The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capacity Planning over the 3 months to 20 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 Wales 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capacity Planning
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 2.229% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 - £47.75
All Processes & Methodologies
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
210 264 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 66.88% 66.50% 60.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 147 122
Average daily rate £375 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.16 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.17% -61.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Capacity Planning
Wales

Capacity Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 20 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
Torfaen - 4 - -
Cardiff - 1 £350 -
Newport - 1 - -
Capacity Planning
Wales

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (57.14%) MCP
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) LAN
3 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
3 4 (57.14%) Network Design
3 4 (57.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (57.14%) Degree
3 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
3 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 4 (57.14%) SCCM
3 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
3 4 (57.14%) Riverbed
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Ingres
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
1 4 (57.14%) LAN Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
1 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
1 4 (57.14%) Network Design
1 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) Numerical Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Data Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Practice Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) MCP
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) ISA Server
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Riverbed
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Sun
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) VMware