Capacity Planning Contracts in Edinburgh

Capacity Planning
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 64 107
Rank change year-on-year +6 +43 +16
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 9 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.44% 0.98% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.11% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £388 - £403
25th Percentile £404 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% +1.18% -20.93%
75th Percentile £675 £523 £581
90th Percentile £725 £620 £668
Scotland median daily rate £515 £430 £600
% change year-on-year +19.77% -28.33% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in Edinburgh

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in Edinburgh

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Edinburgh

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
1 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
1 4 (44.44%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) HPUX
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Solaris
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 3 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Data Security
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) P3O
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) IBM
1 4 (44.44%) Sun
1 4 (44.44%) Unisys
2 2 (22.22%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk