Capacity Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Capacity Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 122 132
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 +28
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 12 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.82% 0.49% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.57% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 9
10th Percentile £313 £486 £239
25th Percentile £335 £559 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £544 £650 £576
90th Percentile - - £584
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - £19.20
South East median hourly rate - - £14.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,353 2,277 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.86% 86.64% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,262 1,750
10th Percentile £300 £213 £313
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 166 66
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.09 £16.88
25th Percentile £14.28 £19.25 £24.86
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -13.96% +200.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.42 £69.05
90th Percentile £79.16 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +28 11 £494 -21.00% 5
Oxfordshire - 1 £250 - 1
Capacity Management
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ICT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (41.67%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) ERP
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Application Security
5 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
5 1 (8.33%) Budgeting
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Information Security
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) COBIT
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
1 1 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds