Capacity Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Capacity Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 261 297
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 +70
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 80 133 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.64% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.76% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 92 104
10th Percentile £313 £324 £341
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -15.91% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £668 £650 £715
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 18
10th Percentile £37.77 £34.80 £31.07
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% -
75th Percentile £60.79 - £65.75
90th Percentile £65.62 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 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
South East +16 24 £440 -12.00% 50
North of England +11 21 £496 +17.08% 19
North West +17 16 £437 +9.31% 14
South West +22 15 £563 -2.13% 15
Scotland +1 13 £515 +19.77% 2
Yorkshire +1 5 £600 +37.93% 5
Midlands +3 3 - - 11
West Midlands +3 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 4
Wales - 2 £325 - 3
North East - 1 £625 -
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 5 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) SAP IBP
2 2 (2.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.25%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) AWS
3 7 (8.75%) GitHub
4 3 (3.75%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.25%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.25%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.25%) PaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.25%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) 5G
1 3 (3.75%) Firewall
1 3 (3.75%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.50%) LAN
2 2 (2.50%) Network Security
2 2 (2.50%) VPN
2 2 (2.50%) WAN
3 1 (1.25%) 2G
3 1 (1.25%) 4G
3 1 (1.25%) BGP
3 1 (1.25%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) DWDM
3 1 (1.25%) IPsec
3 1 (1.25%) MPLS
3 1 (1.25%) OSPF
3 1 (1.25%) SAN
3 1 (1.25%) VLAN
3 1 (1.25%) Wireless
3 1 (1.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.50%) GIS
3 2 (2.50%) MSDE
3 2 (2.50%) MySQL
3 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) DataStage
4 1 (1.25%) DB2
4 1 (1.25%) DTS
4 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.25%) Power BI
4 1 (1.25%) QualityStage
4 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) Gatling
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) JMeter
3 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 40 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (36.25%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Military
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.50%) Police
8 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Local Government
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Administrator
2 12 (15.00%) Capacity Manager
3 11 (13.75%) Architect
3 11 (13.75%) Availability Manager
3 11 (13.75%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 10 (12.50%) DBA
5 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (8.75%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Lead
9 4 (5.00%) Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior
9 4 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
10 3 (3.75%) Network Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Programme Manager
10 3 (3.75%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) LDAP
1 3 (3.75%) X-Windows
2 2 (2.50%) .NET
2 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Data Centre
2 11 (13.75%) Management Information System
3 10 (12.50%) Replication
4 7 (8.75%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.50%) Clustering
7 2 (2.50%) CMDB
7 2 (2.50%) IoT
7 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Life Science
7 2 (2.50%) NB-IoT
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) Linux
2 14 (17.50%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) HPUX
3 9 (11.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (11.25%) Solaris
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.00%) Unix
6 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.25%) AIX
7 1 (1.25%) CentOS
7 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (22.50%) DevOps
4 17 (21.25%) Planning and Forecasting
4 17 (21.25%) Service Management
5 16 (20.00%) High Availability
6 15 (18.75%) Quality Management
7 13 (16.25%) Agile
7 13 (16.25%) ITIL
7 13 (16.25%) Problem Management
8 12 (15.00%) Capacity Management
8 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (15.00%) Process Improvement
8 12 (15.00%) Time Management
9 11 (13.75%) Availability Management
9 11 (13.75%) Resource Allocation
9 11 (13.75%) Statistics
10 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) SQL
2 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.50%) Python
4 5 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.50%) Bash
5 2 (2.50%) Bicep
5 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.25%) Java
6 1 (1.25%) Korn
6 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.50%) OCP
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.25%) CCNA
7 1 (1.25%) CCNP
7 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.25%) VCAP
7 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) PMO
2 4 (5.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.50%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) NIST
5 1 (1.25%) P3O
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.50%) vSphere
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Ansible
1 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Terraform
3 2 (2.50%) SCOM
3 2 (2.50%) VxRail
4 1 (1.25%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.25%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.25%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Nagios
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (1.25%) Perfmon
4 1 (1.25%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.25%) Puppet
4 1 (1.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.25%) vRealize
4 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) IBM
2 9 (11.25%) Oracle
3 8 (10.00%) Sun
4 7 (8.75%) Unisys
5 4 (5.00%) Google
5 4 (5.00%) SAP
5 4 (5.00%) Splunk
5 4 (5.00%) VMware
6 3 (3.75%) Cisco
6 3 (3.75%) HP
6 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.50%) Dell
7 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.25%) Isilon
8 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.25%) Sophos