Capacity Planning Contracts

Capacity Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 390 497
Rank change year-on-year +32 +107 -44
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 228 322 389
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.57% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 196 241
10th Percentile £320 £356 £380
25th Percentile £411 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £610
90th Percentile £688 £719 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 1
10th Percentile £34.80 £16.20 -
25th Percentile - £30.19 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -56.28%
75th Percentile - £67.88 -
90th Percentile - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.46% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +28 177 £500 - 97
UK excluding London +35 141 £450 -18.18% 64
Work from Home +59 78 £505 +1.00% 39
South East +32 50 £475 -5.00% 21
London +20 48 £588 +23.68% 43
South West +13 24 £575 -17.86% 5
Midlands +18 21 £450 -30.77% 15
North of England +16 21 £423 +8.33% 8
Scotland +23 20 £430 -25.22% 7
West Midlands +20 16 £450 -21.74% 5
North West +14 11 £400 +2.56% 3
Yorkshire +18 10 £425 +8.97% 3
East Midlands +1 5 £550 -16.67% 10
East of England +4 4 £288 +59.72% 5
Wales +11 1 £220 -60.00% 5

Capacity Planning
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 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.19%) CICS
4 4 (1.75%) Confluence
4 4 (1.75%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.32%) CMS
5 3 (1.32%) Drupal
5 3 (1.32%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.32%) nginx
5 3 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.95%) Chatbot
4 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (3.07%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.44%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.44%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.25%) AWS
2 52 (22.81%) Azure
3 34 (14.91%) GCP
4 19 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (4.39%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 9 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.95%) Twilio
8 6 (2.63%) Serverless
9 4 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.75%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.75%) PaaS
9 4 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) CloudBees
10 3 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.53%) Firewall
2 22 (9.65%) WAN
3 17 (7.46%) DNS
4 15 (6.58%) LAN
4 15 (6.58%) VPN
5 14 (6.14%) CTI
5 14 (6.14%) MPLS
5 14 (6.14%) SAN
5 14 (6.14%) VoIP
6 13 (5.70%) 5G
7 12 (5.26%) 3G
7 12 (5.26%) 4G
7 12 (5.26%) DHCP
8 11 (4.82%) Network Security
8 11 (4.82%) Radio Access Network
8 11 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (3.51%) BGP
9 8 (3.51%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.63%) OSPF
10 6 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.33%) Power BI
2 14 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.70%) Oracle Database
4 12 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.82%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.51%) OLTP
7 7 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.63%) Metadata
9 5 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.19%) Big Data
9 5 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.19%) DB2
9 5 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.75%) MySQL
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle8/8i Database
10 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.32%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (3.07%) JIRA
2 6 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.75%) Git
3 4 (1.75%) Selenium
4 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.32%) Gatling
4 3 (1.32%) JUnit
4 3 (1.32%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.32%) Subversion
5 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.88%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) JMeter
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
General
1 74 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (20.18%) Finance
4 23 (10.09%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.46%) Banking
7 13 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.26%) Retail
9 8 (3.51%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.75%) Local Government
14 3 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.32%) Legal
14 3 (1.32%) Public Speaking
15 2 (0.88%) Back Office
15 2 (0.88%) Electronics
15 2 (0.88%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (13.16%) Architect
2 21 (9.21%) Analyst
3 18 (7.89%) DBA
4 17 (7.46%) Consultant
4 17 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.02%) Administrator
5 16 (7.02%) Senior
6 13 (5.70%) Lead
7 11 (4.82%) IT Analyst
7 11 (4.82%) Network Engineer
8 10 (4.39%) Availability Manager
9 9 (3.95%) Oracle DBA
10 8 (3.51%) Capacity Manager
10 8 (3.51%) Developer
10 8 (3.51%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) PMO Analyst
11 7 (3.07%) Performance Specialist
12 6 (2.63%) Capacity and Availability Manager
12 6 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.26%) Middleware
2 9 (3.95%) Web Services
3 5 (2.19%) Kafka
3 5 (2.19%) Lucene
4 4 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (1.75%) XML
5 3 (1.32%) Apache Beam
5 3 (1.32%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.32%) Node.js
5 3 (1.32%) OpenID
6 2 (0.88%) .NET
6 2 (0.88%) JSON
6 2 (0.88%) OAuth
6 2 (0.88%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.88%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.88%) REST
6 2 (0.88%) SOAP
6 2 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 23 (10.09%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.14%) IVR
4 12 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.51%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.51%) Clustering
5 8 (3.51%) Replication
6 7 (3.07%) CMDB
6 7 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.63%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.75%) Smart Meter
8 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.61%) Linux
2 33 (14.47%) Unix
3 26 (11.40%) Windows
4 5 (2.19%) zOS
5 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (17.54%) Roadmaps
3 35 (15.35%) Agile
4 32 (14.04%) Computer Science
4 32 (14.04%) Performance Tuning
5 31 (13.60%) Disaster Recovery
6 30 (13.16%) Capacity Management
6 30 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (12.72%) DevOps
8 27 (11.84%) Decision-Making
9 25 (10.96%) Analytics
9 25 (10.96%) Performance Optimisation
10 24 (10.53%) Migration
11 23 (10.09%) Configuration Management
11 23 (10.09%) Project Management
12 21 (9.21%) Performance Monitoring
13 19 (8.33%) ITIL
14 18 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (7.02%) Data Migration
15 16 (7.02%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.72%) Python
2 20 (8.77%) SQL
3 19 (8.33%) Java
4 17 (7.46%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.51%) Bash
6 6 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.19%) COBOL
7 5 (2.19%) REXX
7 5 (2.19%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.75%) Go
9 3 (1.32%) Groovy
9 3 (1.32%) Ruby
9 3 (1.32%) Scala
10 2 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.44%) C#
11 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (25.00%) Degree
2 37 (16.23%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.65%) Master's Degree
5 21 (9.21%) AWS Certification
6 18 (7.89%) Azure Certification
7 16 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (5.26%) CCNP
9 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.95%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.63%) CCNA
12 5 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.19%) CCIE
13 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.32%) PhD
14 2 (0.88%) JNCIP
14 2 (0.88%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.09%) PMO
2 21 (9.21%) GDPR
3 13 (5.70%) PCI DSS
4 11 (4.82%) HIPAA
4 11 (4.82%) QA
5 8 (3.51%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.63%) SLA
7 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.88%) P3O
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (10.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (9.21%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.95%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.51%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (2.63%) Docker
6 4 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.88%) KVM
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.88%) vSphere
9 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (7.46%) Ansible
2 14 (6.14%) Terraform
3 12 (5.26%) NetBackup
4 10 (4.39%) Nagios
5 9 (3.95%) Kubernetes
6 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (3.51%) SCCM
7 5 (2.19%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.32%) Grafana
9 3 (1.32%) Netcool
9 3 (1.32%) Packer
10 2 (0.88%) Puppet
10 2 (0.88%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.88%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 42 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 32 (14.04%) Oracle
3 25 (10.96%) VMware
4 20 (8.77%) Cisco
5 17 (7.46%) Google
6 14 (6.14%) Genesys
7 11 (4.82%) SAP
8 10 (4.39%) F5
9 9 (3.95%) Avaya
9 9 (3.95%) NetApp
10 8 (3.51%) Hitachi
10 8 (3.51%) Splunk
11 6 (2.63%) Juniper
11 6 (2.63%) Nokia
12 5 (2.19%) Remedy
12 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.75%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.75%) IBM
13 4 (1.75%) JDA
13 4 (1.75%) Salesforce