Capacity Planning Job Trends

Capacity Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Capacity Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 550 584
Rank change year-on-year +3 +34 -55
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 234 128 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.29% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 168 94 219
10th Percentile £46,487 £43,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,688 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £111,625 £100,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process & 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 72,823 44,302 82,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.72% 90.16% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,276 24,855 57,929
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Capacity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Capacity Planning job vacancy trend in the UK

Capacity Planning
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Capacity Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 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
England -1 193 £75,000 +11.11% 114
UK excluding London -5 132 £70,000 +27.27% 79
London -16 83 £78,750 +1.61% 58
Work from Home +7 53 £70,000 +16.67% 48
Scotland +36 30 £90,000 +89.47% 12
North of England -20 26 £72,500 +16.00% 12
Midlands -8 22 £61,250 +11.36% 12
North West +6 20 £80,000 +33.33% 8
West Midlands -14 20 £61,250 +54.78% 11
South West -39 19 £52,500 -4.55% 13
South East -6 18 £62,500 +21.95% 26
East of England -1 16 £110,000 +65.64% 4
Yorkshire -30 6 £45,500 -35.00% 4
East Midlands -39 2 £62,500 +11.11% 1
Wales - 1 £48,500 -

Capacity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.14%) IIS
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.85%) nginx
3 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.43%) Site Server
Applications
1 11 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (5.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 11 (4.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.99%) SAP PP
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.43%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 84 (35.90%) Azure
2 48 (20.51%) AWS
3 29 (12.39%) Power Platform
4 24 (10.26%) SaaS
5 23 (9.83%) GCP
6 22 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (5.13%) Datadog
10 11 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.70%) Azure Functions
10 11 (4.70%) Serverless
11 10 (4.27%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.14%) Azure Storage
14 5 (2.14%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.14%) GitHub
15 4 (1.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 38 (16.24%) Firewall
2 29 (12.39%) Network Security
3 26 (11.11%) VLAN
4 12 (5.13%) WAN
5 11 (4.70%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.27%) LAN
7 9 (3.85%) DNS
7 9 (3.85%) VPN
8 6 (2.56%) BGP
8 6 (2.56%) SAN
9 5 (2.14%) OSPF
10 4 (1.71%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (1.71%) VoIP
10 4 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.28%) CTI
11 3 (1.28%) DHCP
11 3 (1.28%) Internet
11 3 (1.28%) Multicast
11 3 (1.28%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.68%) Power BI
1 25 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.98%) MySQL
3 12 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (5.13%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.71%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.85%) SQLPlus
7 2 (0.85%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.43%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 13 (5.56%) Git
1 13 (5.56%) GitLab
2 7 (2.99%) JIRA
3 5 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.85%) JMeter
4 2 (0.85%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.43%) Gatling
5 1 (0.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.43%) Selenium
5 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.50%) Finance
3 43 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.82%) Banking
5 22 (9.40%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.85%) Law
7 6 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.14%) Legal
8 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.85%) Advertising
10 2 (0.85%) Automotive
10 2 (0.85%) Aviation
10 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 64 (27.35%) Senior
2 22 (9.40%) Administrator
3 20 (8.55%) DBA
4 18 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 18 (7.69%) Senior DBA
4 18 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
5 17 (7.26%) Lead
6 15 (6.41%) Architect
7 12 (5.13%) Engineering Manager
7 12 (5.13%) Oracle DBA
7 12 (5.13%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 12 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 12 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Site Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.27%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.56%) .NET
2 11 (4.70%) .NET Core
3 8 (3.42%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (2.99%) SAP Core Interface
5 6 (2.56%) Middleware
6 4 (1.71%) PySpark
7 3 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.85%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.85%) CSS
8 2 (0.85%) HTML
8 2 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.85%) JSON
8 2 (0.85%) LangChain
8 2 (0.85%) LangGraph
8 2 (0.85%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (0.85%) Node.js
8 2 (0.85%) OAuth
8 2 (0.85%) REST
8 2 (0.85%) SAML
8 2 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.70%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.27%) Clustering
5 9 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (3.42%) Replication
7 6 (2.56%) NHS
8 5 (2.14%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.71%) CMDB
9 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.71%) FPGA
9 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.28%) IVR
10 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.09%) Linux
2 22 (9.40%) Windows
3 14 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (5.98%) Unix
4 12 (5.13%) AIX
4 12 (5.13%) CentOS
4 12 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
5 11 (4.70%) VMS
6 9 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.85%) Rocky
8 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (21.37%) Root Cause Analysis
4 48 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 47 (20.09%) CI/CD
6 43 (18.38%) Project Delivery
7 41 (17.52%) Decision-Making
7 41 (17.52%) Incident Response
8 40 (17.09%) High Availability
9 39 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
10 38 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 37 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (15.38%) DevOps
12 36 (15.38%) Roadmaps
13 34 (14.53%) Analytics
13 34 (14.53%) ITIL
14 33 (14.10%) Agile
14 33 (14.10%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (13.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (13.25%) AI
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.94%) SQL
2 47 (20.09%) Python
3 37 (15.81%) Bash
4 33 (14.10%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.12%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (5.98%) C#
7 12 (5.13%) Korn
7 12 (5.13%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.27%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.71%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.85%) Perl
10 2 (0.85%) PHP
10 2 (0.85%) VB
11 1 (0.43%) ABAP
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.43%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) Java
11 1 (0.43%) JCL
Qualifications
1 26 (11.11%) Degree
2 25 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.42%) CPIM
6 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.56%) CCNP
7 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.71%) CCNA
9 4 (1.71%) MCSA
10 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.85%) CCIE
11 2 (0.85%) CISSP
11 2 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (8.12%) PMO
2 17 (7.26%) QA
3 15 (6.41%) GDPR
4 11 (4.70%) SLA
5 9 (3.85%) NIST
6 7 (2.99%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.56%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.14%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.14%) ISO 26262
8 5 (2.14%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.85%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.43%) SOC 1
System Software
1 14 (5.98%) Docker
1 14 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (5.13%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.14%) Firmware
4 5 (2.14%) vSphere
5 4 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.85%) IAG
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) GPFS
7 1 (0.43%) Lustre
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (19.23%) Terraform
2 33 (14.10%) Ansible
3 25 (10.68%) Kubernetes
4 23 (9.83%) Nagios
5 21 (8.97%) Grafana
6 12 (5.13%) Data Guard
6 12 (5.13%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (2.56%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.56%) Rundeck
8 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.28%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 37 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.97%) Splunk
3 17 (7.26%) VMware
4 14 (5.98%) Oracle
4 14 (5.98%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.13%) Cisco
6 12 (5.13%) IBM
6 12 (5.13%) SAP
7 9 (3.85%) Rapid7
8 8 (3.42%) Cognizant
8 8 (3.42%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.14%) IFS
10 4 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.28%) Avaya
11 3 (1.28%) Databricks
11 3 (1.28%) Genesys
11 3 (1.28%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.28%) Veeam
12 2 (0.85%) Palo Alto