Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Reading

Capacity Planning
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 90 70
Rank change year-on-year +31 -20 +25
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 5 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.83% 0.55% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.63% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £554 - £575
90th Percentile £587 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +33.33% -31.82% -4.35%

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 548 956 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.49% 87.31% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 531 657
10th Percentile £346 £350 £263
25th Percentile £450 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £30.31 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -5.89% +16.93%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.96 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.35 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -40.51% -5.34% +22.36%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Reading

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (60.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ICM
1 1 (20.00%) CTI
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) ERP
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ICM Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE Collaboration
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Avaya
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Cramer
2 1 (20.00%) Genesys
2 1 (20.00%) Nokia