The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Planning over the 3 months to 18 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 Reading 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Planning
Rank 69 73 65
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -8
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 2 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.229% 0.869% 1.285%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.343% 1.332% 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 5
Average daily rate - £600 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +53.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £358
% change year-on-year
- +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 - £47.50
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
583 751 676
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.63% 65.25% 66.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 288 315
Average daily rate £411 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.14% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.89% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £24.80 £24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Capacity Planning
Berkshire

Capacity Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Capacity Planning Daily Rate Trend

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 Reading region.

Reading Capacity Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 11 (64.71%) Ethernet
1 11 (64.71%) MPLS
1 11 (64.71%) Telecoms
1 11 (64.71%) Radio Access Network
2 10 (58.82%) Network Design
3 9 (52.94%) OSPF
3 9 (52.94%) BGP
3 9 (52.94%) RSVP
3 9 (52.94%) VRRP
3 9 (52.94%) VPN
3 9 (52.94%) HSRP
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) LTE
5 4 (23.53%) MS Office
5 4 (23.53%) Project Management
6 3 (17.65%) Windows
6 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
6 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (17.65%) Finance
6 3 (17.65%) 3G
6 3 (17.65%) 4G
7 2 (11.76%) ITIL V2
7 2 (11.76%) Huawei
7 2 (11.76%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 2 (11.76%) HP UCMDB
7 2 (11.76%) CLARiiON
7 2 (11.76%) Symmetrix
7 2 (11.76%) EMC Centera
7 2 (11.76%) Serena
7 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (11.76%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Ethernet
1 11 (64.71%) MPLS
1 11 (64.71%) Radio Access Network
2 9 (52.94%) HSRP
2 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 9 (52.94%) OSPF
2 9 (52.94%) BGP
2 9 (52.94%) RSVP
2 9 (52.94%) VRRP
3 5 (29.41%) LTE
4 3 (17.65%) 4G
4 3 (17.65%) 3G
5 2 (11.76%) SAN
5 2 (11.76%) 2G
5 2 (11.76%) ATM
5 2 (11.76%) SDH
6 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 11 (64.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Design Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Network Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Network Design Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Storage Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) RF Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.882%) 3G Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.76%) CLARiiON
1 2 (11.76%) Symmetrix
1 2 (11.76%) EMC Centera
1 2 (11.76%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Network Design
2 4 (23.53%) Project Management
3 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security
4 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL V2
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.882%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.882%) MCP
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) SRDF
2 1 (5.882%) vSphere
2 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Tivoli
1 2 (11.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (11.76%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco
1 2 (11.76%) IBM
1 2 (11.76%) HP
1 2 (11.76%) EMC
1 2 (11.76%) Ericsson
1 2 (11.76%) Nokia
1 2 (11.76%) BT
1 2 (11.76%) Serena
1 2 (11.76%) Huawei
1 2 (11.76%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 1 (5.882%) VMware
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft