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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 139 184
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 +37
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 23 48 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.96% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.16% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 13
10th Percentile £313 £350 £301
25th Percentile £413 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £550
90th Percentile £588 £638 £720
England median daily rate £524 £503 £523
% change year-on-year +4.28% -3.83% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Median hourly rate £46.30 - £14.00
England median hourly rate £46.30 £14.00 £27.98
% change year-on-year +230.71% -49.96% -67.32%

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 3,150 4,135 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.93% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,507 3,413
10th Percentile £250 £260 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 328 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.23
Median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 August 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
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 August 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 -1 17 £445 +4.71% 3
Berkshire +1 9 £450 +9.09% 2
Oxfordshire -3 8 £250 -41.18% 1
Hampshire +18 5 £500 -1.48% 6
Surrey +13 2 £450 -2.70% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (17.39%) WebLogic
3 1 (4.35%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (17.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 4 (17.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) OCI
2 4 (17.39%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (13.04%) Google Workspace
4 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle Database
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Police
5 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DBA
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Programme Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Project Planner
4 3 (13.04%) SAP Manager
4 3 (13.04%) SAP Programme Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Senior DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.35%) IT Technical Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Life Science
1 4 (17.39%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (13.04%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.35%) CMDB
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Unix
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Change Management
1 8 (34.78%) ERP
1 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (30.43%) Project Planning
2 7 (30.43%) Risk Management
3 5 (21.74%) Cost Management
3 5 (21.74%) Database Tuning
3 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (21.74%) Migration
3 5 (21.74%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (21.74%) Workflow
4 4 (17.39%) Asset Management
4 4 (17.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Programme Management
4 4 (17.39%) SOA
4 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Critical Path Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) PL/SQL
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Perl
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) Bicep
4 2 (8.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) VCAP
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Data Guard
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.35%) SCCM
4 1 (4.35%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) SAP
4 3 (13.04%) Google
5 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.35%) Cramer
6 1 (4.35%) Lotus
6 1 (4.35%) Nokia
6 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.35%) Splunk
6 1 (4.35%) Sybase
6 1 (4.35%) Veeam
6 1 (4.35%) VMware