Planning and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Planning and Forecasting
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 33 49
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 -
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.47% 0.81% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.85% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £397 £430 -
25th Percentile £401 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +10.29% -
75th Percentile £500 £503 -
90th Percentile - £519 -
South East median daily rate £444 £463 £375
% change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 673 234 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.26% 94.74% 80.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 142 248
10th Percentile £352 £219 £250
25th Percentile £450 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £464 £474
Median % change year-on-year +13.15% -2.19% -5.13%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £556
90th Percentile £638 £649 £645
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.44% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 34 29
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.19 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -39.26% +52.44%
75th Percentile £18.12 £19.84 £28.75
90th Percentile £19.24 £59.88 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £53.90 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +124.58% -52.00% -4.03%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Planning and Forecasting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Planning and Forecasting job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Planning and Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Planning and Forecasting

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in Buckinghamshire

Planning and Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Milton Keynes -30 4 £453 -3.47%
Planning and Forecasting
South East

Planning and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Database Security
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft