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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 453 544
Rank change year-on-year +43 +91 0
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 43 136 118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.40% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.44% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 33 101 99
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,750 £39,471
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% +7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year +23.81% -8.30% -3.75%

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 16,979 30,765 39,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.19% 91.36% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,664 23,348 27,351
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,231 £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 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 15 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 (4.65%) nginx
1 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) AWS
3 7 (16.28%) SaaS
4 5 (11.63%) GCP
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub
7 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Firewall
2 5 (11.63%) BGP
2 5 (11.63%) SD-WAN
3 4 (9.30%) DNS
3 4 (9.30%) Network Security
3 4 (9.30%) VLAN
3 4 (9.30%) VPN
4 3 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (6.98%) Wireless
5 2 (4.65%) DHCP
5 2 (4.65%) LAN
5 2 (4.65%) Multicast
5 2 (4.65%) SNMP
5 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.65%) WAN
6 1 (2.33%) OpenVPN
6 1 (2.33%) OSPF
6 1 (2.33%) SSH
6 1 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) MySQL
3 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (18.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Back Office
5 1 (2.33%) Billing
5 1 (2.33%) Electronics
5 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Consultant
1 8 (18.60%) IT Consultant
2 7 (16.28%) Administrator
2 7 (16.28%) DBA
3 6 (13.95%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (11.63%) Network Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) SQL DBA
4 5 (11.63%) SQL Server DBA
5 4 (9.30%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (4.65%) Node.js
2 1 (2.33%) JSON
2 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Data Centre
1 9 (20.93%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.33%) Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 8 (18.60%) CentOS
3 5 (11.63%) Solaris
3 5 (11.63%) Windows
4 4 (9.30%) Unix
5 2 (4.65%) Rocky
6 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Architectural Design
2 10 (23.26%) Service Delivery
3 9 (20.93%) ITIL
3 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (18.60%) Business Transformation
5 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
5 7 (16.28%) DevOps
5 7 (16.28%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (13.95%) High Availability
6 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
7 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.30%) Change Management
8 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (9.30%) Low Latency
9 3 (6.98%) Data Governance
9 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (6.98%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) SQL
2 6 (13.95%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) T-SQL
4 4 (9.30%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.33%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) RHCE
2 3 (6.98%) CCNA
2 3 (6.98%) CCNP
2 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) HNC
4 1 (2.33%) OCP
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) P3O
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
3 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.65%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.33%) Firmware
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Nagios
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
4 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.65%) SCCM
5 1 (2.33%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Cisco
2 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 6 (13.95%) Palo Alto
5 4 (9.30%) CheckPoint
5 4 (9.30%) VMware
6 3 (6.98%) Meraki
6 3 (6.98%) SAP
7 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.65%) Rapid7
7 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.65%) Splunk
8 1 (2.33%) Dell
8 1 (2.33%) EqualLogic
8 1 (2.33%) iManage
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) SaltStack