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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 344 392
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 +26
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 42 27 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 26
10th Percentile £278 £375 £363
25th Percentile £363 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -8.11% -7.31%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £556
90th Percentile £695 £625 £631
UK median daily rate £475 £611 £550
% change year-on-year -22.29% +11.14% +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate £16.41 - £32.25
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
UK median hourly rate £30.71 - £32.25
% change year-on-year - - -35.50%

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 13,658 15,365 19,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,214 9,255 13,222
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £385 £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 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 1,608 1,218
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.10 £75.00 £76.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 2025.

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 2 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
North of England +4 15 £403 -10.56% 20
North West +7 11 £402 -10.61% 14
South East +20 7 £463 +23.33% 31
West Midlands -1 7 £289 -32.00% 7
Midlands -3 7 £289 -32.00% 10
South West +32 6 £601 -7.62% 7
Yorkshire -3 4 £700 - 5
East of England +3 3 £650 - 3
Scotland -8 3 £650 +8.33% 4
Wales - 1 - -
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 4 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle ASCP
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (2.38%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (4.76%) GCP
2 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (2.38%) AWS
3 1 (2.38%) GitHub
3 1 (2.38%) IaaS
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (2.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 26 (61.90%) Finance
2 22 (52.38%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.14%) Back Office
6 2 (4.76%) Billing
6 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Analyst
1 7 (16.67%) Architect
1 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Availability Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Capacity Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Lead
3 5 (11.90%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Consultant
6 1 (2.38%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.38%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Project Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (2.38%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) Middleware
1 1 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (14.29%) Replication
3 5 (11.90%) Mainframe
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.38%) PKI
6 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) HPUX
2 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Solaris
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Agile
2 13 (30.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (30.95%) Project Management
2 13 (30.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.19%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (26.19%) Risk Management
5 10 (23.81%) Decision-Making
5 10 (23.81%) Service Management
6 8 (19.05%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 8 (19.05%) Scrum
6 8 (19.05%) Waterfall
7 7 (16.67%) Budgeting
7 7 (16.67%) Demand Forecasting
7 7 (16.67%) ITIL
8 6 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
8 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) ACCA
3 2 (4.76%) CIMA
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) APMP
4 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.38%) SCOM
1 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) IBM
2 6 (14.29%) SAP
2 6 (14.29%) Sun
3 5 (11.90%) HP
3 5 (11.90%) Unisys
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 4 (9.52%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.76%) Citrix
5 2 (4.76%) Hyperion
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.38%) Ariba
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) F5
6 1 (2.38%) VMware