Business Forecasting Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Business Forecasting
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Business Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Business Forecasting 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £384 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.37% - -
75th Percentile £401 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +13.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Business 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 518 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.99% 87.06% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 319 436
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £436 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.62% -2.85%
75th Percentile £529 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 22 46
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.12 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Business Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Forecasting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Business Forecasting job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Business Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Forecasting

Business Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Forecasting within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 1 £393 - 1
Business Forecasting
England

Business Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) PMO Manager
1 1 (100.00%) PMO Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO