Demand Forecasting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Demand Forecasting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Demand Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Demand Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 375 414
Rank change year-on-year +16 +39 +99
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Demand Forecasting 10 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.005% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.007% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £230 - -
25th Percentile £232 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.62%
75th Percentile £491 - £461
90th Percentile £500 - £465
UK median daily rate £475 £750 £460
% change year-on-year -36.67% +63.04% -34.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Demand 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,703 15,111 19,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 82.81% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,232 9,021 12,871
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £390 £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 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,379 1,483 1,194
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.98 £16.30 £17.47
Median hourly rate £23.50 £41.50 £36.88
Median % change year-on-year -43.37% +12.54% +69.31%
75th Percentile £45.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £40.69
% change year-on-year -37.90% -0.47% +53.55%

Demand Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Demand Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Demand Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Demand Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Demand Forecasting

Demand Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Demand Forecasting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Demand Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Demand Forecasting
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Demand Forecasting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Demand Forecasting

Demand Forecasting
DemandTrendContract 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 Demand Forecasting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 6 £263 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £263 - 1
North West -8 3 £500 - 1
North of England -23 3 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
South East - 1 £325 - 8
Demand Forecasting
UK

Demand 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Planning Manager
2 1 (10.00%) PMO Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Prophet
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (10.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (70.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
3 4 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 4 (40.00%) CRM
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
5 1 (10.00%) ARIMA
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Data Collection
5 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (10.00%) Feature Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft