Capacity Planning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Capacity Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 324 456
Rank change year-on-year +64 +132 -67
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 81 133 167
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.62% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 102 99
10th Percentile £359 £385 £380
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +1.78%
75th Percentile £631 £597 £574
90th Percentile £700 £675 £635
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
Median hourly rate £14.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.00% +150.00% -56.28%
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 13 June 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 5 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.94%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.47%) CICS
3 2 (2.47%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.47%) Confluence
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.23%) SAS
4 1 (1.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.17%) Chatbot
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.70%) SAP CO
2 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.47%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.47%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.86%) AWS
2 20 (24.69%) Azure
3 10 (12.35%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 9 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (11.11%) GCP
4 9 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.17%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (6.17%) Twilio
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (4.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (2.47%) Apigee
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub
9 2 (2.47%) OCI
9 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) CTI
1 8 (9.88%) VoIP
2 7 (8.64%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (7.41%) 5G
4 5 (6.17%) 3G
4 5 (6.17%) 4G
4 5 (6.17%) BGP
4 5 (6.17%) Firewall
4 5 (6.17%) WAN
5 4 (4.94%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (4.94%) MPLS
6 3 (3.70%) OSPF
6 3 (3.70%) VPN
7 2 (2.47%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.47%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.47%) HTTP
7 2 (2.47%) Internet
7 2 (2.47%) LAN
7 2 (2.47%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.88%) Power BI
3 7 (8.64%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.94%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.70%) MySQL
6 2 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.47%) DB2
6 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.47%) Metadata
6 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.47%) OLTP
6 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (2.47%) JIRA
1 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.23%) GitLab
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.58%) Finance
4 7 (8.64%) Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.41%) Retail
6 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.70%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.47%) Legal
9 2 (2.47%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.23%) Advertising
10 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Architect
2 11 (13.58%) DBA
3 9 (11.11%) Senior
3 9 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (9.88%) Administrator
5 7 (8.64%) Consultant
5 7 (8.64%) Performance Specialist
6 5 (6.17%) Lead
6 5 (6.17%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (6.17%) Performance Consultant
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Performance Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Availability Manager
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Specialist
7 4 (4.94%) Splunk Administrator
8 3 (3.70%) Cloud Specialist
8 3 (3.70%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) Middleware
1 5 (6.17%) Web Services
2 3 (3.70%) OpenID
3 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.47%) JSON
3 2 (2.47%) Lucene
3 2 (2.47%) Node.js
3 2 (2.47%) OAuth
3 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.47%) OpenAPI
3 2 (2.47%) Regular Expression
3 2 (2.47%) REST
3 2 (2.47%) SOAP
3 2 (2.47%) Swagger
3 2 (2.47%) YAML
4 1 (1.23%) LDAP
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.88%) IVR
3 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.17%) CMDB
4 5 (6.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.70%) Replication
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.47%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.47%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.23%) Clustering
8 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.23%) NHS
8 1 (1.23%) PKI
8 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Linux
2 7 (8.64%) Unix
3 6 (7.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.47%) zOS
5 1 (1.23%) CentOS
5 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (23.46%) Roadmaps
3 14 (17.28%) Migration
3 14 (17.28%) Performance Optimisation
4 13 (16.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (14.81%) Agile
5 12 (14.81%) Capacity Management
6 11 (13.58%) Decision-Making
7 10 (12.35%) Computer Science
7 10 (12.35%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
8 9 (11.11%) Cost Control
8 9 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 9 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (11.11%) Planning and Forecasting
9 8 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.88%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (9.88%) Service Delivery
10 7 (8.64%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.88%) Python
1 8 (9.88%) SQL
2 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.47%) Bash
4 2 (2.47%) COBOL
4 2 (2.47%) Java
4 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.47%) REXX
4 2 (2.47%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) AWS Certification
1 16 (19.75%) Degree
2 12 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.58%) Azure Certification
4 10 (12.35%) Master's Degree
5 9 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.47%) CCNP
8 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.47%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.23%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.23%) CCA
9 1 (1.23%) OCP
9 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) GDPR
2 8 (9.88%) PMO
3 5 (6.17%) HIPAA
3 5 (6.17%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.17%) QA
4 4 (4.94%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.47%) P3O
6 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.70%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.47%) Docker
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Terraform
3 2 (2.47%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Data Guard
3 2 (2.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (28.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (23.46%) Oracle
3 9 (11.11%) Cisco
4 8 (9.88%) Genesys
4 8 (9.88%) Splunk
5 7 (8.64%) Google
6 5 (6.17%) Avaya
6 5 (6.17%) Remedy
6 5 (6.17%) SAP
7 4 (4.94%) VMware
8 2 (2.47%) F5
8 2 (2.47%) Juniper
8 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.47%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.23%) JDA
9 1 (1.23%) Red Hat