Planning and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Planning and Forecasting
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate - £601 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 345 150 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 77.53% 90.91% 70.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 89 84
10th Percentile £354 £225 £204
25th Percentile £413 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £520 £516
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +0.78% +5.85%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £727 £676
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 26 15
10th Percentile £32.50 £16.47 £12.35
25th Percentile £52.50 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.82%
75th Percentile £63.38 £62.81 £48.00
90th Percentile £96.30 £63.75 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Planning and Forecasting job vacancy trend in Somerset

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Planning and Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. 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
Taunton - 1 - -
Planning and Forecasting
South West

Planning and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Scrum Master
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
1 1 (100.00%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared