Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.30% 0.62% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £603
% change year-on-year -2.60% -17.01% +8.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 734 298 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.08% 92.55% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 171 257
10th Percentile £316 £213 £380
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £625
90th Percentile £635 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% -0.30%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Sheffield -37 10 £487 -18.83% 4
Capacity Planning
Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 5 (50.00%) NAS
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Citrix Expert
1 1 (10.00%) Developer
1 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) IT Security Officer
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
1 1 (10.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (70.00%) High Availability
3 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
7 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCA
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
2 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) EMC
2 4 (40.00%) NetApp
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Pure Storage
4 1 (10.00%) VMware