Demand Management Contracts

Demand Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Demand Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Demand Management over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 531 550
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +201
Contract jobs citing Demand Management 34 39 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 75
10th Percentile £302 £450 £349
25th Percentile £319 £470 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +17.50% -14.68%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £605
90th Percentile £665 £650 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -36.59% +2.50% -14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Median hourly rate - £75.40 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.71% +72.84%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £79.47 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +13.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Demand Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,796 33,316 47,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.54% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,622 21,342 32,327
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,663 1,858 1,529
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.20 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.35%
75th Percentile £49.88 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.46 £77.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £38.35
% change year-on-year -44.24% +7.56% +78.37%

Demand Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Demand Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Demand Management in the UK

Demand Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Demand Management.

Daily rate trend for Demand Management in the UK

Demand Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Demand Management over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Demand Management in the UK

Demand Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Demand Management.

Hourly rate trend for Demand Management in the UK

Demand Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Demand Management within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +11 29 £558 -6.11% 19
UK excluding London +15 20 £325 -36.59% 14
Work from Home +40 14 £625 +4.17% 6
London +7 9 £590 -1.67% 4
North of England -7 7 £325 - 3
South East +24 6 £325 -19.25% 7
North West -10 5 £325 - 3
Midlands -8 3 £325 - 1
South West +31 2 - - 1
West Midlands -15 2 £295 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £420 -
East of England 0 1 £500 -
Wales - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £738 -

Demand Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Back Office
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Support Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Junior
3 5 (14.71%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Junior Support Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Portfolio Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Buyer
5 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Buyer
6 2 (5.88%) Commercial Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Coordinator
6 2 (5.88%) Cost Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Centre Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Procurement Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Procurement Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Report Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Sales Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.94%) CMDB
3 1 (2.94%) FMCG
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Decision-Making
2 11 (32.35%) Project Management
3 9 (26.47%) Portfolio Management
3 9 (26.47%) Process Improvement
4 8 (23.53%) Agile
5 7 (20.59%) Analytics
5 7 (20.59%) Resource Allocation
5 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.65%) Business Case
6 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (14.71%) Change Management
7 5 (14.71%) Resource Management
8 4 (11.76%) Budget Management
8 4 (11.76%) Matrix Management
8 4 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (11.76%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 5 (14.71%) PMO
3 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.94%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) IFS
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) NetCracker
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) Ariba