Capacity Planning Contracts in England

Capacity Planning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 411 470
Rank change year-on-year +37 +59 -41
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 183 242 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.57% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 150 196
10th Percentile £285 £345 £381
25th Percentile £411 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -6.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 1
10th Percentile £34.80 £14.55 -
25th Percentile - £25.86 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -56.28%
75th Percentile - £72.50 -
90th Percentile - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -56.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,896 42,584 64,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.63% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,753 29,899 46,066
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,340 1,520 1,731
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024. 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 +15 52 £575 +21.05% 32
South East +40 51 £463 -7.50% 18
South West +16 24 £575 -17.86% 3
North of England +18 23 £423 +8.33% 7
Midlands +10 21 £450 -30.77% 12
West Midlands +14 16 £450 -21.74% 5
North West +9 12 £400 +2.56% 3
Yorkshire +13 11 £425 +8.97% 2
East Midlands 0 5 £550 -16.67% 7
East of England +6 4 £288 +59.72% 3
Capacity Planning
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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 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.19%) Confluence
3 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.64%) CICS
3 3 (1.64%) CMS
3 3 (1.64%) Drupal
3 3 (1.64%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.64%) nginx
3 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 16 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.83%) MS Visio
4 6 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.19%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.55%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.77%) AWS
1 38 (20.77%) Azure
2 30 (16.39%) GCP
3 15 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.28%) Serverless
6 4 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.19%) Azure Functions
6 4 (2.19%) PaaS
6 4 (2.19%) Twilio
7 3 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.64%) CloudBees
7 3 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.64%) IaaS
7 3 (1.64%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.64%) SaaS
7 3 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.02%) Firewall
2 20 (10.93%) WAN
3 17 (9.29%) DNS
4 16 (8.74%) VPN
5 14 (7.65%) LAN
5 14 (7.65%) SAN
6 13 (7.10%) 5G
6 13 (7.10%) MPLS
7 12 (6.56%) 3G
7 12 (6.56%) 4G
7 12 (6.56%) DHCP
7 12 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (6.01%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (5.46%) Network Security
10 8 (4.37%) SD-WAN
11 7 (3.83%) BGP
11 7 (3.83%) CTI
11 7 (3.83%) VoIP
12 6 (3.28%) OSPF
12 6 (3.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.20%) Power BI
2 11 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.46%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.28%) OLTP
5 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.73%) Big Data
6 5 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.73%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.64%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.64%) DB2
8 3 (1.64%) OLAP
9 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.73%) JIRA
3 4 (2.19%) Gatling
3 4 (2.19%) Git
3 4 (2.19%) JUnit
3 4 (2.19%) LoadRunner
3 4 (2.19%) Selenium
4 3 (1.64%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.64%) Subversion
5 2 (1.09%) GitLab
5 2 (1.09%) JMeter
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
General
1 60 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (19.67%) Finance
4 19 (10.38%) Banking
5 18 (9.84%) Telecoms
6 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.37%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.73%) Retail
11 4 (2.19%) Local Government
11 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.64%) Legal
12 3 (1.64%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.09%) Back Office
13 2 (1.09%) Electronics
13 2 (1.09%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (10.93%) Architect
2 17 (9.29%) Consultant
3 16 (8.74%) Analyst
4 15 (8.20%) Senior
5 12 (6.56%) Network Engineer
6 11 (6.01%) IT Analyst
7 10 (5.46%) Availability Manager
8 9 (4.92%) DBA
8 9 (4.92%) Lead
8 9 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.37%) Administrator
9 8 (4.37%) Capacity Manager
9 8 (4.37%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.83%) Developer
10 7 (3.83%) Performance Specialist
11 6 (3.28%) Capacity and Availability Manager
12 5 (2.73%) Performance Consultant
12 5 (2.73%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.83%) Middleware
2 6 (3.28%) Kafka
3 5 (2.73%) Lucene
4 4 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.19%) Web Services
4 4 (2.19%) XML
5 3 (1.64%) Apache Beam
5 3 (1.64%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.64%) Node.js
5 3 (1.64%) OpenID
6 2 (1.09%) .NET
6 2 (1.09%) JSON
6 2 (1.09%) OAuth
6 2 (1.09%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.09%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.09%) REST
6 2 (1.09%) SOAP
6 2 (1.09%) Swagger
6 2 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.93%) Data Centre
2 13 (7.10%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.37%) Client/Server
3 8 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.37%) Clustering
3 8 (4.37%) Replication
4 7 (3.83%) CMDB
4 7 (3.83%) IVR
4 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.19%) Smart Meter
7 4 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.64%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.64%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.64%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.13%) Linux
2 27 (14.75%) Unix
3 21 (11.48%) Windows
4 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.64%) zOS
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (20.22%) Roadmaps
3 29 (15.85%) Capacity Management
4 27 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (13.66%) Agile
6 24 (13.11%) Computer Science
7 23 (12.57%) Decision-Making
8 22 (12.02%) DevOps
8 22 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (10.93%) Analytics
9 20 (10.93%) Configuration Management
9 20 (10.93%) ITIL
9 20 (10.93%) Project Management
10 17 (9.29%) Migration
10 17 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (8.74%) Performance Management
11 16 (8.74%) Performance Monitoring
12 14 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (7.65%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (7.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.30%) Python
2 21 (11.48%) Java
3 19 (10.38%) PowerShell
4 14 (7.65%) SQL
5 10 (5.46%) Bash
6 8 (4.37%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.28%) Go
8 5 (2.73%) Groovy
8 5 (2.73%) Scala
9 3 (1.64%) COBOL
9 3 (1.64%) REXX
9 3 (1.64%) Ruby
10 2 (1.09%) C++
10 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) C#
11 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (24.59%) Degree
2 36 (19.67%) Security Cleared
3 26 (14.21%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (8.74%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (6.01%) CCNP
6 11 (6.01%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.92%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.92%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.83%) CCNA
9 5 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.73%) CCIE
9 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.64%) PhD
12 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) PMO
2 15 (8.20%) GDPR
3 9 (4.92%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.83%) HIPAA
4 7 (3.83%) QA
4 7 (3.83%) SLA
5 4 (2.19%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.09%) P3O
8 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (12.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (7.10%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.37%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (4.37%) VMware NSX
3 8 (4.37%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (3.28%) Docker
5 4 (2.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.09%) Firmware
7 2 (1.09%) KVM
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (7.10%) Kubernetes
1 13 (7.10%) Terraform
2 12 (6.56%) Ansible
2 12 (6.56%) NetBackup
3 10 (5.46%) Nagios
4 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (4.37%) SCCM
5 3 (1.64%) Grafana
5 3 (1.64%) Netcool
6 2 (1.09%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.09%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.11%) VMware
3 14 (7.65%) Google
4 13 (7.10%) Cisco
4 13 (7.10%) Oracle
5 10 (5.46%) F5
6 9 (4.92%) NetApp
6 9 (4.92%) SAP
7 8 (4.37%) Hitachi
8 7 (3.83%) Genesys
9 6 (3.28%) Nokia
9 6 (3.28%) Splunk
10 5 (2.73%) Juniper
10 5 (2.73%) Remedy
10 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.19%) Ab Initio
11 4 (2.19%) Avaya
11 4 (2.19%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.19%) IBM
11 4 (2.19%) Palo Alto