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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 416 504
Rank change year-on-year +42 +88 -92
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 171 248 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.56% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 156 181
10th Percentile £285 £336 £373
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £505
Median % change year-on-year +3.84% -4.65% +4.12%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £719 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 3
10th Percentile £34.80 £30.19 £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 - £66.81 £66.25
90th Percentile - £80.00 £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 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +21 48 £575 +21.05% 41
South East +37 47 £480 +6.67% 21
South West +16 23 £575 -11.54% 5
Midlands +24 20 £450 -30.77% 18
North of England +12 19 £423 +8.33% 19
West Midlands +22 15 £450 -30.77% 11
Yorkshire +20 11 £425 +8.97% 4
North West +11 8 £400 +2.56% 13
East Midlands +11 5 £550 -16.67% 7
East of England +6 4 £288 +59.72% 7
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 (4.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.75%) CICS
3 3 (1.75%) CMS
3 3 (1.75%) Drupal
3 3 (1.75%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.75%) nginx
4 2 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 15 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.51%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.34%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.75%) AutoCAD
6 3 (1.75%) Revit
7 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.58%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.64%) Azure
2 36 (21.05%) AWS
3 28 (16.37%) GCP
4 16 (9.36%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.51%) Serverless
7 4 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.34%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.34%) PaaS
7 4 (2.34%) Twilio
8 3 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.75%) CloudBees
8 3 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (1.75%) IaaS
8 3 (1.75%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.75%) SaaS
8 3 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.11%) Firewall
1 19 (11.11%) WAN
2 18 (10.53%) DNS
3 15 (8.77%) LAN
3 15 (8.77%) VPN
4 14 (8.19%) SAN
5 13 (7.60%) DHCP
5 13 (7.60%) MPLS
6 12 (7.02%) 5G
7 11 (6.43%) 3G
7 11 (6.43%) 4G
7 11 (6.43%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (6.43%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (5.26%) Network Security
9 7 (4.09%) BGP
10 6 (3.51%) CTI
10 6 (3.51%) OSPF
10 6 (3.51%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.51%) VoIP
11 5 (2.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.36%) Power BI
2 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.85%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.51%) OLTP
6 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.92%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.34%) OLAP
8 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.75%) Big Data
8 3 (1.75%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.75%) DB2
9 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.58%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.09%) JIRA
2 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) Git
3 4 (2.34%) Selenium
4 3 (1.75%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.75%) Subversion
5 2 (1.17%) GitLab
5 2 (1.17%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.58%) Gatling
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
General
1 56 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.88%) Finance
4 18 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.02%) Banking
7 11 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.68%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.92%) Public Speaking
10 5 (2.92%) Retail
11 4 (2.34%) Legal
11 4 (2.34%) Local Government
12 3 (1.75%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.17%) Back Office
13 2 (1.17%) Electronics
13 2 (1.17%) Marketing
13 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (11.70%) Architect
2 16 (9.36%) Consultant
3 15 (8.77%) Analyst
4 14 (8.19%) Senior
5 13 (7.60%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.85%) Availability Manager
6 10 (5.85%) IT Analyst
7 9 (5.26%) DBA
7 9 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.68%) Administrator
8 8 (4.68%) Capacity Manager
8 8 (4.68%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 8 (4.68%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
9 7 (4.09%) Lead
9 7 (4.09%) Performance Specialist
10 6 (3.51%) Capacity and Availability Manager
10 6 (3.51%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.92%) Scrum Master
11 5 (2.92%) Senior Consultant
11 5 (2.92%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.09%) Lucene
1 7 (4.09%) Middleware
2 5 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.92%) Kafka
3 4 (2.34%) Web Services
3 4 (2.34%) XML
4 3 (1.75%) Apache Beam
4 3 (1.75%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.75%) Node.js
5 2 (1.17%) .NET
5 2 (1.17%) JSON
5 2 (1.17%) LDAP
5 2 (1.17%) OAuth
5 2 (1.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.17%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.17%) OpenID
5 2 (1.17%) REST
5 2 (1.17%) SOAP
5 2 (1.17%) Swagger
5 2 (1.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.87%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.02%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.68%) Client/Server
3 8 (4.68%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.68%) Clustering
3 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.09%) Replication
5 6 (3.51%) CMDB
5 6 (3.51%) IVR
5 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.92%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.34%) Smart Meter
7 4 (2.34%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.75%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.75%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.47%) Linux
2 27 (15.79%) Unix
3 23 (13.45%) Windows
4 5 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.75%) zOS
6 1 (0.58%) Android
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (19.88%) Roadmaps
3 28 (16.37%) Capacity Management
4 25 (14.62%) Agile
4 25 (14.62%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (13.45%) Computer Science
5 23 (13.45%) Project Management
6 22 (12.87%) Decision-Making
6 22 (12.87%) DevOps
7 21 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (11.70%) Analytics
9 19 (11.11%) Configuration Management
10 18 (10.53%) ITIL
11 16 (9.36%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (9.36%) Project Delivery
12 14 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (8.19%) Migration
12 14 (8.19%) Performance Monitoring
13 13 (7.60%) Performance Metrics
13 13 (7.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.20%) Python
2 18 (10.53%) Java
3 16 (9.36%) PowerShell
4 14 (8.19%) SQL
5 9 (5.26%) Bash
6 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.34%) Go
8 3 (1.75%) COBOL
8 3 (1.75%) Groovy
8 3 (1.75%) REXX
8 3 (1.75%) Ruby
8 3 (1.75%) Scala
9 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) C#
10 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (26.90%) Degree
2 36 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (7.60%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (6.43%) Master's Degree
7 10 (5.85%) CCNP
8 9 (5.26%) AWS Certification
8 9 (5.26%) Azure Certification
9 8 (4.68%) DV Cleared
10 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.92%) CCIE
11 5 (2.92%) CCNA
12 4 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.75%) PhD
14 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.58%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.77%) GDPR
1 15 (8.77%) PMO
2 9 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.09%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.51%) SLA
5 5 (2.92%) QA
6 4 (2.34%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.17%) P3O
9 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (8.19%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.68%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (4.68%) VMware Workstation
4 7 (4.09%) Docker
5 6 (3.51%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.92%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (1.17%) KVM
8 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.58%) Firmware
9 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.02%) Ansible
1 12 (7.02%) NetBackup
2 11 (6.43%) Terraform
3 10 (5.85%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.26%) Nagios
5 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Clustering
5 8 (4.68%) SCCM
6 4 (2.34%) Grafana
7 3 (1.75%) Netcool
8 2 (1.17%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.87%) VMware
3 13 (7.60%) Google
4 12 (7.02%) Cisco
5 10 (5.85%) Oracle
6 9 (5.26%) NetApp
7 8 (4.68%) Hitachi
8 7 (4.09%) F5
8 7 (4.09%) SAP
9 6 (3.51%) Genesys
9 6 (3.51%) Nokia
10 5 (2.92%) Juniper
10 5 (2.92%) Remedy
10 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.92%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.92%) Splunk
11 4 (2.34%) Avaya
11 4 (2.34%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.34%) IBM
11 4 (2.34%) Palo Alto