Capacity Planning Job Trends in the North West

Capacity Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 183 155
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 +133
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 11 29 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.56% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.62% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 30
10th Percentile £36,125 £37,375 £34,500
25th Percentile £44,875 £39,563 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -0.12% -4.89%
75th Percentile £63,250 £48,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,625 £50,625 £74,000
England median annual salary £70,313 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +27.84% -3.51% +4.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,110 4,671 3,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.50% 90.38% 89.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,286 2,752
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,354 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in the North West

Capacity Planning
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Capacity Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Capacity Planning in the North West

Capacity Planning
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Planning within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester +11 7 £55,000 +37.50% 1
Cheshire -24 3 £48,250 +1.58% 2
Cumbria +2 1 - - 2
Capacity Planning
England

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (9.09%) SAP IBP
2 1 (9.09%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Storage
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) IPsec
1 1 (9.09%) Junos
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) MPLS
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Pivotal Tracker
General
1 3 (27.27%) Retail
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior PMO
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Account Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Account Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) SAP PP Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Practitioner
4 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior SAP PP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) SUSE
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (36.36%) High Availability
1 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
1 4 (36.36%) Runbook
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Observability
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) Project Governance
2 3 (27.27%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Presales
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bicep
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) ABAP
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) JNCIA
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Fujitsu
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper