Demand Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Demand Forecasting
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Demand Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 92 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Demand Forecasting 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.27% 0.085% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.093% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 £325 -
% change year-on-year +84.62% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Demand 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 requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,494 1,076 1,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.13% 90.96% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 670 754
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 42 68
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.35
25th Percentile £35.22 £17.35 £42.79
Median hourly rate £80.28 £34.80 £61.28
Median % change year-on-year +130.71% -43.22% +2.13%
75th Percentile £91.31 £58.00 £68.05
90th Percentile £104.50 £86.53 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £50.49 £21.82 £57.35
% change year-on-year +131.34% -61.95% +7.20%

Demand Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Demand Forecasting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Demand Forecasting job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Demand Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Demand Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Demand Forecasting

Demand Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Demand Forecasting in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Demand Forecasting in Berkshire

Demand Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Demand Forecasting within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Wokingham - 4 £600 - 2
Reading - 1 £450 -
Demand Forecasting
South East

Demand Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Product Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google