Capacity Planning Contracts in England

Capacity Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 352 376 415
Rank change year-on-year +24 +39 +82
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 133 167 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.52% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 106 158
10th Percentile £336 £328 £328
25th Percentile £427 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £496
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +5.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £721
UK median daily rate £539 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 22
10th Percentile £37.77 £34.80 £35.66
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £60.79 - £65.75
90th Percentile £65.62 - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
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 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +49 64 £575 +4.55% 176
South East +26 24 £440 -12.00% 87
North of England +18 21 £496 +17.42% 50
North West +23 16 £437 +9.31% 27
South West +38 15 £563 -2.13% 34
Yorkshire +1 5 £600 +37.93% 19
Midlands +10 3 - - 45
West Midlands +4 3 - - 30
North East - 1 £625 - 4
Capacity Planning
UK

Capacity Planning
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 6 (4.51%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 2 (1.50%) nginx
4 2 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.01%) SAP PP
3 3 (2.26%) SAP IBP
4 2 (1.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.75%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.75%) Demantra
5 1 (0.75%) iTrent
5 1 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.56%) AWS
1 30 (22.56%) Azure
2 11 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (7.52%) GCP
4 7 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.26%) GitHub
4 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.26%) Azure AKS
5 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.26%) Google Workspace
5 3 (2.26%) PaaS
5 3 (2.26%) Route 53
6 2 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.52%) DHCP
2 9 (6.77%) DNS
3 8 (6.02%) Firewall
3 8 (6.02%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.76%) VPN
5 4 (3.01%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.26%) 5G
6 3 (2.26%) NAS
6 3 (2.26%) Network Security
6 3 (2.26%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (2.26%) SAN
6 3 (2.26%) VLAN
7 2 (1.50%) BGP
7 2 (1.50%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.50%) Internet
7 2 (1.50%) OSPF
7 2 (1.50%) Wireless
7 2 (1.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.26%) Power BI
3 5 (3.76%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.26%) MySQL
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.50%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.50%) Big Data
5 2 (1.50%) GIS
5 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.50%) Impala
5 2 (1.50%) Looker
5 2 (1.50%) MSDE
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.50%) Spotfire
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.50%) Tableau
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) GitLab
2 4 (3.01%) Git
3 3 (2.26%) JIRA
4 2 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.75%) Gatling
5 1 (0.75%) JMeter
5 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 38 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (21.05%) Finance
4 9 (6.77%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Banking
8 4 (3.01%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.26%) Military
9 3 (2.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Electronics
10 2 (1.50%) Legal
10 2 (1.50%) Local Government
10 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.50%) Police
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Senior
2 21 (15.79%) Architect
3 13 (9.77%) Administrator
3 13 (9.77%) Capacity Manager
4 11 (8.27%) Availability Manager
4 11 (8.27%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 11 (8.27%) DBA
5 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (6.77%) Consultant
7 8 (6.02%) Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Lead
8 7 (5.26%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Architect
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.01%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) .NET
2 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.50%) Node.js
3 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
3 1 (0.75%) LDAP
3 1 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Data Centre
2 12 (9.02%) Management Information System
2 12 (9.02%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.51%) Replication
5 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.01%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.01%) CMDB
5 4 (3.01%) PKI
6 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.50%) Clustering
7 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.50%) IoT
7 2 (1.50%) Life Science
7 2 (1.50%) NB-IoT
7 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.50%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.53%) Windows
2 16 (12.03%) Linux
3 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.51%) Solaris
5 5 (3.76%) HPUX
5 5 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.26%) Unix
6 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.50%) CentOS
7 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.75%) AIX
8 1 (0.75%) Rocky
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (20.30%) DevOps
3 22 (16.54%) Agile
3 22 (16.54%) ITIL
4 20 (15.04%) Service Management
5 19 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 17 (12.78%) Project Management
6 17 (12.78%) Quality Management
7 16 (12.03%) High Availability
7 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure Management
7 16 (12.03%) Process Improvement
8 15 (11.28%) Capacity Management
9 14 (10.53%) Planning and Forecasting
9 14 (10.53%) Roadmaps
10 13 (9.77%) Change Management
11 12 (9.02%) Availability Management
11 12 (9.02%) Cloud Security
11 12 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.02%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.04%) SQL
2 18 (13.53%) Python
3 11 (8.27%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.76%) Bash
5 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.26%) Bicep
6 3 (2.26%) Java
6 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.50%) Scala
7 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.75%) Korn
8 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) Degree
3 10 (7.52%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (4.51%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) OCP
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.50%) VCAP
6 2 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.75%) APMP
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) CCIE
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) CCNP
7 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) PMO
2 4 (3.01%) GDPR
2 4 (3.01%) NCSC
2 4 (3.01%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) SLA
3 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.75%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.76%) vSphere
5 4 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.26%) Docker
6 3 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.26%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.75%) NFS
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.75%) XenApp
7 1 (0.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (8.27%) Terraform
2 10 (7.52%) Ansible
3 6 (4.51%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.26%) Grafana
4 3 (2.26%) Nagios
4 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.50%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (1.50%) OPNET
5 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.50%) SCCM
5 2 (1.50%) SCOM
5 2 (1.50%) VxRail
6 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.75%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.75%) Puppet
6 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Oracle
3 12 (9.02%) SAP
3 12 (9.02%) VMware
4 9 (6.77%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.26%) Cisco
5 7 (5.26%) Google
5 7 (5.26%) IBM
6 5 (3.76%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.76%) Splunk
7 4 (3.01%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.01%) F5
7 4 (3.01%) Infoblox
7 4 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.01%) Sun
8 3 (2.26%) Dell
8 3 (2.26%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.26%) Informatica
8 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.26%) Unisys