The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Management over the 3 months to 20 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 Cheshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Management
Rank 52 63 75
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +12
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 9 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.247% 0.738% 0.206%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.661% 1.210% 0.298%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
Average daily rate £294 £395 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.50% +12.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £365 £408
% change year-on-year
-24.65% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £22.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+79.77% -40.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
542 496 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.07% 61.01% 69.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 253 376
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £272 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +17.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Capacity Management
North West

Capacity Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Capacity Management Jobs Demand Trend

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Capacity Management Daily Rate Trend

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Capacity Management across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cheshire Capacity Management Daily Rate Histogram

Capacity Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester -6 2 - -
Macclesfield - 2 £350 -
Knutsford - 1 £239 -
Capacity Management
North West

Capacity Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Capacity Management 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 Management.

1 6 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) SMTP
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Clustering
3 4 (40.00%) Blackberry
3 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (30.00%) SAN
4 3 (30.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (20.00%) Banking
5 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (20.00%) DNS
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (20.00%) MCSE

Capacity Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Capacity Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (30.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) SMTP
2 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) SSL
4 1 (10.00%) LDAP
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) HTTP
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) TACACS
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Messaging Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planner
2 1 (10.00%) Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Network Management
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL V3
5 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Information Management
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) MCSE
1 2 (20.00%) MCSA
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCTS
1 2 (20.00%) MCITP
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (10.00%) HP NNM
1 1 (10.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) IronPort
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
Cheshire
Exchange migration / Windows 2003 & 2008 / SMTP Mail Routing. My client requires a senior messaging consultamt with the following: Windows 2003 & 2008 (32 and 64 bit builds). SMTP Mail...
Spring Technology
Rate: £252.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013