) Retail
12 18 (2.35%) Military
13 17 (2.22%) Electronics
14 12 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.44%) Law
16 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 380 (49.61%) Project Manager
2 91 (11.88%) Senior
3 67 (8.75%) Senior Manager
4 60 (7.83%) IT Manager
4 60 (7.83%) Lead
5 47 (6.14%) IT Project Manager
6 45 (5.87%) Delivery Manager
7 40 (5.22%) Programme Manager
8 37 (4.83%) Senior Project Manager
9 33 (4.31%) Analyst
10 31 (4.05%) Contracts Manager
11 28 (3.66%) Project Leader
11 28 (3.66%) SC Cleared Project Manager
12 27 (3.52%) Architect
13 25 (3.26%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
15 19 (2.48%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 17 (2.22%) Security Project Manager
17 16 (2.09%) Technical Manager
18 15 (1.96%) Scrum Master
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 48 (6.27%) Management Information System
2 32 (4.18%) PMI
3 18 (2.35%) NHS
4 16 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 14 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 14 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.31%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.17%) Mobile Banking
9 7 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
10 6 (0.78%) FMCG
11 5 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.65%) Robotics
11 5 (0.65%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.52%) Freedom of Information Act
12 4 (0.52%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
13 3 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.39%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.66%) Windows
2 11 (1.44%) Linux
3 10 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 10 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.65%) Unix
4 5 (0.65%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.26%) zOS
6 1 (0.13%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (68.93%) Project Management
2 394 (51.44%) Agile
3 218 (28.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 192 (25.07%) Project Delivery
5 141 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (17.89%) Change Management
7 124 (16.19%) Risk Management
8 109 (14.23%) ITIL
9 107 (13.97%) Decision-Making
10 104 (13.58%) Scrum
11 91 (11.88%) Business Case
12 90 (11.75%) Waterfall
13 89 (11.62%) Programme Management
14 77 (10.05%) Project Planning
15 72 (9.40%) Migration
16 67 (8.75%) Budget Management
17 60 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (7.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 52 (6.79%) Workshop Facilitation
20 47 (6.14%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.22%) SQL
2 11 (1.44%) PowerShell
3 7 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.26%) C#
6 1 (0.13%) Natural
Qualifications
1 202 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 174 (22.72%) PMI Certification
2 174 (22.72%) PMP
3 167 (21.80%) Degree
4 139 (18.15%) SC Cleared
5 103 (13.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 69 (9.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 68 (8.88%) DV Cleared
8 56 (7.31%) APMP
9 20 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.70%) CISSP
11 13 (1.70%) ISEB
12 12 (1.57%) CISM
12 12 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (1.04%) CCNA
16 7 (0.91%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (12.79%) PMO
2 19 (2.48%) QA
3 16 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.09%) P3O
4 15 (1.96%) SLA
5 13 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
7 8 (1.04%) COBIT
8 7 (0.91%) ISO 22301
8 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.52%) GDPR
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 3 (0.39%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.39%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 20 (2.61%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (1.04%) 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
4 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.13%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 181 (23.63%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.35%) SAP
3 19 (2.48%) Oracle
4 12 (1.57%) Adobe
4 12 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.44%) VMware
6 10 (1.31%) Cadence
7 8 (1.04%) Cisco
7 8 (1.04%) Sparx
8 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.65%) Google
9 5 (0.65%) NEC
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