The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning 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 Planning over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Planning
Rank 163 193 207
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +14
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 36 26 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.567% 0.330% 0.381%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.773% 0.461% 0.530%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 25
Average daily rate £388 £450 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.88% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £520 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £370 £360
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £51.00 - £35.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 - £47.50
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
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 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Capacity Planning Daily Rate Trend

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Capacity Planning across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Capacity Planning Daily Rate Histogram

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Capacity Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 22 (32.35%) Windows
2 21 (30.88%) SQL
3 16 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 16 (23.53%) ITIL
3 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 16 (23.53%) Finance
4 13 (19.12%) Banking
4 13 (19.12%) SQL Server 2005
5 12 (17.65%) Active Directory
5 12 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
6 11 (16.18%) .NET
6 11 (16.18%) Oracle
7 10 (14.71%) Workflow
7 10 (14.71%) VMware
7 10 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (13.24%) Configuration Management
8 9 (13.24%) C#
8 9 (13.24%) Investment Banking
8 9 (13.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (11.76%) Release Management
9 8 (11.76%) Degree
9 8 (11.76%) Migration
9 8 (11.76%) Service Management
9 8 (11.76%) Change Management
9 8 (11.76%) Cisco
9 8 (11.76%) MS Exchange
10 7 (10.29%) MS Excel
10 7 (10.29%) Perl
10 7 (10.29%) MS Office

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 11 (16.18%) .NET
2 6 (8.824%) Web Services
3 4 (5.882%) HTML
4 3 (4.412%) CSS
4 3 (4.412%) Django
5 2 (2.941%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.471%) XBRL
6 1 (1.471%) Flash
6 1 (1.471%) ASP
6 1 (1.471%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.471%) SOAP
6 1 (1.471%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (11.76%) MS Exchange
2 4 (5.882%) Windows Azure
3 3 (4.412%) WebLogic
3 3 (4.412%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (2.941%) Office Communications Server
4 2 (2.941%) IIS
5 1 (1.471%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.471%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.471%) Apache
5 1 (1.471%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.471%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (1.471%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.471%) Lync
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) MS Excel
1 7 (10.29%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.471%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.471%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.824%) SAN
2 5 (7.353%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.882%) NAS
4 3 (4.412%) Internet
4 3 (4.412%) DNS
4 3 (4.412%) DHCP
4 3 (4.412%) Firewall
5 2 (2.941%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (2.941%) Network Security
5 2 (2.941%) WAN
5 2 (2.941%) LAN
5 2 (2.941%) HTTP
5 2 (2.941%) BGP
5 2 (2.941%) MPLS
5 2 (2.941%) OSPF
5 2 (2.941%) IPv6
6 1 (1.471%) DMZ
6 1 (1.471%) SSL
6 1 (1.471%) VoIP
6 1 (1.471%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 13 (19.12%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (4.412%) Star Schema
5 3 (4.412%) OLAP
5 3 (4.412%) Essbase
5 3 (4.412%) Oracle OLAP
5 3 (4.412%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (4.412%) QlikView
6 2 (2.941%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.941%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.941%) MySQL
6 2 (2.941%) DB2
7 1 (1.471%) DTS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.824%) JIRA
2 4 (5.882%) Git (software)
2 4 (5.882%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.412%) Subversion
4 2 (2.941%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.941%) Rational Performance Tester
4 2 (2.941%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.471%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (23.53%) Finance
2 13 (19.12%) Banking
3 9 (13.24%) Investment Banking
4 6 (8.824%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.941%) Legal
6 1 (1.471%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.471%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) DBA
2 10 (14.71%) Analyst
3 8 (11.76%) Administrator
4 7 (10.29%) Developer
5 6 (8.824%) SQL DBA
6 3 (4.412%) Coordinator
6 3 (4.412%) Architect
6 3 (4.412%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.412%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (4.412%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (2.941%) Teradata DBA
7 2 (2.941%) Performance Test Specialist
7 2 (2.941%) Production Support Analyst
7 2 (2.941%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (2.941%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (2.941%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 2 (2.941%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (2.941%) Linux Support
7 2 (2.941%) Performance Test Analyst
7 2 (2.941%) Platform Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.353%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.882%) PaaS
2 4 (5.882%) Computer Science
2 4 (5.882%) Clustering
3 3 (4.412%) Economics
3 3 (4.412%) Visualisation
4 2 (2.941%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.941%) Replication
4 2 (2.941%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.941%) NHS
5 1 (1.471%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.471%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.471%) Symmetrix
5 1 (1.471%) EMC Centera
5 1 (1.471%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.471%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.471%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.471%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.471%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) Windows
2 10 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (13.24%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (8.824%) Linux
5 4 (5.882%) UNIX
6 2 (2.941%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.941%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.471%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.471%) Solaris
7 1 (1.471%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.471%) Android
7 1 (1.471%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.471%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.471%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.53%) ITIL
2 10 (14.71%) Workflow
2 10 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (13.24%) Configuration Management
4 8 (11.76%) Release Management
4 8 (11.76%) Migration
4 8 (11.76%) Service Management
4 8 (11.76%) Change Management
5 7 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (10.29%) Service Delivery
5 7 (10.29%) IT Governance
6 6 (8.824%) ETL
7 5 (7.353%) Project Management
7 5 (7.353%) Data Modelling
7 5 (7.353%) ITSM
7 5 (7.353%) Problem Management
8 4 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (5.882%) Performance Management
8 4 (5.882%) CRM
9 3 (4.412%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) SQL
2 9 (13.24%) C#
3 7 (10.29%) Perl
4 5 (7.353%) C
4 5 (7.353%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.882%) Java
5 4 (5.882%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.882%) VB.NET
6 3 (4.412%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.412%) Python
6 3 (4.412%) VBA
7 2 (2.941%) VBScript
7 2 (2.941%) VB
8 1 (1.471%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) Degree
2 5 (7.353%) MCITP
2 5 (7.353%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.882%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.882%) MCTS
3 4 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.412%) MCSE
4 3 (4.412%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 2 (2.941%) CCDP
5 2 (2.941%) CCIE
5 2 (2.941%) CCNP
6 1 (1.471%) CCNA
6 1 (1.471%) MCP
6 1 (1.471%) HNC
6 1 (1.471%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) COBIT
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 3 (4.412%) SLA
3 1 (1.471%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.471%) Basel III
System Software
1 12 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.941%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.471%) XenApp
4 1 (1.471%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 5 (7.353%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (5.882%) BMC Performance Manager
2 4 (5.882%) SCOM
2 4 (5.882%) BMC PATROL
3 3 (4.412%) Tivoli
3 3 (4.412%) NetBackup
3 3 (4.412%) SCCM
4 2 (2.941%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (2.941%) Splunk
4 2 (2.941%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 2 (2.941%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.941%) Legato
5 1 (1.471%) OpenView
5 1 (1.471%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.471%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Oracle
3 10 (14.71%) VMware
4 8 (11.76%) Cisco
5 6 (8.824%) NetApp
6 5 (7.353%) BMC
6 5 (7.353%) Informatica
6 5 (7.353%) HP
6 5 (7.353%) IBM
7 4 (5.882%) EMC
7 4 (5.882%) Citrix
8 3 (4.412%) Teradata
9 2 (2.941%) Sybase
9 2 (2.941%) Siebel
9 2 (2.941%) Symantec
10 1 (1.471%) Compaq
10 1 (1.471%) Lotus
10 1 (1.471%) Sage
10 1 (1.471%) Remedy
10 1 (1.471%) Reuters
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