Capacity Planning Contracts in the North West

Capacity Planning
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 138 165
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 -27
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 8 20 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.64% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.71% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £342 - -
25th Percentile £391 £385 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £390 £350
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +11.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £407 £475 £635
90th Percentile £508 £486 £643
England median daily rate £505 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.78% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +44.44% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,318 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.17% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 2,009 2,591
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Merseyside - 3 £400 -
Cheshire -1 2 £413 +5.90% 1
Manchester +6 1 £388 -7.74% 6
Lancashire - 1 £650 -
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Local Government
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Information Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds