Capacity Planning Contracts in the Midlands

Capacity Planning
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 144 198
Rank change year-on-year +23 +54 -62
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 14 29 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.51% 0.84% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.95% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 10
10th Percentile £413 £480 £282
25th Percentile £425 £625 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £385
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +68.83% +8.07%
75th Percentile £613 £703 £463
90th Percentile £688 £715 £479
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +44.44% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,247 3,061 4,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.39% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 2,132 3,341
10th Percentile £235 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 120 155
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the Midlands

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the Midlands

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the Midlands

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the Midlands

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +31 12 £450 -30.77% 13
East Midlands -1 2 £432 -34.62% 4
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (21.43%) CMS
1 3 (21.43%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) Network Security
3 3 (21.43%) SSL
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) VPN
4 2 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (7.14%) DWDM
5 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
5 1 (7.14%) Firewall
5 1 (7.14%) Internet
5 1 (7.14%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) MPLS
5 1 (7.14%) SDH
5 1 (7.14%) SONET
5 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 3 (21.43%) Selenium
1 3 (21.43%) Subversion
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Network Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) PMO Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.14%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
1 3 (21.43%) Private Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) CCTV
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (28.57%) Network Design
2 4 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum
2 4 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Epics
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Kanban
3 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CCIE
1 4 (28.57%) CCNP
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) BC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Salesforce
1 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Aruba
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) VMware