The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Planning over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Canary Wharf region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Planning
Rank 51 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.746% 0.262% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.901% 0.336% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £600 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 - £47.75
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
333 298 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.84% 78.01% 74.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 188 281
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Capacity Planning
London

Capacity Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Capacity Planning across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Canary Wharf Capacity Planning Jobs Demand Trend

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Capacity Planning across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Capacity Planning Daily Rate Trend

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Capacity Planning also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Capacity Planning.

1 13 (92.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) Migration
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
2 7 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (42.86%) OO
3 6 (42.86%) VBA
3 6 (42.86%) C#
3 6 (42.86%) Derivative
3 6 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
3 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (35.71%) WCF
4 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
4 5 (35.71%) C++
4 5 (35.71%) XML
4 5 (35.71%) XSLT
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
6 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.143%) MS Office
6 1 (7.143%) Oracle
6 1 (7.143%) MCTS

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Capacity Planning also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Capacity Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (35.71%) WCF
1 5 (35.71%) XML
1 5 (35.71%) XSLT
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 7 (50.00%) Banking
1 7 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.143%) Front Office
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) DBA
2 7 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 7 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 7 (50.00%) Developer
3 5 (35.71%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Excel Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Excel VBA Developer
4 1 (7.143%) VBA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (42.86%) Derivative
2 1 (7.143%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Migration
1 7 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) OO
2 6 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
4 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) VBA
2 6 (42.86%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.143%) MCTS
2 1 (7.143%) MCITP
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle