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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 530 589
Rank change year-on-year -18 +59 +16
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 136 395 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.40% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.47% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 98 266 242
10th Percentile £43,375 £31,250 £38,788
25th Percentile £49,438 £40,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £70,375
90th Percentile £96,625 £86,250 £87,500
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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 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 30 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 +26 125 £64,743 +17.71% 185
UK excluding London -11 79 £55,000 +15.79% 82
Work from Home +93 50 £55,000 -15.38% 82
London +82 50 £77,500 - 106
Midlands +36 22 £55,000 +46.67% 10
North of England +34 18 £50,000 -4.76% 14
South East +45 17 £55,000 -12.00% 29
West Midlands +31 17 £50,000 +11.11% 10
North West -11 14 £50,000 -4.76% 9
East of England +57 11 £64,743 +53.24% 15
Scotland +108 6 £47,500 +46.15% 1
East Midlands +44 5 £55,000 +107.55%
Yorkshire +64 4 £60,000 +2.13% 5
South West +103 3 £55,000 +46.67% 9
Isle of Man +13 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 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.94%) nginx
4 3 (2.21%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (39.71%) Azure
2 30 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (17.65%) AWS
4 11 (8.09%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.09%) SaaS
5 10 (7.35%) GCP
6 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (4.41%) GitHub
8 5 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.94%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.21%) Serverless
11 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.47%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.47%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.65%) Firewall
1 24 (17.65%) VPN
2 16 (11.76%) LAN
2 16 (11.76%) WAN
3 15 (11.03%) Network Security
4 13 (9.56%) DNS
5 11 (8.09%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.15%) BGP
6 7 (5.15%) SD-WAN
7 6 (4.41%) DHCP
7 6 (4.41%) VLAN
8 5 (3.68%) Internet
9 4 (2.94%) 4G
9 4 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.94%) Wireless
10 3 (2.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (2.21%) Multicast
10 3 (2.21%) NAS
10 3 (2.21%) NetScaler
10 3 (2.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) MySQL
3 5 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.47%) Power BI
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.74%) DataStage
5 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.74%) GIS
5 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.74%) Power Query
5 1 (0.74%) QualityStage
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) GitLab
2 8 (5.88%) Git
2 8 (5.88%) JIRA
3 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 40 (29.41%) Finance
3 24 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.44%) Banking
5 14 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.35%) Law
7 8 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.15%) Legal
9 5 (3.68%) Marketing
9 5 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.94%) Electronics
11 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.21%) Retail
12 2 (1.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.74%) Billing
13 1 (0.74%) Front Office
13 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.74%) Local Government
13 1 (0.74%) Police
13 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (13.97%) Senior
2 16 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (11.76%) Lead
3 11 (8.09%) Administrator
3 11 (8.09%) DBA
4 10 (7.35%) Consultant
4 10 (7.35%) IT Consultant
4 10 (7.35%) Team Leader
5 9 (6.62%) Network Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Analyst
6 8 (5.88%) Architect
6 8 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) IT Manager
6 8 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) Azure Specialist
7 7 (5.15%) Cloud Specialist
7 7 (5.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 7 (5.15%) Service Manager
8 6 (4.41%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.94%) Middleware
2 3 (2.21%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (2.21%) Node.js
3 2 (1.47%) .NET
3 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.47%) React
4 1 (0.74%) JSON
4 1 (0.74%) PySpark
4 1 (0.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 17 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.15%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.47%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Clustering
7 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.21%) Windows
2 25 (18.38%) Windows Server
3 19 (13.97%) Linux
4 8 (5.88%) CentOS
5 6 (4.41%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.94%) VMS
8 3 (2.21%) Rocky
8 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.74%) Solaris
9 1 (0.74%) Unix
9 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.41%) ITIL
2 28 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (16.18%) High Availability
4 21 (15.44%) Mentoring
4 21 (15.44%) Service Delivery
4 21 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (14.71%) DevOps
5 20 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (13.24%) Change Management
7 18 (13.24%) CI/CD
7 18 (13.24%) Incident Response
7 18 (13.24%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (11.76%) Architectural Design
9 16 (11.76%) Project Management
9 16 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (11.03%) Roadmaps
11 13 (9.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.97%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.03%) SQL
3 13 (9.56%) Python
4 9 (6.62%) Bash
5 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.68%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.68%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.94%) Java
7 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.74%) Go
8 1 (0.74%) R
8 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (15.44%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (14.71%) Degree
4 19 (13.97%) CCNA
5 10 (7.35%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.15%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.15%) CCNP
6 7 (5.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (5.15%) PMP
7 6 (4.41%) Master's Degree
7 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
8 5 (3.68%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.94%) MCSA
10 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.47%) HNC
11 2 (1.47%) MCP
11 2 (1.47%) MCSE
12 1 (0.74%) MCITP
12 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.29%) QA
2 12 (8.82%) SLA
3 9 (6.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.68%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.68%) PMO
4 5 (3.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.47%) GDPR
6 2 (1.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.74%) P3O
System Software
1 31 (22.79%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.09%) Docker
4 7 (5.15%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.68%) BitLocker
6 5 (3.68%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.68%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.94%) Firmware
8 3 (2.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.21%) vSphere
9 2 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (11.76%) Ansible
2 15 (11.03%) Terraform
3 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (9.56%) SCCM
5 11 (8.09%) Grafana
5 11 (8.09%) Kubernetes
6 7 (5.15%) Nagios
6 7 (5.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.68%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.68%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.68%) VxRail
9 3 (2.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.21%) vRealize
10 2 (1.47%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.47%) WSUS
11 1 (0.74%) NetApp OnCommand
11 1 (0.74%) Puppet
11 1 (0.74%) SCOM
Vendors
1 52 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.12%) Cisco
3 21 (15.44%) VMware
4 12 (8.82%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 8 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.15%) Fortinet
6 7 (5.15%) Splunk
7 5 (3.68%) Dell
7 5 (3.68%) NetApp
7 5 (3.68%) Oracle
7 5 (3.68%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.94%) Rapid7
8 4 (2.94%) Veeam
9 3 (2.21%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.21%) Facebook
9 3 (2.21%) FactSet
9 3 (2.21%) Meraki
9 3 (2.21%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.21%) Salesforce