Demand Forecasting Contracts in England

Demand Forecasting
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Demand Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Demand Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 535 617
Rank change year-on-year +61 +82 +144
Contract jobs citing Demand Forecasting 19 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.075% 0.035% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.041% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 11
10th Percentile £231 £734 -
25th Percentile £313 £747 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £788 £460
Median % change year-on-year -36.51% +71.20% -34.29%
75th Percentile - £822 £476
90th Percentile - £831 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £788 £460
% change year-on-year -36.51% +71.20% -34.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,238 31,960 42,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 85.56% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,974 20,713 29,682
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,150 2,333 1,542
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.91
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.65 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -32.93% +3.45% +39.42%

Demand Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Demand Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Demand Forecasting in England

Demand Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Demand Forecasting in England.

Daily rate trend for Demand Forecasting in England

Demand Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Demand Forecasting in England over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Demand Forecasting in England

Demand Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Demand Forecasting in England.

Hourly rate trend for Demand Forecasting in England

Demand Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
London +54 6 £500 -36.51% 20
Midlands - 6 £263 - 2
North West +14 5 £500 - 2
North of England +12 5 £500 - 5
West Midlands - 4 £263 - 2
South East - 2 £325 - 3
East Midlands - 2 - -
Demand Forecasting
UK

Demand Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (36.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (21.05%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (5.26%) SaaS
1 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Retail
6 1 (5.26%) Law
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Business Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Business IT Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) IT Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) IT Business Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Planning Manager
5 1 (5.26%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) PMO Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Supply Chain Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Prophet
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
1 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
1 1 (5.26%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Planning and Forecasting
1 11 (57.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (36.84%) GAP Analysis
2 7 (36.84%) User Stories
3 6 (31.58%) Business Transformation
4 5 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (26.32%) Budgeting
4 5 (26.32%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 4 (21.05%) CRM
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Inventory Management
6 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 2 (10.53%) Change Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Data Science
7 2 (10.53%) ERP
7 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) PMO
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) SAP
2 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) Ariba
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Workday