Capacity Planning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Capacity Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 342 477
Rank change year-on-year +65 +135 -103
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 75 129 158
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.50% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.56% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 99 95
10th Percentile £394 £385 £368
25th Percentile £425 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £575
90th Percentile £665 £666 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.65 £25.00
25th Percentile - £64.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -82.50% +77.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +44.44% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Capacity Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Capacity Planning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 4 (5.33%) OpenStack
1 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.67%) CICS
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.33%) SAS
4 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.33%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.33%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) AWS
2 16 (21.33%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 9 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (10.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (5.33%) GCP
7 3 (4.00%) OCI
7 3 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (2.67%) Apigee
8 2 (2.67%) GitHub
8 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (8.00%) 5G
2 6 (8.00%) WAN
3 5 (6.67%) 3G
3 5 (6.67%) 4G
4 4 (5.33%) BGP
4 4 (5.33%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (5.33%) Firewall
5 3 (4.00%) Internet
5 3 (4.00%) LAN
5 3 (4.00%) MPLS
5 3 (4.00%) VPN
6 2 (2.67%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.67%) HTTP
6 2 (2.67%) OSPF
6 2 (2.67%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.33%) DWDM
7 1 (1.33%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.67%) Power BI
3 7 (9.33%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.67%) MySQL
5 3 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.67%) DB2
6 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.67%) Metadata
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.67%) OLTP
7 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Retail
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Public Speaking
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) French Language
7 1 (1.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 12 (16.00%) DBA
2 10 (13.33%) Senior
3 8 (10.67%) Consultant
4 7 (9.33%) Administrator
4 7 (9.33%) Developer
4 7 (9.33%) Performance Specialist
5 6 (8.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Performance Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Availability Manager
7 4 (5.33%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Splunk Administrator
8 3 (4.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.67%) JSON
1 2 (2.67%) LDAP
1 2 (2.67%) Lucene
1 2 (2.67%) Node.js
1 2 (2.67%) OAuth
1 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (2.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (2.67%) OpenID
1 2 (2.67%) Regular Expression
1 2 (2.67%) REST
1 2 (2.67%) SOAP
1 2 (2.67%) Swagger
1 2 (2.67%) YAML
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.67%) CMDB
2 5 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.67%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Unix
2 7 (9.33%) Windows
3 2 (2.67%) zOS
4 1 (1.33%) CentOS
4 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 14 (18.67%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (16.00%) Capacity Management
4 12 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 10 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 9 (12.00%) Agile
6 9 (12.00%) Cloud Operations
6 9 (12.00%) Cost Control
6 9 (12.00%) Migration
6 9 (12.00%) Planning and Forecasting
7 8 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.67%) Service Delivery
8 7 (9.33%) Configuration Management
8 7 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (8.00%) ITIL
9 6 (8.00%) Performance Management
9 6 (8.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) SQL
2 8 (10.67%) Python
3 7 (9.33%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.00%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) COBOL
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.67%) REXX
5 2 (2.67%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (13.33%) Degree
2 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.00%) Azure Certification
6 5 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (4.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.67%) CCNP
8 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.33%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.33%) CCA
9 1 (1.33%) CISM
9 1 (1.33%) CISSP
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.33%) OCP
9 1 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) PMO
2 4 (5.33%) GDPR
3 3 (4.00%) QA
4 2 (2.67%) P3O
5 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.67%) Docker
3 2 (2.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Puppet
4 2 (2.67%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 23 (30.67%) Oracle
2 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.33%) Splunk
4 5 (6.67%) Remedy
5 4 (5.33%) Cisco
5 4 (5.33%) SAP
5 4 (5.33%) VMware
6 2 (2.67%) F5
6 2 (2.67%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) Juniper
6 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.67%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) JDA
7 1 (1.33%) Red Hat