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 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 354 409 613
Rank change year-on-year +55 +204 -122
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 238 292 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.57% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 211 163
10th Percentile £350 £375 £395
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £568 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +0.80% +15.49%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £463 £510
% change year-on-year +7.03% -9.31% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 3
10th Percentile £22.08 £56.25 -
25th Percentile £23.43 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%
75th Percentile - £65.38 £34.23
90th Percentile - £65.75 £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 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +87 204 £495 -15.09% 37
UK excluding London +82 136 £495 +7.03% 21
London +48 88 £596 -4.64% 17
Work from Home +95 73 £493 +2.44% 7
South West +50 56 £495 +1.02% 5
Scotland +23 24 £600 +29.73% 1
North of England +39 23 £493 +23.25% 6
South East +6 23 £575 - 4
North West +30 21 £493 +23.25% 5
East of England +9 7 £350 +1.45% 3
West Midlands +25 3 £500 +29.03% 2
Midlands +22 3 £500 +33.33% 2
Yorkshire +13 2 - -

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 (17.23%) Confluence
2 39 (16.39%) SharePoint
3 34 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
4 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.94%) IIS
5 7 (2.94%) SAS
6 5 (2.10%) Apache
6 5 (2.10%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.26%) CMS
8 2 (0.84%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.84%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.10%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.68%) Aligne
4 2 (0.84%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.42%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.21%) Azure
2 35 (14.71%) Azure Stack
3 26 (10.92%) AWS
4 16 (6.72%) PaaS
5 10 (4.20%) GitHub
6 7 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.10%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.68%) IaaS
8 4 (1.68%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.26%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.26%) Azure Storage
9 3 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.26%) GCP
9 3 (1.26%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.84%) OCI
10 2 (0.84%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 45 (18.91%) Firewall
2 40 (16.81%) BGP
3 22 (9.24%) LAN
4 18 (7.56%) DNS
5 16 (6.72%) FTP
6 15 (6.30%) SAN
6 15 (6.30%) WAN
7 13 (5.46%) DHCP
8 12 (5.04%) TCP/IP
8 12 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (4.62%) VPN
10 9 (3.78%) MPLS
11 8 (3.36%) Network Security
12 6 (2.52%) Internet
12 6 (2.52%) OSPF
12 6 (2.52%) Wireless
13 5 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.10%) H.323
13 5 (2.10%) HTTP
13 5 (2.10%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.72%) Hadoop
3 11 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.94%) Power BI
6 5 (2.10%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.10%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (1.68%) DB2
8 3 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.26%) GIS
8 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (1.26%) MySQL
8 3 (1.26%) Spatial Data
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (21.43%) JIRA
2 10 (4.20%) Artifactory
2 10 (4.20%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.20%) Subversion
3 9 (3.78%) GitLab
4 3 (1.26%) Git
5 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 97 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (15.13%) Public Sector
4 34 (14.29%) Finance
5 24 (10.08%) Organisational Skills
6 22 (9.24%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.88%) Electronics
7 14 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.88%) Marketing
8 12 (5.04%) Banking
9 9 (3.78%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.36%) Aerospace
10 8 (3.36%) Billing
11 7 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.52%) Legal
13 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.84%) Local Government
14 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (14.71%) Analyst
2 22 (9.24%) Availability Manager
2 22 (9.24%) Capacity Manager
3 18 (7.56%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
5 16 (6.72%) Implementation Specialist
5 16 (6.72%) Lead
6 15 (6.30%) Consultant
7 12 (5.04%) Architect
7 12 (5.04%) Database Specialist
8 11 (4.62%) IT Analyst
9 10 (4.20%) DBA
9 10 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.36%) Administrator
10 8 (3.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.36%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.36%) Senior
11 7 (2.94%) Exchange Engineer
11 7 (2.94%) IT Support
12 6 (2.52%) Citrix Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.56%) LDAP
2 10 (4.20%) .NET
3 9 (3.78%) Middleware
4 8 (3.36%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (2.10%) Flash
5 5 (2.10%) POSIX
6 4 (1.68%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.68%) CSS
6 4 (1.68%) HTML
7 3 (1.26%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.84%) ISPF
9 1 (0.42%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.42%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.42%) React Native
9 1 (0.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.39%) Data Centre
2 36 (15.13%) Private Cloud
3 32 (13.45%) Management Information System
4 24 (10.08%) Replication
5 19 (7.98%) Clustering
6 13 (5.46%) Client/Server
7 10 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.36%) Derivative
9 7 (2.94%) CMDB
9 7 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.52%) Market Risk
11 5 (2.10%) IVR
11 5 (2.10%) NVMe
11 5 (2.10%) PKI
11 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.10%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 4 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.26%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.84%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 96 (40.34%) Windows
2 47 (19.75%) Unix
3 44 (18.49%) Linux
4 14 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.68%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.84%) zOS
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.99%) ITIL
2 64 (26.89%) Migration
3 62 (26.05%) Service Management
4 50 (21.01%) Disaster Recovery
5 48 (20.17%) Network Management
6 46 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (17.65%) High Availability
8 38 (15.97%) Agile
8 38 (15.97%) Availability Management
9 37 (15.55%) Problem Management
10 36 (15.13%) Security Monitoring
11 34 (14.29%) ITSM
12 33 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (12.61%) Capacity Planning
13 30 (12.61%) Change Management
14 25 (10.50%) Data Migration
15 23 (9.66%) Mentoring
16 22 (9.24%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (8.82%) DevOps
17 21 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.87%) PowerShell
2 28 (11.76%) Python
3 26 (10.92%) SQL
4 19 (7.98%) Java
5 10 (4.20%) Bash
5 10 (4.20%) C#
5 10 (4.20%) C++
6 8 (3.36%) Perl
7 6 (2.52%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.26%) Ruby
8 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.84%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.84%) JCL
9 2 (0.84%) REXX
10 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (38.66%) Security Cleared
2 55 (23.11%) SC Cleared
3 38 (15.97%) Degree
4 36 (15.13%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.52%) ISACA
7 4 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.26%) MCITP
8 3 (1.26%) MCTS
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.84%) CCNA
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.42%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (3.78%) SLA
3 7 (2.94%) COBIT
3 7 (2.94%) GDPR
3 7 (2.94%) NIST
4 3 (1.26%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (15.55%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (8.82%) NFS
4 16 (6.72%) HDFS
5 13 (5.46%) vSphere
6 10 (4.20%) Hyper-V
7 8 (3.36%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (3.36%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (2.10%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.68%) Docker
9 4 (1.68%) GPFS
10 2 (0.84%) ACF2
10 2 (0.84%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.84%) RACF
10 2 (0.84%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (13.45%) SCOM
2 20 (8.40%) Ansible
3 17 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
4 16 (6.72%) SCCM
5 14 (5.88%) Terraform
6 12 (5.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 10 (4.20%) Nagios
7 10 (4.20%) NetBackup
8 9 (3.78%) BladeLogic
9 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (3.36%) VxRail
10 7 (2.94%) Kubernetes
10 7 (2.94%) SCVMM
11 6 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (2.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.68%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
14 3 (1.26%) Opsgenie
15 2 (0.84%) Kibana
15 2 (0.84%) logstash
Vendors
1 64 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 39 (16.39%) Atlassian
3 37 (15.55%) VMware
4 20 (8.40%) Cisco
5 19 (7.98%) Oracle
6 16 (6.72%) Isilon
6 16 (6.72%) SAP
7 15 (6.30%) Dell
7 15 (6.30%) Red Hat
7 15 (6.30%) SolarWinds
8 12 (5.04%) Dynatrace
8 12 (5.04%) NetApp
9 9 (3.78%) Altiris
9 9 (3.78%) Citrix
10 8 (3.36%) Hitachi
10 8 (3.36%) IBM
10 8 (3.36%) Juniper
11 7 (2.94%) Avaya
11 7 (2.94%) Splunk
12 6 (2.52%) Brocade