Planning and Forecasting Contracts in Scotland

Planning and Forecasting
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Planning and Forecasting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 163 170
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 -16
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £386 - £447
25th Percentile £422 £456 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £573
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -19.21% +43.13%
75th Percentile £547 £469 £656
90th Percentile £579 - £682
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -8.70% +10.58% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £37.43
UK median hourly rate - £67.75 £43.89
% change year-on-year - +54.37% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,605 3,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,868 2,327
10th Percentile £225 £260 £249
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.84 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Planning and Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Planning and Forecasting in Scotland

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in Scotland

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in Scotland

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in Scotland

Planning and Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Planning and Forecasting within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +11 4 £488 +5.41%
Planning and Forecasting
UK

Planning and Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (60.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Insight Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Insight Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Insight Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Resource Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Resource Planner
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Operations
1 3 (60.00%) Cost Control
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) People Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) WFM
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle