Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Capacity Planning
South London > Croydon

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 0.71% 3.95% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 4.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 -
South London median daily rate £525 £525 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 68 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.07% 89.47% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 45 50
10th Percentile £413 £287 £380
25th Percentile £490 £493 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £555 £505
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +9.90% -3.81%
75th Percentile £559 £633 £538
90th Percentile £698 £714 £567
South London median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.10% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £17.87 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.30 - £19.50
75th Percentile £33.60 - £35.06
90th Percentile - - £59.03
South London median hourly rate £19.00 £15.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +19.95% -18.77% -62.91%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Croydon

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

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 Croydon region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
South Croydon - 1 £525 - 1
Capacity Planning
South London

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared