Capacity Planning Contracts in Manchester

Capacity Planning
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 73 96 101
Rank change year-on-year +23 +5 +42
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 5 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.56% 0.14% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.16% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £472 £389 -
25th Percentile £473 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +1.19% -32.80%
75th Percentile £625 £450 £475
90th Percentile £715 £461 £488
North West median daily rate £450 £400 £390
% change year-on-year +12.50% +2.56% -22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
North West median hourly rate £29.23 - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 797 1,230 1,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.25% 86.86% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 843 1,210
10th Percentile £306 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - -
75th Percentile £563 £598 £598
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 75 50
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.44 £16.53
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -25.71% +93.83%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.35 £73.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.25 £24.19 £35.03
% change year-on-year +33.32% -30.94% +50.85%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in Manchester

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in Manchester

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Manchester

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in Manchester

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SMS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) HPUX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Release Train
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Sun
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (20.00%) Unisys