Business Forecasting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Forecasting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 374 434
Rank change year-on-year +13 +60 +68
Contract jobs citing Business Forecasting 8 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.027% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.033% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £470 - £471
25th Percentile £489 - £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £522 - £563
90th Percentile £608 - £578
UK median daily rate £489 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -13.07% +12.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year - -1.41% +8.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,676 15,200 19,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.28% 83.05% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,218 9,108 13,133
10th Percentile £241 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.76% -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,347 1,552 1,205
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.82 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +17.24% +64.77%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -38.66% -1.91% +57.74%

Business Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Business Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Forecasting in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Business Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Forecasting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Business Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Forecasting in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Business Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Forecasting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Scotland - 5 £489 - 1
South East +27 2 £594 - 7
North of England -16 1 - - 3
North West - 1 - - 1
Business Forecasting
UK

Business Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (12.50%) DTS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Budgeting
1 6 (75.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Business Case
5 1 (12.50%) Business Process Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
5 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CIMA
2 1 (12.50%) PgMP
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft