Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Capacity Planning
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.84% 0.63% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 0.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £558 - -
25th Percentile £569 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £623 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.70% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £506 £601 £450
% change year-on-year -15.70% +33.44% -30.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 141 130 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 64.98% 82.28% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 80 94
10th Percentile £182 £199 £143
25th Percentile £263 £281 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +1.06% -17.69%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £634
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 18
10th Percentile £32.92 - £35.00
25th Percentile £37.00 £12.50 £48.31
Median hourly rate £40.54 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +211.85% -74.95% +29.73%
75th Percentile £48.38 £15.00 £59.68
90th Percentile £61.35 £15.90 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £38.94 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -40.09% +8.62% -2.70%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Somerset

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Taunton - 1 £550 -
Capacity Planning
South West

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) SOAR
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) BCP
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) MODAF
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bicep
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft