Planning and Forecasting Contracts in the North of England

Planning and Forecasting
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 149 181 211
Rank change year-on-year +32 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 17 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.084% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.098% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 7
10th Percentile £348 - £454
25th Percentile £349 £513 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £523
90th Percentile £545 - £569
England median daily rate £500 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -9.26% -4.17% +10.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Planning and Forecasting in the North of England

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in the North of England

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in the North of England

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in the North of England

Planning and Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Planning and Forecasting within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +31 15 £475 -9.52% 3
Yorkshire +8 2 £700 - 1
Planning and Forecasting
England

Planning and Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (35.29%) Kondor
2 3 (17.65%) Finacle
2 3 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Essbase
1 4 (23.53%) Metadata
General
1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
5 3 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Lead
1 6 (35.29%) Test Leader
2 4 (23.53%) Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Essbase Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) HPUX
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Solaris
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Test Planning
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Budgeting
2 4 (23.53%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (23.53%) Demand Forecasting
2 4 (23.53%) Financial Modelling
2 4 (23.53%) Metadata Management
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) GAP Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) User Stories
4 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
4 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) FIS
3 3 (17.65%) IBM
3 3 (17.65%) Murex
3 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 3 (17.65%) Sun
4 2 (11.76%) Ariba
4 2 (11.76%) Unisys
5 1 (5.88%) HP