Planning and Forecasting Contracts in England

Planning and Forecasting
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Planning and Forecasting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 568 596
Rank change year-on-year +55 +28 -33
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 41 77 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 52 119
10th Percentile £375 £400 £361
25th Percentile £428 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.05% +4.50%
75th Percentile £768 £689 £575
90th Percentile £800 £798 £623
UK median daily rate £513 £575 £519
% change year-on-year -10.87% +10.79% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £37.83
25th Percentile - £63.75 £41.46
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +35.00% -
75th Percentile - £71.25 £67.13
90th Percentile - - £75.90
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +35.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Planning and Forecasting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,870 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,878 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.90 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +73 21 £725 +14.90% 24
South East +9 8 £375 -6.25% 7
West Midlands - 5 £240 - 3
Midlands - 5 £240 - 5
North of England +23 4 £525 +9.38% 17
East of England +7 3 £525 - 4
Yorkshire +28 2 - - 4
North West +16 1 £525 +9.38% 9
South West +15 1 £465 -15.45% 5
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 (7.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (7.32%) Shopify
2 1 (2.44%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) BigCommerce
3 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (4.88%) GitHub
3 2 (4.88%) SaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.44%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (9.76%) 5G
3 3 (7.32%) 3G
3 3 (7.32%) 4G
4 2 (4.88%) BGP
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.88%) Firewall
4 2 (4.88%) LAN
4 2 (4.88%) OSPF
4 2 (4.88%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 2 (4.88%) WAN
4 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
1 3 (7.32%) Maven
2 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.44%) TestDirector
General
1 18 (43.90%) Finance
2 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Local Government
6 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (9.76%) Retail
7 3 (7.32%) Marketing
8 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.44%) Back Office
9 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Project Manager
2 6 (14.63%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Senior Manager
4 4 (9.76%) Consultant
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Programme Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Service Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Workforce Management Specialist
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Budget Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Performance Specialist
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Supply Chain Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) CSS
1 4 (9.76%) jQuery
1 4 (9.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.32%) J2EE
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (7.32%) REST
2 3 (7.32%) Sass
2 3 (7.32%) Spring
2 3 (7.32%) Spring MVC
2 3 (7.32%) VML
2 3 (7.32%) Web Services
3 1 (2.44%) .NET
3 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.44%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.88%) Life Science
3 1 (2.44%) FMCG
3 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
1 3 (7.32%) Unix
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) Decision-Making
3 9 (21.95%) Data Analysis
3 9 (21.95%) ERP
3 9 (21.95%) Project Management
4 8 (19.51%) B2B
5 7 (17.07%) Business Case
5 7 (17.07%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (17.07%) PRINCE2
5 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.63%) Budget Management
6 6 (14.63%) Performance Management
6 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
6 6 (14.63%) Service Management
6 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (12.20%) Analytics
7 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (12.20%) Change Control
7 5 (12.20%) Change Management
7 5 (12.20%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
1 4 (9.76%) Python
2 3 (7.32%) Java
3 1 (2.44%) C#
3 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) Degree
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.44%) ACCA
6 1 (2.44%) APMP
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.44%) ISEB
6 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) PMP
6 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) SLA
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) IFRS
3 1 (2.44%) IFRS 17
3 1 (2.44%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) SAP
3 5 (12.20%) Oracle
4 4 (9.76%) Google
5 3 (7.32%) Adobe
5 3 (7.32%) Dell
5 3 (7.32%) Intel
5 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
5 3 (7.32%) Sitecore
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco
6 2 (4.88%) F5
6 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.88%) Splunk
6 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.44%) Anaplan
7 1 (2.44%) Ariba
7 1 (2.44%) Nintex
7 1 (2.44%) Progress
7 1 (2.44%) Remedy