Capacity Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 336 443
Rank change year-on-year +88 +107 -67
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 141 111 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.46% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.52% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 66 46
10th Percentile £405 £350 £409
25th Percentile £460 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £471 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% -7.65% +7.94%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £598
90th Percentile £639 £585 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £569 £569
% change year-on-year -12.09% -0.04% +17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 2
10th Percentile £29.20 £58.88 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%
75th Percentile - £65.56 -
90th Percentile £56.63 £65.75 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Capacity Management 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South West +63 56 £495 -2.46% 4
North of England +40 25 £493 +23.25% 7
Scotland +28 25 £600 +29.73%
South East +14 24 £575 +0.44% 7
North West +35 21 £493 +23.25% 6
East of England +8 8 £350 +1.45% 2
Yorkshire +22 4 £650 +62.50% 1
Midlands +25 3 £500 +33.33% 5
West Midlands +18 3 £500 +25.00% 5
Capacity Management
UK

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 41 (29.08%) Confluence
2 34 (24.11%) SharePoint
2 34 (24.11%) SharePoint Server
3 15 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (4.96%) SAS
5 5 (3.55%) Apache
5 5 (3.55%) IIS
5 5 (3.55%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (31.21%) Azure
2 35 (24.82%) Azure Stack
3 10 (7.09%) GitHub
4 8 (5.67%) AWS
5 5 (3.55%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.84%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.42%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.71%) IaaS
8 1 (0.71%) OCI
8 1 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (28.37%) Firewall
2 36 (25.53%) BGP
3 14 (9.93%) LAN
4 13 (9.22%) SAN
4 13 (9.22%) WAN
5 11 (7.80%) DNS
6 10 (7.09%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (6.38%) DHCP
7 9 (6.38%) MPLS
7 9 (6.38%) Network Security
8 8 (5.67%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.55%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (3.55%) H.323
9 5 (3.55%) HTTP
9 5 (3.55%) iSCSI
10 4 (2.84%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.84%) VPN
10 4 (2.84%) VSAN
11 3 (2.13%) Internet
12 2 (1.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.55%) DB2
3 5 (3.55%) Power BI
4 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.42%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.71%) Big Data
6 1 (0.71%) HBase
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (33.33%) JIRA
2 9 (6.38%) GitLab
3 2 (1.42%) Git
3 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 84 (59.57%) Social Skills
2 39 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.60%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.38%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.67%) Aerospace
7 6 (4.26%) Finance
8 5 (3.55%) Legal
9 4 (2.84%) Banking
9 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.42%) Electronics
11 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.42%) Marketing
12 1 (0.71%) Billing
12 1 (0.71%) Games
12 1 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (15.60%) Availability Manager
1 22 (15.60%) Capacity Manager
2 21 (14.89%) Analyst
3 18 (12.77%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 17 (12.06%) Microsoft Engineer
5 12 (8.51%) Database Specialist
6 10 (7.09%) Consultant
6 10 (7.09%) IT Analyst
7 8 (5.67%) Architect
7 8 (5.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (5.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
8 7 (4.96%) Exchange Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Platform Specialist
10 5 (3.55%) DBA
10 5 (3.55%) Lead
10 5 (3.55%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Senior
10 5 (3.55%) Service Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.55%) Flash
1 5 (3.55%) POSIX
2 2 (1.42%) ISPF
3 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.71%) Kafka
3 1 (0.71%) LDAP
3 1 (0.71%) React Native
3 1 (0.71%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.53%) Private Cloud
2 22 (15.60%) Management Information System
3 19 (13.48%) Data Centre
4 16 (11.35%) Clustering
5 13 (9.22%) Client/Server
6 10 (7.09%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (6.38%) Replication
8 6 (4.26%) CMDB
9 5 (3.55%) IVR
9 5 (3.55%) NVMe
10 4 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 3 (2.13%) Driving Licence
12 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.42%) IBM Mainframe
12 2 (1.42%) Mainframe
12 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.71%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 62 (43.97%) Windows
2 21 (14.89%) Linux
3 15 (10.64%) Unix
4 11 (7.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.55%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.84%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.42%) zOS
8 1 (0.71%) VMS
8 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.13%) ITIL
1 58 (41.13%) Service Management
2 47 (33.33%) Network Management
3 36 (25.53%) Security Monitoring
4 33 (23.40%) ITSM
4 33 (23.40%) Problem Management
5 31 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (20.57%) Availability Management
7 28 (19.86%) Migration
8 26 (18.44%) Agile
8 26 (18.44%) Capacity Planning
9 24 (17.02%) Data Migration
9 24 (17.02%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (15.60%) High Availability
11 21 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (14.18%) Mentoring
13 19 (13.48%) Time Management
14 16 (11.35%) Quality Management
14 16 (11.35%) Statistics
15 15 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.18%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.80%) SQL
3 10 (7.09%) Bash
3 10 (7.09%) Python
4 7 (4.96%) Java
5 5 (3.55%) Perl
6 2 (1.42%) Assembly Language
6 2 (1.42%) JCL
6 2 (1.42%) REXX
6 2 (1.42%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.42%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 85 (60.28%) Security Cleared
2 47 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 37 (26.24%) DV Cleared
4 26 (18.44%) Degree
5 6 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.26%) ISACA
6 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) CCNA
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.11%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (4.96%) COBIT
2 7 (4.96%) GDPR
2 7 (4.96%) NIST
3 2 (1.42%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (15.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (13.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.51%) vSphere
4 8 (5.67%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (5.67%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (4.26%) NFS
6 4 (2.84%) Docker
6 4 (2.84%) GPFS
6 4 (2.84%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.42%) ACF2
7 2 (1.42%) HDFS
7 2 (1.42%) RACF
7 2 (1.42%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (17.73%) SCOM
2 13 (9.22%) Terraform
3 9 (6.38%) Nagios
3 9 (6.38%) SCCM
4 8 (5.67%) Ansible
4 8 (5.67%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (5.67%) NetBackup
5 7 (4.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 5 (3.55%) VxRail
7 4 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.84%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.84%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (0.71%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.71%) Packer
8 1 (0.71%) vRealize
8 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (31.21%) Microsoft
2 39 (27.66%) Atlassian
3 24 (17.02%) VMware
4 15 (10.64%) Red Hat
5 14 (9.93%) Oracle
5 14 (9.93%) SolarWinds
6 12 (8.51%) NetApp
7 9 (6.38%) Cisco
8 8 (5.67%) Hitachi
9 6 (4.26%) IBM
10 5 (3.55%) Avaya
10 5 (3.55%) Dell
10 5 (3.55%) Remedy
10 5 (3.55%) Verint
10 5 (3.55%) Veritas
11 4 (2.84%) Brocade
11 4 (2.84%) EMC
11 4 (2.84%) Google
11 4 (2.84%) Sybase
12 3 (2.13%) Splunk