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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 360 404
Rank change year-on-year +28 +44 +81
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 139 175 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 109 154
10th Percentile £342 £285 £342
25th Percentile £430 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 16
10th Percentile £37.77 £34.80 £30.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile £60.79 - £66.81
90th Percentile £65.62 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +225.00%

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 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
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 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +63 61 £575 - 171
South East +22 28 £451 -5.99% 86
North of England +20 24 £473 +11.83% 42
North West +25 19 £450 +12.50% 24
South West +34 15 £563 -2.13% 21
Yorkshire +12 5 £600 +41.18% 15
Midlands -2 4 - - 33
West Midlands -8 4 - - 22
East of England +24 2 £500 +73.91% 27
North East - 1 £625 - 3
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 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.88%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.16%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.44%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.72%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (6.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.60%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.88%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.88%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (2.16%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.72%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.72%) Demantra
6 1 (0.72%) iTrent
6 1 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.72%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.02%) AWS
2 29 (20.86%) Azure
3 10 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.47%) GCP
5 8 (5.76%) GitHub
6 7 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (5.04%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.32%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.88%) OCI
9 3 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.16%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.16%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.16%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.44%) PaaS
10 2 (1.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) DHCP
2 8 (5.76%) DNS
2 8 (5.76%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.04%) Firewall
4 5 (3.60%) SAN
4 5 (3.60%) VPN
5 4 (2.88%) NAS
6 3 (2.16%) 5G
6 3 (2.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.16%) Network Security
6 3 (2.16%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (2.16%) VLAN
7 2 (1.44%) BGP
7 2 (1.44%) Internet
7 2 (1.44%) OSPF
7 2 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.44%) VSAN
8 1 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.72%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.32%) Power BI
3 5 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.60%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.16%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.16%) MySQL
4 3 (2.16%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.44%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.44%) Big Data
5 2 (1.44%) GIS
5 2 (1.44%) MSDE
5 2 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.44%) Sqoop
6 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) GitLab
2 5 (3.60%) JIRA
3 3 (2.16%) Git
3 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.72%) Gatling
5 1 (0.72%) JMeter
5 1 (0.72%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.78%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (16.55%) Finance
4 9 (6.47%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.88%) Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Front Office
7 3 (2.16%) Marketing
7 3 (2.16%) Military
7 3 (2.16%) Retail
8 2 (1.44%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Local Government
8 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.44%) Police
8 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (16.55%) Senior
2 19 (13.67%) Architect
3 14 (10.07%) DBA
4 13 (9.35%) Administrator
4 13 (9.35%) Capacity Manager
5 11 (7.91%) Availability Manager
5 11 (7.91%) Capacity and Availability Manager
6 10 (7.19%) Infrastructure Architect
7 9 (6.47%) Analyst
7 9 (6.47%) Consultant
8 8 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Lead
9 7 (5.04%) Project Manager
10 6 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Oracle DBA
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Architect
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (3.60%) VMware Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.88%) .NET
2 2 (1.44%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.72%) JSON
3 1 (0.72%) Kafka
3 1 (0.72%) LDAP
3 1 (0.72%) Node.js
3 1 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.72%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.07%) Data Centre
2 13 (9.35%) Management Information System
3 10 (7.19%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.04%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.32%) Replication
6 4 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.88%) CMDB
6 4 (2.88%) PKI
7 3 (2.16%) Clustering
7 3 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.44%) IoT
8 2 (1.44%) Life Science
8 2 (1.44%) NB-IoT
8 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.95%) Windows
2 14 (10.07%) Linux
3 8 (5.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.60%) Solaris
5 5 (3.60%) Unix
6 4 (2.88%) HPUX
7 3 (2.16%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (20.14%) DevOps
3 25 (17.99%) ITIL
4 23 (16.55%) Agile
5 22 (15.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (14.39%) Service Management
7 19 (13.67%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (12.95%) Infrastructure Management
9 17 (12.23%) Mentoring
9 17 (12.23%) Process Improvement
9 17 (12.23%) Project Management
9 17 (12.23%) Quality Management
10 16 (11.51%) High Availability
11 15 (10.79%) Change Management
12 14 (10.07%) Capacity Management
12 14 (10.07%) Planning and Forecasting
12 14 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.35%) Roadmaps
14 12 (8.63%) Availability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.83%) SQL
2 19 (13.67%) Python
3 12 (8.63%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.32%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.16%) Bash
5 3 (2.16%) Bicep
5 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.16%) Perl
6 2 (1.44%) Java
6 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.72%) CodeQL
7 1 (0.72%) Go
7 1 (0.72%) HiveQL
7 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.72%) Scala
7 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (5.76%) Degree
5 6 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.44%) OCP
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.44%) VCAP
6 2 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.72%) APMP
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) CCIE
7 1 (0.72%) CCNA
7 1 (0.72%) CCNP
7 1 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) PMO
2 6 (4.32%) QA
3 5 (3.60%) GDPR
4 4 (2.88%) NCSC
4 4 (2.88%) SLA
5 2 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.60%) vSphere
5 4 (2.88%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.88%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.16%) Docker
7 1 (0.72%) Firmware
7 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.72%) NFS
7 1 (0.72%) XenApp
7 1 (0.72%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (7.91%) Terraform
2 9 (6.47%) Ansible
3 6 (4.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (2.16%) Grafana
5 3 (2.16%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.44%) Nagios
6 2 (1.44%) PowerCLI
6 2 (1.44%) SCCM
6 2 (1.44%) SCOM
6 2 (1.44%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.44%) VxRail
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.72%) OPNET
7 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (12.95%) Microsoft
1 18 (12.95%) Oracle
2 13 (9.35%) VMware
3 12 (8.63%) SAP
4 9 (6.47%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.76%) IBM
6 7 (5.04%) Cisco
6 7 (5.04%) Google
7 6 (4.32%) Sun
8 5 (3.60%) Splunk
9 4 (2.88%) Dell
9 4 (2.88%) Informatica
9 4 (2.88%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.16%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.16%) F5
10 3 (2.16%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.16%) HP
10 3 (2.16%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.16%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.16%) Unisys