The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Planning
Rank 177 196 170
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -26
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 47 43 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.603% 0.424% 0.800%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.888% 0.651% 1.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 23
Average daily rate £425 £375 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £335 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £493 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 - £47.50
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5291 6603 6683
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.89% 65.08% 64.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3170 3050
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 323 365
Average hourly rate £26.98 £26.25 £34.41
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.76% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Capacity Planning Hourly Rate Trend

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 South East 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
Berkshire +3 16 £230 -38.66%
West Sussex - 9 £475 -
Buckinghamshire +12 6 £475 -
Surrey +15 5 £350 -
Hampshire -10 4 £388 -16.44%
Kent - 3 £425 -
Middlesex +5 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
East Sussex - 1 £450 -
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 27 (27.27%) Project Management
2 25 (25.25%) MPLS
2 25 (25.25%) Finance
3 22 (22.22%) Ethernet
4 21 (21.21%) Windows
5 19 (19.19%) Telecoms
6 18 (18.18%) SQL Server
7 17 (17.17%) SQL
8 16 (16.16%) LTE
9 15 (15.15%) VPN
9 15 (15.15%) Performance Management
10 13 (13.13%) Network Design
10 13 (13.13%) OSPF
10 13 (13.13%) BGP
10 13 (13.13%) Radio Access Network
11 12 (12.12%) Resource Management
12 11 (11.11%) VMware
12 11 (11.11%) Data Analysis
12 11 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
12 11 (11.11%) Six Sigma
12 11 (11.11%) RSVP
12 11 (11.11%) VRRP
12 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
12 11 (11.11%) HSRP
13 10 (10.10%) P3M3
13 10 (10.10%) Nokia Siemens Networks
13 10 (10.10%) Waterfall
13 10 (10.10%) Ericsson
13 10 (10.10%) ATM
13 10 (10.10%) SQL Server 2005

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 5 (5.051%) .NET
2 3 (3.030%) Web Services
3 2 (2.020%) Flash
3 2 (2.020%) J2EE
4 1 (1.010%) Ajax
4 1 (1.010%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.010%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 1 (1.010%) WCF
4 1 (1.010%) WF
4 1 (1.010%) LINQ
4 1 (1.010%) jQuery
4 1 (1.010%) WinForms
4 1 (1.010%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.010%) DHTML
4 1 (1.010%) XML
4 1 (1.010%) XSL
4 1 (1.010%) XSLT
4 1 (1.010%) ADO.NET
4 1 (1.010%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.010%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.071%) MS Exchange
1 7 (7.071%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (2.020%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.020%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.020%) IIS
3 2 (2.020%) ESB
3 2 (2.020%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.010%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.010%) Documentum
4 1 (1.010%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.010%) CICS
4 1 (1.010%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.010%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (6.061%) MS Office
2 3 (3.030%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.010%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.010%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.010%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.010%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.010%) CA Clarity
1 1 (1.010%) SAP APO
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.25%) MPLS
2 22 (22.22%) Ethernet
3 16 (16.16%) LTE
4 15 (15.15%) VPN
5 13 (13.13%) OSPF
5 13 (13.13%) BGP
5 13 (13.13%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (11.11%) RSVP
6 11 (11.11%) VRRP
6 11 (11.11%) HSRP
7 10 (10.10%) ATM
8 9 (9.091%) Wireless
9 8 (8.081%) VoIP
9 8 (8.081%) Firewall
9 8 (8.081%) Network Security
10 7 (7.071%) SAN
11 5 (5.051%) WLAN
11 5 (5.051%) WAN
11 5 (5.051%) LAN
11 5 (5.051%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.10%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (4.040%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.030%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.020%) VLDB
6 2 (2.020%) OLTP
6 2 (2.020%) DTS
6 2 (2.020%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.020%) DB2
6 2 (2.020%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.010%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.010%) MySQL
7 1 (1.010%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.010%) TOAD
7 1 (1.010%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.010%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.010%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (2.020%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.010%) JIRA
2 1 (1.010%) Subversion
2 1 (1.010%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.010%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.010%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.010%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (25.25%) Finance
2 19 (19.19%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.020%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.010%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.010%) Marketing
4 1 (1.010%) Banking
4 1 (1.010%) Billing
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Design Engineer
2 16 (16.16%) Network Engineer
3 12 (12.12%) Architect
3 12 (12.12%) Resource Manager
4 11 (11.11%) Network Design Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Transmission Engineer
6 9 (9.091%) Consultant
7 6 (6.061%) Analyst
7 6 (6.061%) Software Architect
8 5 (5.051%) Access Transmission Engineer
9 4 (4.040%) DBA
9 4 (4.040%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.040%) PMO Manager
9 4 (4.040%) Portfolio Manager
10 3 (3.030%) Administrator
10 3 (3.030%) SQL DBA
10 3 (3.030%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.020%) Network Consultant
11 2 (2.020%) Systems Engineer
11 2 (2.020%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.071%) Clustering
2 6 (6.061%) PMI
2 6 (6.061%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.040%) Replication
4 3 (3.030%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.020%) CLARiiON
5 2 (2.020%) Symmetrix
5 2 (2.020%) EMC Centera
5 2 (2.020%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.020%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.020%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.010%) Statistics
6 1 (1.010%) CMDB
6 1 (1.010%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.010%) NHS
6 1 (1.010%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.010%) Social Media
6 1 (1.010%) SaaS
6 1 (1.010%) PaaS
6 1 (1.010%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.21%) Windows
2 10 (10.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (5.051%) UNIX
4 5 (5.051%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.040%) Linux
6 3 (3.030%) Solaris
7 2 (2.020%) HPUX
8 1 (1.010%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.010%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.27%) Project Management
2 15 (15.15%) Performance Management
3 13 (13.13%) Network Design
4 12 (12.12%) Resource Management
5 11 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 11 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
5 11 (11.11%) Six Sigma
6 10 (10.10%) P3M3
6 10 (10.10%) Waterfall
7 9 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (8.081%) Change Management
8 8 (8.081%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.081%) Load Balancing
9 7 (7.071%) Information Security
9 7 (7.071%) SOA
9 7 (7.071%) PRINCE2
10 6 (6.061%) Project Planning
11 5 (5.051%) Compatibility Testing
11 5 (5.051%) Service Delivery
12 4 (4.040%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.17%) SQL
2 6 (6.061%) Shell Script
3 5 (5.051%) Perl
4 4 (4.040%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.030%) Korn
6 2 (2.020%) Bourne shell
6 2 (2.020%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.020%) C#
6 2 (2.020%) Java
6 2 (2.020%) AWK
6 2 (2.020%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.010%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.010%) COBOL
7 1 (1.010%) C
7 1 (1.010%) PHP
7 1 (1.010%) Python
7 1 (1.010%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (6.061%) APMP
1 6 (6.061%) PMI Certification
2 5 (5.051%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.030%) Degree
4 2 (2.020%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.020%) Sun Certification
4 2 (2.020%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.010%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.010%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.010%) MCP
5 1 (1.010%) MCSE
5 1 (1.010%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.010%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.051%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.040%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.030%) SLA
4 2 (2.020%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.061%) Hyper-V
2 6 (6.061%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.051%) XenApp
4 4 (4.040%) XenDesktop
5 3 (3.030%) vSphere
6 2 (2.020%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (2.020%) Veritas File System
6 2 (2.020%) SRDF
6 2 (2.020%) VMware ESX
6 2 (2.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.010%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.010%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (1.010%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.010%) IAG
7 1 (1.010%) XenServer
7 1 (1.010%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (2.020%) HP UCMDB
1 2 (2.020%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (2.020%) Tivoli
1 2 (2.020%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (2.020%) NetBackup
1 2 (2.020%) SCOM
2 1 (1.010%) Foglight
2 1 (1.010%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (1.010%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (11.11%) VMware
1 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.10%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 10 (10.10%) Ericsson
3 7 (7.071%) Oracle
3 7 (7.071%) Citrix
4 4 (4.040%) Juniper
4 4 (4.040%) Cisco
5 3 (3.030%) SAP
5 3 (3.030%) IBM
5 3 (3.030%) HP
6 2 (2.020%) F5
6 2 (2.020%) Riverbed
6 2 (2.020%) BMC
6 2 (2.020%) Veritas
6 2 (2.020%) Sun
6 2 (2.020%) EMC
6 2 (2.020%) Serena
6 2 (2.020%) AppSense
7 1 (1.010%) Huawei