Capacity Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Capacity Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Planning over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 576 609
Rank change year-on-year +42 +33 -16
Permanent jobs citing Capacity Planning 401 442 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 259 234 464
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,313 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £43,125 £44,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,250 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -3.75% +3.45%
75th Percentile £72,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,335 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.63% -4.12% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Capacity Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Capacity Planning in the UK

Capacity Planning
Top 17 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 14 May 2024. 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 -1 308 £52,500 -12.50% 123
UK excluding London +5 307 £47,500 -5.63% 84
Work from Home +92 136 £67,500 +12.50% 96
London +92 82 £75,000 +7.14% 39
South East +45 78 £62,500 -1.57% 26
North of England +24 69 £52,500 +9.38% 17
North West +45 58 £52,500 +2.94% 12
Wales - 53 £46,604 - 2
Midlands -67 44 £42,500 -8.11% 22
West Midlands -16 35 £45,000 +3.09% 15
Scotland -42 26 £32,500 -33.67% 5
South West -24 20 £47,500 +3.26% 6
East of England -5 12 £42,250 -29.58% 7
Yorkshire +54 11 £57,500 +4.55% 3
East Midlands -69 9 £26,500 -50.70% 7
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +27 1 - - 3

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 45 (11.22%) WebLogic
2 44 (10.97%) Oracle Service Bus
3 34 (8.48%) IIS
4 26 (6.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (4.74%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.00%) Confluence
6 4 (1.00%) SAS
7 3 (0.75%) Apache
8 2 (0.50%) CICS
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 65 (16.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (15.21%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (12.22%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.00%) SPSS
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 51 (12.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.00%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Primavera
3 2 (0.50%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (38.90%) Azure
2 88 (21.95%) AWS
3 65 (16.21%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (9.73%) GCP
5 25 (6.23%) Cloud Computing
6 22 (5.49%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.49%) Entra ID
7 18 (4.49%) IaaS
8 15 (3.74%) Nutanix
9 14 (3.49%) OneDrive
10 13 (3.24%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.00%) Azure Storage
11 8 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.75%) Mavenlink
12 7 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.25%) PaaS
14 3 (0.75%) Apigee
14 3 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 75 (18.70%) DNS
2 66 (16.46%) WAN
3 63 (15.71%) Firewall
4 52 (12.97%) DHCP
5 30 (7.48%) LAN
6 24 (5.99%) SAN
6 24 (5.99%) TCP/IP
7 23 (5.74%) VPN
8 22 (5.49%) Network Security
9 20 (4.99%) Wireless
10 19 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (4.24%) SD-WAN
12 15 (3.74%) SNMP
13 14 (3.49%) Internet
13 14 (3.49%) iSCSI
14 13 (3.24%) Unified Communications
15 12 (2.99%) IPsec
15 12 (2.99%) MPLS
15 12 (2.99%) tcpdump
16 11 (2.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.72%) SQL Server
2 52 (12.97%) Oracle Database
3 45 (11.22%) Oracle Database 11g
4 44 (10.97%) Oracle Database 10g
4 44 (10.97%) VLDB
5 38 (9.48%) MySQL
6 26 (6.48%) RDBMS
6 26 (6.48%) Relational Database
7 22 (5.49%) NoSQL
8 14 (3.49%) Power BI
9 13 (3.24%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (2.24%) Tableau
13 6 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.75%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (4.24%) JIRA
2 14 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.25%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 133 (33.17%) Analytical Skills
2 106 (26.43%) Social Skills
3 86 (21.45%) Finance
4 26 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (4.74%) Telecoms
6 18 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.74%) Local Government
7 15 (3.74%) Police
8 12 (2.99%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.49%) Law
10 8 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Retail
12 6 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.00%) Legal
14 4 (1.00%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.75%) Automotive
15 3 (0.75%) Aviation
16 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (20.45%) Analyst
2 50 (12.47%) Senior
3 48 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (11.22%) Applications Support
5 44 (10.97%) Applications Support Analyst
5 44 (10.97%) Oracle Analyst
5 44 (10.97%) Oracle Support Analyst
5 44 (10.97%) SQL Analyst
5 44 (10.97%) SQL Support Analyst
5 44 (10.97%) Support Analyst
6 43 (10.72%) DBA
7 35 (8.73%) Network Engineer
8 27 (6.73%) Systems Engineer
9 26 (6.48%) Administrator
10 25 (6.23%) Lead
10 25 (6.23%) Oracle DBA
11 21 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (4.99%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 19 (4.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.49%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (2.49%) YAML
2 6 (1.50%) LDAP
3 5 (1.25%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.00%) .NET
4 4 (1.00%) Akka
4 4 (1.00%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.00%) JSON
4 4 (1.00%) Web Services
5 3 (0.75%) Middleware
5 3 (0.75%) XML
6 2 (0.50%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.50%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.50%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.50%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.50%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.50%) Node.js
7 1 (0.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.73%) Public Cloud
2 37 (9.23%) Management Information System
3 35 (8.73%) Clustering
4 22 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.49%) PMI
5 21 (5.24%) Data Centre
6 15 (3.74%) IoT
6 15 (3.74%) Replication
7 12 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (2.49%) PKI
9 8 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (1.25%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.00%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 124 (30.92%) Linux
2 100 (24.94%) Windows
3 67 (16.71%) Unix
4 45 (11.22%) Solaris
5 40 (9.98%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.75%) CatOS
7 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.75%) zOS
8 2 (0.50%) AIX
8 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.43%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (24.19%) Disaster Recovery
3 94 (23.44%) Incident Management
4 86 (21.45%) Performance Tuning
5 84 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 79 (19.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 77 (19.20%) ITIL
8 68 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (16.96%) Performance Monitoring
8 68 (16.96%) Project Management
9 65 (16.21%) ITSM
10 63 (15.71%) Actionable Insight
11 61 (15.21%) High Availability
12 59 (14.71%) Capacity Management
13 51 (12.72%) Performance Analysis
14 50 (12.47%) Change Management
15 49 (12.22%) DevOps
16 48 (11.97%) Release Management
17 47 (11.72%) CI/CD
18 45 (11.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 123 (30.67%) SQL
2 50 (12.47%) PL/SQL
3 36 (8.98%) PowerShell
3 36 (8.98%) Python
4 35 (8.73%) Bash
5 29 (7.23%) Java
6 26 (6.48%) Perl
7 9 (2.24%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.75%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.00%) VBA
10 3 (0.75%) COBOL
10 3 (0.75%) REXX
11 2 (0.50%) C#
11 2 (0.50%) JCL
11 2 (0.50%) PHP
11 2 (0.50%) R
12 1 (0.25%) AWK
12 1 (0.25%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) ProC
12 1 (0.25%) sed
Qualifications
1 141 (35.16%) Degree
2 96 (23.94%) Security Cleared
3 64 (15.96%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.99%) PMI Certification
5 19 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.74%) CCNA
9 13 (3.24%) CCNP
10 9 (2.24%) PhD
11 8 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.25%) JNCIA
15 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 4 (1.00%) CCIE
16 3 (0.75%) Check Point Certification
16 3 (0.75%) CISSP
16 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.97%) SLA
2 18 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.24%) GDPR
4 11 (2.74%) PMO
5 5 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.25%) QA
6 4 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.00%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.50%) P3O
9 1 (0.25%) NCSC
9 1 (0.25%) NIST
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (19.20%) Active Directory
2 47 (11.72%) Oracle RAC
3 46 (11.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (5.49%) VMware NSX
5 21 (5.24%) Hyper-V
6 20 (4.99%) Docker
6 20 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (2.00%) Firmware
10 3 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.75%) vSphere
11 2 (0.50%) KVM
11 2 (0.50%) NFS
11 2 (0.50%) RACF
11 2 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.25%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 48 (11.97%) Data Guard
1 48 (11.97%) Oracle RMAN
2 29 (7.23%) Terraform
3 26 (6.48%) Ansible
4 18 (4.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (4.24%) Kubernetes
6 16 (3.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.24%) Grafana
7 13 (3.24%) vCenter Server
8 12 (2.99%) Opsgenie
8 12 (2.99%) Puppet
8 12 (2.99%) VxRail
8 12 (2.99%) ZABBIX
9 10 (2.49%) Graphite
9 10 (2.49%) HAProxy
9 10 (2.49%) Nagios
10 6 (1.50%) WSUS
11 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.50%) MAINVIEW
12 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 141 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 95 (23.69%) VMware
3 72 (17.96%) Oracle
4 51 (12.72%) Remedy
5 44 (10.97%) Sun
6 38 (9.48%) Cisco
7 32 (7.98%) Fortinet
8 22 (5.49%) SolarWinds
9 20 (4.99%) Citrix
10 19 (4.74%) Dell
11 16 (3.99%) NetApp
12 11 (2.74%) BT
12 11 (2.74%) Juniper
13 10 (2.49%) Mitel
14 9 (2.24%) BMC
14 9 (2.24%) Google
14 9 (2.24%) Veeam
15 8 (2.00%) ANSYS
16 7 (1.75%) SAP
17 6 (1.50%) CheckPoint