Capacity Planning Contracts in the City of London

Capacity Planning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 163
Rank change year-on-year +3 +46 +9
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 8 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £292 £295 £417
25th Percentile £418 £566 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £626 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +0.16% +17.37%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £750
90th Percentile - £688 £765
Central London median daily rate £563 £626 £625
% change year-on-year -10.14% +0.16% +19.05%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,975 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.51% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,399 2,240
10th Percentile £363 £361 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the City of London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the City of London

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the City of London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the City of London

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (37.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Planning Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Planning Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Coaching
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) GitOps
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) ITSM
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) XenApp
1 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) OPNET
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Reuters