ict-capacity-planner/references/skills.md

Competences — ICT capacity planner

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4543bf7b-8ffb-4ade-88b9-58da34366f04).

Essential

• analyse business requirements (skill/competence)
• apply company policies (skill/competence)
• carry out statistical forecasts (skill/competence)
• crowdsourcing strategy (knowledge)
• develop financial statistics reports (skill/competence)
• ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards (skill/competence)
• forecast workload (skill/competence)
• ICT capacity planning strategies (knowledge)
• ICT infrastructure (knowledge)
• improve business processes (skill/competence)
• insourcing strategy (knowledge)
• outsourcing strategy (knowledge)
• perform business analysis (skill/competence)
• perform resource planning (skill/competence)
• plan ICT capacity (skill/competence)
• provide cost benefit analysis reports (skill/competence)
• statistical analysis system software (knowledge)

Optional

• administer ICT system (skill/competence)
• business process modelling (knowledge)
• cloud technologies (knowledge)
• collect customer feedback on applications (skill/competence)
• coordinate technological activities (skill/competence)
• create database diagrams (skill/competence)
• create solutions to problems (skill/competence)
• deploy ICT systems (skill/competence)
• design database scheme (skill/competence)
• design process (skill/competence)
• execute ICT audits (skill/competence)
• ICT process quality models (knowledge)
• ICT security standards (knowledge)
• implement a virtual private network (skill/competence)
• labour legislation (knowledge)
• LDAP (knowledge)
• LINQ (knowledge)
• MDX (knowledge)
• N1QL (knowledge)
• perform ICT troubleshooting (skill/competence)
• perform project management (skill/competence)
• plan migration to cloud (skill/competence)
• provide ICT consulting advice (skill/competence)
• provide user documentation (skill/competence)
• query languages (knowledge)
• resource description framework query language (knowledge)
• SPARQL (knowledge)
• systems development life-cycle (knowledge)
• use different communication channels (skill/competence)
• use scripting programming (skill/competence)
• XQuery (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 9 ads, as of 2026-07-12)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

• capacity planning — 56 %
• data analysis — 33 %
• data modeling — 22 %
• scenario planning — 22 %
• routing protocols — 11 %
• staffing strategy — 11 %
• msu identification — 11 %
• regulatory reporting — 11 %
• report generation — 11 %
• resource allocation — 11 %
• network capacity planning — 11 %
• network engineering — 11 %
• network modeling — 11 %
• mainframe capacity planning — 11 %
• optimization algorithms — 11 %
• performance analysis — 11 %
• performance engineering — 11 %
• process improvement — 11 %
• supplier review — 11 %
• supply chain management — 11 %
• supply planning — 11 %
• storage driver identification — 11 %
• traffic engineering — 11 %
• traffic forecasting — 11 %
• troubleshooting — 11 %
• workforce management — 11 %
• data validation — 11 %
• distributed systems design — 11 %
• dwdm augmentation — 11 %
• feasibility analysis — 11 %
• forecast modeling — 11 %
• hardware forecasting — 11 %
• headroom management — 11 %
• industrial engineering — 11 %
• infrastructure engineering — 11 %
• infrastructure operations — 11 %
• inventory management — 11 %
• io identification — 11 %
• data collection — 11 %
• data creation — 11 %
• change initiative leadership — 11 %
• component sourcing — 11 %
• continuous improvement — 11 %
• contractual reporting — 11 %
• cpu identification — 11 %
• budget planning — 11 %
• call center forecasting — 11 %
• capacity forecasting — 11 %
• analytical skills — 11 %
• bill of material (bom) analysis — 11 %

Methods

• simulation — 22 %
• software-defined networking (SDN) — 11 %
• advanced optimization — 11 %
• AI/ML techniques — 11 %
• continuous improvement — 11 %
• backtesting — 11 %
• cross-functional collaboration — 11 %
• failure domain analysis — 11 %
• linear programming — 11 %
• digital twins — 11 %
• data visualization — 11 %

Responsibilities

• capacity forecasting — 22 %
• team leadership — 22 %
• tradeoff navigation — 11 %
• supplier communication — 11 %
• staffing plan maintenance — 11 %
• workflow standardization — 11 %
• stakeholder communication — 11 %
• status reporting — 11 %
• software system implementation — 11 %
• rack delivery scheduling — 11 %
• risk assessment — 11 %
• report job repair — 11 %
• reporting and governance — 11 %
• regulatory reporting delivery — 11 %
• reliability driving — 11 %
• project team membership — 11 %
• metric root cause analysis — 11 %
• model development — 11 %
• network planning — 11 %
• network readiness assurance — 11 %
• on-call support — 11 %
• on-prem capacity enablement — 11 %
• operational exception response — 11 %
• capacity model development — 11 %
• capacity plan ownership — 11 %
• budget recommendation development — 11 %
• capital expenditure tuning — 11 %
• analytical model building — 11 %
• bill of materials forecasting — 11 %
• data discrepancy resolution — 11 %
• data collection — 11 %
• data collection support — 11 %
• cloud capacity enablement — 11 %
• cpv data maintenance — 11 %
• cpv request coordination — 11 %
• critical escalation management — 11 %
• data-driven change implementation — 11 %
• data pipeline creation — 11 %
• efficiency boosting — 11 %
• expansion delivery — 11 %
• hardware allocation modeling — 11 %
• forecasting alignment — 11 %
• long-range forecast publication — 11 %
• lead time tracking — 11 %
• issue escalation — 11 %
• investment needs identification — 11 %
• infrastructure scaling — 11 %