Capacity Management Contracts

Capacity Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Capacity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Management 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 344 428 603
Rank change year-on-year +84 +175 -92
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 269 300 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.50% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.56% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 214 170
10th Percentile £350 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +1.02% +16.08%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £482 £510
% change year-on-year +2.64% -5.44% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 3
10th Percentile £22.05 £61.50 -
25th Percentile £22.68 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £34.23
90th Percentile £45.54 - £42.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Capacity Management 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
England +95 232 £500 -14.24% 37
UK excluding London +100 151 £495 +2.64% 24
London +65 102 £600 -4.00% 14
Work from Home +93 75 £493 +2.44% 16
South West +52 56 £495 -2.46% 1
North of England +46 32 £493 +23.25% 10
North West +36 27 £488 +21.88% 9
Scotland +24 25 £600 +29.73% 1
South East +9 24 £575 +0.88% 4
East of England +15 11 £350 +2.94% 2
Yorkshire +25 5 £650 +62.50% 1
West Midlands +27 3 £500 +25.00% 4
Midlands +23 3 £500 +31.58% 4

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 41 (15.24%) Confluence
2 39 (14.50%) SharePoint
3 34 (12.64%) SharePoint Server
4 18 (6.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (5.95%) IIS
6 14 (5.20%) Apache
6 14 (5.20%) Tomcat
7 7 (2.60%) SAS
8 4 (1.49%) CMS
9 3 (1.12%) IBM Domino
9 3 (1.12%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.49%) Aligne
4 2 (0.74%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.05%) Azure
2 35 (13.01%) Azure Stack
3 29 (10.78%) AWS
4 16 (5.95%) PaaS
5 10 (3.72%) GitHub
6 9 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.60%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.23%) IaaS
10 5 (1.86%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.49%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.49%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.12%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.12%) GCP
12 3 (1.12%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.74%) OCI
13 2 (0.74%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 52 (19.33%) Firewall
2 42 (15.61%) BGP
3 28 (10.41%) LAN
4 21 (7.81%) WAN
5 20 (7.43%) DNS
5 20 (7.43%) TCP/IP
6 16 (5.95%) FTP
6 16 (5.95%) SAN
7 14 (5.20%) VPN
7 14 (5.20%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (4.83%) DHCP
9 12 (4.46%) H.323
9 12 (4.46%) HTTP
10 11 (4.09%) WLAN
11 10 (3.72%) Network Security
12 9 (3.35%) MPLS
12 9 (3.35%) Wireless
13 8 (2.97%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (2.97%) OSPF
14 6 (2.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.32%) Hadoop
3 11 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.60%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.60%) Power BI
6 5 (1.86%) DB2
6 5 (1.86%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.86%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.12%) GIS
7 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (1.12%) MySQL
7 3 (1.12%) Spatial Data
7 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.37%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 51 (18.96%) JIRA
2 13 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.09%) Subversion
4 10 (3.72%) Artifactory
4 10 (3.72%) GitLab
5 4 (1.49%) Git
6 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.93%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (15.61%) Finance
4 39 (14.50%) Public Sector
5 30 (11.15%) Telecoms
6 24 (8.92%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (5.58%) Banking
7 15 (5.58%) Electronics
7 15 (5.58%) Manufacturing
7 15 (5.58%) Marketing
8 12 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.46%) Legal
9 9 (3.35%) Billing
10 8 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.12%) Local Government
13 2 (0.74%) Games
14 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (13.75%) Analyst
2 22 (8.18%) Availability Manager
2 22 (8.18%) Capacity Manager
3 18 (6.69%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 18 (6.69%) Lead
4 17 (6.32%) Microsoft Engineer
5 16 (5.95%) Implementation Specialist
6 15 (5.58%) Consultant
7 13 (4.83%) Architect
7 13 (4.83%) Database Specialist
8 12 (4.46%) IT Analyst
9 10 (3.72%) DBA
9 10 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.35%) IT Support
10 9 (3.35%) Senior
11 8 (2.97%) Administrator
11 8 (2.97%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (2.97%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (2.97%) Network Specialist
12 7 (2.60%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.69%) LDAP
2 15 (5.58%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (3.72%) .NET
4 9 (3.35%) Middleware
5 5 (1.86%) Flash
5 5 (1.86%) POSIX
6 4 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.49%) CSS
6 4 (1.49%) HTML
7 3 (1.12%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.74%) ISPF
9 1 (0.37%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.37%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.37%) Kafka
9 1 (0.37%) React Native
9 1 (0.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.24%) Data Centre
1 41 (15.24%) Management Information System
2 36 (13.38%) Private Cloud
3 24 (8.92%) Replication
4 19 (7.06%) Clustering
5 15 (5.58%) Client/Server
5 15 (5.58%) Derivative
6 13 (4.83%) IVR
7 10 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.60%) CMDB
8 7 (2.60%) PKI
8 7 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.23%) Market Risk
9 6 (2.23%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.86%) NVMe
10 5 (1.86%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.74%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 106 (39.41%) Windows
2 61 (22.68%) Linux
3 50 (18.59%) Unix
4 19 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.49%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.74%) zOS
8 1 (0.37%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) VMS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.77%) ITIL
2 70 (26.02%) Migration
3 61 (22.68%) Service Management
4 55 (20.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 51 (18.96%) Network Management
6 50 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (18.22%) High Availability
8 47 (17.47%) Change Management
9 45 (16.73%) Agile
10 44 (16.36%) Availability Management
11 36 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (13.38%) Problem Management
11 36 (13.38%) Security Monitoring
12 33 (12.27%) ITSM
13 30 (11.15%) Capacity Planning
14 25 (9.29%) Data Migration
15 24 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (8.92%) Incident Management
15 24 (8.92%) Mentoring
15 24 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.01%) PowerShell
2 29 (10.78%) Python
3 26 (9.67%) SQL
4 21 (7.81%) Java
5 10 (3.72%) Bash
5 10 (3.72%) C#
5 10 (3.72%) C++
6 8 (2.97%) Perl
7 6 (2.23%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.12%) Ruby
8 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.74%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.74%) JCL
9 2 (0.74%) REXX
9 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (35.69%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.13%) Degree
4 37 (13.75%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.23%) ISACA
7 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.12%) MCITP
8 3 (1.12%) MCTS
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.74%) CCNA
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.37%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.64%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (3.35%) SLA
3 7 (2.60%) COBIT
3 7 (2.60%) GDPR
3 7 (2.60%) NIST
4 3 (1.12%) QA
5 2 (0.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (15.24%) Active Directory
2 35 (13.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.81%) NFS
4 17 (6.32%) HDFS
5 13 (4.83%) vSphere
6 11 (4.09%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.97%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (2.97%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.49%) Docker
9 4 (1.49%) GPFS
10 2 (0.74%) ACF2
10 2 (0.74%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.74%) RACF
10 2 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 33 (12.27%) SCOM
2 22 (8.18%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (7.81%) Ansible
4 17 (6.32%) SCCM
5 15 (5.58%) Terraform
6 12 (4.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 11 (4.09%) NetBackup
8 10 (3.72%) Nagios
9 9 (3.35%) BladeLogic
10 8 (2.97%) Kubernetes
10 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (2.97%) SCVMM
10 8 (2.97%) VxRail
11 6 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (2.23%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.86%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.49%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.12%) Opsgenie
15 2 (0.74%) logstash
Vendors
1 74 (27.51%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.50%) Atlassian
3 38 (14.13%) VMware
4 24 (8.92%) Cisco
5 23 (8.55%) Red Hat
6 22 (8.18%) Oracle
7 17 (6.32%) SAP
7 17 (6.32%) SolarWinds
8 16 (5.95%) Dell
8 16 (5.95%) Isilon
9 15 (5.58%) Avaya
10 12 (4.46%) Dynatrace
10 12 (4.46%) NetApp
10 12 (4.46%) Verint
11 10 (3.72%) Juniper
12 9 (3.35%) Altiris
12 9 (3.35%) Citrix
12 9 (3.35%) IBM
12 9 (3.35%) Palo Alto
13 8 (2.97%) Hitachi