Planning and Forecasting Contracts in Manchester

Planning and Forecasting
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £452
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.08%
75th Percentile £353 - £551
90th Percentile £409 - £603
North West median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +3.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Planning and Forecasting in Manchester

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in Manchester

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in Manchester

Planning and Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Kondor
2 3 (37.50%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (87.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
1 6 (75.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Planning Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) HPUX
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
3 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (12.50%) Demand Forecasting
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Thinking
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) FIS
2 3 (37.50%) Murex
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Sun