Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Capacity Planning
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 45 66
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 5 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.66% 1.75% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.92% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £448 £376 -
25th Percentile £481 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £850
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -34.56% +112.50%
75th Percentile £675 £581 -
90th Percentile - £593 -
South West median daily rate £575 £463 £687
% change year-on-year +24.32% -32.63% +71.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 632 417 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.71% 91.05% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 263 421
10th Percentile £363 £308 £361
25th Percentile £450 £473 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £631 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £692 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 19 8
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.80 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £22.50 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% +75.92% -78.68%
75th Percentile £85.25 £25.15 -
90th Percentile - £25.83 -
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +5.23%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in Wiltshire

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Swindon -15 3 £475 +8.57%
Corsham -9 2 £650 +11.83% 1
Capacity Planning
South West

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Gatling
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Scalability Testing
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Service Design
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (40.00%) BMC Performance Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) AppDynamics
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (40.00%) New Relic
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) VMware