Demand Forecasting Contracts

Demand Forecasting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Demand Forecasting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Demand Forecasting over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 680 819
Rank change year-on-year +107 +139 -119
Contract jobs citing Demand Forecasting 11 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.028% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.031% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 19
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £725 £400 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £425 £700
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -39.29% +27.56%
75th Percentile £775 £465 £725
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £479
% change year-on-year - -11.23% -8.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Demand 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 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%

Demand Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Demand Forecasting in the UK

Demand Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Demand Forecasting in the UK

Demand Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Demand Forecasting in the UK

Demand Forecasting
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Demand Forecasting within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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 +102 11 £750 +76.47% 26
London +99 6 £750 - 18
Work from Home +106 4 £750 +76.47% 10
UK excluding London +43 3 - - 12
North of England +31 3 - - 3
North West +13 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Demand 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 (27.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (27.27%) Shopify
2 2 (18.18%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) BigCommerce
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Retail
3 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Service Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Forecast Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) J2EE
1 3 (27.27%) jQuery
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) Sass
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring MVC
1 3 (27.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (27.27%) VML
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) NumPy
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (9.09%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Analytics
1 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis
2 4 (36.36%) B2B
2 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
2 4 (36.36%) Inventory Management
2 4 (36.36%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (27.27%) Business Case
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Acquisition
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Global Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Service Catalogue
3 3 (27.27%) Service Design
3 3 (27.27%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 3 (27.27%) Supply Chain Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Debt
3 3 (27.27%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
3 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) SAP
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Adobe
3 3 (27.27%) Dell
3 3 (27.27%) Google
3 3 (27.27%) Intel
3 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
3 3 (27.27%) Sitecore
4 1 (9.09%) Ariba
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk