Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Capacity Planning
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 2.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £476 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
North West median daily rate £395 £463 £555
% change year-on-year -14.59% -16.67% -20.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 166 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 82.43% 82.59% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 68 140
10th Percentile £445 £380 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £496 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% -17.33% +40.52%
75th Percentile £563 £560 £670
90th Percentile £639 £641 £725
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 20
10th Percentile £30.65 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £38.59 £22.72 £21.00
Median hourly rate £41.71 £48.56 £32.13
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +51.16% -42.04%
75th Percentile £60.68 £58.27 £48.38
90th Percentile £63.59 £77.09 £53.88
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -17.11% +47.23%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 3 £469 - 1
Capacity Planning
North West

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSA
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) VCAP
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware