Planning and Forecasting Contracts

Planning and Forecasting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 623 635
Rank change year-on-year +101 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 64 99 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 127
10th Percentile £363 £420 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +11.00% +3.60%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £575
90th Percentile £800 £761 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £498 £505
% change year-on-year -14.57% -1.49% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £64.40 -
25th Percentile - £65.38 £35.42
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +36.00% -
75th Percentile - £74.88 £81.75
90th Percentile - £77.05 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £68.00 £43.89
% change year-on-year - +54.94% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Planning and Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Planning and Forecasting.

Daily rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in the UK

Planning and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Planning and Forecasting.

Hourly rate trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK

Planning and Forecasting
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +88 43 £525 -8.70% 71
Work from Home +115 30 £450 -28.68% 33
UK excluding London +61 26 £425 -14.57% 40
London +83 22 £691 +11.72% 37
South East +9 7 £375 -45.57% 8
North of England +30 6 £525 +9.38% 13
Scotland +22 5 £488 +6.85% 4
East of England +15 5 £525 - 6
West Midlands - 5 £240 - 4
Midlands - 5 £240 - 5
North West +11 3 £525 +9.38% 7
Yorkshire +28 2 - - 2
South West +17 1 £465 -15.45% 3

Planning and Forecasting
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 3 (4.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (4.69%) Shopify
3 1 (1.56%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (1.56%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.75%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (7.81%) Power Automate
3 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (4.69%) BigCommerce
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) OCI
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.25%) 5G
3 3 (4.69%) 3G
3 3 (4.69%) 4G
4 2 (3.13%) BGP
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (3.13%) Firewall
4 2 (3.13%) LAN
4 2 (3.13%) OSPF
4 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.13%) VPN
4 2 (3.13%) WAN
4 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) Power BI
2 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.69%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Maven
3 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.56%) TestDirector
General
1 31 (48.44%) Finance
2 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (14.06%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (12.50%) Marketing
6 5 (7.81%) Local Government
7 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (6.25%) Retail
8 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.56%) Back Office
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Analyst
1 9 (14.06%) Project Manager
2 8 (12.50%) Architect
2 8 (12.50%) Consultant
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
3 7 (10.94%) Senior Manager
4 6 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Insight Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Project Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) ERP Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Programme Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Resource Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Resource Planner
7 3 (4.69%) Functional Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) CSS
1 6 (9.38%) jQuery
1 6 (9.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 5 (7.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.69%) .NET
3 3 (4.69%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.69%) .NET Framework
3 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.69%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (4.69%) Entity Framework
3 3 (4.69%) J2EE
3 3 (4.69%) React
3 3 (4.69%) REST
3 3 (4.69%) Sass
3 3 (4.69%) Spring
3 3 (4.69%) Spring MVC
3 3 (4.69%) VML
3 3 (4.69%) Web Services
4 1 (1.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.25%) Life Science
1 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.69%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.56%) FMCG
3 1 (1.56%) PMI
3 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
1 3 (4.69%) Unix
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.44%) Agile
2 14 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (21.88%) ERP
3 13 (20.31%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (17.19%) Project Management
4 11 (17.19%) Service Management
4 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
6 9 (14.06%) Business Case
6 9 (14.06%) Data Analysis
6 9 (14.06%) Performance Metrics
7 8 (12.50%) B2B
7 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 8 (12.50%) WFM
8 7 (10.94%) Budget Management
8 7 (10.94%) Line Management
8 7 (10.94%) PLM
8 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
1 6 (9.38%) Python
2 3 (4.69%) C#
2 3 (4.69%) Java
2 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) PMP
6 1 (1.56%) ACCA
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) OCP
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) SLA
2 5 (7.81%) PMO
3 2 (3.13%) QA
4 1 (1.56%) IFRS
4 1 (1.56%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (25.00%) Oracle
3 14 (21.88%) SAP
4 4 (6.25%) Google
5 3 (4.69%) Adobe
5 3 (4.69%) Ariba
5 3 (4.69%) Dell
5 3 (4.69%) Intel
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.69%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco
6 2 (3.13%) F5
6 2 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
6 2 (3.13%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.56%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.56%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.56%) Nintex
7 1 (1.56%) Progress
88 Planning and Forecasting jobs Nationwide