The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Management 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 North East 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 Management
Rank 35 46 43
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -3
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 2 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.719% 0.808% 0.226%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.087% 1.262% 0.391%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £330 -
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
184 317 256
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 66.19% 64.04% 57.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 175 113
Average daily rate £330 £360 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +10.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 14
Average hourly rate £19.00 £24.25 £21.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.64% +10.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.07 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Capacity Management
England

Capacity Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Tyne and Wear +11 2 - -
Capacity Management
England

Capacity Management
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) SLA
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Service Management
1 5 (83.33%) Service Delivery
1 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (83.33%) Configuration Management
1 5 (83.33%) Asset Management
1 5 (83.33%) Data Protection
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) HPUX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management

Capacity Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (16.67%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Rational Performance Tester
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
1 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) HPUX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Service Management
1 5 (83.33%) Service Delivery
1 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (83.33%) Configuration Management
1 5 (83.33%) Asset Management
1 5 (83.33%) Data Protection
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle