Capacity Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Capacity Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 270 379
Rank change year-on-year 0 +109 +111
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 34 75 98
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.56% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 57 76
10th Percentile £337 £344 £393
25th Percentile £361 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £493 £491
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% +0.36% -10.68%
75th Percentile £580 £525 £594
90th Percentile £601 £641 £675
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £573
% change year-on-year -3.75% -12.66% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.50
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.00% -
75th Percentile - - £20.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Capacity Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Capacity Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Capacity Management.

Capacity Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Capacity Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Capacity Management.

Capacity Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.88%) CICS
1 2 (5.88%) CMS
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) BGP
1 4 (11.76%) OSPF
2 3 (8.82%) LAN
2 3 (8.82%) Network Security
2 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.82%) VPN
2 3 (8.82%) WAN
2 3 (8.82%) Wireless
3 2 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (2.94%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.94%) HSRP
4 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.94%) IGMP
4 1 (2.94%) IPsec
4 1 (2.94%) SAN
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
4 1 (2.94%) VLAN
4 1 (2.94%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) DB2
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Front Office
3 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Analyst
2 10 (29.41%) Programmer
3 9 (26.47%) Python Programmer
3 9 (26.47%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Python Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Administrator
8 2 (5.88%) Consultant
8 2 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (5.88%) Product Specialist
8 2 (5.88%) Technical Product Specialist
8 2 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
9 1 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 1 (2.94%) Data Centre Analyst
9 1 (2.94%) Power BI Developer
9 1 (2.94%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Management Information System
2 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Derivative
3 2 (5.88%) Equities
3 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.88%) VSAM
3 2 (5.88%) Wiki
4 1 (2.94%) CMDB
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.94%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Linux
2 17 (50.00%) Unix
3 11 (32.35%) Windows
4 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.94%) AIX
5 1 (2.94%) CentOS
5 1 (2.94%) HPUX
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Solaris
5 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Storage Management
1 14 (41.18%) Technical Analysis
2 9 (26.47%) OO
3 4 (11.76%) Change Management
3 4 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (8.82%) Agile
4 3 (8.82%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (8.82%) Problem Management
4 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.82%) User Experience
5 2 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.88%) Data Management
5 2 (5.88%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (5.88%) Incident Management
5 2 (5.88%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (5.88%) Network Design
5 2 (5.88%) Performance Management
5 2 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) Perl
3 3 (8.82%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) REXX
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) CCNP
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) CCNA
4 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) COBIT
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Ansible
1 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.94%) Opsgenie
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.94%) Puppet
2 1 (2.94%) QRadar
2 1 (2.94%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco
3 3 (8.82%) Juniper
3 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.88%) Delphix
4 2 (5.88%) NetApp
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) Sybase
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) New Relic
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Tenable
5 1 (2.94%) Trend Micro