Capacity Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 581 612
Rank change year-on-year +44 +31 -37
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 392 439 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.44% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 265 241 468
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,275
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,000 £71,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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
UK excluding London +30 308 £47,500 -5.00% 59
England +31 300 £55,000 -3.93% 97
Work from Home +104 138 £65,000 +13.04% 49
South East +68 85 £62,500 +4.17% 14
London +83 72 £77,500 +12.32% 39
North of England +39 66 £52,500 +5.00% 13
North West +50 57 £52,500 +2.94% 11
Wales - 53 £46,604 -
Midlands -44 47 £37,500 -18.92% 17
West Midlands +6 37 £45,000 - 13
Scotland -55 25 £32,500 -33.67% 5
South West -7 15 £37,500 -18.48% 4
East of England +7 12 £42,250 -29.58% 6
East Midlands -48 10 £26,500 -44.21% 4
Yorkshire +59 9 £58,750 -3.69% 2
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +29 1 - - 2

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 46 (11.73%) WebLogic
2 45 (11.48%) Oracle Service Bus
3 38 (9.69%) IIS
4 26 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (4.85%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.77%) CICS
6 3 (0.77%) Confluence
7 2 (0.51%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) Apache
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 62 (15.82%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (15.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (12.76%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.51%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 49 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.77%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (41.33%) Azure
2 91 (23.21%) AWS
3 64 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (9.95%) GCP
5 29 (7.40%) Cloud Computing
6 20 (5.10%) IaaS
7 19 (4.85%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.34%) Nutanix
9 16 (4.08%) Entra ID
10 14 (3.57%) OneDrive
11 13 (3.32%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.04%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.79%) Mavenlink
14 7 (1.79%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.28%) Azure Storage
15 5 (1.28%) PaaS
16 4 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (1.02%) SaaS
17 3 (0.77%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 77 (19.64%) DNS
2 69 (17.60%) WAN
3 63 (16.07%) Firewall
4 52 (13.27%) DHCP
5 29 (7.40%) LAN
6 23 (5.87%) TCP/IP
7 22 (5.61%) SAN
8 21 (5.36%) Network Security
8 21 (5.36%) VPN
8 21 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (5.10%) Wireless
10 17 (4.34%) SD-WAN
11 15 (3.83%) SNMP
12 14 (3.57%) iSCSI
13 13 (3.32%) Internet
13 13 (3.32%) Unified Communications
14 12 (3.06%) MPLS
14 12 (3.06%) VLAN
15 11 (2.81%) IPsec
16 10 (2.55%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 53 (13.52%) Oracle Database
3 46 (11.73%) Oracle Database 11g
4 45 (11.48%) Oracle Database 10g
4 45 (11.48%) VLDB
5 38 (9.69%) MySQL
6 26 (6.63%) NoSQL
6 26 (6.63%) RDBMS
6 26 (6.63%) Relational Database
7 13 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (2.81%) Power BI
10 10 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.53%) Tableau
12 4 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.02%) DB2
13 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.77%) Big Data
13 3 (0.77%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 17 (4.34%) JIRA
2 13 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) GitLab
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 125 (31.89%) Analytical Skills
2 100 (25.51%) Social Skills
3 80 (20.41%) Finance
4 21 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 14 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.32%) Local Government
7 13 (3.32%) Police
8 8 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.79%) Law
9 7 (1.79%) Retail
10 6 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Automotive
12 3 (0.77%) Aviation
12 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 2 (0.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 74 (18.88%) Analyst
2 49 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (12.50%) Senior
3 46 (11.73%) Applications Support
4 45 (11.48%) Applications Support Analyst
4 45 (11.48%) DBA
4 45 (11.48%) Oracle Analyst
4 45 (11.48%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 45 (11.48%) SQL Analyst
4 45 (11.48%) SQL Support Analyst
4 45 (11.48%) Support Analyst
5 34 (8.67%) Network Engineer
6 30 (7.65%) Systems Engineer
7 25 (6.38%) Oracle DBA
8 24 (6.12%) Lead
9 23 (5.87%) Administrator
10 21 (5.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (5.10%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 18 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.59%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (2.55%) YAML
2 6 (1.53%) LDAP
3 5 (1.28%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.02%) .NET
4 4 (1.02%) Akka
4 4 (1.02%) Web Services
4 4 (1.02%) XML
5 3 (0.77%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.77%) JSON
6 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.51%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.51%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.51%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.51%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.51%) Middleware
6 2 (0.51%) Node.js
7 1 (0.26%) J2EE
7 1 (0.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.46%) Public Cloud
2 39 (9.95%) Clustering
3 34 (8.67%) Management Information System
4 26 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (5.87%) Data Centre
6 22 (5.61%) PMI
7 17 (4.34%) IoT
8 15 (3.83%) Replication
9 10 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (2.30%) PKI
11 8 (2.04%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.04%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (1.02%) Client/Server
14 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 120 (30.61%) Linux
2 102 (26.02%) Windows
3 68 (17.35%) Unix
4 46 (11.73%) Solaris
5 41 (10.46%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.02%) zOS
8 3 (0.77%) CatOS
9 2 (0.51%) AIX
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 92 (23.47%) Incident Management
4 85 (21.68%) Performance Tuning
5 83 (21.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 81 (20.66%) ITIL
7 80 (20.41%) Artificial Intelligence
8 72 (18.37%) Performance Monitoring
9 64 (16.33%) Actionable Insight
10 63 (16.07%) High Availability
10 63 (16.07%) ITSM
11 62 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (14.54%) Capacity Management
12 57 (14.54%) Performance Analysis
13 54 (13.78%) Project Management
14 50 (12.76%) CI/CD
14 50 (12.76%) Release Management
15 49 (12.50%) Change Management
15 49 (12.50%) DevOps
16 45 (11.48%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 121 (30.87%) SQL
2 51 (13.01%) PL/SQL
3 35 (8.93%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.67%) Python
5 33 (8.42%) Bash
5 33 (8.42%) Java
6 25 (6.38%) Perl
7 9 (2.30%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.02%) COBOL
9 4 (1.02%) REXX
10 3 (0.77%) JCL
11 2 (0.51%) C#
11 2 (0.51%) PHP
12 1 (0.26%) AWK
12 1 (0.26%) C++
12 1 (0.26%) Korn
12 1 (0.26%) ProC
12 1 (0.26%) R
12 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 125 (31.89%) Degree
2 98 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 65 (16.58%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) PMI Certification
5 19 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (4.08%) CCNA
6 16 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.57%) CCNP
8 13 (3.32%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 5 (1.28%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.02%) CCIE
11 4 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.02%) PhD
12 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.77%) Check Point Certification
12 3 (0.77%) CISSP
13 2 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.27%) SLA
2 19 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.06%) GDPR
4 11 (2.81%) PMO
5 5 (1.28%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.28%) QA
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 77 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 48 (12.24%) Oracle RAC
3 47 (11.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (6.63%) VMware NSX
5 21 (5.36%) Hyper-V
6 20 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (4.85%) Docker
8 13 (3.32%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (2.04%) Firmware
11 3 (0.77%) RACF
11 3 (0.77%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.77%) vSphere
12 2 (0.51%) NFS
13 1 (0.26%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 49 (12.50%) Data Guard
2 48 (12.24%) Oracle RMAN
3 29 (7.40%) Terraform
4 24 (6.12%) Ansible
5 18 (4.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (3.83%) Kubernetes
8 13 (3.32%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.06%) Grafana
9 12 (3.06%) Opsgenie
9 12 (3.06%) VxRail
9 12 (3.06%) ZABBIX
10 10 (2.55%) Graphite
10 10 (2.55%) HAProxy
10 10 (2.55%) Nagios
10 10 (2.55%) Puppet
11 6 (1.53%) WSUS
12 3 (0.77%) MAINVIEW
13 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 142 (36.22%) Microsoft
2 100 (25.51%) VMware
3 73 (18.62%) Oracle
4 49 (12.50%) Remedy
5 45 (11.48%) Sun
6 39 (9.95%) Cisco
7 32 (8.16%) Fortinet
8 22 (5.61%) SolarWinds
9 20 (5.10%) Citrix
10 19 (4.85%) Dell
11 15 (3.83%) NetApp
12 11 (2.81%) BT
12 11 (2.81%) Juniper
13 10 (2.55%) Mitel
14 9 (2.30%) Google
14 9 (2.30%) Veeam
15 8 (2.04%) SAP
16 7 (1.79%) BMC
17 6 (1.53%) CheckPoint
17 6 (1.53%) IBM