Capacity Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Capacity Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Capacity Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 117 125
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +59
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 6 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £480 £463 £450
25th Percentile £490 £477 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £530
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +14.39% -11.67%
75th Percentile £518 £692 £568
90th Percentile £620 £734 £695
Central London median daily rate £500 £606 £530
% change year-on-year -17.53% +14.39% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Capacity Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Capacity Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Capacity Management

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the City of London

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Capacity Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Capacity Management

Capacity Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat