Capacity Management Contracts in England

Capacity Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Capacity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 319 436
Rank change year-on-year -99 +117 +139
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 68 228 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.61% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.71% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 173 183
10th Percentile £360 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -14.24% +6.00%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £569
% change year-on-year -2.00% -12.09% +1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 13
10th Percentile - £22.05 -
25th Percentile - £22.68 -
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - £45.54 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Capacity Management 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in England

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in England

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in England

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in England

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +39 17 £475 -17.39% 20
London -42 17 £584 -2.66% 32
South West -3 10 £601 +21.31% 2
East of England +28 8 £500 +42.86% 1
North of England 0 8 £469 -4.92% 5
Midlands +20 4 - - 6
North West -8 4 £461 -5.92% 4
West Midlands +15 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +5 3 £488 -25.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £465 -
Capacity Management
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Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) ThingWorx
3 1 (1.47%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.47%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) AWS
2 4 (5.88%) Azure
3 3 (4.41%) Nutanix
3 3 (4.41%) OCI
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.47%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) DNS
2 5 (7.35%) DHCP
3 4 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (5.88%) Firewall
3 4 (5.88%) SAN
4 3 (4.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (4.41%) HTTP
4 3 (4.41%) VLAN
5 2 (2.94%) BIG-IP
5 2 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (2.94%) Network Security
5 2 (2.94%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (2.94%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.94%) SSL
5 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.94%) Wireless
5 2 (2.94%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.47%) Multicast
6 1 (1.47%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) DB2
4 1 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.94%) GitLab
3 2 (2.94%) Maven
3 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Finance
3 7 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.82%) Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.94%) Front Office
6 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.47%) French Language
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Capacity Manager
2 10 (14.71%) Analyst
2 10 (14.71%) Availability Manager
2 10 (14.71%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Senior
5 4 (5.88%) Data Centre Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Data Manager
5 4 (5.88%) DBA
5 4 (5.88%) Service Manager
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Administrator
6 3 (4.41%) Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Data Centre Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (4.41%) Quality Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) YAML
2 2 (2.94%) LDAP
2 2 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (1.47%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.47%) CSS
3 1 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.47%) HTML
3 1 (1.47%) ODBC
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) Vue
3 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.47%) Data Centre
2 16 (23.53%) Management Information System
3 7 (10.29%) CMDB
4 5 (7.35%) Clustering
4 5 (7.35%) Replication
5 2 (2.94%) Derivative
5 2 (2.94%) Equities
5 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.94%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.94%) IoT
5 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.94%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.94%) SCADA
5 2 (2.94%) Wiki
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.47%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.12%) Windows
2 8 (11.76%) Linux
3 7 (10.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.41%) CentOS
4 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.41%) Unix
5 2 (2.94%) Debian
6 1 (1.47%) AIX
6 1 (1.47%) HPUX
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.47%) Solaris
6 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (32.35%) ITIL
2 22 (32.35%) Problem Management
3 17 (25.00%) Change Management
4 15 (22.06%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (22.06%) Service Management
5 12 (17.65%) Availability Management
5 12 (17.65%) Incident Management
6 11 (16.18%) Planning and Forecasting
6 11 (16.18%) Quality Management
6 11 (16.18%) Statistics
7 10 (14.71%) Mentoring
7 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (14.71%) Time Management
8 9 (13.24%) Agile
8 9 (13.24%) Performance Improvement
9 8 (11.76%) Risk Management
10 6 (8.82%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.76%) Python
1 8 (11.76%) SQL
2 7 (10.29%) Shell Script
3 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.94%) Bash
6 1 (1.47%) C#
6 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.47%) Java
6 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.71%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (8.82%) Degree
5 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.41%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.94%) CCNA
7 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.47%) ISACA
8 1 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) PMO
2 2 (2.94%) COBIT
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
2 2 (2.94%) NIST
2 2 (2.94%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.82%) Docker
4 5 (7.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.88%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.41%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.47%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.47%) XenApp
7 1 (1.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (5.88%) Podman
2 3 (4.41%) Ansible
2 3 (4.41%) Puppet
2 3 (4.41%) SCCM
3 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.94%) Nessus
3 2 (2.94%) OPNET
3 2 (2.94%) QRadar
3 2 (2.94%) WSUS
4 1 (1.47%) Nagios
4 1 (1.47%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.47%) SCOM
4 1 (1.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 10 (14.71%) VMware
3 4 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) Cisco
4 3 (4.41%) NetApp
4 3 (4.41%) SolarWinds
4 3 (4.41%) Splunk
5 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.94%) Citrix
5 2 (2.94%) Databricks
5 2 (2.94%) F5
5 2 (2.94%) HP
5 2 (2.94%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.94%) Meraki
5 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.94%) Sophos
5 2 (2.94%) Workday