Planning and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Planning and Forecasting
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £417 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 - -
75th Percentile £476 - -
90th Percentile £486 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £461 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 870 275 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 93.65% 96.15% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 184 188
10th Percentile £355 £230 £359
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +0.47% -12.73%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £488 £462
% change year-on-year - +5.63% -16.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £16.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.34 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £22.25 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +37.40% -8.14% -31.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +19.46% +22.37% +24.46%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Planning and Forecasting job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Planning and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Billing
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Case
1 3 (75.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) People Management
1 3 (75.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
1 3 (75.00%) WFM
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft