Planning and Forecasting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Planning and Forecasting
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Planning and Forecasting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 419 403
Rank change year-on-year +50 -16 -4
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 24 32 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.13% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.15% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 63
10th Percentile £235 £400 £363
25th Percentile £363 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £480 £510
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -5.88% +2.00%
75th Percentile £465 £644 £561
90th Percentile £550 £689 £609
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -8.70% +10.58% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67.00 £35.42
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year - +80.01% -
75th Percentile - £69.00 £52.50
90th Percentile - - £70.05
UK median hourly rate - £67.75 £43.89
% change year-on-year - +54.37% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Planning and Forecasting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Planning and 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 Planning and Forecasting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
South East +18 7 £375 -31.13% 11
Scotland +44 5 £488 +5.41% 4
West Midlands - 5 £240 - 3
Midlands - 5 £240 - 5
North of England +25 4 £525 +9.38% 18
East of England +19 3 £525 - 6
Yorkshire +21 2 - - 3
North West +18 1 £525 +9.38% 10
South West +18 1 £465 -15.45% 4
Planning and Forecasting
UK

Planning and 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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (16.67%) 5G
3 3 (12.50%) 3G
3 3 (12.50%) 4G
4 2 (8.33%) BGP
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (8.33%) Firewall
4 2 (8.33%) LAN
4 2 (8.33%) OSPF
4 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) WAN
4 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Workforce Management Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Budget Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Network Technical Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Performance Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Supply Chain Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Resource Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Resource Planner
4 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Life Science
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.83%) B2B
3 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) ERP
4 4 (16.67%) WFM
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Capacity Management
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.50%) Cost Control
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 3 (12.50%) Supplier Management
5 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Logistics
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) F5
2 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
3 1 (4.17%) Anaplan
3 1 (4.17%) Ariba
3 1 (4.17%) Progress