Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Capacity Planning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 151 176
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 +59
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 19 22 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.45% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.63% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 22
10th Percentile £317 £358 £400
25th Percentile £337 £399 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.40% -16.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £450 £528 £621
90th Percentile £475 £594 £661
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +0.92%

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 3,723 3,497 4,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.00% 84.41% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,448 1,920 2,977
10th Percentile £239 £299 £285
25th Percentile £369 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 181 213
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.45 £35.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -33.01% +23.67% +33.18%
75th Percentile £39.19 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £62.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Capacity Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in the North of England

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Capacity Planning

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 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the North of England

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Capacity Planning

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 15 October 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 -12 12 £385 -16.76% 18
Yorkshire -21 7 £513 +2.50% 10
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) CICS
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub
3 5 (26.32%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (5.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) Front Office
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Actionable Insight
2 8 (42.11%) Process Improvement
3 7 (36.84%) Resource Allocation
4 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
4 6 (31.58%) Customer Acquisition
4 6 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (31.58%) High Availability
4 6 (31.58%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.79%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (15.79%) SIEM
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) VCAP
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) HIPAA
1 3 (15.79%) SOC 2
2 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
1 2 (10.53%) vSphere
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) PowerCLI
3 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.26%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) Broadcom
3 2 (10.53%) F5
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) StreamSets