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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 350 373
Rank change year-on-year +63 +23 +86
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 61 48 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.27% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 68
10th Percentile £411 £324 £344
25th Percentile £494 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £644
90th Percentile £675 £745 £773
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%

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 11,428 15,487 23,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.63% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,717 11,108 17,077
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £811 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 307 267
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.77 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.79 £20.00 £22.45
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.44% +2.55%
75th Percentile £50.69 £48.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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 20 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 20 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 +3 8 £608 -3.11% 9
South London - 3 £525 - 5
East London +18 1 £600 +20.00% 3
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 4 (6.56%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) SAP PP
1 4 (6.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.64%) Demantra
2 1 (1.64%) iTrent
2 1 (1.64%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.64%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (34.43%) AWS
2 20 (32.79%) Azure
3 10 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (11.48%) GCP
5 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.28%) Datadog
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub
8 2 (3.28%) Route 53
8 2 (3.28%) Serverless
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) DHCP
2 6 (9.84%) DNS
2 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 6 (9.84%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.20%) SAN
4 4 (6.56%) NAS
4 4 (6.56%) VPN
5 3 (4.92%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (4.92%) Network Security
6 2 (3.28%) BGP
6 2 (3.28%) Internet
6 2 (3.28%) OSPF
6 2 (3.28%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.28%) VLAN
7 1 (1.64%) FTP
7 1 (1.64%) LAN
7 1 (1.64%) MPLS
7 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.64%) Skype
7 1 (1.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) Power BI
2 5 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.64%) Big Data
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.64%) Impala
3 1 (1.64%) Looker
3 1 (1.64%) Metadata
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.64%) Spotfire
3 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) GitLab
1 3 (4.92%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.95%) Finance
3 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Front Office
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.64%) Billing
7 1 (1.64%) Electronics
7 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Senior
2 12 (19.67%) Architect
3 8 (13.11%) Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Senior Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (6.56%) SAP PP Consultant
6 4 (6.56%) Server Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) JSON
2 1 (1.64%) LDAP
2 1 (1.64%) Node.js
2 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Private Cloud
2 7 (11.48%) Public Cloud
3 6 (9.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.92%) PKI
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) CMDB
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Clustering
6 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.64%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.64%) Shadow IT
6 1 (1.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Windows
2 8 (13.11%) Linux
3 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.28%) Unix
6 1 (1.64%) Solaris
6 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.23%) Infrastructure Management
3 14 (22.95%) Agile
3 14 (22.95%) DevOps
4 12 (19.67%) ITIL
5 11 (18.03%) Project Management
6 10 (16.39%) Roadmaps
7 8 (13.11%) Project Delivery
8 7 (11.48%) TOGAF
9 6 (9.84%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (9.84%) Incident Response
9 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.84%) Observability
9 6 (9.84%) RBAC
10 5 (8.20%) Cloud Security
10 5 (8.20%) Data Ingestion
10 5 (8.20%) Iteration Planning
10 5 (8.20%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (8.20%) Prototyping
10 5 (8.20%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) Python
2 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.28%) Bash
4 2 (3.28%) SQL
5 1 (1.64%) Bicep
5 1 (1.64%) CodeQL
5 1 (1.64%) Go
5 1 (1.64%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.64%) Scala
5 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) APMP
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) CCIE
5 1 (1.64%) CCNP
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.64%) VCAP
5 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
1 4 (6.56%) PMO
2 3 (4.92%) NCSC
3 2 (3.28%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (13.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.92%) vSphere
4 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) Firmware
5 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.64%) NFS
5 1 (1.64%) XenApp
5 1 (1.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Terraform
2 7 (11.48%) Ansible
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.28%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.28%) Grafana
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.64%) Nagios
6 1 (1.64%) OPNET
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.64%) SCCM
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.64%) vMotion
6 1 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
1 10 (16.39%) VMware
2 7 (11.48%) Cisco
2 7 (11.48%) SAP
2 7 (11.48%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) CheckPoint
4 3 (4.92%) Dell
4 3 (4.92%) F5
4 3 (4.92%) Fortinet
4 3 (4.92%) Google
4 3 (4.92%) Infoblox
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.28%) HP
5 2 (3.28%) IBM
5 2 (3.28%) Informatica
5 2 (3.28%) QAD
5 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 2 (3.28%) Sun