Capacity Planning Contracts in Scotland

Capacity Planning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 105 129
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +30
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 13 24 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 1.08% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.22% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £397 £324 £413
25th Percentile £400 £363 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £430 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% -28.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £656 £575 -
90th Percentile £685 £600 £623
UK median daily rate £539 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.80% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in Scotland

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in Scotland

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Scotland

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in Scotland

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 9 £540 +25.58% 3
Glasgow -8 4 £500 +25.00% 2
Capacity Planning
UK

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.69%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) BGP
2 1 (7.69%) IPsec
2 1 (7.69%) MPLS
2 1 (7.69%) OSPF
2 1 (7.69%) Wireless
2 1 (7.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (15.38%) Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Legal
6 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) LDAP
1 3 (23.08%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
2 4 (30.77%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) HPUX
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Solaris
3 3 (23.08%) Mac OS
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) Business Continuity
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
5 3 (23.08%) Information Security
5 3 (23.08%) ITSM
5 3 (23.08%) Line Management
5 3 (23.08%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
5 3 (23.08%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCNP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) P3O
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) IBM
1 4 (30.77%) Sun
1 4 (30.77%) Unisys
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk