Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Capacity Planning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 118 117
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +33
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 9 1 23
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.57% 0.058% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.066% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 19
10th Percentile £332 - £335
25th Percentile £358 £415 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £430
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -28.33%
75th Percentile £450 £445 £541
90th Percentile £491 - £586
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -11.90% -2.78% -1.82%

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 1,390 1,515 2,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.14% 87.78% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 881 1,383
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £584
90th Percentile £625 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 52
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.77 £16.23
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £21.44
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +7.01% +18.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £57.06
90th Percentile £52.05 £31.44 £72.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.36% +24.64%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Scotland

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Scotland

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 30 November 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
Glasgow - 6 £358 - 2
Edinburgh +5 2 £450 +4.65%
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £513 -
Capacity Planning
UK

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon EventBridge
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (44.44%) Serverless
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) DynamoDB
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Principal Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) NHS
2 4 (44.44%) IVR
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (55.56%) Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (44.44%) CRM
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
3 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) High Availability
3 4 (44.44%) ITSM
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (44.44%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 3 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (33.33%) PMO
3 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (33.33%) Avaya
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Genesys
2 3 (33.33%) Pega
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP