Capacity Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 250 335
Rank change year-on-year -16 +85 +108
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 72 141 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.68% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.81% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 99 66
10th Percentile £361 £405 £350
25th Percentile £425 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £495 £471
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +5.10% -7.65%
75th Percentile £601 £588 £576
90th Percentile £653 £639 £585
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £569
% change year-on-year -2.50% -12.09% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 14
10th Percentile - £29.20 £58.88
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile - - £65.56
90th Percentile - £56.63 £65.75
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,581 17,478 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.43% 84.68% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,255 10,443 14,838
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 839 2,054 1,309
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.34 £15.24 £15.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK excluding London

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Scotland +16 24 £469 -21.92% 2
South East +26 17 £475 -17.39% 19
South West -11 10 £601 +21.31% 4
East of England +31 8 £500 +42.86% 2
North of England 0 8 £469 -4.92% 5
Midlands +23 4 - - 6
North West -1 4 £461 -6.44% 4
West Midlands +18 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +14 3 £488 -25.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £465 -
Wales - 1 £450 -
Capacity Management
UK

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (4.17%) CICS
1 3 (4.17%) CMS
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) ThingWorx
3 1 (1.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) AWS
2 4 (5.56%) Azure
3 3 (4.17%) Cohesity
3 3 (4.17%) Nutanix
3 3 (4.17%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) SAN
2 5 (6.94%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (5.56%) DNS
3 4 (5.56%) Firewall
3 4 (5.56%) Network Security
3 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.17%) BGP
4 3 (4.17%) DHCP
4 3 (4.17%) LAN
4 3 (4.17%) OSPF
4 3 (4.17%) VPN
4 3 (4.17%) WAN
4 3 (4.17%) Wireless
5 2 (2.78%) HTTP
5 2 (2.78%) NAS
5 2 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (2.78%) SSL
5 2 (2.78%) VLAN
6 1 (1.39%) 4G
6 1 (1.39%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) DB2
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.78%) JIRA
3 2 (2.78%) Maven
3 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Analyst
2 11 (15.28%) Capacity Manager
2 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Programmer
3 10 (13.89%) Availability Manager
3 10 (13.89%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 10 (13.89%) Python Programmer
3 10 (13.89%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (6.94%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Consultant
5 4 (5.56%) Data Centre Manager
5 4 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 4 (5.56%) Service Manager
6 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Architect
6 3 (4.17%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Quality Manager
6 3 (4.17%) Senior
7 2 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) Middleware
2 2 (2.78%) LDAP
2 2 (2.78%) YAML
3 1 (1.39%) Flash
3 1 (1.39%) Node.js
3 1 (1.39%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 32 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 16 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.33%) CMDB
4 5 (6.94%) Clustering
4 5 (6.94%) Replication
5 3 (4.17%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.17%) VSAM
6 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.78%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (2.78%) IoT
6 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.78%) SCADA
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.39%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.39%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Linux
2 19 (26.39%) Unix
3 16 (22.22%) Windows
4 13 (18.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.17%) CentOS
5 3 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.78%) Debian
6 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.39%) AIX
7 1 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.39%) HPUX
7 1 (1.39%) Solaris
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.17%) ITIL
1 21 (29.17%) Problem Management
2 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (23.61%) Storage Management
4 15 (20.83%) Service Management
4 15 (20.83%) Technical Analysis
5 14 (19.44%) Change Management
6 12 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
7 11 (15.28%) Availability Management
7 11 (15.28%) Mentoring
7 11 (15.28%) OO
7 11 (15.28%) Quality Management
7 11 (15.28%) Statistics
8 10 (13.89%) Planning and Forecasting
8 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (13.89%) Time Management
9 9 (12.50%) Agile
9 9 (12.50%) Incident Management
9 9 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
9 9 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Python
2 11 (15.28%) Perl
3 6 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.17%) REXX
4 3 (4.17%) SQL
5 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.89%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.17%) Degree
5 2 (2.78%) CCNP
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) CCNA
6 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) ISACA
6 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) COBIT
1 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.78%) GDPR
1 2 (2.78%) NIST
1 2 (2.78%) PMO
1 2 (2.78%) QA
1 2 (2.78%) SLA
2 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.39%) ISO 14001
2 1 (1.39%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.39%) GPFS
4 1 (1.39%) NFS
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (5.56%) Podman
2 3 (4.17%) Ansible
2 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Puppet
3 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.78%) Nessus
3 2 (2.78%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.78%) SCCM
4 1 (1.39%) Nagios
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.39%) SCOM
4 1 (1.39%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.39%) WSUS
4 1 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 8 (11.11%) VMware
3 4 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.17%) Cisco
4 3 (4.17%) Juniper
4 3 (4.17%) NetApp
4 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 3 (4.17%) Veritas
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.78%) Sophos
5 2 (2.78%) Workday
6 1 (1.39%) Brocade
6 1 (1.39%) EMC
6 1 (1.39%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) HP
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.39%) Tenable