Capacity Planning Contracts in the Thames Valley

Capacity Planning
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 82 114 133
Rank change year-on-year +32 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 20 31 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 1.15% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.32% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 9
10th Percentile £300 £413 £294
25th Percentile £334 £429 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £503 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% +25.63% -7.62%
75th Percentile £498 £550 £475
90th Percentile £576 £600 £510
South East median daily rate £440 £500 £431
% change year-on-year -12.00% +15.94% -13.75%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £46.30 - £20.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the Thames Valley

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the Thames Valley

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the Thames Valley

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the Thames Valley

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the Thames Valley

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +26 13 £426 -5.80% 13
Oxfordshire +11 7 £375 -11.76% 6
Capacity Planning
South East

Capacity Planning
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:

Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) 5G
1 3 (15.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.00%) 2G
2 1 (5.00%) 4G
2 1 (5.00%) DWDM
2 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
2 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.00%) Military
2 2 (10.00%) Police
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) DBA
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Project Planner
3 3 (15.00%) Senior DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (10.00%) SAP Manager
4 2 (10.00%) SAP Programme Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Capacity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Finance Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Network Capacity Planner
5 1 (5.00%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Oracle SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.00%) IoT
1 2 (10.00%) Life Science
1 2 (10.00%) NB-IoT
1 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) AIX
1 1 (5.00%) CentOS
1 1 (5.00%) HPUX
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Solaris
1 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (15.00%) Change Control
4 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (15.00%) Critical Path Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Korn
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) VCAP
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) PMO
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) SCOM
3 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Ciena
4 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.00%) Nokia
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam
4 1 (5.00%) VMware