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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 537 558
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 +42
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 115 307 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.42% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 82 227 209
10th Percentile £45,257 £31,250 £38,357
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +0.85%
75th Percentile £80,938 £73,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £109,750 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £64,743 £52,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year +23.32% -8.30% -3.75%

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 45,979 73,257 86,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.14% 85.46% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,654 53,821 51,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 14 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 14 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 +85 53 £80,000 +6.67% 155
Midlands +36 19 £55,000 +29.41% 34
North of England +1 17 £55,000 +4.76% 37
West Midlands +33 14 £50,000 +11.11% 22
North West -38 14 £50,000 -4.76% 22
South East +33 10 £47,500 -24.00% 81
East of England +43 9 £64,743 +53.24% 37
East Midlands +29 5 £55,000 +107.55% 10
South West +90 3 £55,000 +15.79% 22
Yorkshire +68 3 £70,000 +21.74% 13
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 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.48%) nginx
4 3 (2.61%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.74%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.87%) Azure
2 25 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (17.39%) AWS
4 11 (9.57%) GCP
5 9 (7.83%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.35%) GitHub
7 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.48%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.48%) SaaS
9 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.61%) Serverless
10 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.74%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.39%) VPN
2 19 (16.52%) Firewall
3 16 (13.91%) WAN
4 15 (13.04%) LAN
5 14 (12.17%) Network Security
6 12 (10.43%) DNS
6 12 (10.43%) TCP/IP
7 6 (5.22%) DHCP
7 6 (5.22%) VLAN
8 4 (3.48%) NetScaler
8 4 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.48%) Wireless
9 3 (2.61%) BGP
9 3 (2.61%) Internet
9 3 (2.61%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (2.61%) Multicast
9 3 (2.61%) NAS
9 3 (2.61%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.61%) SNMP
10 2 (1.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) MySQL
2 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.74%) Power BI
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.87%) DataStage
5 1 (0.87%) DB2
5 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.87%) GIS
5 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Power Query
5 1 (0.87%) QualityStage
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) GitLab
2 8 (6.96%) Git
3 7 (6.09%) JIRA
4 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 42 (36.52%) Finance
3 23 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (20.00%) Banking
4 12 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.70%) Law
6 8 (6.96%) Manufacturing
7 7 (6.09%) Legal
8 5 (4.35%) Marketing
9 4 (3.48%) Electronics
9 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.61%) Retail
11 2 (1.74%) Back Office
11 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.87%) Billing
12 1 (0.87%) Front Office
12 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.87%) Local Government
12 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (15.65%) Senior
2 17 (14.78%) Lead
3 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Team Leader
5 10 (8.70%) Administrator
6 8 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Consultant
6 8 (6.96%) IT Consultant
6 8 (6.96%) IT Manager
7 7 (6.09%) Azure Specialist
7 7 (6.09%) Cloud Specialist
7 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 7 (6.09%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (6.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Service Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Architect
9 5 (4.35%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) IT Services Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (2.61%) Node.js
2 2 (1.74%) .NET
2 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.74%) React
3 1 (0.87%) JSON
3 1 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.87%) PySpark
3 1 (0.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.09%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.87%) Clustering
6 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.70%) Windows
2 24 (20.87%) Linux
2 24 (20.87%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.57%) CentOS
4 5 (4.35%) Solaris
4 5 (4.35%) Unix
5 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.61%) Rocky
6 3 (2.61%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.74%) VMS
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.30%) ITIL
2 29 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (19.13%) Mentoring
4 21 (18.26%) High Availability
5 20 (17.39%) DevOps
5 20 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
6 18 (15.65%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (15.65%) Service Delivery
6 18 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (14.78%) Incident Management
8 16 (13.91%) Incident Response
9 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (12.17%) Architectural Design
10 14 (12.17%) Change Management
10 14 (12.17%) Roadmaps
11 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (10.43%) Agile
13 11 (9.57%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.17%) Python
3 10 (8.70%) Bash
4 9 (7.83%) SQL
5 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (3.48%) Java
7 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.87%) Go
8 1 (0.87%) R
8 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (16.52%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (14.78%) CCNA
4 16 (13.91%) Degree
5 8 (6.96%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (6.09%) Security Cleared
7 6 (5.22%) CCNP
7 6 (5.22%) PMP
8 5 (4.35%) PMI Certification
9 4 (3.48%) Master's Degree
9 4 (3.48%) RHCE
10 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.61%) MCSA
10 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.74%) HNC
11 2 (1.74%) MCSE
11 2 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.87%) MCP
12 1 (0.87%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) QA
2 11 (9.57%) SLA
3 9 (7.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.35%) PMO
4 5 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.74%) GDPR
6 2 (1.74%) NIST
7 1 (0.87%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.57%) Docker
4 8 (6.96%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.22%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (3.48%) VMware NSX
8 3 (2.61%) Firmware
9 2 (1.74%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (13.91%) Ansible
2 15 (13.04%) Terraform
3 13 (11.30%) Grafana
3 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (9.57%) Kubernetes
4 11 (9.57%) SCCM
5 9 (7.83%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.09%) Nagios
6 7 (6.09%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.35%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.48%) VxRail
9 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.74%) SCOM
10 2 (1.74%) vRealize
11 1 (0.87%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.87%) linkerd
11 1 (0.87%) NetApp OnCommand
11 1 (0.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (38.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.00%) Cisco
3 18 (15.65%) VMware
4 14 (12.17%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.96%) Fortinet
6 7 (6.09%) Splunk
7 6 (5.22%) NetApp
8 5 (4.35%) Oracle
8 5 (4.35%) Veeam
9 4 (3.48%) Bloomberg
9 4 (3.48%) CheckPoint
9 4 (3.48%) Citrix
9 4 (3.48%) Dell
9 4 (3.48%) FactSet
9 4 (3.48%) Mitel
9 4 (3.48%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.48%) Rapid7
9 4 (3.48%) Refinitiv
9 4 (3.48%) SAP
9 4 (3.48%) SolarWinds