Capacity Planning Contracts in England

Capacity Planning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 416 496
Rank change year-on-year +40 +80 -80
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 163 250 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 158 182
10th Percentile £328 £328 £364
25th Percentile £413 £389 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £496 £509
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -2.46% +4.63%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £619
90th Percentile £688 £721 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 3
10th Percentile £34.80 £35.66 £25.00
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +44.44% +164.71%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £66.25
90th Percentile - £79.00 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +44.44% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in England.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in England.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Planning within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +42 51 £563 +18.42% 42
South East +32 42 £500 +15.94% 14
South West +17 23 £575 -17.86% 4
North of England +21 22 £423 +8.33% 12
Midlands +15 15 £450 -30.77% 20
West Midlands +33 13 £450 -30.77% 15
Yorkshire +22 12 £435 -2.25% 1
North West +13 10 £400 +2.56% 11
East of England +4 3 £300 +66.67% 6
East Midlands +5 2 £432 -34.62% 5
Capacity Planning
UK

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.84%) CICS
3 3 (1.84%) CMS
3 3 (1.84%) Drupal
3 3 (1.84%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.84%) nginx
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.84%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.84%) Revit
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.84%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.61%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.47%) AWS
1 35 (21.47%) Azure
2 22 (13.50%) GCP
3 15 (9.20%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.68%) Serverless
5 4 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (2.45%) Azure Functions
6 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.84%) CloudBees
6 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.84%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.84%) PaaS
6 3 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) GitHub
7 2 (1.23%) IaaS
7 2 (1.23%) SaaS
7 2 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.50%) DNS
2 19 (11.66%) WAN
3 18 (11.04%) LAN
4 17 (10.43%) DHCP
5 13 (7.98%) Firewall
5 13 (7.98%) SAN
5 13 (7.98%) VPN
6 11 (6.75%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (6.75%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (6.13%) 5G
7 10 (6.13%) MPLS
8 9 (5.52%) 3G
8 9 (5.52%) 4G
9 7 (4.29%) Network Security
10 5 (3.07%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (2.45%) BGP
11 4 (2.45%) Internet
11 4 (2.45%) SSL
12 3 (1.84%) HTTP
12 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.20%) Power BI
2 12 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.13%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.29%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.07%) OLTP
7 4 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.45%) DB2
8 3 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.84%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.84%) OLAP
9 2 (1.23%) Big Data
9 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.61%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.91%) JIRA
2 6 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.45%) Git
3 4 (2.45%) Selenium
4 3 (1.84%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.84%) Subversion
5 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.61%) Gatling
5 1 (0.61%) GitLab
5 1 (0.61%) JMeter
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
General
1 55 (33.74%) Social Skills
2 38 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.95%) Finance
4 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.98%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.75%) Banking
7 8 (4.91%) Aerospace
7 8 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.68%) Public Speaking
9 5 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.45%) Legal
10 4 (2.45%) Local Government
11 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Back Office
12 2 (1.23%) Electronics
12 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.23%) Marketing
13 1 (0.61%) German Language
13 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (10.43%) Consultant
2 16 (9.82%) Analyst
3 15 (9.20%) Senior
4 12 (7.36%) Network Engineer
5 11 (6.75%) Architect
5 11 (6.75%) DBA
5 11 (6.75%) IT Analyst
6 10 (6.13%) Availability Manager
7 8 (4.91%) Capacity Manager
7 8 (4.91%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (4.91%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (4.91%) Lead
8 7 (4.29%) Performance Specialist
9 6 (3.68%) Capacity and Availability Manager
9 6 (3.68%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.68%) Scrum Master
9 6 (3.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (3.07%) Administrator
10 5 (3.07%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (3.07%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.91%) Lucene
2 6 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.68%) Kafka
3 5 (3.07%) LDAP
4 4 (2.45%) XML
5 3 (1.84%) Apache Beam
5 3 (1.84%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.23%) .NET
6 2 (1.23%) JSON
6 2 (1.23%) Middleware
6 2 (1.23%) Node.js
6 2 (1.23%) OAuth
6 2 (1.23%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.23%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.23%) OpenID
6 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.23%) REST
6 2 (1.23%) SOAP
6 2 (1.23%) Swagger
6 2 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.72%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.52%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.91%) Client/Server
3 8 (4.91%) Clustering
3 8 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.29%) CMDB
4 7 (4.29%) Replication
5 6 (3.68%) Mainframe
5 6 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.45%) Smart Meter
7 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.84%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.47%) Linux
2 29 (17.79%) Windows
3 26 (15.95%) Unix
4 9 (5.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.45%) zOS
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.86%) Roadmaps
3 29 (17.79%) Capacity Management
4 28 (17.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 22 (13.50%) Agile
5 22 (13.50%) Decision-Making
6 20 (12.27%) DevOps
6 20 (12.27%) ITIL
7 19 (11.66%) Configuration Management
7 19 (11.66%) Project Management
8 17 (10.43%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (9.20%) Computer Science
9 15 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (8.59%) Analytics
10 14 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (8.59%) Performance Metrics
11 13 (7.98%) Migration
11 13 (7.98%) Project Delivery
11 13 (7.98%) Scrum
11 13 (7.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.79%) Python
2 18 (11.04%) Java
2 18 (11.04%) PowerShell
3 15 (9.20%) SQL
4 9 (5.52%) Bash
5 6 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.45%) Go
7 3 (1.84%) COBOL
7 3 (1.84%) Groovy
7 3 (1.84%) REXX
7 3 (1.84%) Ruby
7 3 (1.84%) Scala
8 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.61%) C#
9 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (23.93%) Degree
2 36 (22.09%) Security Cleared
3 30 (18.40%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.59%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (6.13%) CCNP
5 10 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.68%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.68%) CCNA
7 5 (3.07%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.07%) CCIE
7 5 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.84%) PhD
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.36%) PMO
2 11 (6.75%) GDPR
3 6 (3.68%) SLA
4 5 (3.07%) QA
5 3 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.23%) P3O
6 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (12.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (12.27%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.52%) Docker
3 9 (5.52%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.91%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (4.91%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (1.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.23%) KVM
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (7.98%) Ansible
2 12 (7.36%) Terraform
3 11 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.75%) NetBackup
4 10 (6.13%) Nagios
5 9 (5.52%) SCCM
6 8 (4.91%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (3.07%) Grafana
8 3 (1.84%) Netcool
9 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.23%) Rundeck
9 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.50%) VMware
3 12 (7.36%) Oracle
4 8 (4.91%) Cisco
4 8 (4.91%) Google
4 8 (4.91%) Hitachi
4 8 (4.91%) NetApp
5 7 (4.29%) SAP
6 6 (3.68%) Nokia
6 6 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 5 (3.07%) Remedy
7 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.07%) Splunk
8 4 (2.45%) Ab Initio
8 4 (2.45%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.45%) F5
8 4 (2.45%) Juniper
8 4 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.84%) IBM