The first table below looks at the demand for Capacity Planning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 100 105 95
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -10
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 10 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.538% 0.313% 0.164%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.782% 0.445% 0.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
Average daily rate £325 £199 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+63.52% -27.72%
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1278 1574 1154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.78% 70.46% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 868 548
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 60
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -29.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £170.00 £32.50 £60.00
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +7 7 £325 +26.21%
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) NetApp
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (15.38%) CCSA
4 2 (15.38%) CCSE
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (15.38%) FWSM
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) Database Security
4 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (15.38%) MPLS
4 2 (15.38%) OSPF
4 2 (15.38%) BGP
4 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
4 2 (15.38%) CCNP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (15.38%) UNIX

Capacity Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 (15.38%) J2EE
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 1 (7.692%) XHTML
2 1 (7.692%) CSS
2 1 (7.692%) JSP
2 1 (7.692%) Servlets
2 1 (7.692%) Web Services
2 1 (7.692%) LAMP
2 1 (7.692%) jQuery
2 1 (7.692%) Symfony
2 1 (7.692%) Django
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) Plone
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.692%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) FWSM
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) MPLS
1 2 (15.38%) OSPF
1 2 (15.38%) BGP
1 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.692%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (7.692%) Introscope
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Data Modeller
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DBA
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Development Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Web Development Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Web Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.692%) NHS
2 1 (7.692%) W3C
2 1 (7.692%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) UNIX
3 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Vista
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
1 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
2 2 (15.38%) Database Security
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) OO
3 1 (7.692%) CRM
3 1 (7.692%) SOA
3 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.692%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) Scrum
3 1 (7.692%) Web Development
3 1 (7.692%) Time Management
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.692%) Python
3 1 (7.692%) Perl
3 1 (7.692%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CCSA
1 2 (15.38%) CCSE
1 2 (15.38%) CCNP
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.692%) MCSE
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) NFS
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.692%) Terminal Services
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.692%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) CA Wily
1 1 (7.692%) Splunk
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) NetApp
3 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.692%) JBoss
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix
4 1 (7.692%) IBM
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.692%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) Terracotta
4 1 (7.692%) Brocade