Capacity Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Capacity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 832 689
Rank change year-on-year +133 -143 +52
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Management 209 163 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 81 90 418
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,063 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,188 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £79,720
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,745 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.76% +9.09% +20.88%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +40 150 £48,745 -18.76% 26
England +84 147 £55,000 -8.33% 42
Work from Home +83 62 £55,000 -6.38% 17
London +112 44 £72,500 +11.54% 15
South West +5 40 £59,500 +40.00% 4
Wales +44 34 £50,000 +25.00% 1
North of England +33 19 £43,000 -9.80% 7
South East +5 19 £34,000 -45.38% 7
Midlands -3 18 £44,000 -32.31% 5
North West +13 15 £43,000 -18.10% 6
East Midlands -9 10 £40,000 -43.66%
West Midlands +6 8 £44,000 -29.60% 5
Scotland -56 8 £52,495 -7.09%
East of England +22 7 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +77 4 £57,500 +35.29% 1
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £51,000 -

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 44 (21.05%) Oracle Service Bus
1 44 (21.05%) WebLogic
2 20 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) IIS
3 1 (0.48%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.48%) nginx
3 1 (0.48%) SAS
3 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (22.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (21.05%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 44 (21.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.97%) Azure
2 33 (15.79%) SaaS
3 26 (12.44%) AWS
4 14 (6.70%) Serverless
5 12 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.78%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.31%) GitHub
8 7 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.35%) GCP
8 7 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.87%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.87%) Rubrik
10 5 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.39%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (2.39%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (1.91%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.44%) IaaS
12 3 (1.44%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.18%) Firewall
2 11 (5.26%) DHCP
2 11 (5.26%) DNS
3 10 (4.78%) Network Security
3 10 (4.78%) SSL
4 9 (4.31%) SAN
5 8 (3.83%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.35%) VPN
7 6 (2.87%) LAN
8 5 (2.39%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.39%) WAN
9 4 (1.91%) BGP
9 4 (1.91%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.44%) Internet
10 3 (1.44%) OSPF
10 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.44%) VLAN
10 3 (1.44%) Wireless
11 2 (0.96%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.53%) Oracle Database
1 45 (21.53%) Oracle Database 10g
2 44 (21.05%) Oracle Database 11g
2 44 (21.05%) VLDB
3 32 (15.31%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.39%) MaxDB
5 5 (2.39%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.39%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.44%) MySQL
7 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.96%) Power BI
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.48%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.66%) Git
2 13 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.83%) Vagrant
4 7 (3.35%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.35%) git-flow
4 7 (3.35%) GitLab
5 5 (2.39%) MSTest
6 4 (1.91%) JIRA
7 3 (1.44%) GoCD
General
1 71 (33.97%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (26.32%) Finance
3 27 (12.92%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.78%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.39%) Games
5 5 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.39%) Retail
6 2 (0.96%) Back Office
6 2 (0.96%) Banking
6 2 (0.96%) Electronics
6 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.48%) Law
7 1 (0.48%) Legal
7 1 (0.48%) Local Government
7 1 (0.48%) Marketing
7 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (28.23%) Analyst
2 45 (21.53%) Applications Support
3 44 (21.05%) Applications Support Analyst
3 44 (21.05%) Oracle Analyst
3 44 (21.05%) Oracle Support Analyst
3 44 (21.05%) SQL Analyst
3 44 (21.05%) SQL Support Analyst
3 44 (21.05%) Support Analyst
4 40 (19.14%) Administrator
5 32 (15.31%) DBA
6 30 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 28 (13.40%) DV Cleared DBA
7 28 (13.40%) Senior
8 18 (8.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Infrastructure Support
9 12 (5.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Support Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) Senior Support Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.35%) .NET
2 7 (3.35%) XML
3 5 (2.39%) .NET Core
3 5 (2.39%) Blazor
3 5 (2.39%) BREW
3 5 (2.39%) JSON
3 5 (2.39%) SAP Basis
3 5 (2.39%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.44%) Node.js
5 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.96%) LDAP
6 1 (0.48%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.48%) HTML
6 1 (0.48%) LAMP
6 1 (0.48%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.48%) Middleware
6 1 (0.48%) SOAP
6 1 (0.48%) Spring
6 1 (0.48%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.31%) Management Information System
2 19 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (8.61%) Data Centre
4 16 (7.66%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.78%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (3.35%) Operational Technology
7 7 (3.35%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.87%) Clustering
9 5 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.96%) CMDB
11 2 (0.96%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.96%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) PKI
11 2 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 117 (55.98%) Linux
2 78 (37.32%) Windows
3 57 (27.27%) Unix
4 44 (21.05%) Solaris
5 41 (19.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 40 (19.14%) CentOS
7 31 (14.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (14.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (11.96%) Windows Server
9 9 (4.31%) Ubuntu
10 8 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.96%) Android
11 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.48%) AIX
12 1 (0.48%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.80%) Performance Monitoring
2 78 (37.32%) Actionable Insight
3 56 (26.79%) Capacity Planning
4 49 (23.44%) Incident Management
4 49 (23.44%) Performance Tuning
5 48 (22.97%) ITSM
6 45 (21.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 45 (21.53%) Release Management
7 36 (17.22%) Mentoring
8 35 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (16.27%) Agile
10 32 (15.31%) User Experience
11 31 (14.83%) Database Tuning
11 31 (14.83%) Storage Management
12 30 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.44%) Availability Management
14 26 (12.44%) DevOps
15 23 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (11.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.54%) SQL
2 44 (21.05%) PL/SQL
3 42 (20.10%) PowerShell
4 39 (18.66%) Bash
5 18 (8.61%) Shell Script
6 15 (7.18%) Java
7 11 (5.26%) Python
8 7 (3.35%) C#
9 6 (2.87%) ABAP
10 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 67 (32.06%) Degree
3 56 (26.79%) SC Cleared
4 33 (15.79%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.87%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.39%) CCNP
9 3 (1.44%) CCNA
9 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.96%) CCAA
10 2 (0.96%) CCIE
10 2 (0.96%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.96%) ISACA
10 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.96%) MCP
10 2 (0.96%) MCTS
10 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (24.88%) SLA
2 14 (6.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.35%) QA
4 5 (2.39%) SOC 1
4 5 (2.39%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.91%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.44%) GDPR
6 3 (1.44%) NIST
7 2 (0.96%) COBIT
8 1 (0.48%) CDISC
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (21.53%) Oracle RAC
2 35 (16.75%) Active Directory
3 31 (14.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (10.53%) Docker
5 10 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.87%) DFS Replication
6 6 (2.87%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.96%) Firmware
7 2 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (21.53%) Data Guard
2 44 (21.05%) Oracle RMAN
3 26 (12.44%) Ansible
4 18 (8.61%) Terraform
5 12 (5.74%) Kubernetes
5 12 (5.74%) vCenter Server
6 7 (3.35%) Puppet
7 6 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (2.87%) NetBackup
7 6 (2.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (1.91%) Grafana
8 4 (1.91%) SCOM
9 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.48%) Cacti
10 1 (0.48%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.48%) Icinga
10 1 (0.48%) Kibana
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.48%) Salt
Vendors
1 80 (38.28%) Oracle
2 56 (26.79%) Microsoft
3 47 (22.49%) Remedy
4 45 (21.53%) Sun
5 37 (17.70%) VMware
6 32 (15.31%) Red Hat
7 14 (6.70%) Cisco
7 14 (6.70%) Citrix
8 11 (5.26%) Google
9 7 (3.35%) McAfee
9 7 (3.35%) Sybase
9 7 (3.35%) Veeam
10 6 (2.87%) SAP
11 4 (1.91%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.91%) Globalscape
12 3 (1.44%) HP
13 2 (0.96%) 3PAR
13 2 (0.96%) Juniper
14 1 (0.48%) F5
14 1 (0.48%) Riverbed