Capacity Planning Contracts

Capacity Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 411 517
Rank change year-on-year +24 +106 -90
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 217 331 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.62% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 209 225
10th Percentile £330 £349 £363
25th Percentile £414 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.63%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £715 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 3
10th Percentile £34.80 £35.66 £25.00
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +44.44% +164.71%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £66.25
90th Percentile - £79.00 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.46% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +49 163 £525 +5.79% 97
UK excluding London +40 132 £450 -18.18% 61
Work from Home +77 75 £500 - 52
London +35 51 £563 +18.42% 39
South East +38 42 £500 +15.94% 14
Scotland +28 27 £430 -28.33% 6
South West +24 23 £575 -17.86% 4
North of England +22 22 £423 +8.33% 13
Midlands +11 15 £450 -30.77% 17
West Midlands +32 13 £450 -30.77% 13
Yorkshire +19 12 £435 -2.25% 2
North West +6 10 £400 +2.56% 11
East of England +12 3 £300 +66.67% 6
East Midlands +4 2 £432 -34.62% 4

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.30%) CICS
4 4 (1.84%) Confluence
4 4 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.38%) CMS
5 3 (1.38%) Drupal
5 3 (1.38%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.38%) nginx
5 3 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.38%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.84%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.92%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.46%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.96%) AWS
2 45 (20.74%) Azure
3 23 (10.60%) GCP
4 19 (8.76%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.61%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 9 (4.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.76%) Serverless
8 4 (1.84%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.84%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.38%) CloudBees
9 3 (1.38%) PaaS
9 3 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.14%) DNS
2 20 (9.22%) WAN
3 18 (8.29%) LAN
4 17 (7.83%) DHCP
5 14 (6.45%) Firewall
6 13 (5.99%) SAN
6 13 (5.99%) VPN
7 11 (5.07%) MPLS
7 11 (5.07%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (5.07%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (4.61%) 5G
9 9 (4.15%) 3G
9 9 (4.15%) 4G
10 7 (3.23%) Network Security
11 5 (2.30%) BGP
11 5 (2.30%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (2.30%) Internet
12 4 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (1.84%) SSL
13 3 (1.38%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.76%) Power BI
2 15 (6.91%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (6.91%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.99%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.53%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.23%) OLTP
7 6 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (2.76%) DB2
7 6 (2.76%) Metadata
7 6 (2.76%) MySQL
8 5 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.84%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (1.84%) Oracle8/8i Database
10 3 (1.38%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.38%) OLAP
11 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (4.15%) JIRA
2 7 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.76%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.30%) Selenium
5 4 (1.84%) Git
6 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.38%) Subversion
7 2 (0.92%) GitLab
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.46%) Gatling
8 1 (0.46%) JMeter
General
1 72 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (15.67%) Finance
4 16 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.99%) Banking
5 13 (5.99%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.69%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.76%) Public Speaking
9 6 (2.76%) Retail
10 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.84%) Legal
11 4 (1.84%) Local Government
11 4 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Back Office
12 2 (0.92%) Electronics
12 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.92%) Marketing
13 1 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 23 (10.60%) Analyst
2 22 (10.14%) DBA
3 17 (7.83%) Consultant
4 16 (7.37%) Senior
5 14 (6.45%) Architect
5 14 (6.45%) Lead
6 12 (5.53%) Administrator
6 12 (5.53%) Network Engineer
7 11 (5.07%) IT Analyst
7 11 (5.07%) Oracle DBA
8 10 (4.61%) Availability Manager
9 9 (4.15%) Developer
10 8 (3.69%) Capacity Manager
10 8 (3.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.69%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.69%) PMO Analyst
11 7 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.23%) Performance Specialist
12 6 (2.76%) Capacity and Availability Manager
12 6 (2.76%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.69%) Lucene
2 7 (3.23%) Kafka
3 6 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (2.76%) LDAP
4 4 (1.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (1.84%) XML
5 3 (1.38%) Apache Beam
5 3 (1.38%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.92%) .NET
6 2 (0.92%) Node.js
6 2 (0.92%) OAuth
6 2 (0.92%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.92%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.92%) OpenID
6 2 (0.92%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.92%) REST
6 2 (0.92%) SOAP
6 2 (0.92%) Swagger
6 2 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.69%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.69%) Clustering
5 8 (3.69%) Mainframe
6 7 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.23%) CMDB
6 7 (3.23%) Replication
7 5 (2.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.84%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.84%) Smart Meter
8 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.04%) Linux
2 36 (16.59%) Windows
3 32 (14.75%) Unix
4 9 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.76%) zOS
6 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.46%) Android
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) CentOS
7 1 (0.46%) VMS
7 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (18.43%) Performance Tuning
3 36 (16.59%) Roadmaps
4 33 (15.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 32 (14.75%) Agile
6 30 (13.82%) Capacity Management
7 26 (11.98%) Decision-Making
8 25 (11.52%) DevOps
9 24 (11.06%) Configuration Management
10 22 (10.14%) Migration
10 22 (10.14%) Project Management
11 20 (9.22%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.22%) ITIL
11 20 (9.22%) Performance Monitoring
12 18 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (7.83%) Project Delivery
14 16 (7.37%) Computer Science
14 16 (7.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (6.91%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.67%) Python
2 24 (11.06%) SQL
3 18 (8.29%) Java
3 18 (8.29%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.15%) Bash
4 9 (4.15%) PL/SQL
5 6 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.30%) COBOL
6 5 (2.30%) REXX
6 5 (2.30%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.84%) Go
8 3 (1.38%) Groovy
8 3 (1.38%) Ruby
8 3 (1.38%) Scala
9 2 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.46%) C#
10 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 45 (20.74%) Degree
2 38 (17.51%) Security Cleared
3 30 (13.82%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.91%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.99%) AWS Certification
6 11 (5.07%) CCNP
6 11 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.15%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.15%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.76%) CCNA
10 5 (2.30%) CCIE
10 5 (2.30%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.38%) PhD
12 2 (0.92%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.92%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.68%) PMO
2 13 (5.99%) GDPR
3 8 (3.69%) QA
4 6 (2.76%) SLA
5 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.92%) P3O
6 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 22 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.07%) Docker
4 9 (4.15%) Hyper-V
5 8 (3.69%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (3.69%) VMware Workstation
6 5 (2.30%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (1.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.92%) KVM
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (9.68%) Ansible
2 17 (7.83%) Terraform
3 13 (5.99%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.07%) NetBackup
5 10 (4.61%) Nagios
6 9 (4.15%) SCCM
7 8 (3.69%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (2.76%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.30%) Grafana
9 5 (2.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.84%) Packer
11 3 (1.38%) Netcool
11 3 (1.38%) Puppet
12 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.92%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.92%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.67%) Oracle
3 23 (10.60%) VMware
4 11 (5.07%) SAP
5 9 (4.15%) Cisco
5 9 (4.15%) Splunk
6 8 (3.69%) Google
6 8 (3.69%) Hitachi
6 8 (3.69%) NetApp
7 6 (2.76%) Nokia
7 6 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.30%) Juniper
8 5 (2.30%) Remedy
8 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.84%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.84%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.84%) F5
9 4 (1.84%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.38%) Cadence
10 3 (1.38%) Red Hat