Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 50 76
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 +26
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 6 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.64% 1.15% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £336 £352 £490
25th Percentile £363 £356 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £365 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% -33.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £463 £373 £563
90th Percentile £485 - £570
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £365 £473
% change year-on-year +36.99% -22.75% +21.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 806 471 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.57% 90.23% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 286 597
10th Percentile £290 £263 £289
25th Percentile £406 £357 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 27
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.14 £12.15
Median hourly rate £18.87 £27.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.38% +83.33% -57.21%
75th Percentile £23.71 £41.50 £22.36
90th Percentile £74.00 £98.79 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £15.00
% change year-on-year +3.03% +47.60% +41.11%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Capacity Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in West Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Capacity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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
Leeds -19 5 £418 +19.29% 1
Halifax - 1 - -
Capacity Planning
Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP MRS
1 1 (16.67%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
1 3 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Functional Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (16.67%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Database Security
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) WFM
4 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) RedGate
1 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk