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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 111 129
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 14 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.63% 0.46% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.54% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 14
10th Percentile £328 £309 £390
25th Percentile £372 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +2.78% -28.57%
75th Percentile £469 £559 £601
90th Percentile £545 £666 £642
England median daily rate £510 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +0.25% -3.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £27.98
England median hourly rate £40.95 - £20.99
% change year-on-year - - -75.48%

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 1,959 2,030 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.72% 84.30% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,220 1,771
10th Percentile £282 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £680 £659
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 169 162
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.38 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -21.79% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £56.88 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

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 17 August 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 17 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
Cheshire -21 7 £380 -8.11% 3
Manchester -7 4 £475 +2.70% 3
Lancashire -2 2 £450 -30.77% 2
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 7 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Integration Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) HPUX
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Solaris
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Actionable Insight
1 9 (64.29%) High Availability
1 9 (64.29%) Process Improvement
1 9 (64.29%) Resource Allocation
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 7 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
3 7 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
6 2 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Sun
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) StreamSets
3 1 (7.14%) Unisys