Capacity Planning Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 85 106
Rank change year-on-year -36 +21 +35
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 7 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.39% 0.97% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.13% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 8
10th Percentile - - £464
25th Percentile - £358 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £603
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -17.01% +8.31%
75th Percentile - £553 £605
90th Percentile - £600 £611
England median daily rate £456 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.10% -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,627 1,149 1,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.84% 85.36% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 659 1,078
10th Percentile £250 £242 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -1.57% +1.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £678 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 42 25
10th Percentile £15.03 - £15.96
25th Percentile £18.74 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £19.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -11.36% +7.32%
75th Percentile £25.49 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £78.63 £54.78 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Capacity Planning
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 November 2025. 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
South Yorkshire -39 4 £450 -25.00% 1
West Yorkshire -20 3 - - 3
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Expert
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) VCAP
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (14.29%) CCA
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) HIPAA
1 3 (42.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) XenApp
3 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) PowerCLI
3 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) F5
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Broadcom
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) IBM