Capacity Planning Contracts in the North of England

Capacity Planning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 163 187
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +8
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 21 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.46% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.54% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 21
10th Percentile £321 £396 -
25th Percentile £363 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £423 £390
Median % change year-on-year +17.42% +8.33% -25.71%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £500
90th Percentile £695 £630 £525
England median daily rate £532 £525 £496
% change year-on-year +1.24% +5.79% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £29.23 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the North of England

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the North of England

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the North of England

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the North of England

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +23 16 £437 +9.31% 27
Yorkshire +1 5 £600 +37.93% 19
North East - 1 £625 - 4
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.52%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.52%) GIS
2 2 (9.52%) MSDE
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) DTS
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) GitLab
General
1 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.76%) Back Office
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Front Office
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) DBA
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) SQL DBA
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) ICT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 5 (23.81%) Replication
3 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (9.52%) Clustering
5 1 (4.76%) CMDB
5 1 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Linux
3 4 (19.05%) HPUX
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Solaris
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) High Availability
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Process Improvement
4 7 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
5 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
6 5 (23.81%) Customer Acquisition
6 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Agile
7 3 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 3 (14.29%) Planning and Forecasting
7 3 (14.29%) Resource Management
7 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CCNA
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) VxRail
2 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.76%) Nagios
2 1 (4.76%) Perfmon
2 1 (4.76%) SCOM
2 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) IBM
1 4 (19.05%) Sun
2 3 (14.29%) Unisys
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds