Capacity Planning Contracts in Reading

Capacity Planning
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 56 75 79
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 4 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 1.34% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.49% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £307 £419 £281
25th Percentile £311 £429 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £453 £305
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +48.36% -49.17%
75th Percentile £514 £469 £395
90th Percentile £551 £476 £443
Berkshire median daily rate £426 £453 £343
% change year-on-year -5.80% +32.12% -20.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Planning in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) 2G
1 1 (25.00%) 4G
1 1 (25.00%) 5G
1 1 (25.00%) DWDM
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planner
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Network Capacity Planner
1 1 (25.00%) Network Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Observability
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ciena
1 1 (25.00%) Nokia
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk