Planning and Forecasting Contracts with Work from Home Options

Planning and Forecasting
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 427 540
Rank change year-on-year +110 +113 -89
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 29 44 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 49
10th Percentile £369 £460 £350
25th Percentile £375 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £631 £510
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% +23.73% +13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £689 £600
90th Percentile £650 £850 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £583 £520
% change year-on-year -9.87% +12.02% +4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £64.08 -
25th Percentile - £64.56 £35.42
Median hourly rate - £67.75 £57.14
Median % change year-on-year - +18.57% -
75th Percentile - £70.69 £82.88
90th Percentile - £71.03 £84.90
UK median hourly rate - £67.75 £43.89
% change year-on-year - +54.37% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Planning and Forecasting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Planning and Forecasting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting.

Planning and Forecasting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Planning and Forecasting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting.

Planning and Forecasting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (6.90%) Shopify
2 1 (3.45%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (13.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) Power Automate
3 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.90%) BigCommerce
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) BGP
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) LAN
1 2 (6.90%) OSPF
1 2 (6.90%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
1 2 (6.90%) WAN
1 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.45%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
1 2 (6.90%) Maven
1 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (58.62%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (20.69%) Marketing
5 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.90%) Local Government
7 2 (6.90%) Retail
7 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Analyst
1 6 (20.69%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Insight Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) ERP Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Resource Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Resource Planner
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Budget Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Performance Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Service Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) CSS
1 4 (13.79%) jQuery
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (13.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (6.90%) Entity Framework
2 2 (6.90%) J2EE
2 2 (6.90%) React
2 2 (6.90%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) Sass
2 2 (6.90%) Spring
2 2 (6.90%) Spring MVC
2 2 (6.90%) VML
2 2 (6.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (31.03%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (20.69%) ERP
3 6 (20.69%) Performance Metrics
3 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
3 6 (20.69%) Service Delivery
3 6 (20.69%) Service Management
4 5 (17.24%) Line Management
4 5 (17.24%) PLM
5 4 (13.79%) B2B
5 4 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) MVC
5 4 (13.79%) People Management
5 4 (13.79%) Project Management
5 4 (13.79%) Resource Management
5 4 (13.79%) Supplier Management
5 4 (13.79%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) C#
2 2 (6.90%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) OCP
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) SLA
2 3 (10.34%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
1 12 (41.38%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) SAP
3 2 (6.90%) Adobe
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) Dell
3 2 (6.90%) F5
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Intel
3 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.90%) Sitecore
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
4 1 (3.45%) Hyperion