Capacity Planning Contracts in the Midlands

Capacity Planning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 118 133
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +51
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 14 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.60% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.74% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 18
10th Percentile £331 £138 £463
25th Percentile £350 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +44.44%
75th Percentile £478 £600 £712
90th Percentile £525 £688 £726
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.60 - -
England median hourly rate £40.95 - £20.99
% change year-on-year - - -75.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,216 2,158 2,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.62% 81.50% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 1,468 1,810
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £374 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £600
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 97 85
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £21.35 £20.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% -27.27% +48.25%
75th Percentile £26.69 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.43 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

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 16 August 2025.

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 16 August 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 +2 14 £400 -21.57% 13
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP PP
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DHCP
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
1 3 (21.43%) Wireless
1 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
2 2 (14.29%) Ethereal
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) NAS
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Aerospace
2 3 (21.43%) Automotive
2 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Floorwalker
2 1 (7.14%) Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
2 1 (7.14%) DBA
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Network Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Operations Manager
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) SAP PP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
3 3 (21.43%) Programme Management
3 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Trend Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
3 3 (21.43%) UX Design
4 2 (14.29%) Bill of Materials
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (14.29%) Order Management
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) IT Governance
5 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.14%) Quality Management
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCIE
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) OCP
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) OpenView
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
1 3 (21.43%) F5
1 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.14%) VMware