Business Forecasting Jobs

Business Forecasting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Business Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 739 883
Rank change year-on-year +124 +144 +250
Permanent jobs citing Business Forecasting 97 151 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 57 65 41
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile - £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,084 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% +3.14% -15.83%
75th Percentile - £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,261 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,084 £50,250
% change year-on-year +15.20% +3.65% +0.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Forecasting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,420 85,138 94,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.82% 85.22% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,605 59,872 55,912
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,089 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Business Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Forecasting in the UK

Business Forecasting
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Forecasting.

Salary trend for Business Forecasting in the UK

Business Forecasting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Forecasting over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Forecasting in the UK

Business Forecasting
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Forecasting within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 73 £60,000 +15.20% 76
UK excluding London +193 60 £60,000 +15.20% 29
Work from Home +133 37 £60,000 +11.63% 37
London +32 17 £47,500 -47.22% 49
South East +91 12 £60,000 +60.00% 16
Scotland - 12 £60,000 - 1
North of England +23 11 £60,000 +15.20% 6
Midlands +77 8 £60,000 -4.00% 1
South West - 8 £60,000 - 5
East of England +41 7 £60,000 -22.58%
East Midlands - 7 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £60,000 - 3
North West -32 4 £60,000 +15.20% 3
Wales - 2 £60,000 -
West Midlands +43 1 £72,500 +16.00%

Business 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 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 40 (41.24%) Infor LN
1 40 (41.24%) SAP BPC
2 18 (18.56%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.19%) SaaS
2 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.09%) Azure
3 3 (3.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.06%) GCP
4 2 (2.06%) OCI
5 1 (1.03%) AWS
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.03%) dbt
5 1 (1.03%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.56%) WPA
2 3 (3.09%) LAN
2 3 (3.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (44.33%) Tableau
2 4 (4.12%) Power BI
3 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.03%) Power Query
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (43.30%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 68 (70.10%) Analytical Skills
2 67 (69.07%) Finance
3 43 (44.33%) Police
4 34 (35.05%) Social Skills
5 31 (31.96%) Marketing
6 18 (18.56%) Local Government
7 6 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.12%) Retail
10 3 (3.09%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (2.06%) Banking
12 1 (1.03%) Back Office
12 1 (1.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 44 (45.36%) Senior
2 43 (44.33%) Lead
3 40 (41.24%) Accountant
3 40 (41.24%) Project Accountant
3 40 (41.24%) Senior Accountant
3 40 (41.24%) Team Leader
4 22 (22.68%) Business Manager
5 18 (18.56%) Business Development Manager
5 18 (18.56%) Development Manager
6 11 (11.34%) Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) Financial Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Account Director
9 3 (3.09%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Service Manager
10 2 (2.06%) IT Manager
10 2 (2.06%) Operations Manager
10 2 (2.06%) Programme Manager
10 2 (2.06%) Relationships Manager
10 2 (2.06%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 40 (41.24%) Management Information System
2 18 (18.56%) Social Media
3 2 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.56%) Windows
1 18 (18.56%) Windows Vista
2 3 (3.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.67%) Decision-Making
2 46 (47.42%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (42.27%) Collaborative Working
4 40 (41.24%) Cyber Intelligence
4 40 (41.24%) Internal Audit
4 40 (41.24%) Revenue Recognition
5 23 (23.71%) Business Strategy
6 21 (21.65%) CRM
7 18 (18.56%) Business Development
8 15 (15.46%) Planning and Forecasting
9 11 (11.34%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 10 (10.31%) Analytics
11 9 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
11 9 (9.28%) Business Case
11 9 (9.28%) Financial Analysis
12 8 (8.25%) Cost Management
12 8 (8.25%) Performance Management
12 8 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (7.22%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.19%) SQL
2 3 (3.09%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) R
4 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 53 (54.64%) ACCA
2 49 (50.52%) CIMA
3 40 (41.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (19.59%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.09%) Degree
6 2 (2.06%) CFA
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (42.27%) IFRS
2 40 (41.24%) GAAP
3 5 (5.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (3.09%) SLA
5 2 (2.06%) QA
6 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 42 (43.30%) Oracle
2 40 (41.24%) Cognos
2 40 (41.24%) Infor
2 40 (41.24%) SAP
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.12%) Broadcom
5 3 (3.09%) Adyen
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) Google