Capacity Management Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Capacity Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Capacity Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 70 92
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 +21
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.37% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £265
25th Percentile £300 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +53.85% -56.67%
75th Percentile £575 - £363
90th Percentile - - £385
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -20.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,135 653 1,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.09% 86.03% 85.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 458 662
10th Percentile £311 £356 £378
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £667
90th Percentile £725 £688 £728
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 37 111
10th Percentile £15.62 £19.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £27.00 £26.13
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -37.94% +42.83%
75th Percentile £30.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £67.50 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +5.56%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Capacity Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Capacity Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Capacity Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Capacity Management

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in Hampshire

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Capacity Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Capacity Management

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Basingstoke - 3 £550 - 4
Farnborough - 2 £300 -
Capacity Management
South East

Capacity Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) IPv4
2 1 (20.00%) IPv6
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) OSS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) OSS Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) OSS Systems Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Support
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Fault Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Network Design
4 1 (20.00%) Network Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) KVM
2 1 (20.00%) RHEV
2 1 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds