Planning and Forecasting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Planning and Forecasting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 404 383
Rank change year-on-year +30 -21 +14
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 27 26 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.11% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.13% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 71
10th Percentile £235 - £355
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% -7.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £528
90th Percentile £500 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £511
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.47% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £31.33 £32.69
25th Percentile - £31.44 -
Median hourly rate - £32.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year - -13.84% -
75th Percentile - £33.31 £52.50
90th Percentile - £33.58 £59.55
UK median hourly rate - £32.25 £37.78
% change year-on-year - -14.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +16 9 £375 -6.25% 13
Scotland +55 7 £488 +5.41% 2
West Midlands - 5 £240 - 2
Midlands - 5 £240 - 6
North of England +8 4 £450 -6.25% 11
Yorkshire +14 2 - - 4
East of England +6 2 - -
North West +10 1 £450 -6.25% 7
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 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP IBP
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (14.81%) 5G
3 3 (11.11%) 3G
3 3 (11.11%) 4G
4 2 (7.41%) BGP
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (7.41%) Firewall
4 2 (7.41%) LAN
4 2 (7.41%) OSPF
4 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 2 (7.41%) WAN
4 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
1 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Project Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Workforce Management Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Budget Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Network Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Network Technical Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Performance Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Supply Chain Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.70%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Performance Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 5 (18.52%) B2B
3 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
4 4 (14.81%) Agile
4 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
4 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
4 4 (14.81%) ERP
4 4 (14.81%) Project Management
4 4 (14.81%) WFM
5 3 (11.11%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (11.11%) Capacity Management
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (11.11%) Cost Control
5 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.11%) Performance Management
5 3 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (7.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) APMP
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) ISEB
4 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) F5
3 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
4 1 (3.70%) Anaplan
4 1 (3.70%) Progress
4 1 (3.70%) SAP