Planning and Forecasting Contracts in England

Planning and Forecasting
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 560 589
Rank change year-on-year +53 +29 -6
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 43 76 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.18% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 131
10th Percentile £375 £385 £363
25th Percentile £425 £447 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.00% +0.19%
75th Percentile £768 £700 £575
90th Percentile £800 £835 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £511
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.47% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £31.33 £27.24
25th Percentile - £31.44 £35.42
Median hourly rate - £32.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.50% -
75th Percentile - £33.31 £54.00
90th Percentile - £33.58 £70.65
UK median hourly rate - £32.25 £37.78
% change year-on-year - -14.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Planning and Forecasting in England

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in England

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in England

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in England

Planning and 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 Planning and Forecasting within the England region over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. 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 +58 23 £713 +9.62% 17
South East +16 9 £375 -6.25% 12
West Midlands - 5 £240 - 2
Midlands - 5 £240 - 5
North of England +8 4 £450 -6.25% 9
Yorkshire +14 2 - - 3
East of England +6 2 - -
North West +10 1 £450 -6.25% 6
Planning and Forecasting
UK

Planning and 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 3 (6.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (6.98%) Shopify
2 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.33%) SAP BPC
3 1 (2.33%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) BigCommerce
4 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.65%) GitHub
4 2 (4.65%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (9.30%) 5G
3 3 (6.98%) 3G
3 3 (6.98%) 4G
4 2 (4.65%) BGP
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.65%) Firewall
4 2 (4.65%) LAN
4 2 (4.65%) OSPF
4 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.65%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) WAN
4 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) MySQL
2 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Maven
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) TestDirector
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 18 (41.86%) Finance
3 11 (25.58%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (13.95%) Retail
6 4 (9.30%) Local Government
7 3 (6.98%) Marketing
7 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.33%) Advertising
9 1 (2.33%) Back Office
9 1 (2.33%) Electronics
9 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Project Manager
2 6 (13.95%) Delivery Manager
2 6 (13.95%) Senior
2 6 (13.95%) Senior Manager
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 4 (9.30%) Programme Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Consultant
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Service Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Workforce Management Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) Business Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Network Technical Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Performance Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Service Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) CSS
1 4 (9.30%) jQuery
1 4 (9.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.98%) J2EE
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (6.98%) REST
2 3 (6.98%) Sass
2 3 (6.98%) Spring
2 3 (6.98%) Spring MVC
2 3 (6.98%) VML
2 3 (6.98%) Web Services
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
3 1 (2.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.33%) FMCG
2 1 (2.33%) Life Science
2 1 (2.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
1 3 (6.98%) Unix
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Agile
2 9 (20.93%) Data Analysis
2 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
2 9 (20.93%) ERP
3 8 (18.60%) B2B
3 8 (18.60%) Project Management
4 7 (16.28%) Analytics
4 7 (16.28%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (16.28%) PRINCE2
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.28%) Project Delivery
4 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
5 6 (13.95%) Budget Management
5 6 (13.95%) Business Case
5 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.95%) Performance Management
5 6 (13.95%) Service Management
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
1 4 (9.30%) Python
2 3 (6.98%) Java
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) ACCA
5 1 (2.33%) APMP
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.33%) ISEB
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
5 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) SLA
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) IFRS
3 1 (2.33%) IFRS 17
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
1 8 (18.60%) SAP
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Google
4 3 (6.98%) Adobe
4 3 (6.98%) Dell
4 3 (6.98%) Intel
4 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.98%) Sitecore
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) F5
5 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 2 (4.65%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.33%) Anaplan
6 1 (2.33%) Nintex
6 1 (2.33%) Progress
6 1 (2.33%) Remedy