Capacity Planning Contracts in the South West

Capacity Planning
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 134 146
Rank change year-on-year +38 +12 +14
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 15 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 0.72% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.87% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 13
10th Percentile £386 £425 £400
25th Percentile £473 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -17.86% +51.35%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £725
90th Percentile - £740 -
England median daily rate £532 £525 £496
% change year-on-year +1.24% +5.79% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 7
10th Percentile - - £51.96
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £71.00
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the South West

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wiltshire +39 12 £601 +20.10% 2
Gloucestershire +17 1 - - 8
Bristol +13 1 £460 -23.33% 7
Devon - 1 £525 - 8
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Gatling
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JMeter
1 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Availability Manager
1 10 (66.67%) Capacity and Availability Manager
1 10 (66.67%) Capacity Manager
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (66.67%) Availability Management
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL
2 10 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 10 (66.67%) Planning and Forecasting
2 10 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 10 (66.67%) Quality Management
2 10 (66.67%) Service Management
2 10 (66.67%) Statistics
3 9 (60.00%) Capacity Management
3 9 (60.00%) Performance Improvement
3 9 (60.00%) Time Management
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (6.67%) Data Encryption
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.67%) New Relic
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce