Capacity Planning Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Capacity Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 449 534
Rank change year-on-year +65 +85 -9
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 46 138 125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.41% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.45% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 33 102 103
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,800 £38,950
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +2.68%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £52,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +20.19% -7.14% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,670 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.39% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,785 23,494 28,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Capacity Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Capacity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Capacity Planning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Capacity Planning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Capacity Planning.

Capacity Planning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Capacity Planning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Capacity Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (4.35%) nginx
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) BGP
2 7 (15.22%) SD-WAN
3 6 (13.04%) DNS
3 6 (13.04%) VPN
4 4 (8.70%) Network Security
4 4 (8.70%) VLAN
5 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (6.52%) Wireless
6 2 (4.35%) DHCP
6 2 (4.35%) LAN
6 2 (4.35%) Multicast
6 2 (4.35%) SNMP
6 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.35%) VSAN
6 2 (4.35%) WAN
7 1 (2.17%) OpenVPN
7 1 (2.17%) OSPF
7 1 (2.17%) SSH
7 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) MySQL
3 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Back Office
5 1 (2.17%) Billing
5 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Consultant
1 9 (19.57%) IT Consultant
2 7 (15.22%) Network Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) DBA
4 5 (10.87%) Administrator
4 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) SQL DBA
4 5 (10.87%) SQL Server DBA
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Service Desk Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Data Centre
2 10 (21.74%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
3 6 (13.04%) CentOS
4 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.35%) Rocky
5 2 (4.35%) Solaris
5 2 (4.35%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Architectural Design
1 13 (28.26%) ITIL
2 12 (26.09%) Service Delivery
3 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (19.57%) Business Transformation
5 8 (17.39%) Change Management
6 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.22%) DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) High Availability
6 7 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
7 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
8 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (8.70%) Low Latency
9 3 (6.52%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (6.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) SQL
2 6 (13.04%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) T-SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
4 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) CCNA
1 5 (10.87%) CCNP
1 5 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) HNC
3 2 (4.35%) MCP
3 2 (4.35%) MCSA
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.35%) RHCE
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) P3O
3 1 (2.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
3 3 (6.52%) Firmware
3 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.35%) Docker
4 2 (4.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.35%) vSphere
5 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) Nagios
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.35%) SCCM
4 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.35%) vRealize
4 2 (4.35%) VxRail
4 2 (4.35%) WSUS
5 1 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Cisco
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) Palo Alto
3 8 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 6 (13.04%) CheckPoint
4 6 (13.04%) VMware
5 4 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.52%) Dell
6 3 (6.52%) Meraki
7 2 (4.35%) EMC
7 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.35%) Isilon
7 2 (4.35%) McAfee
7 2 (4.35%) Rapid7
7 2 (4.35%) SAP
7 2 (4.35%) Splunk
8 1 (2.17%) EqualLogic
8 1 (2.17%) iManage
8 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.17%) SaltStack