Capacity Planning Contracts in the South West

Capacity Planning
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 154 151
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 23 21 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.72% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.64% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 4
10th Percentile £425 £400 £328
25th Percentile £450 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +51.35% -1.70%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £500
90th Percentile £740 - £523
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - -
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,659 3,298 3,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.04% 89.50% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,724 2,416 2,348
10th Percentile £225 £313 £301
25th Percentile £406 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £588
90th Percentile £704 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 349 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.31 £17.75 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.33 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the South West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Somerset +10 8 - - 2
Bristol +18 7 £600 -
Wiltshire -10 5 £500 -28.57%
Gloucestershire - 1 £750 - 2
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DHCP
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
1 8 (34.78%) LAN
1 8 (34.78%) MPLS
1 8 (34.78%) SAN
1 8 (34.78%) WAN
1 8 (34.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 20 (86.96%) Social Skills
2 14 (60.87%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (34.78%) Aerospace
4 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.04%) Finance
6 2 (8.70%) Electronics
6 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
6 2 (8.70%) Marketing
6 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.35%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Availability Manager
2 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) Capacity Manager
2 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) IT Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (26.09%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Capability Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.35%) PMO Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.70%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Client/Server
1 8 (34.78%) Clustering
1 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
2 5 (21.74%) CMDB
3 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (13.04%) Driving Licence
5 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Unix
2 8 (34.78%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Capacity Management
2 12 (52.17%) ITIL
3 10 (43.48%) Availability Management
4 9 (39.13%) Performance Monitoring
5 8 (34.78%) Application Packaging
5 8 (34.78%) Asset Management
5 8 (34.78%) Business Transformation
5 8 (34.78%) Data Migration
5 8 (34.78%) Data Protection
5 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
5 8 (34.78%) Migration
5 8 (34.78%) Network Management
5 8 (34.78%) Server Management
6 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
8 5 (21.74%) ITSM
8 5 (21.74%) Problem Management
8 5 (21.74%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
8 5 (21.74%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
3 10 (43.48%) Degree
4 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
1 8 (34.78%) Virtual Servers
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (34.78%) Nagios
1 8 (34.78%) NetBackup
1 8 (34.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Hitachi
1 8 (34.78%) NetApp
1 8 (34.78%) VMware
2 5 (21.74%) Remedy
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft