Time Series Forecasting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Time Series Forecasting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Time Series Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Time Series Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Time Series Forecasting 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Time Series 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 requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,355 17,496 20,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.47% 82.80% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,548 10,267 13,881
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £366 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 2,162 1,257
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%
75th Percentile £53.94 £61.90 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Time Series Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Time Series Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Time Series Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Time Series Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Time Series Forecasting in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Time Series Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Time Series Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Series Forecasting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Time Series Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Time Series Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Time Series Forecasting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 13 £650 - 2
North of England - 1 £475 - 5
North West - 1 £475 - 2
South East - 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £675 - 1
Time Series Forecasting
UK

Time Series Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Tableau
2 12 (75.00%) Big Data
3 11 (68.75%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 12 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Data Science Developer
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
4 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Data Scientist
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Pandas
1 16 (100.00%) scikit-learn
2 15 (93.75%) TensorFlow
3 14 (87.50%) Matplotlib
3 14 (87.50%) NumPy
4 13 (81.25%) PyTorch
4 13 (81.25%) Seaborn
5 1 (6.25%) LangChain
5 1 (6.25%) Prophet
5 1 (6.25%) PySpark
5 1 (6.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Data Science
1 16 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 15 (93.75%) Visualisation
3 14 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (87.50%) Generative AI
3 14 (87.50%) Statistical Modelling
4 13 (81.25%) Analytics
4 13 (81.25%) Data Munging
4 13 (81.25%) Decision-Making
4 13 (81.25%) LLM
4 13 (81.25%) Predictive Analytics
5 12 (75.00%) Data Analysis
5 12 (75.00%) Data Analytics
5 12 (75.00%) Feature Engineering
6 10 (62.50%) Computer Science
6 10 (62.50%) Reinforcement Learning
7 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
8 2 (12.50%) Predictive Modelling
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (81.25%) R
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
1 10 (62.50%) Master's Degree
1 10 (62.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Databricks
1 1 (6.25%) Foundry
1 1 (6.25%) Google
1 1 (6.25%) OpenAI