Capacity Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Capacity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 292 348
Rank change year-on-year +28 +56 -29
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 141 139 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.61% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.69% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 98 105
10th Percentile £283 £375 £335
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £620
90th Percentile £650 £721 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £34.80 £14.00 -
25th Percentile - £18.13 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.39 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.44% - -
75th Percentile - £80.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £34.80 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.96% +73.98% -56.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Capacity Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +33 49 £463 -9.76% 16
North of England +14 23 £423 +8.33% 9
South West +10 23 £550 -21.43% 5
Midlands +12 22 £450 -30.77% 17
Scotland +39 19 £430 -25.22% 7
West Midlands +24 17 £450 -30.77% 11
North West +11 12 £400 +2.56% 6
Yorkshire +15 11 £425 +8.97% 2
East Midlands -4 5 £550 -16.67% 6
East of England +6 4 £288 +59.72% 3
Wales +14 1 £220 -60.00% 2
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 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.13%) CMS
3 3 (2.13%) Confluence
3 3 (2.13%) Drupal
3 3 (2.13%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.13%) nginx
4 2 (1.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.42%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.42%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.42%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.44%) AWS
1 26 (18.44%) Azure
2 18 (12.77%) GCP
3 16 (11.35%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 5 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.55%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (2.84%) Azure Functions
5 4 (2.84%) Serverless
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.13%) CloudBees
6 3 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.42%) GitHub
7 2 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.89%) Firewall
2 19 (13.48%) WAN
3 15 (10.64%) DNS
3 15 (10.64%) VPN
4 13 (9.22%) 5G
4 13 (9.22%) LAN
5 12 (8.51%) 3G
5 12 (8.51%) 4G
5 12 (8.51%) MPLS
5 12 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (7.80%) DHCP
6 11 (7.80%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (7.80%) SAN
7 10 (7.09%) Network Security
8 7 (4.96%) SD-WAN
9 5 (3.55%) BGP
9 5 (3.55%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (3.55%) OSPF
9 5 (3.55%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.35%) Power BI
2 10 (7.09%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.38%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.26%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.84%) Metadata
5 4 (2.84%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (2.84%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 3 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.13%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) GIS
8 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.71%) MySQL
8 1 (0.71%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.84%) Git
2 4 (2.84%) Selenium
3 3 (2.13%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.13%) JIRA
3 3 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.13%) Subversion
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.71%) JMeter
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
General
1 54 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.18%) Finance
4 16 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.22%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.67%) Aerospace
6 8 (5.67%) Banking
7 7 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Legal
9 3 (2.13%) Local Government
9 3 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.42%) Back Office
10 2 (1.42%) Electronics
10 2 (1.42%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.42%) Marketing
10 2 (1.42%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (11.35%) Analyst
2 12 (8.51%) Consultant
3 10 (7.09%) Architect
3 10 (7.09%) Availability Manager
3 10 (7.09%) IT Analyst
3 10 (7.09%) Network Engineer
3 10 (7.09%) Senior
4 9 (6.38%) Administrator
5 8 (5.67%) Capacity Manager
5 8 (5.67%) DBA
5 8 (5.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (5.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (4.96%) Performance Specialist
7 6 (4.26%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 6 (4.26%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.55%) Lead
8 5 (3.55%) Performance Consultant
8 5 (3.55%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (3.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (3.55%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.96%) Kafka
2 4 (2.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (2.84%) XML
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Beam
3 3 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.13%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.13%) Lucene
4 1 (0.71%) .NET
4 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.71%) Flash
4 1 (0.71%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.18%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.67%) Client/Server
4 8 (5.67%) Clustering
5 7 (4.96%) CMDB
6 6 (4.26%) Replication
7 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.84%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.84%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.84%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.84%) Smart Meter
9 3 (2.13%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.42%) CCTV
10 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.71%) Life Science
11 1 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.99%) Linux
2 26 (18.44%) Unix
3 18 (12.77%) Windows
4 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (19.15%) Capacity Management
3 25 (17.73%) Roadmaps
4 21 (14.89%) Decision-Making
4 21 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
5 20 (14.18%) Agile
6 19 (13.48%) Configuration Management
6 19 (13.48%) ITIL
7 18 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (12.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (10.64%) DevOps
10 14 (9.93%) CI/CD
10 14 (9.93%) Performance Monitoring
11 13 (9.22%) Performance Management
12 12 (8.51%) Analytics
12 12 (8.51%) Computer Science
12 12 (8.51%) Data Migration
12 12 (8.51%) Migration
13 11 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.02%) Python
2 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
3 12 (8.51%) Java
4 11 (7.80%) SQL
5 8 (5.67%) Bash
6 5 (3.55%) Go
6 5 (3.55%) Groovy
6 5 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.55%) Scala
6 5 (3.55%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.13%) Ruby
8 2 (1.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (20.57%) Degree
2 27 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.06%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.22%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (6.38%) CCNP
5 9 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.67%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.96%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.55%) CCIE
8 5 (3.55%) CCNA
8 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.13%) PhD
10 1 (0.71%) MCP
10 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.71%) OCP
10 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.09%) PMO
2 8 (5.67%) GDPR
3 5 (3.55%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.55%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) SLA
4 3 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 17 (12.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (10.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.67%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (5.67%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (4.26%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.84%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (2.13%) Docker
7 2 (1.42%) Firmware
8 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (9.22%) Ansible
2 11 (7.80%) NetBackup
2 11 (7.80%) Terraform
3 10 (7.09%) Nagios
4 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (5.67%) SCCM
5 5 (3.55%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.84%) Data Guard
6 4 (2.84%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.13%) Grafana
7 3 (2.13%) Netcool
7 3 (2.13%) Packer
8 2 (1.42%) Rundeck
8 2 (1.42%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.71%) Nessus
9 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.06%) VMware
3 15 (10.64%) Oracle
4 9 (6.38%) F5
4 9 (6.38%) NetApp
5 8 (5.67%) Cisco
5 8 (5.67%) Hitachi
6 7 (4.96%) SAP
7 5 (3.55%) Nokia
7 5 (3.55%) Remedy
8 4 (2.84%) Ab Initio
8 4 (2.84%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.84%) Google
8 4 (2.84%) IBM
8 4 (2.84%) Juniper
9 3 (2.13%) Cadence
9 3 (2.13%) Infoblox
9 3 (2.13%) JDA
9 3 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow