The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Management 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 Edinburgh 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 Management
Rank - 61 71
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.365% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.546% 0.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £326 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £365 £405
% change year-on-year
-24.65% -9.87%
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
553 733 861
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.52% 66.82% 66.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 364 475
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.07 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Capacity Management
Scotland

Capacity Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Capacity Management Daily Rate Trend

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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Capacity Management Hourly Rate Trend

Capacity Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) JDBC
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) PowerExchange
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) QA
3 2 (40.00%) BusinessObjects XI
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) HPUX
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (20.00%) OpenView
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Nagios

Capacity Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (60.00%) JDBC
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) PowerExchange
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (40.00%) BusinessObjects XI
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
1 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint