Capacity Planning Jobs

Capacity Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 496 622
Rank change year-on-year -37 +126 -8
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 137 394 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.49% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 93 285 244
10th Percentile £40,100 £31,250 £38,475
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,743 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.32% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £82,000 £87,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 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
England -14 127 £64,743 +17.71% 208
UK excluding London -23 78 £55,000 +15.79% 78
Work from Home +71 50 £55,000 -15.38% 85
London +48 48 £78,750 +3.28% 153
Midlands +35 24 £55,000 +69.23% 6
North of England +42 19 £45,750 -12.86% 25
South East +35 19 £55,000 -12.00% 23
West Midlands +7 18 £50,000 +29.03% 3
North West -3 14 £41,500 -20.95% 15
East of England +48 9 £64,743 +53.24% 2
East Midlands +47 6 £55,000 +107.55% 3
Yorkshire +65 5 £50,000 -20.00% 8
South West +93 3 £55,000 +83.33% 2
Scotland +97 2 £46,250 +42.31% 10
Isle of Man +10 2 £43,000 -

Capacity Planning
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 6 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.92%) nginx
3 3 (2.19%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.46%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.46%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.46%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.46%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.73%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 53 (38.69%) Azure
2 28 (20.44%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (16.06%) AWS
4 12 (8.76%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.03%) GCP
6 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (5.11%) SaaS
8 6 (4.38%) GitHub
9 5 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.92%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.92%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.19%) Serverless
12 2 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.46%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.52%) Firewall
2 20 (14.60%) VPN
3 14 (10.22%) LAN
3 14 (10.22%) WAN
4 13 (9.49%) DNS
4 13 (9.49%) Network Security
5 8 (5.84%) SD-WAN
5 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.11%) BGP
7 6 (4.38%) DHCP
7 6 (4.38%) Internet
7 6 (4.38%) VLAN
8 5 (3.65%) 4G
8 5 (3.65%) NAS
8 5 (3.65%) SAN
9 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.92%) Wireless
10 3 (2.19%) Multicast
10 3 (2.19%) SNMP
10 3 (2.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) MySQL
2 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.92%) Power BI
5 3 (2.19%) Power Query
6 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.73%) DataStage
7 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.73%) GIS
7 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.73%) QualityStage
7 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) GitLab
2 9 (6.57%) Git
3 8 (5.84%) JIRA
4 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (27.74%) Finance
2 36 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.95%) Banking
5 14 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.30%) Law
7 7 (5.11%) Legal
8 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.65%) Marketing
10 4 (2.92%) Electronics
10 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.19%) Retail
12 2 (1.46%) Back Office
13 1 (0.73%) Billing
13 1 (0.73%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.73%) Local Government
13 1 (0.73%) Police
13 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (16.06%) Senior
2 17 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (9.49%) Consultant
3 13 (9.49%) Lead
4 11 (8.03%) IT Consultant
5 10 (7.30%) Administrator
5 10 (7.30%) Analyst
6 9 (6.57%) Network Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) IT Manager
7 8 (5.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Architect
8 7 (5.11%) Azure Specialist
8 7 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Cloud Specialist
8 7 (5.11%) DBA
8 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 7 (5.11%) Service Manager
8 7 (5.11%) Team Leader
9 6 (4.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.92%) Middleware
2 3 (2.19%) .NET
2 3 (2.19%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (2.19%) Node.js
3 2 (1.46%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.46%) JSON
3 2 (1.46%) React
3 2 (1.46%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.73%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.73%) Akka
4 1 (0.73%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.73%) Blazor
4 1 (0.73%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.73%) Kafka
4 1 (0.73%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.65%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.65%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.92%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.46%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.73%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.36%) Windows
2 18 (13.14%) Windows Server
3 15 (10.95%) Linux
4 7 (5.11%) CentOS
5 6 (4.38%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.65%) VMS
7 3 (2.19%) Rocky
8 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (27.74%) ITIL
2 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (16.79%) Service Delivery
4 22 (16.06%) DevOps
4 22 (16.06%) Mentoring
4 22 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (14.60%) High Availability
6 19 (13.87%) CI/CD
6 19 (13.87%) Project Management
7 18 (13.14%) Change Management
7 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (12.41%) Architectural Design
8 17 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.68%) Incident Response
9 16 (11.68%) Roadmaps
10 15 (10.95%) Containerisation
10 15 (10.95%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (10.22%) Incident Management
11 14 (10.22%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.95%) Python
2 14 (10.22%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.22%) SQL
3 10 (7.30%) Bash
4 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.92%) Java
6 3 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.46%) ABAP
7 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.46%) R
8 1 (0.73%) C#
8 1 (0.73%) Go
8 1 (0.73%) Scala
8 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (17.52%) Degree
2 21 (15.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (14.60%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (11.68%) CCNA
5 12 (8.76%) Security Cleared
6 9 (6.57%) Master's Degree
6 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.11%) PMP
8 6 (4.38%) CCNP
9 5 (3.65%) PMI Certification
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (2.92%) MCSA
11 3 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.46%) CCIE
12 2 (1.46%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (1.46%) MCP
12 2 (1.46%) MCSE
12 2 (1.46%) RHCA
12 2 (1.46%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) QA
2 9 (6.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (5.84%) SLA
4 5 (3.65%) PMO
5 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.73%) P3O
System Software
1 28 (20.44%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.76%) Docker
4 6 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.65%) BitLocker
5 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.65%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.65%) vSphere
6 4 (2.92%) Firmware
7 3 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.46%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (12.41%) Ansible
1 17 (12.41%) Terraform
2 15 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (10.22%) SCCM
4 12 (8.76%) Grafana
5 8 (5.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.11%) Nagios
7 5 (3.65%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.92%) VxRail
9 3 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.19%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.19%) vRealize
10 2 (1.46%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.46%) WSUS
11 1 (0.73%) Istio
11 1 (0.73%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 47 (34.31%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.98%) Cisco
3 22 (16.06%) VMware
4 13 (9.49%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.84%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.11%) CheckPoint
6 7 (5.11%) Splunk
7 5 (3.65%) Dell
7 5 (3.65%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.65%) Oracle
7 5 (3.65%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.92%) Rapid7
8 4 (2.92%) SAP
9 3 (2.19%) EMC
9 3 (2.19%) Facebook
9 3 (2.19%) Meraki
9 3 (2.19%) NetApp
9 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.46%) McAfee
10 2 (1.46%) Veeam