Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Capacity Planning
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.47% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
North West median daily rate £385 £481 £560
% change year-on-year -20.00% -14.06% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 119 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 83.72% 81.51% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 56 117
10th Percentile £165 £267 £390
25th Percentile £363 £408 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £508 £623
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -18.47% +19.14%
75th Percentile £567 £553 £717
90th Percentile £673 £612 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 20 52
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.65 £20.58
25th Percentile £41.94 £29.36 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.39%
75th Percentile £64.83 £52.23 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.93 £61.37
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year -0.03% -9.83% +37.54%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Preston - 1 £300 -
Capacity Planning
North West

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft