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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 705 795 679
Rank change year-on-year +90 -116 +46
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Management 211 171 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 83 97 423
10th Percentile £37,600 £40,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £50,750 £47,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,000 £79,920
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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 5 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 5 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 +34 150 £48,745 -18.76% 30
England +91 149 £55,000 -8.33% 49
Work from Home +78 62 £57,500 -2.13% 21
London +120 46 £72,500 +11.54% 20
South West +9 40 £59,500 +40.00% 4
Wales +45 34 £50,000 +25.00% 1
North of England +32 19 £43,000 -11.95% 9
South East +10 19 £34,000 -45.38% 8
Midlands +6 18 £44,000 -32.31% 5
North West +11 15 £43,000 -18.10% 7
East Midlands -5 10 £40,000 -43.66%
West Midlands +3 8 £44,000 -26.67% 5
Scotland -57 8 £52,495 -7.09%
East of England +23 7 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +80 4 £57,500 -5.84% 2
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £51,000 - 1

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 (20.85%) Oracle Service Bus
1 44 (20.85%) WebLogic
2 20 (9.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (21.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (20.85%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (20.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 44 (20.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.37%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.95%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.75%) Azure
2 33 (15.64%) SaaS
3 26 (12.32%) AWS
4 14 (6.64%) Serverless
5 12 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.74%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.27%) GitHub
8 7 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.32%) GCP
8 7 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.84%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.84%) Rubrik
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.37%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (2.37%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (1.90%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.42%) IaaS
12 3 (1.42%) OCI
12 3 (1.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.06%) Firewall
2 12 (5.69%) DNS
3 11 (5.21%) DHCP
4 10 (4.74%) Network Security
4 10 (4.74%) SSL
5 9 (4.27%) SAN
6 8 (3.79%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.79%) VPN
7 6 (2.84%) BGP
7 6 (2.84%) LAN
8 5 (2.37%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.37%) WAN
9 4 (1.90%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.42%) Internet
10 3 (1.42%) IPv6
10 3 (1.42%) OSPF
10 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.42%) VLAN
10 3 (1.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.33%) Oracle Database
1 45 (21.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 44 (20.85%) Oracle Database 11g
2 44 (20.85%) VLDB
3 32 (15.17%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.37%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.37%) MaxDB
5 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.37%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.42%) MySQL
7 2 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.95%) Power BI
7 2 (0.95%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.47%) Metadata
8 1 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 15 (7.11%) Git
2 12 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.79%) Vagrant
4 7 (3.32%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.32%) git-flow
4 7 (3.32%) GitLab
5 5 (2.37%) MSTest
6 4 (1.90%) JIRA
7 2 (0.95%) GoCD
General
1 71 (33.65%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (26.07%) Finance
3 27 (12.80%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.74%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.74%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.32%) Games
6 5 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.37%) Retail
7 2 (0.95%) Back Office
7 2 (0.95%) Banking
7 2 (0.95%) Electronics
7 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Law
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Local Government
8 1 (0.47%) Marketing
8 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (27.96%) Analyst
2 45 (21.33%) Applications Support
3 44 (20.85%) Applications Support Analyst
3 44 (20.85%) Oracle Analyst
3 44 (20.85%) Oracle Support Analyst
3 44 (20.85%) SQL Analyst
3 44 (20.85%) SQL Support Analyst
3 44 (20.85%) Support Analyst
4 40 (18.96%) Administrator
5 32 (15.17%) DBA
6 30 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (13.74%) Senior
8 28 (13.27%) DV Cleared DBA
9 18 (8.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Infrastructure Support
10 12 (5.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Support Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Senior Support Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.32%) .NET
2 7 (3.32%) XML
3 5 (2.37%) .NET Core
3 5 (2.37%) Blazor
3 5 (2.37%) BREW
3 5 (2.37%) JSON
3 5 (2.37%) SAP Basis
3 5 (2.37%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.42%) LDAP
4 3 (1.42%) Node.js
5 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.95%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.47%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.47%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.47%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.47%) Middleware
6 1 (0.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.17%) Management Information System
2 20 (9.48%) Data Centre
3 19 (9.00%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (7.58%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.74%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (3.32%) Operational Technology
7 7 (3.32%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.84%) Clustering
9 5 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.37%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.37%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.95%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.95%) PKI
11 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 118 (55.92%) Linux
2 77 (36.49%) Windows
3 57 (27.01%) Unix
4 44 (20.85%) Solaris
5 41 (19.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 40 (18.96%) CentOS
7 31 (14.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (14.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (11.37%) Windows Server
9 9 (4.27%) Ubuntu
10 8 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.42%) Debian
12 2 (0.95%) Android
12 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.47%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.44%) Performance Monitoring
2 78 (36.97%) Actionable Insight
3 56 (26.54%) Capacity Planning
4 49 (23.22%) Incident Management
4 49 (23.22%) Performance Tuning
5 48 (22.75%) ITSM
6 45 (21.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 45 (21.33%) Release Management
7 36 (17.06%) Mentoring
8 35 (16.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (15.64%) Agile
10 32 (15.17%) User Experience
11 31 (14.69%) Database Tuning
11 31 (14.69%) Storage Management
12 30 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.32%) Availability Management
15 25 (11.85%) DevOps
16 23 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (10.90%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.13%) SQL
2 44 (20.85%) PL/SQL
3 42 (19.91%) PowerShell
4 40 (18.96%) Bash
5 17 (8.06%) Shell Script
6 15 (7.11%) Java
7 12 (5.69%) Python
8 7 (3.32%) ABAP
8 7 (3.32%) C#
9 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.47%) Go
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (43.13%) Security Cleared
2 67 (31.75%) Degree
3 56 (26.54%) SC Cleared
4 33 (15.64%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.84%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.37%) CCNP
9 3 (1.42%) CCNA
9 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.95%) CCAA
10 2 (0.95%) CCIE
10 2 (0.95%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.95%) ISACA
10 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.95%) MCP
10 2 (0.95%) MCTS
10 2 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (24.64%) SLA
2 14 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.32%) QA
4 5 (2.37%) SOC 1
4 5 (2.37%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.90%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 3 (1.42%) NIST
7 2 (0.95%) COBIT
8 1 (0.47%) CDISC
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (21.33%) Oracle RAC
2 35 (16.59%) Active Directory
3 31 (14.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (9.95%) Docker
5 10 (4.74%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.84%) DFS Replication
6 6 (2.84%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.95%) Firmware
7 2 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (21.33%) Data Guard
2 44 (20.85%) Oracle RMAN
3 28 (13.27%) Ansible
4 18 (8.53%) Terraform
5 12 (5.69%) vCenter Server
6 11 (5.21%) Kubernetes
7 7 (3.32%) Puppet
8 6 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (2.84%) NetBackup
8 6 (2.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.90%) SCOM
10 3 (1.42%) Grafana
10 3 (1.42%) Salt
11 1 (0.47%) Cacti
11 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.47%) Icinga
11 1 (0.47%) Kibana
11 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 80 (37.91%) Oracle
2 56 (26.54%) Microsoft
3 47 (22.27%) Remedy
4 45 (21.33%) Sun
5 36 (17.06%) VMware
6 34 (16.11%) Red Hat
7 15 (7.11%) Cisco
8 14 (6.64%) Citrix
9 11 (5.21%) Google
10 7 (3.32%) McAfee
10 7 (3.32%) SAP
10 7 (3.32%) Sybase
10 7 (3.32%) Veeam
11 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.90%) Globalscape
11 4 (1.90%) Juniper
12 3 (1.42%) HP
13 2 (0.95%) 3PAR
14 1 (0.47%) F5
14 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow