Capacity Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 296 366
Rank change year-on-year +27 +70 -69
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 129 161 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.74% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 105 105
10th Percentile £345 £343 £313
25th Percentile £411 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +1.72%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £575
90th Percentile £650 £715 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 0
10th Percentile £34.80 £32.40 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - -
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +44.44% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,627 21,715 27,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.89% 89.58% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,629 15,041 19,312
10th Percentile £243 £254 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,023 1,341 1,383
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.59 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
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 Planning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
South East +30 41 £500 +15.94% 10
Scotland +30 27 £430 -28.33% 4
South West +23 23 £575 -17.86% 4
North of England +19 22 £423 +8.33% 14
Midlands +21 14 £450 -30.77% 15
West Midlands +36 12 £450 -30.77% 13
Yorkshire +20 12 £435 -2.25% 3
North West +6 10 £400 +2.56% 11
East of England +10 2 - - 5
East Midlands +5 2 £432 -34.62% 2
Capacity Planning
UK

Capacity Planning
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 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.10%) Confluence
2 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.33%) CMS
3 3 (2.33%) Drupal
3 3 (2.33%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.33%) nginx
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.03%) AWS
2 25 (19.38%) Azure
3 15 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 14 (10.85%) GCP
5 6 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.10%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.10%) Serverless
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.33%) CloudBees
8 3 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.55%) GitHub
9 2 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.73%) DNS
2 15 (11.63%) WAN
3 14 (10.85%) DHCP
3 14 (10.85%) LAN
4 11 (8.53%) Firewall
4 11 (8.53%) Radio Access Network
4 11 (8.53%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (7.75%) 5G
5 10 (7.75%) SAN
6 9 (6.98%) 3G
6 9 (6.98%) 4G
6 9 (6.98%) MPLS
6 9 (6.98%) VPN
7 6 (4.65%) Network Security
8 5 (3.88%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (3.10%) SSL
10 3 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (2.33%) NX-OS
11 2 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.63%) Power BI
2 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.10%) Metadata
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.33%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.78%) DB2
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.78%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Jenkins
1 7 (5.43%) JIRA
2 5 (3.88%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (3.88%) Selenium
3 4 (3.10%) Git
4 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.33%) Subversion
5 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.78%) GitLab
5 1 (0.78%) JMeter
General
1 49 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.81%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.73%) Finance
4 14 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.08%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.20%) Aerospace
7 6 (4.65%) Banking
8 5 (3.88%) Retail
9 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Local Government
9 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.55%) Back Office
10 2 (1.55%) Electronics
10 2 (1.55%) Legal
10 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.55%) Marketing
10 2 (1.55%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.78%) Automotive
11 1 (0.78%) Games
11 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (13.18%) Analyst
2 11 (8.53%) Consultant
2 11 (8.53%) Senior
3 10 (7.75%) Availability Manager
3 10 (7.75%) IT Analyst
4 9 (6.98%) Network Engineer
5 8 (6.20%) Capacity Manager
5 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (6.20%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (5.43%) Architect
6 7 (5.43%) DBA
6 7 (5.43%) Performance Specialist
7 6 (4.65%) Administrator
7 6 (4.65%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 6 (4.65%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.65%) Scrum Master
7 6 (4.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Performance Consultant
8 5 (3.88%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) Kafka
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (3.10%) XML
3 3 (2.33%) Apache Beam
3 3 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.33%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.33%) LDAP
3 3 (2.33%) Lucene
4 1 (0.78%) .NET
4 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.78%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.20%) Client/Server
3 8 (6.20%) Clustering
4 7 (5.43%) CMDB
4 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.65%) Replication
6 5 (3.88%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.10%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.10%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.10%) Smart Meter
8 3 (2.33%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.33%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.55%) CCTV
9 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.93%) Linux
2 26 (20.16%) Unix
3 22 (17.05%) Windows
4 4 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (21.71%) Performance Tuning
3 27 (20.93%) Capacity Management
4 26 (20.16%) Agile
5 25 (19.38%) Roadmaps
6 21 (16.28%) Configuration Management
6 21 (16.28%) Decision-Making
7 18 (13.95%) ITIL
8 17 (13.18%) DevOps
9 16 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (11.63%) CI/CD
11 13 (10.08%) Scrum
12 12 (9.30%) Data Migration
12 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (9.30%) Migration
13 11 (8.53%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (8.53%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (7.75%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.83%) Python
2 15 (11.63%) SQL
3 12 (9.30%) Java
3 12 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.43%) PL/SQL
5 6 (4.65%) Bash
6 5 (3.88%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.33%) Go
7 3 (2.33%) Groovy
7 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.33%) Ruby
7 3 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (20.16%) Degree
2 23 (17.83%) Security Cleared
3 17 (13.18%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.20%) CCNP
6 7 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.88%) CCIE
8 5 (3.88%) CCNA
8 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.33%) PhD
10 2 (1.55%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.78%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.78%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) GDPR
2 6 (4.65%) PMO
3 3 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.33%) QA
4 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (13.18%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.20%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (6.20%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (3.88%) Docker
5 4 (3.10%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (11.63%) Ansible
2 11 (8.53%) NetBackup
3 10 (7.75%) Nagios
3 10 (7.75%) Terraform
4 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (6.20%) SCCM
5 5 (3.88%) Kubernetes
6 4 (3.10%) Data Guard
6 4 (3.10%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (3.10%) Packer
7 3 (2.33%) Grafana
7 3 (2.33%) Netcool
8 2 (1.55%) Rundeck
8 2 (1.55%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft
1 18 (13.95%) Oracle
2 14 (10.85%) VMware
3 8 (6.20%) Hitachi
3 8 (6.20%) NetApp
4 7 (5.43%) Nokia
5 6 (4.65%) Cisco
5 6 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.88%) Remedy
6 5 (3.88%) SAP
7 4 (3.10%) Ab Initio
7 4 (3.10%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.10%) F5
8 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.33%) IBM
8 3 (2.33%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.33%) Juniper
8 3 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.55%) Zscaler