Planning and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Planning and Forecasting
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -37 - -
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.39% 0.45% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £399 £496 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.98% - -
75th Percentile £426 £529 -
90th Percentile £437 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £421 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -17.80% +20.59% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 618 208 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.64% 93.27% 87.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 144 191
10th Percentile £360 £234 £234
25th Percentile £456 £329 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +20.69% -3.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 6
10th Percentile £14.51 £14.39 £18.24
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £23.44
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -47.86% +142.98%
75th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £36.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £23.83 £37.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.91 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.77% -42.15% +83.52%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Planning and Forecasting job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Planning and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Change and Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Change Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Senior SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Database Security
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Security Auditing
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow