Capacity Planning Contracts in the South East

Capacity Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Capacity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 154 188
Rank change year-on-year +26 +34 +20
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 24 44 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.79% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.93% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 18
10th Percentile £305 £214 £240
25th Percentile £356 £413 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +15.94% -13.75%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £519
90th Percentile £585 £600 £573
England median daily rate £525 £525 £490
% change year-on-year - +7.09% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.50
Median hourly rate £46.30 - £20.00
75th Percentile £65.62 - £20.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +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 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the South East

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the South East

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the South East

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the South East

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the South East

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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 +26 20 £426 -15.17% 18
Berkshire +22 13 £426 -5.80% 10
Oxfordshire +12 7 £375 -11.76% 4
Hampshire +26 3 - - 16
Kent - 1 £585 - 4
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
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:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.33%) SAP IBP
2 2 (8.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
1 3 (12.50%) Google Workspace
2 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) 5G
1 3 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.17%) 2G
2 1 (4.17%) 4G
2 1 (4.17%) DWDM
2 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Military
3 2 (8.33%) Police
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) DBA
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Project Planner
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Capacity Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Product Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Programme Manager
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Manager
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Programme Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Availability Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Capacity and Availability Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared DBA
6 1 (4.17%) Network Capacity Planner
6 1 (4.17%) Optimisation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.33%) IoT
1 2 (8.33%) Life Science
1 2 (8.33%) NB-IoT
1 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) CMDB
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) AIX
1 1 (4.17%) CentOS
1 1 (4.17%) HPUX
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Solaris
1 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (20.83%) Change Management
3 5 (20.83%) Cost Management
3 5 (20.83%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (20.83%) Project Planning
3 5 (20.83%) Risk Management
3 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (12.50%) Change Control
5 3 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (12.50%) Gantt Chart
5 3 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Bicep
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Korn
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) VCAP
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) PMO
2 3 (12.50%) SLA
3 2 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
3 1 (4.17%) SCOM
3 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
1 4 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Ciena
4 1 (4.17%) Ericsson
4 1 (4.17%) Nokia
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) VMware