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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 118 150
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 +32
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 8 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.43% 0.61% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 10
10th Percentile £353 £388 £405
25th Percentile £420 £538 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £631 £652 £669
90th Percentile £653 £688 £753
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £594
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +9.95%

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 1,747 1,961 3,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.87% 91.38% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 1,344 2,147
10th Percentile £338 £363 £340
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -18.36%
75th Percentile £56.75 £55.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £101.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -16.67%

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 16 July 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Capacity Planning
Central 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 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) SSH
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning Manager
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Planning Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Planning Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) HP Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Coaching
2 2 (25.00%) E-business
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) GitOps
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) ITSM
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Packer
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Sun
3 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Tenable
3 1 (12.50%) VMware