Planning and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Planning and Forecasting
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 1.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £624 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £649 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 234 133 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 82.11% 86.36% 70.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 76 58
10th Percentile £150 £174 £154
25th Percentile £300 £309 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £473 £376
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +25.58% -22.82%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £498
90th Percentile £677 £686 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £438 £428 £420
% change year-on-year +2.46% +1.79% -13.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 6
10th Percentile £14.83 - £17.31
25th Percentile £24.72 - £19.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £12.21 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +260.03% -46.62% +14.38%
75th Percentile - £17.44 £32.88
90th Percentile - - £38.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £42.50 £12.21 £22.88
% change year-on-year +248.08% -46.62% +14.38%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Planning and Forecasting job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Planning and Forecasting
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Planning and Forecasting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Planning and Forecasting

Planning and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Planning Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) Demand Management
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PMO
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Tagetik