Capacity Management Contract Job Trends in London

Capacity Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Capacity Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 334 277
Rank change year-on-year -10 -57 +184
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 27 47 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.30% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.34% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 140
10th Percentile £430 £461 £500
25th Percentile £490 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £544 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -16.35% +18.18%
75th Percentile £545 £675 £703
90th Percentile £728 £739 £750
England median daily rate £520 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -0.95% -19.23% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.18% -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £42.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% -34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,623 13,966 18,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.44% 89.20% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 8,997 13,230
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 169 236
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.45 £18.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £39.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% -1.58% +5.67%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.95 £80.15 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.59 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% -11.03% +27.14%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Capacity Management job vacancy trend in London

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in London over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in London

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Central London -4 7 £500 -6.98% 13
Capacity Management
England

Capacity Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Nutanix
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Batch
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) Multicast
3 1 (3.70%) DHCP
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) IPv4
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) Games
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
1 6 (22.22%) ETL Developer
1 6 (22.22%) Lead
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Administrator
3 2 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Applications Support
4 1 (3.70%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (3.70%) Applications Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Support
4 1 (3.70%) Perl Programmer
4 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Programmer
4 1 (3.70%) Python Programmer
4 1 (3.70%) SAP Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) RESTful
2 5 (18.52%) JSON
2 5 (18.52%) XML
3 1 (3.70%) Bazel
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (3.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.70%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) ETL
2 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
2 5 (18.52%) Project Management
3 4 (14.81%) Change Management
3 4 (14.81%) Data Acquisition
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) Data Extraction
3 4 (14.81%) ETL Development
3 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.81%) Validation
4 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 3 (11.11%) Observability
4 3 (11.11%) Service Management
5 2 (7.41%) High Availability
5 2 (7.41%) ITIL
5 2 (7.41%) ITSM
5 2 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) VBA
4 5 (18.52%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) PHP
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) C
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) PMO
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) vCenter Server
2 4 (14.81%) Control-M
3 3 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (7.41%) Ansible
4 2 (7.41%) ZABBIX
5 1 (3.70%) SCCM
5 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) EMC
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) Google
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow