Capacity Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Capacity Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Capacity Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 124 139
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +54
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 7 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.37% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.47% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £481 £455 £504
25th Percentile £493 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -0.46% +8.00%
75th Percentile £608 £694 £631
90th Percentile £663 £743 £700
London median daily rate £520 £534 £650
% change year-on-year -2.58% -17.88% +16.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Capacity Management 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,136 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 94.11% 91.91% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 1,343 1,886
10th Percentile £328 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £764 £775 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 17
10th Percentile £17.43 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.96 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +27.27% -36.40%
75th Percentile £41.75 £74.38 £46.75
90th Percentile £62.35 £124.75 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.49 £37.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -16.03% -6.05% +3.18%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Capacity Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Capacity Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Capacity Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Capacity Management

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in Central London over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in Central London

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Capacity Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Capacity Management

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 October 2025. 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
City of London 0 7 £500 -6.98% 14
Capacity Management
London

Capacity Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (14.29%) BCP
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow