Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Capacity Planning
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 13 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.76% 0.77% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £600 -
% change year-on-year -18.83% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 702 243 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.86% 93.46% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 140 225
10th Percentile £325 £220 £375
25th Percentile £403 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £636 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.44 £12.11
25th Percentile £19.50 £13.49 £18.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £23.75
90th Percentile - £19.43 £26.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +129.59%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in Sheffield over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Sheffield

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) OpenShift
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
3 2 (15.38%) Rubrik
4 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (38.46%) iSCSI
1 5 (38.46%) NAS
1 5 (38.46%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DB2
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix Expert
3 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (38.46%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) High Availability
1 9 (69.23%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (61.54%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
5 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCA
1 1 (7.69%) CISM
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) XenApp
2 1 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) IBM
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) EMC
2 4 (30.77%) NetApp
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) Pure Storage
3 1 (7.69%) VMware