Planning and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Planning and Forecasting
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 157 176
Rank change year-on-year -49 +19 +51
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 6 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £363 - £456
25th Percentile £374 £348 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £349 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% -33.52% +1.94%
75th Percentile £607 £352 £538
90th Percentile £706 £354 £556
England median daily rate £468 £378 £525
% change year-on-year +23.68% -28.00% -4.55%

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 4,159 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.72% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.42 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.27 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Planning and Forecasting job vacancy trend in the North of England

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Planning and Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Planning and Forecasting

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 18 December 2025.

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

Planning and Forecasting
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Planning and Forecasting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Planning and Forecasting

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 18 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
North West -16 6 £402 +15.19% 4
Planning and Forecasting
England

Planning and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Supply Chain Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) VMware