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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 350 416
Rank change year-on-year -64 +66 +163
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 62 196 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.53% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.62% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 149 172
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £495 £573
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -13.54% -0.43%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £675
90th Percentile £706 £678 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £498 £530
% change year-on-year +3.02% -6.13% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 10
10th Percentile - £22.08 £14.00
25th Percentile - £23.05 £30.88
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile - - £65.56
90th Percentile - - £66.18
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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 +56 20 £525 -8.70% 15
London -28 12 £600 +4.73% 11
South West +3 10 £601 +21.31% 1
East of England +34 8 £500 +42.86% 2
North of England -4 6 £469 -4.92% 4
North West -7 4 £461 -6.44% 4
Midlands +16 2 - - 6
West Midlands +15 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +19 1 £488 -
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 (4.84%) Confluence
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.84%) ThingWorx
2 1 (1.61%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (1.61%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle Assets
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle EBS R12
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.23%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) SaaS
2 4 (6.45%) AWS
3 3 (4.84%) Azure
3 3 (4.84%) Nutanix
3 3 (4.84%) OCI
4 1 (1.61%) Cohesity
4 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.61%) Rubrik
4 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) DNS
2 4 (6.45%) DHCP
2 4 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) SAN
3 3 (4.84%) HTTP
3 3 (4.84%) VLAN
4 2 (3.23%) 4G
4 2 (3.23%) ADSL
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (3.23%) SSL
4 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.61%) HSRP
5 1 (1.61%) Multicast
5 1 (1.61%) Skype
5 1 (1.61%) Unicast
5 1 (1.61%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.23%) Maven
2 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Telecoms
5 6 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.84%) Banking
7 3 (4.84%) Front Office
8 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.61%) French Language
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Capacity Manager
2 10 (16.13%) Availability Manager
2 10 (16.13%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 9 (14.52%) Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Data Centre Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Data Manager
5 4 (6.45%) DBA
5 4 (6.45%) Senior
6 3 (4.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Data Centre Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (3.23%) Administrator
7 2 (3.23%) Data Centre Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Network Operations Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) LDAP
1 2 (3.23%) Node.js
1 2 (3.23%) YAML
2 1 (1.61%) .NET
2 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (1.61%) CSS
2 1 (1.61%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.61%) HTML
2 1 (1.61%) REST
2 1 (1.61%) Vue
2 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.03%) Data Centre
2 13 (20.97%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.29%) CMDB
4 5 (8.06%) Clustering
4 5 (8.06%) Replication
5 3 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.84%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 3 (4.84%) IoT
5 3 (4.84%) Operational Technology
5 3 (4.84%) SCADA
5 3 (4.84%) Wiki
6 2 (3.23%) Derivative
6 2 (3.23%) Equities
6 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.61%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.61%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.97%) Windows
2 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.84%) Unix
4 2 (3.23%) CentOS
4 2 (3.23%) Debian
4 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (32.26%) ITIL
3 19 (30.65%) Problem Management
4 14 (22.58%) Capacity Planning
5 13 (20.97%) Change Management
6 12 (19.35%) Availability Management
6 12 (19.35%) Service Management
7 11 (17.74%) Quality Management
7 11 (17.74%) Statistics
8 10 (16.13%) Incident Management
8 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.13%) Planning and Forecasting
8 10 (16.13%) Time Management
9 9 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (14.52%) Performance Improvement
10 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (11.29%) Agile
12 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (9.68%) Risk Management
13 5 (8.06%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) C
7 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.61%) Java
7 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.84%) DBS Check
7 2 (3.23%) CCNA
7 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) SLA
2 5 (8.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) PMO
3 2 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) COBIT
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.68%) Docker
4 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.61%) XenApp
7 1 (1.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (6.45%) Podman
2 3 (4.84%) SCCM
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Nessus
3 2 (3.23%) Puppet
3 2 (3.23%) QRadar
3 2 (3.23%) WSUS
4 1 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.61%) Nagios
4 1 (1.61%) OPNET
4 1 (1.61%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.61%) SCOM
4 1 (1.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) ServiceNow
2 10 (16.13%) VMware
3 8 (12.90%) Oracle
4 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.45%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (4.84%) NetApp
6 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.84%) Splunk
7 2 (3.23%) Cisco
7 2 (3.23%) Citrix
7 2 (3.23%) Sophos
7 2 (3.23%) Workday
8 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.61%) F5
8 1 (1.61%) Fujitsu
8 1 (1.61%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.61%) New Relic
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.61%) Tenable
8 1 (1.61%) Trend Micro