The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Management over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Management
Rank 184 187 206
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +19
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 19 31 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.298% 0.394% 0.398%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.405% 0.549% 0.554%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 30
Average daily rate £379 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £320 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £525 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £375 £390
% change year-on-year
-26.66% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £22.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+79.77% -40.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4690 5642 7035
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.52% 71.74% 71.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3529 4083 5194
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 98 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Capacity Management
London

Capacity Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Capacity Management Daily Rate Histogram

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Capacity Management across the City of London region.

City of London Capacity Management Hourly Rate Trend

Capacity Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 18 (56.25%) Windows
2 14 (43.75%) UNIX
3 12 (37.50%) Oracle
4 11 (34.38%) ITIL
4 11 (34.38%) Banking
5 10 (31.25%) Solaris
6 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
6 9 (28.13%) SQL
7 7 (21.88%) Sybase
7 7 (21.88%) EMC
7 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (21.88%) NetBackup
8 6 (18.75%) VMware
8 6 (18.75%) Service Management
8 6 (18.75%) Back Office
8 6 (18.75%) Finance
8 6 (18.75%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (18.75%) SAN
8 6 (18.75%) HP
9 5 (15.63%) Misys
9 5 (15.63%) NetApp
9 5 (15.63%) Tivoli
9 5 (15.63%) Linux
9 5 (15.63%) VB
9 5 (15.63%) Windows XP
9 5 (15.63%) ITSM
9 5 (15.63%) SWIFT
9 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (12.50%) Front Office
10 4 (12.50%) Migration

Capacity Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 4 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (3.125%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) SAN
2 3 (9.375%) Firewall
3 2 (6.250%) VPN
4 1 (3.125%) PBX
4 1 (3.125%) VoIP
4 1 (3.125%) WAN
4 1 (3.125%) DHCP
4 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.125%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.250%) MySQL
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (3.125%) DB2
3 1 (3.125%) DB2 UDB
General
1 11 (34.38%) Banking
2 6 (18.75%) Back Office
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Front Office
3 4 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (9.375%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.250%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.125%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Analyst
1 5 (15.63%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Operations Support Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) DBA
3 3 (9.375%) Administrator
4 2 (6.250%) Service Manager
4 2 (6.250%) Senior DBA
4 2 (6.250%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.250%) Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.125%) Server Support
5 1 (3.125%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.125%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) SWIFT
2 3 (9.375%) Celerra
2 3 (9.375%) CLARiiON
2 3 (9.375%) Symmetrix
2 3 (9.375%) Clustering
2 3 (9.375%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (3.125%) Firmware
3 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.125%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (56.25%) Windows
2 14 (43.75%) UNIX
3 10 (31.25%) Solaris
4 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (15.63%) Linux
5 5 (15.63%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.125%) AIX
7 1 (3.125%) HPUX
7 1 (3.125%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) Service Management
3 5 (15.63%) ITSM
3 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (12.50%) Migration
4 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (9.375%) Change Management
6 2 (6.250%) Change Control
6 2 (6.250%) Test Strategy
6 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.250%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.250%) Data Management
7 1 (3.125%) Six Sigma
7 1 (3.125%) BCP
7 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.125%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.125%) Workflow Management
7 1 (3.125%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) VB
3 3 (9.375%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.375%) C
3 3 (9.375%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.250%) Perl
5 1 (3.125%) VBA
5 1 (3.125%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.125%) VBScript
5 1 (3.125%) Korn
5 1 (3.125%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.125%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.125%) EMC Certification
1 1 (3.125%) CCNA
1 1 (3.125%) MCSE
1 1 (3.125%) MCSA
1 1 (3.125%) MCITP
1 1 (3.125%) Degree
1 1 (3.125%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) SLA
2 1 (3.125%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.125%) ProxySG
2 1 (3.125%) Veritas File System
2 1 (3.125%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.125%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) NetBackup
2 6 (18.75%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (15.63%) Tivoli
4 3 (9.375%) Legato
4 3 (9.375%) Backup Exec
5 2 (6.250%) BladeLogic
6 1 (3.125%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 1 (3.125%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) Sybase
2 7 (21.88%) EMC
3 6 (18.75%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) HP
4 5 (15.63%) Misys
4 5 (15.63%) NetApp
5 4 (12.50%) Thunderhead
5 4 (12.50%) Altiris
5 4 (12.50%) IBM
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 4 (12.50%) Citrix
6 3 (9.375%) Dell
6 3 (9.375%) Veritas
6 3 (9.375%) Sun
6 3 (9.375%) Cisco
6 3 (9.375%) GoldenSource
7 1 (3.125%) Avaya
7 1 (3.125%) Juniper
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