Capacity Planning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Capacity Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 259 340 461
Rank change year-on-year +81 +121 -94
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 82 128 155
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.57% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 98 93
10th Percentile £368 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +0.70%
75th Percentile £620 £550 £575
90th Percentile £699 £667 £637
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.65 £25.00
25th Percentile - £64.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -82.50% +77.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - £79.00
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Capacity Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Capacity Planning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Capacity Planning.

Capacity Planning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Capacity Planning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Capacity Planning.

Capacity Planning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (4.88%) OpenStack
1 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 2 (2.44%) CICS
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.22%) SAS
4 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.10%) Chatbot
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.22%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.66%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.22%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.22%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.05%) AWS
2 20 (24.39%) Azure
3 9 (10.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 9 (10.98%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (10.98%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (10.98%) Entra ID
3 9 (10.98%) GCP
3 9 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.10%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (6.10%) Twilio
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.66%) OCI
7 3 (3.66%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (2.44%) Apigee
8 2 (2.44%) GitHub
8 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.76%) CTI
1 8 (9.76%) VoIP
2 7 (8.54%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (7.32%) 5G
4 5 (6.10%) 3G
4 5 (6.10%) 4G
4 5 (6.10%) BGP
4 5 (6.10%) Firewall
4 5 (6.10%) WAN
5 4 (4.88%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (4.88%) MPLS
6 3 (3.66%) Internet
6 3 (3.66%) OSPF
6 3 (3.66%) VPN
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.44%) HTTP
7 2 (2.44%) LAN
7 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.76%) Power BI
3 7 (8.54%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.88%) MySQL
5 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.44%) DB2
5 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.44%) Metadata
5 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.44%) OLTP
5 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.22%) GitLab
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (19.51%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Retail
5 7 (8.54%) Telecoms
6 6 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.66%) Banking
8 3 (3.66%) Legal
9 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.22%) French Language
10 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) Architect
2 11 (13.41%) DBA
3 9 (10.98%) Senior
3 9 (10.98%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (9.76%) Administrator
4 8 (9.76%) Consultant
5 7 (8.54%) Performance Specialist
6 6 (7.32%) Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (6.10%) Performance Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Performance Consultant
8 4 (4.88%) Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Availability Manager
8 4 (4.88%) AWS Specialist
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Specialist
8 4 (4.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.88%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Splunk Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) Middleware
1 5 (6.10%) Web Services
2 2 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.44%) JSON
2 2 (2.44%) Lucene
2 2 (2.44%) Node.js
2 2 (2.44%) OAuth
2 2 (2.44%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.44%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.44%) OpenID
2 2 (2.44%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.44%) REST
2 2 (2.44%) SOAP
2 2 (2.44%) Swagger
2 2 (2.44%) YAML
3 1 (1.22%) LDAP
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.76%) IVR
3 5 (6.10%) CMDB
3 5 (6.10%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.44%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.44%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.44%) Replication
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) NHS
7 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.85%) Linux
2 7 (8.54%) Unix
3 6 (7.32%) Windows
4 2 (2.44%) zOS
5 1 (1.22%) CentOS
5 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (23.17%) Roadmaps
3 14 (17.07%) Performance Optimisation
4 13 (15.85%) Agile
5 12 (14.63%) Capacity Management
5 12 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (12.20%) Computer Science
7 10 (12.20%) Decision-Making
7 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.98%) Cloud Operations
8 9 (10.98%) Cost Control
8 9 (10.98%) Customer Experience
8 9 (10.98%) Migration
8 9 (10.98%) Performance Monitoring
8 9 (10.98%) Planning and Forecasting
9 8 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.76%) Knowledge Transfer
9 8 (9.76%) Service Delivery
10 7 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.41%) SQL
2 8 (9.76%) Python
3 6 (7.32%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.66%) Bash
5 2 (2.44%) COBOL
5 2 (2.44%) Java
5 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.44%) REXX
5 2 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Degree
2 16 (19.51%) AWS Certification
3 11 (13.41%) Azure Certification
3 11 (13.41%) Master's Degree
4 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
5 9 (10.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
7 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.44%) CCNP
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.44%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.22%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.22%) CCA
9 1 (1.22%) CISM
9 1 (1.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) GDPR
1 8 (9.76%) PMO
2 5 (6.10%) HIPAA
2 5 (6.10%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.88%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.66%) QA
5 2 (2.44%) P3O
6 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.44%) Docker
3 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.88%) Terraform
2 2 (2.44%) Ansible
2 2 (2.44%) Data Guard
2 2 (2.44%) Puppet
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (26.83%) Microsoft
1 22 (26.83%) Oracle
2 9 (10.98%) Cisco
3 8 (9.76%) Genesys
4 7 (8.54%) Google
4 7 (8.54%) Splunk
5 5 (6.10%) Avaya
5 5 (6.10%) Remedy
6 4 (4.88%) SAP
7 3 (3.66%) VMware
8 2 (2.44%) F5
8 2 (2.44%) Juniper
8 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.44%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.22%) JDA
9 1 (1.22%) Red Hat