Capacity Planning Jobs in England

Capacity Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Capacity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 560 543
Rank change year-on-year -9 -17 +93
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 110 307 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.41% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 76 222 208
10th Percentile £45,699 £31,475 £38,211
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +0.87%
75th Percentile £80,313 £73,938 £70,688
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +2.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Capacity Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Capacity Planning in England

Capacity Planning
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Planning within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London +77 58 £80,000 +6.67% 109
Midlands +39 17 £55,000 +22.22% 16
North of England -9 15 £60,000 +15.94% 18
West Midlands +35 13 £50,000 +11.11% 15
North West -39 12 £53,750 +5.39% 12
South East +9 9 £47,500 -24.00% 26
East of England +42 4 £66,410 +57.18% 12
East Midlands +38 4 £55,000 +107.55% 1
South West +93 3 £55,000 +15.79% 5
Yorkshire +50 3 £70,000 +21.74% 6
Capacity Planning
UK

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.55%) nginx
3 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.73%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.82%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.91%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 48 (43.64%) Azure
2 22 (20.00%) AWS
3 20 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (11.82%) GCP
5 7 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (6.36%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.55%) GitHub
7 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.64%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.64%) Rubrik
9 3 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.73%) Serverless
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.82%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.91%) VPN
2 21 (19.09%) Firewall
3 16 (14.55%) WAN
4 15 (13.64%) LAN
4 15 (13.64%) Network Security
5 14 (12.73%) TCP/IP
6 12 (10.91%) DNS
7 6 (5.45%) DHCP
7 6 (5.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (5.45%) VLAN
8 4 (3.64%) NAS
8 4 (3.64%) NetScaler
8 4 (3.64%) SAN
8 4 (3.64%) SNMP
8 4 (3.64%) Unified Communications
8 4 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.64%) Wireless
9 3 (2.73%) BGP
9 3 (2.73%) Multicast
9 3 (2.73%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) MySQL
2 7 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.82%) Power BI
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.91%) DataStage
5 1 (0.91%) DB2
5 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.91%) GIS
5 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.91%) QualityStage
5 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.00%) GitLab
2 8 (7.27%) Git
3 3 (2.73%) JIRA
4 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (39.09%) Finance
2 42 (38.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (21.82%) Banking
4 10 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (9.09%) Law
5 7 (6.36%) Legal
6 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.55%) Marketing
7 4 (3.64%) Retail
8 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.91%) Aviation
9 1 (0.91%) Electronics
9 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Local Government
9 1 (0.91%) Police
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (17.27%) Lead
2 15 (13.64%) Senior
3 13 (11.82%) Team Leader
4 12 (10.91%) Administrator
5 11 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) Linux Administrator
7 8 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Azure Specialist
8 7 (6.36%) Cloud Specialist
8 7 (6.36%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 6 (5.45%) Consultant
9 6 (5.45%) IT Consultant
9 6 (5.45%) IT Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) IT Manager
9 6 (5.45%) Network Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Site Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (2.73%) Node.js
2 2 (1.82%) .NET
2 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.82%) React
3 1 (0.91%) PySpark
3 1 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.36%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Clustering
7 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.09%) Windows
2 29 (26.36%) Linux
3 25 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 13 (11.82%) CentOS
5 7 (6.36%) Solaris
5 7 (6.36%) Unix
6 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.73%) Rocky
8 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) ITIL
2 28 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (20.91%) Root Cause Analysis
4 21 (19.09%) DevOps
4 21 (19.09%) Mentoring
5 20 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (18.18%) High Availability
5 20 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 19 (17.27%) CI/CD
6 19 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (17.27%) Incident Management
7 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (12.73%) Change Management
8 14 (12.73%) Cost Optimisation
8 14 (12.73%) Service Delivery
9 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
9 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (10.91%) Architectural Design
10 12 (10.91%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.55%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.73%) Python
3 11 (10.00%) Bash
4 7 (6.36%) SQL
5 5 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (3.64%) Java
7 1 (0.91%) Go
7 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (19.09%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (17.27%) CCNA
4 10 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.09%) Degree
4 10 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (7.27%) CCNP
6 6 (5.45%) RHCE
7 5 (4.55%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.73%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.73%) PMP
9 2 (1.82%) HNC
9 2 (1.82%) MCSA
9 2 (1.82%) MCSE
10 1 (0.91%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.91%) OCP
10 1 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.91%) PgMP
10 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.73%) SLA
2 10 (9.09%) QA
3 9 (8.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.64%) PMO
6 3 (2.73%) GDPR
7 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.82%) NIST
8 1 (0.91%) P3O
System Software
1 25 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.91%) Docker
4 10 (9.09%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.73%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.82%) Firmware
8 2 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (15.45%) Terraform
2 16 (14.55%) Ansible
3 15 (13.64%) Grafana
4 12 (10.91%) Kubernetes
5 11 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (8.18%) SCCM
7 7 (6.36%) Nagios
7 7 (6.36%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (5.45%) VxRail
9 5 (4.55%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.64%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (3.64%) vCenter Server
11 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.82%) HAProxy
12 2 (1.82%) Istio
12 2 (1.82%) linkerd
12 2 (1.82%) SCOM
13 1 (0.91%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 26 (23.64%) Cisco
3 19 (17.27%) VMware
4 15 (13.64%) Red Hat
5 11 (10.00%) Splunk
6 8 (7.27%) Fortinet
7 6 (5.45%) CheckPoint
7 6 (5.45%) NetApp
8 5 (4.55%) Veeam
9 4 (3.64%) Bloomberg
9 4 (3.64%) Citrix
9 4 (3.64%) Dell
9 4 (3.64%) FactSet
9 4 (3.64%) Mitel
9 4 (3.64%) Oracle
9 4 (3.64%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.64%) Rapid7
9 4 (3.64%) SAP
9 4 (3.64%) Sophos
9 4 (3.64%) Zscaler