Demand Forecasting Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Demand Forecasting
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Demand Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Demand Forecasting 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £230 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - -
75th Percentile £301 - -
90th Percentile £308 - -
England median daily rate £289 £713 £450
% change year-on-year -59.44% +58.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.67 - -
Median hourly rate £16.34 - -
75th Percentile £17.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.34 £31.00 -
% change year-on-year -47.29% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Demand 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 2,589 2,225 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.52% 83.74% 84.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 1,400 1,610
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £367 £375 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.25% -1.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 69 110
10th Percentile £14.03 £14.69 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.55 £17.00 £17.71
Median hourly rate £21.35 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -12.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.77 £53.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.59 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% -11.03% +27.14%

Demand Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Demand Forecasting job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Demand Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Demand 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 Demand Forecasting within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 November 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 - 5 £263 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Demand Forecasting
England

Demand 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Prophet
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
1 1 (16.67%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (66.67%) Budgeting
3 4 (66.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 4 (66.67%) CRM
3 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (66.67%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) ETRM
5 1 (16.67%) Linear Regression
5 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Random Forest
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP