Planning and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Planning and Forecasting
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 81 101
Rank change year-on-year -51 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.22% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £463 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% -14.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,983 854 1,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.04% 92.22% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 537 889
10th Percentile £313 £255 £250
25th Percentile £404 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £668
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 32 56
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.59 £11.21
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.93 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.36 £21.69 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% +60.67% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £30.10 £22.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £91.13 £53.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Planning and Forecasting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Planning and Forecasting job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Planning and Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Planning and Forecasting

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Planning and Forecasting in Yorkshire

Planning and Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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 Yorkshire - 4 £461 - 1
West Yorkshire -23 1 £550 -
Planning and Forecasting
England

Planning and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Billing
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Business Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Business Case
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) People Management
2 3 (60.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) WFM
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Operations Management
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Commvault
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft