Capacity Planning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Capacity Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Capacity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Planning 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 265 271 349
Rank change year-on-year +6 +78 +126
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 39 74 129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.55% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 99
10th Percentile £415 £389 £385
25th Percentile £511 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £584 £550
90th Percentile - £669 £666
UK median daily rate £539 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £37.65
25th Percentile - - £64.88
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -82.50% +77.78%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.75% -38.46% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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 Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Capacity Planning
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 Planning.

Capacity Planning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Capacity Planning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
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 Planning.

Capacity Planning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
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 6 (15.38%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (7.69%) SAP IBP
3 1 (2.56%) Demantra
3 1 (2.56%) iTrent
3 1 (2.56%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (2.56%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) GCP
3 3 (7.69%) GitHub
3 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.56%) Datadog
5 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.56%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) BGP
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) LAN
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) OSPF
1 1 (2.56%) SSL
1 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
1 1 (2.56%) WAN
1 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) DataStage
2 1 (2.56%) DB2
2 1 (2.56%) IDMS
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) QualityStage
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) GitLab
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Retail
4 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Architect
1 6 (15.38%) Lead
1 6 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 3 (7.69%) Administrator
3 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Developer
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Procurement Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Procurement Project Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Product Lead
4 2 (5.13%) SAP Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Supply Chain Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Supply Chain Project Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Workstream Lead
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) LDAP
1 3 (7.69%) X-Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.56%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Life Science
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Unix
3 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Solaris
5 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (17.95%) Project Delivery
5 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (15.38%) Open Source
5 6 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (10.26%) Demand Management
6 4 (10.26%) Information Security
6 4 (10.26%) Migration
6 4 (10.26%) Project Management
6 4 (10.26%) RBAC
6 4 (10.26%) Storage Management
6 4 (10.26%) Task Automation
7 3 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.69%) ERP
7 3 (7.69%) Iteration Planning
7 3 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
2 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) Python
4 2 (5.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) ABAP
5 1 (2.56%) Go
5 1 (2.56%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) CCNP
3 1 (2.56%) CISM
3 1 (2.56%) CISSP
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) GIAC
3 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) PMO
2 4 (10.26%) QA
3 3 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (5.13%) NIST
5 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (2.56%) GDPR
5 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Ansible
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.56%) Grafana
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Nagios
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (2.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) SAP
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Anaplan
4 1 (2.56%) Ariba
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Dell
4 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.56%) Gemalto
4 1 (2.56%) Juniper
4 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.56%) Thales
4 1 (2.56%) Workday