Capacity Planning Contracts in Scotland

Capacity Planning
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 135 156
Rank change year-on-year +30 +21 -34
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 27 32 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.21% 1.12% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.21% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 12
10th Percentile £326 £413 £281
25th Percentile £372 £525 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £600 £469
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +28.00% -1.20%
75th Percentile £594 - £541
90th Percentile £600 - £633
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +3.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,973 2,636 3,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.67% 92.62% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,899 2,324
10th Percentile £245 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £409 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 54 50
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.11 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -42.51% -27.59%
75th Percentile £44.47 £54.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.20 £67.22 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -4 17 £400 -33.33% 1
Edinburgh +35 9 £430 +4.24%
Lanarkshire - 1 £500 - 1
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 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (18.52%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.81%) Metadata
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Database
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Database 12c
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle8/8i Database
2 4 (14.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (18.52%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (14.81%) DBA
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (14.81%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Change Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
3 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Operations
5 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (18.52%) Cost Control
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Programme Governance
6 4 (14.81%) Resource Management
6 4 (14.81%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
1 5 (18.52%) Python
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) AWS Certification
1 5 (18.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) BC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) PMO
2 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
3 1 (3.70%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Data Guard
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (14.81%) Packer
3 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Oracle
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Cadence