The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Planning 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 Oxfordshire 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 Planning
Rank 50 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 1 0 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.219% - 3.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.318% - 5.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
Average daily rate £350 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 - £47.50
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
314 367 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.86% 59.29% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 189 136
Average daily rate £350 £400 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +26.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £253 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 35 10
Average hourly rate £11.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.88% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Capacity Planning
South East

Capacity Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Capacity Planning Daily Rate Trend

Capacity Planning
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) DTS
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Foglight
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) DTS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Server Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Foglight
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) VMware