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 16 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 426 626
Rank change year-on-year -136 +200 +7
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 288 441 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.68% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.72% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 164 265 420
10th Percentile £40,375 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,306 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +6.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,813 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £51,044
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.75% +6.34%

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 67,815 61,292 148,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.13% 94.69% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 36,177 43,297 80,928
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%

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 16 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Top 17 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 16 September 2024. 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 -115 257 £54,000 -13.60% 81
UK excluding London -127 190 £54,000 -1.82% 56
Work from Home -19 122 £54,000 -10.00% 49
London -7 86 £67,500 -10.00% 34
North of England -22 62 £47,500 -5.00% 10
South East -49 41 £65,000 -2.99% 15
North West -15 40 £47,500 -7.32% 7
East of England -13 27 £54,000 -1.82% 3
South West -25 21 £47,500 -0.12% 10
Yorkshire +11 20 £47,500 -0.12% 3
Wales +44 15 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Midlands -91 13 £56,000 -1.32% 9
Scotland -61 10 £52,500 -8.70% 7
West Midlands -34 8 £60,000 +41.84% 8
East Midlands -90 5 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North East -28 2 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

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 21 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.82%) Apache
3 9 (3.13%) Oracle Service Bus
3 9 (3.13%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.39%) SAS
6 3 (1.04%) Confluence
6 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.51%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.39%) SPSS
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (9.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.39%) NEC Housing
3 3 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Primavera
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 115 (39.93%) Azure
2 55 (19.10%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (18.75%) AWS
4 29 (10.07%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.29%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (7.29%) Azure Storage
6 16 (5.56%) GCP
7 11 (3.82%) Nutanix
8 9 (3.13%) IaaS
9 8 (2.78%) PaaS
9 8 (2.78%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.08%) GitHub
10 6 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.04%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.04%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 46 (15.97%) LAN
1 46 (15.97%) WAN
2 40 (13.89%) SAN
3 37 (12.85%) DNS
4 32 (11.11%) Firewall
5 30 (10.42%) NAS
6 26 (9.03%) DHCP
7 24 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
8 19 (6.60%) VPN
9 15 (5.21%) Network Security
10 12 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (4.17%) Wireless
11 9 (3.13%) VLAN
12 8 (2.78%) Broadband
12 8 (2.78%) TCP/IP
13 7 (2.43%) Internet
13 7 (2.43%) MPLS
13 7 (2.43%) SNMP
14 6 (2.08%) IPsec
14 6 (2.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.90%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.13%) Oracle Database 10g
3 9 (3.13%) Oracle Database 11g
3 9 (3.13%) VLDB
4 8 (2.78%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.43%) Power BI
5 7 (2.43%) Tableau
6 6 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
6 6 (2.08%) DB2
6 6 (2.08%) MySQL
7 5 (1.74%) Data Mart
7 5 (1.74%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.39%) Big Data
8 4 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.69%) GIS
9 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.43%) GitLab
2 5 (1.74%) Git
2 5 (1.74%) JIRA
3 2 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 70 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
2 60 (20.83%) Finance
3 58 (20.14%) Social Skills
4 27 (9.38%) Law
5 11 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.08%) Banking
9 6 (2.08%) Legal
9 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.74%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.39%) Local Government
11 4 (1.39%) Police
11 4 (1.39%) Retail
12 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (14.58%) Cloud Engineer
1 42 (14.58%) Lead
2 38 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 36 (12.50%) Analyst
3 36 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (12.50%) Senior
4 29 (10.07%) Team Leader
5 26 (9.03%) DBA
6 25 (8.68%) Network Engineer
6 25 (8.68%) Support Team Leader
7 20 (6.94%) Administrator
8 18 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 14 (4.86%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.17%) Applications Support
10 12 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
11 11 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.47%) Capacity Analyst
12 10 (3.47%) Capacity Planning Analyst
12 10 (3.47%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.13%) Kafka
2 5 (1.74%) .NET
2 5 (1.74%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.39%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.39%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.39%) EDI
4 3 (1.04%) Blazor
4 3 (1.04%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.04%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.04%) Middleware
4 3 (1.04%) Spring
5 2 (0.69%) Node.js
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (0.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.35%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.35%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.35%) Next.js
6 1 (0.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.81%) Management Information System
2 27 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.99%) Public Cloud
4 22 (7.64%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.82%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.13%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.78%) IoT
7 8 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
8 7 (2.43%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.08%) PKI
10 5 (1.74%) Replication
11 4 (1.39%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.39%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (1.39%) PMI
11 4 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 95 (32.99%) Linux
2 87 (30.21%) Windows
3 33 (11.46%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.64%) Unix
5 9 (3.13%) Solaris
6 6 (2.08%) AIX
7 4 (1.39%) CentOS
7 4 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.04%) SUSE
8 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Rocky
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 76 (26.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 70 (24.31%) Disaster Recovery
4 66 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (17.71%) Incident Management
6 47 (16.32%) Mentoring
7 46 (15.97%) DevOps
8 44 (15.28%) CI/CD
8 44 (15.28%) ITIL
9 43 (14.93%) Customer Service
9 43 (14.93%) Performance Tuning
10 40 (13.89%) Change Management
10 40 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (13.19%) Analytics
12 37 (12.85%) Project Management
13 35 (12.15%) Computer Science
13 35 (12.15%) Infrastructure Management
13 35 (12.15%) Project Delivery
14 34 (11.81%) Trend Analysis
15 30 (10.42%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (21.53%) SQL
2 37 (12.85%) Bash
3 36 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 24 (8.33%) Python
5 16 (5.56%) Perl
5 16 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 12 (4.17%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.13%) VBA
8 8 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.74%) Java
10 4 (1.39%) C#
10 4 (1.39%) R
11 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.35%) COBOL
12 1 (0.35%) Go
12 1 (0.35%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) REXX
12 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (27.78%) Degree
2 43 (14.93%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.68%) Azure Certification
4 24 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (4.51%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.78%) CCNP
7 8 (2.78%) PhD
8 5 (1.74%) MBA
9 4 (1.39%) CCIE
9 4 (1.39%) CCNA
9 4 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.04%) CCIE Data Center
10 3 (1.04%) RHCE
10 3 (1.04%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.60%) SLA
2 12 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.08%) GDPR
3 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.08%) PMO
4 5 (1.74%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.69%) QA
7 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) P3O
System Software
1 57 (19.79%) Active Directory
2 39 (13.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.82%) Docker
4 11 (3.82%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.39%) Firmware
6 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.04%) KVM
7 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.60%) Ansible
2 19 (6.60%) Terraform
3 15 (5.21%) Oracle RMAN
4 14 (4.86%) Kubernetes
5 13 (4.51%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.08%) Argo
6 6 (2.08%) SCCM
7 5 (1.74%) Grafana
7 5 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.39%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.39%) Puppet
9 3 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.69%) Nagios
10 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.35%) Graphite
11 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 79 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 62 (21.53%) VMware
3 27 (9.38%) Remedy
4 24 (8.33%) Oracle
5 20 (6.94%) Cisco
6 19 (6.60%) Citrix
7 18 (6.25%) BMC
8 10 (3.47%) Red Hat
9 9 (3.13%) Sun
10 8 (2.78%) ANSYS
10 8 (2.78%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.78%) HP
10 8 (2.78%) NetApp
11 7 (2.43%) Google
11 7 (2.43%) SolarWinds
12 6 (2.08%) Dell
12 6 (2.08%) SAP
13 5 (1.74%) IBM
13 5 (1.74%) Isilon
13 5 (1.74%) Juniper