Capacity Planning Job Trends in London

Capacity Planning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 366 352
Rank change year-on-year +39 -14 +219
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 68 59 84
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.50% 0.37% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.40% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 42 29 67
10th Percentile £41,375 £63,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £76,500 £79,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -4.08% +13.93%
75th Percentile £106,563 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £138,000 £108,000 £101,000
England median annual salary £70,313 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +27.84% -3.51% +4.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Capacity Planning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in London

Capacity Planning
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Capacity Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Capacity Planning in London

Capacity Planning
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Planning within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Central London +38 8 £77,500 +1.31% 22
East London - 5 £42,500 - 1
South London +28 1 - -
West London - 1 £80,000 -
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.94%) MTS
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.47%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.47%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) AWS
3 10 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (11.76%) Serverless
6 7 (10.29%) SaaS
7 6 (8.82%) Rubrik
8 5 (7.35%) GitHub
8 5 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.35%) IaaS
8 5 (7.35%) PaaS
9 4 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (4.41%) GCP
10 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.94%) Cohesity
11 2 (2.94%) Nutanix
11 2 (2.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) WAN
1 13 (19.12%) Wireless
2 12 (17.65%) LAN
3 9 (13.24%) Firewall
3 9 (13.24%) SD-WAN
3 9 (13.24%) Wireshark
4 8 (11.76%) NAS
4 8 (11.76%) SAN
5 6 (8.82%) Network Security
6 5 (7.35%) DNS
6 5 (7.35%) Unified Communications
6 5 (7.35%) VPN
7 4 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.47%) BGP
8 1 (1.47%) Broadband
8 1 (1.47%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.47%) Internet
8 1 (1.47%) MPLS
8 1 (1.47%) SNMP
8 1 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.41%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
4 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) GitLab
3 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (50.00%) Finance
1 34 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Telecoms
4 7 (10.29%) Marketing
5 5 (7.35%) Billing
5 5 (7.35%) Law
6 4 (5.88%) Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.94%) Electronics
8 2 (2.94%) International Banking
8 2 (2.94%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.47%) Automotive
9 1 (1.47%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.47%) French Language
9 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (14.71%) Senior
2 9 (13.24%) Network Engineer
3 7 (10.29%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Backup Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (7.35%) Administrator
5 5 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) DBA
5 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) SQL DBA
5 5 (7.35%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Network Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Network Support
6 4 (5.88%) Network Support Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.47%) .NET
1 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.47%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.47%) EDI
1 1 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (1.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.88%) Web3
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) AS400
6 2 (2.94%) CMDB
6 2 (2.94%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.94%) Replication
6 2 (2.94%) Shadow IT
6 2 (2.94%) Social Media
6 2 (2.94%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.47%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Equities
7 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.71%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Windows
3 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) CentOS
4 1 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Solaris
4 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) Change Management
2 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (27.94%) DevOps
4 17 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 14 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (20.59%) Network Monitoring
6 13 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (19.12%) Customer Service
7 12 (17.65%) Analytics
7 12 (17.65%) Load Balancing
8 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
8 11 (16.18%) Performance Optimisation
8 11 (16.18%) Problem Management
8 11 (16.18%) Service Delivery
9 10 (14.71%) Agile
9 10 (14.71%) Coaching
10 9 (13.24%) Asset Management
10 9 (13.24%) Migration
10 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.53%) Python
2 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.71%) Bash
4 7 (10.29%) SQL
5 5 (7.35%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.88%) Bicep
7 1 (1.47%) C#
7 1 (1.47%) Go
7 1 (1.47%) Java
7 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) CCNP
2 5 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.35%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.88%) ACCA
3 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.88%) MBA
4 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.47%) APMP
5 1 (1.47%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (1.47%) CIMA
5 1 (1.47%) PMP
5 1 (1.47%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) GRC
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.94%) PMO
2 2 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) MiFID
3 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
1 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Firmware
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) NFS
3 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (25.00%) Ansible
2 15 (22.06%) Terraform
3 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
4 6 (8.82%) Avamar
5 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.88%) Grafana
6 4 (5.88%) logstash
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.94%) Nagios
7 2 (2.94%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.47%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (1.47%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.47%) Icinga
8 1 (1.47%) Istio
8 1 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.47%) linkerd
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.47%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Cisco
2 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.65%) Palo Alto
3 10 (14.71%) SolarWinds
4 9 (13.24%) Meraki
5 8 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 8 (11.76%) Veeam
6 7 (10.29%) Dell
6 7 (10.29%) NetApp
6 7 (10.29%) SAP
7 6 (8.82%) Pure Storage
8 5 (7.35%) Splunk
8 5 (7.35%) VMware
9 4 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (5.88%) Fortinet
10 3 (4.41%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.47%) Aderant
11 1 (1.47%) iManage
11 1 (1.47%) Intapp
11 1 (1.47%) NVIDIA