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Overview
ICT capacity planners make sure ICT services and infrastructure have enough capacity to meet agreed service levels at the right time and cost.
In job descriptions, look for service-level targets, infrastructure capacity, resource planning, cloud migration, business analysis, system documentation, performance monitoring and medium- or long-term demand planning.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
ICT capacity planning is usually close to operations, architecture and service management. The work turns demand forecasts, performance evidence and business plans into practical capacity decisions for networks, platforms and cloud services.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include system administration, business analysis, performance monitoring, cloud migration planning, documentation and clear advice to technical and non-technical stakeholders when capacity limits affect service delivery.
Salary context
Salary context is shaped by infrastructure scale, service-critical systems, planning horizon, budget responsibility, security expectations and whether the role owns recommendations or only prepares capacity evidence.
Career paths
Paths can grow from network administration, systems operations, service desk analysis or infrastructure engineering into capacity management, cloud planning, service architecture or ICT consulting.
Good to know
Check adverts for named platforms, service-level agreements, forecasting duties, reporting cadence, cloud or on-premises scope and whether the planner can influence purchasing, migration or architecture choices.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for ICT capacity planner work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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Computer Network Architects
15-1241.00
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Occupation group
Computer network professionals (2523)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4543bf7b-8ffb-4ade-88b9-58da34366f04 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2523.1 |
| ISCO group | 2523 |
| Concept type | Occupation |