Capacity Analyst Contracts

Capacity Analyst
UK

The median Capacity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Capacity Analyst 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £542 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,904 36,122 48,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.98% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,857 22,974 33,240
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,569 1,933 1,496
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.16 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.08 £19.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.58% +68.04%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +86.05%

Capacity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Capacity Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Analyst in the UK

Capacity Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Capacity Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Capacity Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Capacity Analyst
Top 6 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 2 £506 - 2
Work from Home - 2 £506 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £500 - 1
London - 1 £513 - 1
Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 1

Capacity Analyst Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 August 2025, Capacity Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Capacity Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
1 1 (50.00%) PL/1
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe

Capacity Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (50.00%) PL/1
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware