Capacity Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
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 Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 293 359
Rank change year-on-year +32 +66 -53
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 135 157 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.75% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 102 105
10th Percentile £285 £354 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £615
90th Percentile £650 £715 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 0
10th Percentile £34.80 £31.07 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - -
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile - £80.00 -
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
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
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 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 East +43 47 £480 +6.67% 16
South West +17 23 £575 -11.54% 4
Scotland +29 22 £430 -28.33% 5
Midlands +29 20 £450 -30.77% 19
North of England +16 19 £423 +8.33% 16
West Midlands +27 15 £450 -30.77% 13
Yorkshire +18 11 £425 +8.97% 3
North West +3 8 £400 +2.56% 10
East Midlands +13 5 £550 -16.67% 6
East of England +5 4 £288 +59.72% 8
Capacity Planning
UK

Capacity Planning
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 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.96%) Confluence
2 4 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.22%) CMS
3 3 (2.22%) Drupal
3 3 (2.22%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.22%) nginx
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.26%) AWS
2 25 (18.52%) Azure
3 17 (12.59%) Power Platform
4 15 (11.11%) GCP
5 5 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Functions
6 4 (2.96%) Serverless
7 3 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.22%) CloudBees
7 3 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.48%) GitHub
8 2 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.59%) Firewall
2 16 (11.85%) DNS
2 16 (11.85%) WAN
3 13 (9.63%) VPN
4 12 (8.89%) 5G
4 12 (8.89%) LAN
4 12 (8.89%) MPLS
5 11 (8.15%) 3G
5 11 (8.15%) 4G
5 11 (8.15%) DHCP
5 11 (8.15%) Radio Access Network
5 11 (8.15%) SAN
5 11 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (5.93%) Network Security
7 5 (3.70%) BGP
7 5 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (3.70%) OSPF
7 5 (3.70%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.96%) SSL
8 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) Power BI
2 10 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.44%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.96%) Metadata
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 3 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.22%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) GIS
7 1 (0.74%) OLAP
7 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.74%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
1 6 (4.44%) JIRA
2 4 (2.96%) Git
2 4 (2.96%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (2.96%) Selenium
3 3 (2.22%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.22%) Subversion
4 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.74%) JMeter
General
1 50 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 34 (25.19%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.78%) Finance
4 16 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.63%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.93%) Aerospace
7 7 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.44%) Banking
9 4 (2.96%) Retail
10 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.22%) Legal
10 3 (2.22%) Local Government
11 2 (1.48%) Back Office
11 2 (1.48%) Electronics
11 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.48%) Marketing
11 2 (1.48%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.74%) Automotive
12 1 (0.74%) Games
12 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (10.37%) Analyst
2 11 (8.15%) Consultant
3 10 (7.41%) Architect
3 10 (7.41%) Availability Manager
3 10 (7.41%) Network Engineer
3 10 (7.41%) Senior
4 9 (6.67%) Administrator
4 9 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 8 (5.93%) Capacity Manager
5 8 (5.93%) DBA
5 8 (5.93%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (5.93%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (5.19%) Performance Specialist
7 6 (4.44%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 6 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.70%) Performance Consultant
8 5 (3.70%) Scrum Master
8 5 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (3.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (3.70%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.70%) Kafka
2 4 (2.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (2.96%) XML
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Beam
3 3 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.22%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.22%) Lucene
4 1 (0.74%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.74%) Flash
4 1 (0.74%) LDAP
4 1 (0.74%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.93%) Client/Server
3 8 (5.93%) Clustering
4 7 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.44%) CMDB
5 6 (4.44%) Replication
6 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.96%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.96%) Smart Meter
8 3 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) CCTV
9 2 (1.48%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.48%) Linux
2 26 (19.26%) Unix
3 19 (14.07%) Windows
4 3 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.15%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (19.26%) Capacity Management
3 24 (17.78%) Roadmaps
4 23 (17.04%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (16.30%) Agile
6 21 (15.56%) Decision-Making
7 18 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (13.33%) Configuration Management
8 17 (12.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (12.59%) ITIL
9 15 (11.11%) DevOps
10 13 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.63%) Project Management
11 12 (8.89%) Data Migration
11 12 (8.89%) Migration
11 12 (8.89%) Performance Management
11 12 (8.89%) Performance Monitoring
11 12 (8.89%) Scrum
12 11 (8.15%) Performance Metrics
12 11 (8.15%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.81%) Python
2 14 (10.37%) SQL
3 12 (8.89%) Java
4 11 (8.15%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.44%) Bash
5 6 (4.44%) PL/SQL
6 5 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.22%) Go
7 3 (2.22%) Groovy
7 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.22%) Ruby
7 3 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (20.74%) Degree
2 23 (17.04%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.85%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.15%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.93%) CCNP
5 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.19%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.70%) CCIE
8 5 (3.70%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.96%) CCNA
10 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.22%) PhD
11 2 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.74%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.74%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.74%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) PMO
2 8 (5.93%) GDPR
3 5 (3.70%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.96%) SLA
5 3 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (2.22%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.22%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 15 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 15 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.93%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (5.93%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (2.96%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (2.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (2.22%) Docker
4 3 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.74%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (9.63%) Ansible
2 12 (8.89%) NetBackup
3 9 (6.67%) Nagios
3 9 (6.67%) Terraform
4 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (5.93%) SCCM
5 4 (2.96%) Data Guard
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (2.22%) Grafana
6 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.22%) Netcool
6 3 (2.22%) Packer
7 2 (1.48%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.59%) Oracle
3 15 (11.11%) VMware
4 9 (6.67%) NetApp
5 8 (5.93%) Hitachi
6 7 (5.19%) F5
7 6 (4.44%) Cisco
7 6 (4.44%) Nokia
8 5 (3.70%) Remedy
8 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.70%) SAP
9 4 (2.96%) Ab Initio
9 4 (2.96%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.96%) IBM
9 4 (2.96%) Juniper
10 3 (2.22%) Cadence
10 3 (2.22%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.22%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow