Business Forecasting Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Business Forecasting
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Business Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 128 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing Business Forecasting 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.094% 0.044% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £411 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 -
75th Percentile £513 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £488 £525
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +13.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Business 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,755 1,976 2,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.04% 86.55% 83.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,720 1,232 1,461
10th Percentile £250 £250 £255
25th Percentile £380 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 71 96
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.70 £14.07
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.11
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -9.29% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.65 £52.13
90th Percentile £30.25 £52.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Business Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Forecasting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Business Forecasting job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Business Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Forecasting

Business Forecasting
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Forecasting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Forecasting

Business Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Forecasting within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 2
East Midlands -15 1 £393 -17.37% 1
Business Forecasting
England

Business Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Accountant
1 2 (66.67%) Management Accountant
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Accountant
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Management Accountant
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Manager
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Financial Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ACCA
1 2 (66.67%) CIMA
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle