The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.219% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 647 547
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.22% 62.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 289 238
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.75 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Capacity Management
East of England

Capacity Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Capacity Management Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - -
Capacity Management
East of England

Capacity Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) OpenView
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) OVSD
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Postfix
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture

Capacity Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (50.00%) Memcached
1 1 (50.00%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (50.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) OpenView
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) OVSD
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat