Planning and Forecasting Contracts with Work from Home Options

Planning and Forecasting
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Planning and Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 431 539
Rank change year-on-year +116 +108 -45
Contract jobs citing Planning and Forecasting 32 31 79
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 46
10th Percentile £375 £334 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £767 £575
90th Percentile £678 £868 £630
UK median daily rate £577 £575 £518
% change year-on-year +0.35% +11.00% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £31.33 £46.17
25th Percentile - £31.44 £62.29
Median hourly rate - £32.25 £74.92
Median % change year-on-year - -56.95% -
75th Percentile - £33.31 £82.88
90th Percentile - £33.58 £84.90
UK median hourly rate - £32.25 £37.78
% change year-on-year - -14.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,749 21,334 39,996
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.11% 89.63% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,583 15,097 29,149
10th Percentile £325 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 503 514
10th Percentile £15.17 £17.70 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.63 £21.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.60%
75th Percentile £60.93 £67.50 £60.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%

Planning and Forecasting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Planning and Forecasting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and 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 Planning and Forecasting.

Planning and Forecasting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Planning and Forecasting over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Planning and Forecasting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and 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 Planning and Forecasting.

Planning and Forecasting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Planning and 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (6.25%) Shopify
2 1 (3.13%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
7 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (6.25%) BigCommerce
7 2 (6.25%) OCI
7 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
7 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) BGP
1 3 (9.38%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
1 3 (9.38%) LAN
1 3 (9.38%) OSPF
1 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
1 3 (9.38%) VPN
1 3 (9.38%) WAN
1 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (3.13%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
1 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 19 (59.38%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Marketing
5 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.13%) Advertising
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.13%) Police
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) ERP Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Network Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Network Technical Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Budget Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Insight Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Performance Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Resource Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Resource Planner
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) CSS
1 4 (12.50%) jQuery
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
2 2 (6.25%) J2EE
2 2 (6.25%) React
2 2 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Sass
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
2 2 (6.25%) VML
2 2 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.13%) Life Science
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
3 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (18.75%) ERP
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.63%) Agile
5 5 (15.63%) PLM
5 5 (15.63%) Project Management
6 4 (12.50%) B2B
6 4 (12.50%) Capacity Management
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) MVC
6 4 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 4 (12.50%) Service Management
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.50%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) C#
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (6.25%) APMP
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ISEB
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) OCP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) SLA
2 3 (9.38%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) SAP
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) F5
4 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
4 3 (9.38%) Splunk
4 3 (9.38%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.25%) Adobe
5 2 (6.25%) Dell
5 2 (6.25%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) Intel
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.25%) Sitecore
6 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.13%) Hyperion