The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Planning
Rank 265 270 282
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +12
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 120 143 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.526% 0.538% 0.528%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.703% 0.750% 0.746%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 95 102
Average daily rate £425 £425 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £559
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
Average hourly rate £51.00 £48.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.15% +193.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £48.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.15 £48.50 £26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 - £47.50
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17065 19078 22245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.84% 71.75% 70.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11706 12560 14646
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 324 348
Average hourly rate £26.66 £26.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.53% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £45.00 £53.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 London region.

London Capacity Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Capacity Planning across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Capacity Planning Hourly Rate Histogram

Capacity Planning
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Planning within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Vacancies
City of London +8 33 £388 +3.33% 8
Canary Wharf +6 3 £600 -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Docklands, London - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Greenford - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Sidcup - - - -
Uxbridge - - - - 1
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 61 (27.98%) Oracle
1 61 (27.98%) Windows
2 56 (25.69%) ITIL
3 55 (25.23%) SQL
4 54 (24.77%) SQL Server
5 47 (21.56%) Finance
6 42 (19.27%) Microsoft
7 40 (18.35%) VMware
8 35 (16.06%) SAN
9 34 (15.60%) UNIX
9 34 (15.60%) Disaster Recovery
10 33 (15.14%) Linux
10 33 (15.14%) NAS
11 32 (14.68%) Active Directory
11 32 (14.68%) Windows Server 2003
12 31 (14.22%) Banking
13 29 (13.30%) SQL Server 2005
14 28 (12.84%) Windows Server 2008
15 27 (12.39%) VMware Infrastructure
15 27 (12.39%) MS Exchange
15 27 (12.39%) Perl
16 26 (11.93%) Change Management
16 26 (11.93%) SQL Server 2008
17 25 (11.47%) C#
17 25 (11.47%) .NET
17 25 (11.47%) EMC
18 24 (11.01%) Shell Script
18 24 (11.01%) QA
19 23 (10.55%) Service Management
20 22 (10.09%) Performance Management

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 25 (11.47%) .NET
2 19 (8.716%) WebSphere
3 18 (8.257%) Web Services
4 12 (5.505%) XML
5 10 (4.587%) HTML
5 10 (4.587%) XSLT
6 9 (4.128%) Middleware
6 9 (4.128%) J2EE
7 8 (3.670%) CSS
8 7 (3.211%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (2.752%) SOAP
9 6 (2.752%) Spring
10 5 (2.294%) WCF
10 5 (2.294%) JMX
10 5 (2.294%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.294%) JDBC
10 5 (2.294%) JSP
10 5 (2.294%) Servlets
10 5 (2.294%) Struts
10 5 (2.294%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 27 (12.39%) MS Exchange
2 19 (8.716%) WebLogic
2 19 (8.716%) Apache
3 16 (7.339%) Exchange Server 2010
4 14 (6.422%) Tomcat
5 10 (4.587%) IIS
5 10 (4.587%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 7 (3.211%) Oracle Application Server
6 7 (3.211%) Office Communications Server
6 7 (3.211%) Windows Azure
7 6 (2.752%) SharePoint
7 6 (2.752%) Exchange Server 2003
8 5 (2.294%) CMS
8 5 (2.294%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (1.835%) WorkSite
10 3 (1.376%) Lync
11 1 (0.459%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.459%) LiveLink
11 1 (0.459%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 15 (6.881%) MS Office
2 12 (5.505%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.917%) MS Project
4 1 (0.459%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.459%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.917%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.917%) SAP FI
1 2 (0.917%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.459%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.459%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.06%) SAN
2 33 (15.14%) NAS
3 21 (9.633%) TCP/IP
4 19 (8.716%) DHCP
5 14 (6.422%) Internet
6 12 (5.505%) WAN
6 12 (5.505%) LAN
7 11 (5.046%) DNS
8 10 (4.587%) Firewall
9 9 (4.128%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 9 (4.128%) Ethernet
10 6 (2.752%) Wireless
10 6 (2.752%) OSPF
10 6 (2.752%) BGP
10 6 (2.752%) Network Security
11 5 (2.294%) EIGRP
11 5 (2.294%) VPN
12 4 (1.835%) HTTP
12 4 (1.835%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.376%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.77%) SQL Server
2 29 (13.30%) SQL Server 2005
3 26 (11.93%) SQL Server 2008
4 21 (9.633%) Oracle 10g
5 19 (8.716%) Oracle 11g
6 9 (4.128%) Star Schema
7 8 (3.670%) MySQL
7 8 (3.670%) OLAP
7 8 (3.670%) Oracle 8/8i
7 8 (3.670%) Oracle 9i
7 8 (3.670%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.670%) Oracle OLAP
7 8 (3.670%) Oracle BI EE
8 7 (3.211%) Essbase
9 6 (2.752%) SQL Server 2012
9 6 (2.752%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.835%) TOAD
10 4 (1.835%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.835%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.835%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.587%) TeamCity
1 10 (4.587%) JIRA
2 7 (3.211%) Git (software)
3 6 (2.752%) Subversion
4 4 (1.835%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.917%) Rational Performance Tester
5 2 (0.917%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.459%) JProfiler
6 1 (0.459%) JMeter
6 1 (0.459%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (21.56%) Finance
2 31 (14.22%) Banking
3 19 (8.716%) Investment Banking
4 13 (5.963%) Retail
5 7 (3.211%) Front Office
6 5 (2.294%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.294%) Legal
7 4 (1.835%) Law
8 3 (1.376%) Marketing
9 2 (0.917%) Publishing
9 2 (0.917%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.459%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.459%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (20.18%) DBA
2 30 (13.76%) Analyst
3 26 (11.93%) Developer
4 20 (9.174%) Architect
5 18 (8.257%) SQL DBA
6 16 (7.339%) Oracle DBA
7 15 (6.881%) SQL Server DBA
8 13 (5.963%) Server Engineer
9 12 (5.505%) Business Analyst
10 11 (5.046%) Administrator
11 9 (4.128%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (4.128%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (3.670%) Server Support
13 6 (2.752%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.752%) Systems Analyst
13 6 (2.752%) Storage Engineer
14 5 (2.294%) Team Leader
14 5 (2.294%) C# Developer
14 5 (2.294%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
14 5 (2.294%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.257%) Blackberry
2 17 (7.798%) Clustering
3 10 (4.587%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.587%) Derivative
4 8 (3.670%) CLARiiON
5 7 (3.211%) Computer Science
5 7 (3.211%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.211%) Grid Computing
6 6 (2.752%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.752%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.752%) PaaS
7 5 (2.294%) Smartphone
7 5 (2.294%) Open Source
7 5 (2.294%) NHS
7 5 (2.294%) Mobile Computing
8 4 (1.835%) Replication
8 4 (1.835%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.835%) Visualisation
8 4 (1.835%) CMDB
8 4 (1.835%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 61 (27.98%) Windows
2 34 (15.60%) UNIX
3 33 (15.14%) Linux
4 32 (14.68%) Windows Server 2003
5 28 (12.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 16 (7.339%) AIX
7 12 (5.505%) Solaris
8 11 (5.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (4.128%) VMS
10 7 (3.211%) Windows 2000
11 5 (2.294%) Windows 7
12 4 (1.835%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.917%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.917%) Android
14 1 (0.459%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.459%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.459%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.459%) Windows 2000 Server
14 1 (0.459%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.459%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.69%) ITIL
2 34 (15.60%) Disaster Recovery
3 26 (11.93%) Change Management
4 23 (10.55%) Service Management
5 22 (10.09%) Performance Management
6 18 (8.257%) Workflow
7 17 (7.798%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (7.339%) ETL
8 16 (7.339%) Migration
9 15 (6.881%) E-Commerce
10 14 (6.422%) Business Continuity
10 14 (6.422%) Project Management
11 13 (5.963%) Configuration Management
12 12 (5.505%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (5.046%) Problem Management
13 11 (5.046%) Validation
14 10 (4.587%) Data Modelling
14 10 (4.587%) CRM
14 10 (4.587%) Release Management
15 9 (4.128%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.23%) SQL
2 27 (12.39%) Perl
3 25 (11.47%) C#
4 24 (11.01%) Shell Script
5 15 (6.881%) Python
6 14 (6.422%) Java
7 11 (5.046%) Bash shell
7 11 (5.046%) PL/SQL
7 11 (5.046%) VB.NET
8 10 (4.587%) VBA
9 8 (3.670%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.211%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.752%) C
12 5 (2.294%) C++
13 4 (1.835%) JavaScript
13 4 (1.835%) VBScript
13 4 (1.835%) VB
14 1 (0.459%) Korn
14 1 (0.459%) Ruby
14 1 (0.459%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (9.633%) Degree
2 11 (5.046%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (4.587%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.128%) MCSE
4 9 (4.128%) RHCE
5 7 (3.211%) MCITP
5 7 (3.211%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.211%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.752%) MCTS
7 5 (2.294%) CCNP
7 5 (2.294%) CCDP
8 4 (1.835%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.376%) MCSA
9 3 (1.376%) Microsoft Certified Master
10 2 (0.917%) MCP
10 2 (0.917%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.459%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.459%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.459%) CCIE
11 1 (0.459%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.01%) QA
2 13 (5.963%) SLA
3 6 (2.752%) COBIT
4 1 (0.459%) Basel III
System Software
1 32 (14.68%) Active Directory
2 27 (12.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.422%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (5.505%) XenApp
5 10 (4.587%) Samba
5 10 (4.587%) SRDF
6 9 (4.128%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (2.752%) VMware ESX
8 4 (1.835%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (1.376%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.917%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.917%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.459%) Xen
11 1 (0.459%) Snort
11 1 (0.459%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.459%) vSphere
11 1 (0.459%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.459%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.459%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (5.505%) EMC NetWorker
2 11 (5.046%) SCOM
3 10 (4.587%) NetBackup
3 10 (4.587%) BMC PATROL
3 10 (4.587%) BMC Performance Manager
4 9 (4.128%) Puppet
4 9 (4.128%) Cobbler
4 9 (4.128%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 8 (3.670%) SCCM
6 6 (2.752%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (1.835%) RepliStor
7 4 (1.835%) Tivoli
7 4 (1.835%) MAILsweeper
8 3 (1.376%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (1.376%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.917%) Cisco IPCC
9 2 (0.917%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 2 (0.917%) Legato
9 2 (0.917%) Splunk
9 2 (0.917%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 61 (27.98%) Oracle
2 42 (19.27%) Microsoft
3 40 (18.35%) VMware
4 25 (11.47%) EMC
5 19 (8.716%) Citrix
5 19 (8.716%) HP
5 19 (8.716%) BMC
6 17 (7.798%) Symantec
6 17 (7.798%) NetApp
7 14 (6.422%) Cisco
8 12 (5.505%) Informatica
9 11 (5.046%) Remedy
9 11 (5.046%) Veritas
9 11 (5.046%) Red Hat
10 8 (3.670%) IBM
11 7 (3.211%) Teradata
11 7 (3.211%) Reuters
11 7 (3.211%) Bloomberg
11 7 (3.211%) NetIQ
11 7 (3.211%) Siebel
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JAM
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Key Responsibilities: *SQL Server 2005 and 2008 installations and planning... *Database capacity planning... Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience *Experience and knowledge of supporting SQL server 2005 and 2008 databases...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
This is an exciting contract opportunity to join one of the Insurance Industries largest market leading Financial Services Organisation as a MI Reporting Analyst within their Technology & Capability...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £180 - £220 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
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Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Rate: £250 - £350 per day + NEGOTIABLE
Posted: 17 June 2013
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Our Banking client is offering an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled BOXI Technical Specialist to join their London or Edinburgh based team for 6 months initial contract...
Lorien Resourcing
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