Planning and Forecasting Contracts with Work from Home Options

Planning and Forecasting
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 412 549
Rank change year-on-year +101 +137 -74
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 32 33 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 48
10th Percentile £371 £400 £350
25th Percentile £375 £462 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £631 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% +26.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £691 £575
90th Percentile £671 £858 £627
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £511
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.47% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £46.17
25th Percentile - - £62.29
Median hourly rate - - £74.92
75th Percentile - - £82.88
90th Percentile - - £84.90
UK median hourly rate - - £37.78

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Planning and Forecasting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,892 21,388 39,955
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 89.62% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 15,183 29,114
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 493 516
10th Percentile £14.91 £18.49 £14.94
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.75 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.25
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.60 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Planning and Forecasting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Planning and Forecasting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting.

Planning and Forecasting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Planning and Forecasting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting.

Planning and Forecasting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
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 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (6.25%) Shopify
2 1 (3.13%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (6.25%) BigCommerce
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) BGP
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) LAN
1 2 (6.25%) OSPF
1 2 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.25%) VPN
1 2 (6.25%) WAN
1 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.13%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) Maven
1 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (62.50%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Marketing
5 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.25%) Retail
7 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.13%) Advertising
8 1 (3.13%) Local Government
8 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
1 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Insight Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) ERP Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Resource Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Resource Planner
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Budget Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Performance Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) CSS
1 4 (12.50%) jQuery
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
2 2 (6.25%) J2EE
2 2 (6.25%) React
2 2 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Sass
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
2 2 (6.25%) VML
2 2 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.13%) Life Science
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (28.13%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (18.75%) ERP
4 6 (18.75%) Performance Metrics
4 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
4 6 (18.75%) Service Management
5 5 (15.63%) PLM
5 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.50%) Agile
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (12.50%) Cost Control
6 4 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.50%) Data Science
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Line Management
6 4 (12.50%) Order Management
6 4 (12.50%) People Management
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 4 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) APMP
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ISEB
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) OCP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) SLA
2 3 (9.38%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (37.50%) Oracle
3 6 (18.75%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Adobe
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Dell
4 2 (6.25%) F5
4 2 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Intel
4 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) Sitecore
4 2 (6.25%) Splunk
4 2 (6.25%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.13%) Hyperion