Capacity Planning Contracts

Capacity Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Capacity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 386 497
Rank change year-on-year +22 +111 -40
Contract jobs citing Capacity Planning 236 319 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 199 240
10th Percentile £322 £371 £375
25th Percentile £411 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £613 £657 £615
90th Percentile £688 £724 £700
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 12 1
10th Percentile £34.80 £14.55 -
25th Percentile - £25.86 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -56.28%
75th Percentile - £72.50 -
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 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,177 49,806 79,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,769 34,463 55,610
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,687 1,847
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +46 183 £500 - 111
UK excluding London +37 143 £450 -18.18% 57
Work from Home +64 83 £550 +10.00% 62
London +14 53 £575 +19.42% 53
South East +38 50 £463 -9.76% 15
South West +11 24 £575 -17.86% 4
North of England +25 23 £423 +8.33% 11
Midlands +12 21 £450 -30.77% 16
Scotland +31 20 £430 -25.22% 6
West Midlands +23 16 £450 -21.74% 9
North West +8 12 £400 +2.56% 8
Yorkshire +12 11 £425 +8.97% 2
East Midlands 0 5 £550 -16.67% 7
East of England +6 4 £288 +59.72% 2
Wales +13 1 £220 -60.00% 2

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 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.12%) CICS
3 4 (1.69%) Confluence
3 4 (1.69%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.27%) CMS
4 3 (1.27%) Drupal
4 3 (1.27%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.27%) nginx
4 3 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.81%) Chatbot
4 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (2.97%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.27%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.85%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.42%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.42%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 56 (23.73%) AWS
2 52 (22.03%) Azure
3 36 (15.25%) GCP
4 19 (8.05%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (4.24%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 9 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.81%) Twilio
8 6 (2.54%) Serverless
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.69%) PaaS
9 4 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) CloudBees
10 3 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.17%) Firewall
2 22 (9.32%) WAN
3 16 (6.78%) DNS
3 16 (6.78%) VPN
4 15 (6.36%) LAN
5 14 (5.93%) CTI
5 14 (5.93%) MPLS
5 14 (5.93%) SAN
5 14 (5.93%) VoIP
6 13 (5.51%) 5G
7 12 (5.08%) 3G
7 12 (5.08%) 4G
7 12 (5.08%) DHCP
7 12 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (4.66%) Network Security
8 11 (4.66%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (3.39%) BGP
9 8 (3.39%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.54%) OSPF
10 6 (2.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.05%) Power BI
2 14 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.51%) Oracle Database
4 12 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.39%) OLTP
5 8 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.54%) Metadata
7 5 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.12%) Big Data
7 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.12%) DB2
7 5 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.12%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.69%) MySQL
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle8/8i Database
9 3 (1.27%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Jenkins
1 6 (2.54%) JIRA
2 4 (1.69%) Gatling
2 4 (1.69%) Git
2 4 (1.69%) JUnit
2 4 (1.69%) LoadRunner
2 4 (1.69%) Selenium
3 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.27%) Subversion
4 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.85%) GitLab
4 2 (0.85%) JMeter
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 75 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (19.49%) Finance
4 23 (9.75%) Telecoms
5 21 (8.90%) Banking
6 18 (7.63%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.08%) Retail
9 8 (3.39%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.12%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.69%) Local Government
13 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.27%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.27%) Legal
13 3 (1.27%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.85%) Back Office
14 2 (0.85%) Electronics
14 2 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (12.71%) Architect
2 21 (8.90%) Analyst
3 19 (8.05%) DBA
4 18 (7.63%) Consultant
5 17 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.78%) Administrator
6 16 (6.78%) Senior
7 14 (5.93%) Lead
8 11 (4.66%) IT Analyst
8 11 (4.66%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.24%) Availability Manager
10 9 (3.81%) Developer
10 9 (3.81%) Oracle DBA
11 8 (3.39%) Capacity Manager
11 8 (3.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.39%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.39%) PMO Analyst
11 8 (3.39%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.97%) Performance Specialist
13 6 (2.54%) Capacity and Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.08%) Middleware
2 9 (3.81%) Web Services
3 7 (2.97%) Kafka
4 5 (2.12%) Lucene
5 4 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 4 (1.69%) XML
6 3 (1.27%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.27%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.27%) Node.js
6 3 (1.27%) OpenID
7 2 (0.85%) .NET
7 2 (0.85%) JSON
7 2 (0.85%) OAuth
7 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.85%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.85%) REST
7 2 (0.85%) SOAP
7 2 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.59%) Data Centre
2 23 (9.75%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.93%) IVR
4 12 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.81%) Clustering
6 8 (3.39%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.39%) Replication
7 7 (2.97%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.97%) CMDB
7 7 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.12%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.69%) Smart Meter
9 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.92%) Linux
2 33 (13.98%) Unix
3 27 (11.44%) Windows
4 5 (2.12%) zOS
5 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.42%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (17.80%) Roadmaps
3 35 (14.83%) Agile
4 33 (13.98%) Disaster Recovery
4 33 (13.98%) Performance Tuning
5 32 (13.56%) Computer Science
6 30 (12.71%) Capacity Management
6 30 (12.71%) DevOps
6 30 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (11.44%) Decision-Making
7 27 (11.44%) Migration
8 25 (10.59%) Analytics
8 25 (10.59%) Performance Optimisation
9 23 (9.75%) Configuration Management
10 22 (9.32%) Project Management
11 21 (8.90%) Performance Monitoring
12 20 (8.47%) ITIL
13 18 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (7.20%) Performance Management
15 16 (6.78%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (13.14%) Python
2 21 (8.90%) Java
3 20 (8.47%) PowerShell
3 20 (8.47%) SQL
4 10 (4.24%) Bash
5 8 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.54%) Go
6 6 (2.54%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.12%) COBOL
7 5 (2.12%) Groovy
7 5 (2.12%) REXX
7 5 (2.12%) Scala
7 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.27%) Ruby
9 2 (0.85%) C++
9 2 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.42%) C#
10 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (24.58%) Degree
2 38 (16.10%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.32%) Master's Degree
5 21 (8.90%) AWS Certification
6 18 (7.63%) Azure Certification
7 16 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (5.08%) CCNP
9 10 (4.24%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.54%) CCNA
12 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.12%) CCIE
13 3 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.27%) PhD
14 2 (0.85%) JNCIP
14 2 (0.85%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.59%) PMO
2 22 (9.32%) GDPR
3 13 (5.51%) PCI DSS
3 13 (5.51%) QA
4 11 (4.66%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.39%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.97%) SLA
7 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.85%) P3O
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 23 (9.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (8.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.81%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.39%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (2.54%) Docker
6 4 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.85%) Firmware
8 2 (0.85%) KVM
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (7.20%) Ansible
2 16 (6.78%) Terraform
3 13 (5.51%) Kubernetes
4 12 (5.08%) NetBackup
5 10 (4.24%) Nagios
6 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (3.39%) SCCM
8 5 (2.12%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.27%) Grafana
10 3 (1.27%) Netcool
10 3 (1.27%) Packer
11 2 (0.85%) Puppet
11 2 (0.85%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 43 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.56%) Oracle
3 25 (10.59%) VMware
4 20 (8.47%) Cisco
5 19 (8.05%) Google
6 14 (5.93%) Genesys
7 13 (5.51%) SAP
8 10 (4.24%) Splunk
9 9 (3.81%) Avaya
9 9 (3.81%) F5
9 9 (3.81%) NetApp
10 8 (3.39%) Hitachi
11 6 (2.54%) Juniper
12 5 (2.12%) Nokia
12 5 (2.12%) Remedy
12 5 (2.12%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.69%) Ab Initio
13 4 (1.69%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.69%) IBM
13 4 (1.69%) JDA