Capacity Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Capacity Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 109 136
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 +33
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £251
25th Percentile - £475 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -31.91%
75th Percentile - £525 £437
90th Percentile - - £458
England median daily rate £500 £500 £583
% change year-on-year - -14.24% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,637 2,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.26% 83.91% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 1,085 1,445
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.10 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.67 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the West Midlands

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the West Midlands

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the West Midlands

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham +11 2 - - 3
Solihull - 1 - -
Capacity Management
England

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Log Aggregation
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nessus
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Sophos
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow