Capacity Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Capacity Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 152 131 134
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 +77
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 5 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £452 - £413
25th Percentile £475 £165 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £170 £630
Median % change year-on-year +194.12% -73.02% +80.00%
75th Percentile £700 £175 £653
90th Percentile - - £658
England median daily rate £520 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -0.95% -19.23% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £42.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% -34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,589 2,225 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.52% 83.74% 84.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 1,400 1,610
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £367 £375 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.25% -1.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 69 110
10th Percentile £14.03 £14.69 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.55 £17.00 £17.71
Median hourly rate £21.35 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -12.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.77 £53.00 £67.63
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 the Midlands

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

Capacity Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Capacity Management

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Capacity Management

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -28 4 £600 +252.94% 3
East Midlands - 1 £437 -
Capacity Management
England

Capacity Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Transformation Director
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Data Technician
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) NetApp
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) VMware