Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Central London

Capacity Planning
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 118 130
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +55
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 9 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.45% 0.57% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.62% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 9
10th Percentile £409 £463 £468
25th Percentile £417 £470 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £900 £675 £669
90th Percentile £975 - £676
London median daily rate £510 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -2.86% -6.25% +6.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,822 2,112 2,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.24% 92.35% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,316 1,696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Central London

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Central London

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 -5 8 £550 -12.00% 11
Capacity Planning
London

Capacity Planning
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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Akamai
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) International Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Digital
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Management Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Derivative
1 2 (22.22%) Fixed Income
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Backlog Management
2 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
2 2 (22.22%) Change Control
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Release Management
2 2 (22.22%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCIE
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) AppDynamics
1 2 (22.22%) Bloomberg
1 2 (22.22%) MarketAxess
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
1 2 (22.22%) Tradeweb
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto