Time Series Forecasting Contracts

Time Series Forecasting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 581 716
Rank change year-on-year +85 +135 +124
Contract jobs citing Time Series Forecasting 24 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £625 £359 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £368 £550
Median % change year-on-year +76.87% -33.18% -
75th Percentile £675 £376 -
90th Percentile £775 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £368 -
% change year-on-year +76.87% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Time Series Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Series Forecasting in the UK

Time Series Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Time Series Forecasting in the UK

Time Series Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Series Forecasting over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Time Series Forecasting in the UK

Time Series Forecasting
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England - 23 £650 - 17
UK excluding London +79 17 £650 +76.87% 8
East of England - 14 £650 - 1
London - 7 £750 - 12
Work from Home - 7 £750 - 13
Wales +1 1 £675 +83.67%
North of England - 1 £475 - 3
North West - 1 £475 - 1
South East - 1 - - 3

Time Series 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 14 (58.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 15 (62.50%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) Vertex AI
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (70.83%) Tableau
2 14 (58.33%) Big Data
3 13 (54.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.33%) Looker
5 1 (4.17%) Power BI
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) MLflow
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (54.17%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Retail
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Data Science Developer
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 13 (54.17%) Senior
3 10 (41.67%) Senior Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Data Scientist
5 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (79.17%) scikit-learn
2 17 (70.83%) Matplotlib
2 17 (70.83%) Pandas
3 16 (66.67%) TensorFlow
4 15 (62.50%) NumPy
5 14 (58.33%) PyTorch
5 14 (58.33%) Seaborn
6 3 (12.50%) XGBoost
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
7 1 (4.17%) LangChain
7 1 (4.17%) Loki
7 1 (4.17%) Metaflow
7 1 (4.17%) Prophet
7 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.17%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 23 (95.83%) Data Science
3 18 (75.00%) Data Analysis
3 18 (75.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 18 (75.00%) Visualisation
4 17 (70.83%) Decision-Making
5 16 (66.67%) Analytics
5 16 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 15 (62.50%) Data Munging
6 15 (62.50%) Generative AI
6 15 (62.50%) LLM
7 14 (58.33%) Computer Science
7 14 (58.33%) Data Analytics
7 14 (58.33%) Predictive Analytics
8 13 (54.17%) Feature Engineering
9 12 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
10 4 (16.67%) Business Forecasting
10 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
10 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) Python
2 16 (66.67%) R
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Degree
1 12 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 12 (50.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (58.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Foundry
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAI