Capacity Planning Contracts in London

Capacity Planning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 338 377
Rank change year-on-year +49 +39 +79
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 64 53 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.30% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.34% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 33 69
10th Percentile £412 £326 £336
25th Percentile £481 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £667 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £749 £775
England median daily rate £532 £525 £496
% change year-on-year +1.24% +5.79% -2.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in London.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in London

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in London.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in London

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +5 9 £600 -4.31% 9
South London - 3 £525 - 2
East London +15 1 £600 +20.00% 2
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (9.38%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) nginx
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) SAP PP
1 4 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.56%) Demantra
2 1 (1.56%) iTrent
2 1 (1.56%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.56%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) AWS
2 20 (31.25%) Azure
3 11 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (12.50%) GCP
5 6 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.69%) Route 53
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.13%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.13%) Matillion
8 2 (3.13%) Serverless
9 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.56%) Datadog
9 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) DHCP
2 7 (10.94%) DNS
2 7 (10.94%) Firewall
3 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (6.25%) VPN
5 3 (4.69%) NAS
5 3 (4.69%) Network Security
5 3 (4.69%) SAN
6 2 (3.13%) BGP
6 2 (3.13%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (3.13%) Internet
6 2 (3.13%) OSPF
6 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.13%) VLAN
6 2 (3.13%) Wireless
6 2 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (9.38%) Power BI
2 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Hive
2 2 (3.13%) Big Data
2 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.13%) Impala
2 2 (3.13%) Looker
2 2 (3.13%) Spotfire
2 2 (3.13%) Tableau
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) Metadata
3 1 (1.56%) MySQL
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) GitLab
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Finance
3 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Marketing
6 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.13%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Electronics
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Local Government
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) Senior
2 14 (21.88%) Architect
3 8 (12.50%) Consultant
4 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Senior Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) SAP PP Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Server Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Workstream Lead
8 2 (3.13%) Supply Chain Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) .NET
1 2 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (1.56%) JSON
2 1 (1.56%) LDAP
2 1 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Private Cloud
2 7 (10.94%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) PKI
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) CMDB
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Shadow IT
4 2 (3.13%) Social Media
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.63%) Windows
2 9 (14.06%) Linux
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.13%) Unix
6 1 (1.56%) CentOS
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.56%) Rocky
6 1 (1.56%) Solaris
6 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (21.88%) Agile
2 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Management
3 13 (20.31%) DevOps
4 11 (17.19%) Project Management
5 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.06%) ITIL
6 9 (14.06%) Project Delivery
7 8 (12.50%) TOGAF
8 7 (10.94%) Analytics
9 6 (9.38%) Cloud Security
9 6 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
9 6 (9.38%) Open Source
9 6 (9.38%) RBAC
10 5 (7.81%) Incident Response
10 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (7.81%) Iteration Planning
10 5 (7.81%) Observability
10 5 (7.81%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.75%) Python
2 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.69%) Bash
3 3 (4.69%) SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) Scala
5 1 (1.56%) Bicep
5 1 (1.56%) Go
5 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.50%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) APMP
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) CCIE
5 1 (1.56%) CCNP
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.56%) VCAP
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) PMO
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) NCSC
3 2 (3.13%) QA
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 8 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.69%) vSphere
4 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.56%) NFS
5 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.56%) XenApp
5 1 (1.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Terraform
2 7 (10.94%) Ansible
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.13%) Grafana
5 2 (3.13%) Nagios
5 2 (3.13%) OPNET
5 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.56%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.56%) SCCM
6 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
1 9 (14.06%) VMware
2 8 (12.50%) SAP
3 7 (10.94%) Cisco
3 7 (10.94%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 4 (6.25%) F5
4 4 (6.25%) Infoblox
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle
5 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.69%) Google
5 3 (4.69%) Informatica
5 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.69%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.13%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
6 2 (3.13%) StreamSets
6 2 (3.13%) Talend
6 2 (3.13%) Zscaler