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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 483 432
Rank change year-on-year -21 -51 +168
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 147 238 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.45% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.49% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 93 140 257
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,188 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £96,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,750 £54,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year +14.35% +13.55% -8.22%

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 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Top 16 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 13 January 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 -22 117 £70,313 +27.84% 136
UK excluding London -29 73 £61,750 +14.35% 129
Work from Home +14 63 £57,500 +6.48% 54
London +60 61 £78,750 +2.94% 22
Scotland +15 20 £97,500 +116.67% 3
Midlands +11 16 £62,500 +25.00% 16
North of England -4 16 £55,000 +15.79% 32
West Midlands +13 14 £70,000 +40.00% 10
South East +1 12 £55,000 -15.38% 41
North West +11 10 £55,000 +15.79% 12
South West +7 6 £77,500 +121.43% 17
Yorkshire -20 6 £57,500 +21.05% 18
East Midlands -12 2 £44,500 -19.09% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
North East +3 1 - - 4
East of England -9 1 - - 18

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 12 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.12%) Confluence
3 7 (4.76%) IIS
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.04%) HCL Domino
4 3 (2.04%) HCL Notes
5 2 (1.36%) CICS
5 2 (1.36%) CMS
5 2 (1.36%) MTS
5 2 (1.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.36%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (5.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.08%) SAP IBP
3 4 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.04%) SAP APO
4 3 (2.04%) SAP MII
5 2 (1.36%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.36%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.68%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 72 (48.98%) Azure
2 23 (15.65%) AWS
3 20 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 11 (7.48%) SaaS
6 11 (7.48%) Serverless
7 9 (6.12%) Azure Storage
8 8 (5.44%) Azure AKS
8 8 (5.44%) GitHub
8 8 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.08%) Rubrik
10 5 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.40%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.40%) IaaS
10 5 (3.40%) PaaS
11 4 (2.72%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.04%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (27.21%) WAN
2 35 (23.81%) Firewall
2 35 (23.81%) SD-WAN
3 30 (20.41%) LAN
4 29 (19.73%) Wireless
5 24 (16.33%) Wireshark
6 14 (9.52%) VPN
7 7 (4.76%) NAS
7 7 (4.76%) SAN
7 7 (4.76%) SSL
8 6 (4.08%) DNS
8 6 (4.08%) Network Security
9 4 (2.72%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.04%) VoIP
11 2 (1.36%) BGP
11 2 (1.36%) DHCP
11 2 (1.36%) Internet
11 2 (1.36%) MPLS
11 2 (1.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.16%) Power BI
2 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.72%) Tableau
4 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.36%) DB2
5 2 (1.36%) MySQL
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.68%) Redis
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Git
1 9 (6.12%) JIRA
2 4 (2.72%) GitLab
2 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Pivotal Tracker
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.68%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (47.62%) Finance
2 68 (46.26%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.69%) Telecoms
4 20 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.84%) Marketing
6 6 (4.08%) Billing
6 6 (4.08%) Law
6 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.08%) Retail
7 5 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.72%) Legal
8 4 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.04%) Advertising
9 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Automotive
10 2 (1.36%) Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Italian Language
10 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (14.97%) Network Engineer
2 17 (11.56%) Senior
3 12 (8.16%) Analyst
4 9 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (6.12%) Support Analyst
5 8 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (5.44%) Network Analyst
5 8 (5.44%) Network Support
5 8 (5.44%) Network Support Analyst
6 7 (4.76%) Operations Manager
6 7 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.08%) Coordinator
7 6 (4.08%) DBA
7 6 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (4.08%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (4.08%) IT Manager
8 5 (3.40%) Backup Engineer
8 5 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.72%) EDI
2 2 (1.36%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.36%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.68%) Kafka
3 1 (0.68%) Loki
3 1 (0.68%) React
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.53%) Data Centre
2 28 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.80%) CMDB
4 8 (5.44%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.04%) FMCG
7 3 (2.04%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.04%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.04%) Web3
8 2 (1.36%) AS400
8 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 2 (1.36%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.36%) Shadow IT
8 2 (1.36%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.56%) Windows
2 14 (9.52%) Linux
3 8 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.36%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) zOS
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Solaris
5 1 (0.68%) SUSE
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.57%) Change Management
1 42 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 36 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (23.13%) Network Virtualisation
4 33 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (21.77%) DevOps
6 31 (21.09%) Customer Service
7 28 (19.05%) Coaching
7 28 (19.05%) Load Balancing
7 28 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
8 27 (18.37%) Problem Management
9 25 (17.01%) Asset Management
9 25 (17.01%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (16.33%) Network Planning
11 23 (15.65%) Analytics
12 22 (14.97%) Roadmaps
13 21 (14.29%) Agile
13 21 (14.29%) Migration
14 18 (12.24%) Incident Response
14 18 (12.24%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 22 (14.97%) Python
3 19 (12.93%) SQL
4 9 (6.12%) Bash
5 7 (4.76%) Bicep
6 4 (2.72%) Go
6 4 (2.72%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.36%) COBOL
7 2 (1.36%) Java
7 2 (1.36%) JCL
8 1 (0.68%) ABAP
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.68%) PHP
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (17.01%) Degree
2 10 (6.80%) Azure Certification
3 7 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.08%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.40%) CCNP
5 5 (3.40%) PMP
5 5 (3.40%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.72%) ACCA
6 4 (2.72%) MBA
7 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.04%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.36%) CCNA
8 2 (1.36%) CISM
8 2 (1.36%) CISSP
8 2 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.68%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.84%) QA
2 12 (8.16%) PMO
3 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.04%) GxP
4 3 (2.04%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.36%) GDPR
5 2 (1.36%) GMP
5 2 (1.36%) GRC
5 2 (1.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.68%) MiFID
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.80%) Virtual Servers
2 9 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.12%) Docker
3 7 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.04%) vSphere
6 2 (1.36%) RACF
7 1 (0.68%) Firmware
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.68%) NFS
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (17.69%) Terraform
2 17 (11.56%) Ansible
3 14 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.08%) Avamar
6 5 (3.40%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.72%) Grafana
7 4 (2.72%) logstash
8 3 (2.04%) Nagios
9 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.68%) CA Spectrum
10 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.68%) Icinga
10 1 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.68%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 36 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 30 (20.41%) Cisco
3 27 (18.37%) Palo Alto
3 27 (18.37%) SolarWinds
4 25 (17.01%) Meraki
5 24 (16.33%) CheckPoint
6 13 (8.84%) SAP
7 7 (4.76%) Dell
7 7 (4.76%) NetApp
7 7 (4.76%) Veeam
8 6 (4.08%) Pure Storage
8 6 (4.08%) SonicWALL
8 6 (4.08%) VMware
9 5 (3.40%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.72%) IBM
10 4 (2.72%) Splunk
11 3 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (2.04%) Lotus
11 3 (2.04%) Zscaler
12 2 (1.36%) Oracle