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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 86 109
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 -
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.99% 0.083% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.096% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £364 - £478
25th Percentile - £425 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -28.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £475 £669
90th Percentile £688 - £688
North West median daily rate £403 £450 £478
% change year-on-year -10.56% -5.76% -

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 897 1,047 1,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.81% 86.89% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 658 1,172
10th Percentile £300 £336 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 58
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.98 £14.46
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.07
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +101.30% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.44
90th Percentile £77.00 £86.00 £67.20
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +2.94% +56.11%

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 14 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Back Office
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Supply Chain Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Planning Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) HPUX
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Project Management
2 7 (70.00%) Scrum
2 7 (70.00%) Waterfall
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Resource Allocation
3 6 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 6 (60.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Data Collection
5 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Sun
2 1 (10.00%) VMware