Capacity Management Contracts

Capacity Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 344 428
Rank change year-on-year -79 +84 +174
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 96 269 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.72% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 196 214
10th Percentile £353 £350 £400
25th Percentile £406 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £569
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.09% +1.02%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £675
90th Percentile £710 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £495 £482
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.64% -5.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 17
10th Percentile - £22.05 £61.50
25th Percentile - £22.68 -
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - £45.54 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London -22 72 £473 -4.55% 23
England -97 64 £490 -2.00% 46
Work from Home +9 34 £400 -18.97% 16
Scotland +10 26 £472 -21.33% 3
South East +34 15 £450 -21.74% 12
London -51 15 £565 -5.82% 26
South West -1 10 £601 +21.31% 2
East of England +30 8 £500 +42.86% 1
North of England +4 8 £469 -4.92% 2
Midlands +25 4 - - 3
North West -12 4 £461 -5.38% 2
West Midlands +16 3 - - 3
Yorkshire +13 3 £488 -25.00%
North East - 1 £465 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £450 -

Capacity Management
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 5 (5.21%) CMS
2 4 (4.17%) CICS
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.08%) Confluence
5 1 (1.04%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.04%) SAS
5 1 (1.04%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.04%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.46%) AWS
2 8 (8.33%) Azure
3 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.13%) Cohesity
4 3 (3.13%) Nutanix
4 3 (3.13%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.04%) OCI
6 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.04%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) SAN
2 6 (6.25%) DNS
2 6 (6.25%) Firewall
3 5 (5.21%) DHCP
3 5 (5.21%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.21%) Wireless
4 4 (4.17%) BGP
4 4 (4.17%) Network Security
4 4 (4.17%) OSPF
5 3 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.13%) HTTP
5 3 (3.13%) LAN
5 3 (3.13%) SSL
5 3 (3.13%) VLAN
5 3 (3.13%) VPN
5 3 (3.13%) WAN
6 2 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.25%) DB2
3 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.04%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.04%) Power BI
4 1 (1.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.21%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) Maven
4 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 7 (7.29%) Banking
4 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.08%) Front Office
6 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Analyst
2 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (11.46%) Capacity Manager
3 11 (11.46%) Programmer
4 10 (10.42%) Availability Manager
4 10 (10.42%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 10 (10.42%) Python Programmer
4 10 (10.42%) Technical Analyst
5 7 (7.29%) Senior
6 6 (6.25%) Consultant
6 6 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Data Centre Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Data Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Mainframe Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Product Specialist
8 4 (4.17%) Service Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Product Specialist
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) Middleware
2 3 (3.13%) LDAP
2 3 (3.13%) YAML
3 2 (2.08%) Node.js
4 1 (1.04%) .NET
4 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.04%) CSS
4 1 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.04%) Flash
4 1 (1.04%) HTML
4 1 (1.04%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.04%) ODBC
4 1 (1.04%) POSIX
4 1 (1.04%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) Vue
4 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (34.38%) Management Information System
2 19 (19.79%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.25%) CMDB
4 5 (5.21%) Clustering
4 5 (5.21%) Mainframe
4 5 (5.21%) Replication
5 4 (4.17%) VSAM
6 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.08%) Derivative
7 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.08%) Equities
7 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.08%) Wiki
8 1 (1.04%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.04%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (1.04%) SCADA
8 1 (1.04%) Tandem
8 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (27.08%) Linux
2 24 (25.00%) Windows
3 21 (21.88%) Unix
4 18 (18.75%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.13%) CentOS
5 3 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.08%) Debian
6 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.04%) AIX
7 1 (1.04%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.04%) HPUX
7 1 (1.04%) Solaris
7 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (23.96%) Problem Management
3 22 (22.92%) ITIL
4 19 (19.79%) Change Management
5 18 (18.75%) Storage Management
6 15 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
6 15 (15.63%) Service Management
6 15 (15.63%) Technical Analysis
7 14 (14.58%) Agile
8 12 (12.50%) Availability Management
8 12 (12.50%) OO
9 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
9 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.46%) Planning and Forecasting
9 11 (11.46%) Quality Management
9 11 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (11.46%) Statistics
10 10 (10.42%) Task Automation
10 10 (10.42%) Time Management
11 9 (9.38%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.21%) Python
2 11 (11.46%) Perl
3 8 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.29%) SQL
5 5 (5.21%) Bash
5 5 (5.21%) REXX
6 2 (2.08%) Java
7 1 (1.04%) C#
7 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (8.33%) Degree
5 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.08%) CCNA
8 2 (2.08%) CCNP
9 1 (1.04%) ISACA
9 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) PMO
2 2 (2.08%) COBIT
2 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
2 2 (2.08%) NIST
2 2 (2.08%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.29%) Docker
3 5 (5.21%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.04%) GPFS
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.04%) NFS
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.04%) XenApp
5 1 (1.04%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (4.17%) Podman
3 3 (3.13%) Ansible
3 3 (3.13%) Puppet
3 3 (3.13%) QRadar
3 3 (3.13%) SCCM
4 2 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.08%) Nessus
4 2 (2.08%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.08%) OPNET
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (2.08%) WSUS
5 1 (1.04%) Nagios
5 1 (1.04%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.04%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) ServiceNow
2 10 (10.42%) VMware
3 6 (6.25%) Cisco
4 5 (5.21%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.21%) Sybase
5 4 (4.17%) Delphix
5 4 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.17%) NetApp
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle
5 4 (4.17%) Splunk
6 3 (3.13%) Juniper
6 3 (3.13%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.13%) Veritas
7 2 (2.08%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.08%) F5
7 2 (2.08%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.08%) Sophos
7 2 (2.08%) Trend Micro