Business Forecasting Contracts with Work from Home Options

Business 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 Business Forecasting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Forecasting over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 447 616
Rank change year-on-year +109 +169 -132
Contract jobs citing Business Forecasting 10 14 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.058% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.065% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 8
10th Percentile £353 £453 £325
25th Percentile £448 £481 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +13.89% -11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £525
90th Percentile - £576 £676
UK median daily rate £564 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +9.95% +7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.61 - -
Median hourly rate £29.11 - -
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.43 £35.50 £32.64
% change year-on-year -31.18% +8.76% -6.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Business 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 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Business Forecasting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Business Forecasting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Business 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 Business Forecasting.

Business Forecasting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Business Forecasting over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Business Forecasting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business 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 Business Forecasting.

Business Forecasting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Forecasting
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Business Forecasting over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Business Forecasting hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business 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 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) French Language
3 2 (20.00%) German Language
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) ERP Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Business Manager
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Insight Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Project Controller
3 1 (10.00%) Commercial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (20.00%) jQuery
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 3 (30.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (30.00%) PLM
2 3 (30.00%) Record to Report
2 3 (30.00%) Source to Pay
2 3 (30.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) CAD
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ACCA
1 3 (30.00%) CIMA
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce