Capacity Management Contracts in the South East

Capacity Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Capacity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 170 183
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 +53
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 17 24 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 0.43% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.51% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 22
10th Percentile £313 £400 £419
25th Percentile £358 £500 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +0.44% -2.55%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £583
90th Percentile £675 £650 £585
England median daily rate £500 £500 £584
% change year-on-year - -14.38% +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £56.44 -
25th Percentile - £56.87 £19.50
Median hourly rate - £58.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +190.80% -
75th Percentile - £58.87 £20.50
90th Percentile - £58.95 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Capacity Management 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.71% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,749 3,576
10th Percentile £254 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 435 220
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.20
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £22.21
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Thames Valley +24 10 £389 -37.80% 10
Berkshire +18 8 £389 -37.80% 7
Hampshire +32 5 £500 +100.00% 3
West Sussex +9 2 £725 +26.09% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £363 - 4
Capacity Management
England

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.76%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) 4G
2 1 (5.88%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre Manager
1 4 (23.53%) Data Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Availability Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) ICT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Technology Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Data Centre
2 5 (29.41%) CMDB
3 2 (11.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (11.76%) IoT
3 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
3 2 (11.76%) SCADA
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) AIX
1 1 (5.88%) CentOS
1 1 (5.88%) HPUX
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Solaris
1 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Change Management
1 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (29.41%) Incident Management
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Application Security
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.76%) Information Security
5 2 (11.76%) Information Security Management
5 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Security Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bash
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) ISACA
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) COBIT
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) ISO 14001
2 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.88%) Puppet
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
1 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat