Capacity Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Capacity Management
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 Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 369 490
Rank change year-on-year +95 +121 -73
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 73 99 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.45% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 78 101
10th Percentile £360 £375 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -12.50% +13.40%
75th Percentile £525 £587 £650
90th Percentile £643 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £498 £568 £563
% change year-on-year -12.33% +0.80% +15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Capacity Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Capacity Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Management
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 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 a work from home option citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 19 (26.03%) Confluence
2 17 (23.29%) SharePoint
2 17 (23.29%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.74%) CMS
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) Azure
2 17 (23.29%) Azure Stack
3 7 (9.59%) PaaS
4 6 (8.22%) AWS
5 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.74%) GCP
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub
6 2 (2.74%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.77%) Firewall
2 19 (26.03%) BGP
3 7 (9.59%) FTP
4 4 (5.48%) LAN
4 4 (5.48%) VPN
4 4 (5.48%) VSAN
5 3 (4.11%) WAN
6 2 (2.74%) 5G
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.74%) FabricPath
6 2 (2.74%) NX-OS
6 2 (2.74%) OSPF
6 2 (2.74%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.37%) 4G
7 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.37%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) Hadoop
2 5 (6.85%) Power BI
3 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (34.25%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) Artifactory
2 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.48%) Subversion
4 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.37%) Git
5 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (52.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Electronics
6 5 (6.85%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.85%) Marketing
7 3 (4.11%) Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Billing
8 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Lead
3 9 (12.33%) Availability Manager
4 7 (9.59%) Capacity Manager
4 7 (9.59%) Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) Implementation Specialist
5 5 (6.85%) Capacity and Availability Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Administrator
7 3 (4.11%) Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Service Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Cisco Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) Data Centre Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Data Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) Migration Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) Network Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Network Technical Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Technical Leader
8 2 (2.74%) VMware Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) LDAP
2 4 (5.48%) .NET
2 4 (5.48%) Middleware
3 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.74%) CSS
3 2 (2.74%) HTML
4 1 (1.37%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Private Cloud
2 7 (9.59%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.59%) Replication
3 5 (6.85%) CMDB
3 5 (6.85%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.48%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (43.84%) Windows
2 9 (12.33%) Linux
2 9 (12.33%) Unix
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Service Management
2 25 (34.25%) ITIL
3 23 (31.51%) ITSM
4 19 (26.03%) Network Management
5 18 (24.66%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (23.29%) Security Monitoring
7 16 (21.92%) Agile
7 16 (21.92%) Migration
8 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (16.44%) Capacity Planning
9 12 (16.44%) Time Management
10 11 (15.07%) Availability Management
11 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (13.70%) Configuration Management
11 10 (13.70%) Problem Management
12 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (12.33%) Kanban
12 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.96%) DevOps
13 8 (10.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) Python
2 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.22%) Java
4 5 (6.85%) SQL
5 4 (5.48%) C#
5 4 (5.48%) C++
6 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.74%) Perl
6 2 (2.74%) Ruby
7 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (46.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.29%) DV Cleared
2 17 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) Degree
4 5 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.29%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.59%) HDFS
2 7 (9.59%) NFS
2 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.48%) vSphere
4 3 (4.11%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (24.66%) SCOM
2 5 (6.85%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) BladeLogic
3 4 (5.48%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (5.48%) vCenter Server
3 4 (5.48%) VxRail
4 3 (4.11%) Terraform
5 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.74%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.37%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.37%) SCCM
6 1 (1.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 21 (28.77%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.29%) Atlassian
3 10 (13.70%) VMware
4 7 (9.59%) Cisco
4 7 (9.59%) Dell
4 7 (9.59%) Isilon
5 6 (8.22%) Dynatrace
6 5 (6.85%) Remedy
6 5 (6.85%) SAP
7 4 (5.48%) Altiris
7 4 (5.48%) Citrix
7 4 (5.48%) Splunk
8 2 (2.74%) F5
8 2 (2.74%) Oracle
8 2 (2.74%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.74%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.74%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.37%) Genesys