The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 - 40 -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear - 0.597% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.847% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £323 -
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
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
128 236 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 68.09% 70.45% 57.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 132 71
Average daily rate £325 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £543 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 £12.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.33% -31.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Capacity Planning
North East

Capacity Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Capacity Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) SRDF
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) RightFax
2 2 (50.00%) Novell
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (50.00%) McAfee
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) SMTP
2 2 (50.00%) FTP
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (25.00%) RDF
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) WebLogic

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (50.00%) SMTP
2 2 (50.00%) FTP
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Server Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) RDF
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) SRDF
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) RightFax
1 2 (50.00%) Novell
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat