Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Capacity Planning
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 15 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.12% 2.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 0
10th Percentile £350 £302 -
25th Percentile £394 £321 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £402 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.71% - -
75th Percentile £504 £535 -
90th Percentile £525 £550 -
North West median daily rate £456 £437 £400
% change year-on-year +4.29% +9.31% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.23 -
North West median hourly rate - £29.23 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 627 392 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.68% 95.61% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 259 302
10th Percentile £313 £291 £301
25th Percentile £368 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £562
90th Percentile £653 £640 £620
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 33 32
10th Percentile £13.47 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.18 £16.73
Median hourly rate £27.22 £32.50 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +21.91% -4.72%
75th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £23.56
% change year-on-year +43.68% +34.32% -36.85%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Cheshire

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 March 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
Knutsford -21 11 £472 +17.41%
Warrington - 2 £363 -
Chester - 1 £513 - 2
Capacity Planning
North West

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
1 7 (46.67%) Network Security
1 7 (46.67%) VPN
2 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) High Availability
1 7 (46.67%) Network Segmentation
1 7 (46.67%) Operational Stability
2 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) Resilience Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Validation
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) Network Design
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCNA
1 4 (26.67%) CCNP
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
3 2 (13.33%) PMP
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GRC
1 2 (13.33%) P3O
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) BMC
2 1 (6.67%) Remedy