Planning and Forecasting Jobs

Planning and Forecasting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Planning and Forecasting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 810 977
Rank change year-on-year +83 +167 -164
Permanent jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 159 165 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 78 72 141
10th Percentile £30,875 £41,865 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,438 £57,500 £45,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +11.54% +6.12%
75th Percentile £66,875 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,375 £110,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,745 £61,250 £56,014
% change year-on-year -17.15% +9.35% +6.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Planning and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK

Planning and Forecasting
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Planning and Forecasting in the UK

Planning and Forecasting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Planning and Forecasting in the UK

Planning and Forecasting
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Planning and Forecasting within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +77 144 £52,500 -25.00% 79
UK excluding London +19 81 £50,745 -17.15% 52
London +80 71 £67,500 -10.00% 35
Work from Home +77 36 £55,000 -18.52% 28
Midlands +11 21 £55,250 +13.33% 9
North of England +40 16 £39,000 -24.27% 13
West Midlands +28 16 £77,500 +34.78% 6
East of England - 16 £32,500 - 4
South East -3 11 £35,000 -50.00% 15
North East - 9 £39,000 - 2
South West -20 8 £52,500 -36.61% 4
Scotland -64 6 £57,500 -30.57% 4
Yorkshire +83 5 - - 5
East Midlands -15 5 £49,990 +24.98% 3
Wales +11 3 £27,398 -54.34% 2
North West -7 2 £46,750 -27.24% 7

Planning and 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 9 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.40%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 80 (50.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (38.99%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (37.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (6.92%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (10.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (9.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.69%) SaaS
2 9 (5.66%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.52%) Azure
4 2 (1.26%) AWS
4 2 (1.26%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.26%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.26%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.26%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.26%) Serverless
5 1 (0.63%) Asana
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.26%) HTTP
1 2 (1.26%) LAN
1 2 (1.26%) VPN
1 2 (1.26%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) 5G
2 1 (0.63%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
2 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.66%) Power BI
2 5 (3.14%) Power Query
2 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.26%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Git
2 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.26%) Maven
2 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 106 (66.67%) Finance
2 59 (37.11%) Banking
3 54 (33.96%) Investment Banking
4 38 (23.90%) Social Skills
5 21 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (6.29%) Telecoms
8 8 (5.03%) Legal
9 6 (3.77%) Police
10 5 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.14%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.89%) Local Government
13 2 (1.26%) Back Office
13 2 (1.26%) Billing
13 2 (1.26%) Marketing
13 2 (1.26%) Retail
13 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (45.28%) Analyst
2 54 (33.96%) Business Strategy Analyst
2 54 (33.96%) Strategy Analyst
3 27 (16.98%) Project Manager
4 15 (9.43%) Architect
4 15 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.66%) Financial Analyst
5 9 (5.66%) IT Manager
6 8 (5.03%) Telecoms Manager
6 8 (5.03%) Telecoms Project Manager
7 7 (4.40%) Developer
7 7 (4.40%) IT Project Manager
8 5 (3.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (3.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 5 (3.14%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.14%) Operations Analyst
8 5 (3.14%) Power BI Analyst
8 5 (3.14%) Support Analyst
9 4 (2.52%) Lead
9 4 (2.52%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.52%) .NET
1 4 (2.52%) React
2 2 (1.26%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.26%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.26%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (1.26%) CSS
2 2 (1.26%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.26%) jQuery
2 2 (1.26%) JSON
2 2 (1.26%) Kafka
2 2 (1.26%) Node.js
2 2 (1.26%) REST
2 2 (1.26%) RESTful
2 2 (1.26%) Spring
2 2 (1.26%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (1.26%) Web Services
3 1 (0.63%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 54 (33.96%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.26%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.26%) Robotics
6 1 (0.63%) IoT
6 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.48%) Asset Management
1 58 (36.48%) Business Forecasting
2 55 (34.59%) Business Strategy
2 55 (34.59%) Creative Thinking
3 54 (33.96%) Benchmarking
3 54 (33.96%) Competitor Analysis
4 43 (27.04%) Agile
5 36 (22.64%) ERP
6 25 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.58%) Project Delivery
7 20 (12.58%) Project Management
8 19 (11.95%) Release Management
9 18 (11.32%) Budget Management
9 18 (11.32%) Contract Negotiation
9 18 (11.32%) Resource Management
10 17 (10.69%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (9.43%) Escalation Management
11 15 (9.43%) Workshop Facilitation
12 14 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (8.81%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.55%) SQL
2 5 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.52%) C#
3 4 (2.52%) Python
4 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.26%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (20.13%) Degree
2 4 (2.52%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.89%) PMP
4 2 (1.26%) ACCA
4 2 (1.26%) CIMA
4 2 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.63%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.63%) CISSP
5 1 (0.63%) CRISC
5 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.63%) PhD
5 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.72%) SLA
2 13 (8.18%) QA
3 11 (6.92%) PMO
4 8 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (4.40%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.89%) GDPR
7 1 (0.63%) COBIT
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
7 1 (0.63%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.77%) Terraform
2 2 (1.26%) Ansible
2 2 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (42.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.21%) SAP
3 4 (2.52%) YouTube
4 3 (1.89%) Anaplan
4 3 (1.89%) Oracle
5 2 (1.26%) Nintex
6 1 (0.63%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.63%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.63%) Nokia
6 1 (0.63%) Workday