Capacity Planning Contracts in the North West

Capacity Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 104 127 137
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 16 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.36% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.42% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 11
10th Percentile £316 £362 -
25th Percentile £342 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £400 £390
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £542 £413 £435
90th Percentile £573 £630 £488
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +9 11 £402 -2.66% 8
Manchester +18 4 £611 +52.81% 16
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) GIS
2 2 (12.50%) MSDE
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) DTS
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) DBA
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) SQL DBA
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) HPUX
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Solaris
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) High Availability
2 8 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Resource Allocation
4 5 (31.25%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
4 5 (31.25%) Customer Acquisition
4 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Resource Management
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CCNA
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Nagios
1 1 (6.25%) Perfmon
1 1 (6.25%) SCOM
1 1 (6.25%) VxRail
1 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) IBM
1 2 (12.50%) Sun
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
2 1 (6.25%) Unisys
2 1 (6.25%) VMware