Capacity Planning Contracts in the West Midlands

Capacity Planning
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 96 128 166
Rank change year-on-year +32 +38 -54
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 13 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.68% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.52% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 9
10th Percentile £395 - £278
25th Percentile £425 £500 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £380
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +71.05% +12.43%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £463
90th Percentile - - £529
England median daily rate £525 £496 £509
% change year-on-year +5.79% -2.46% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the West Midlands

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the West Midlands

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the West Midlands

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the West Midlands

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +15 7 £450 +28.57% 3
Warwickshire +6 5 £675 +35.00% 1
Staffordshire - 1 £300 - 3
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) SSL
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) DWDM
4 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) MPLS
4 1 (7.69%) SDH
4 1 (7.69%) SONET
4 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
1 3 (23.08%) Subversion
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Network Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) PMO Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
1 3 (23.08%) Private Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) CCTV
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
1 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
1 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (30.77%) Network Design
1 4 (30.77%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (30.77%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (23.08%) Epics
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
2 3 (23.08%) Server Management
2 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Software Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCIE
1 4 (30.77%) CCNP
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) SLA
3 1 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) VMware