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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 575 687
Rank change year-on-year +56 +112 +158
Contract jobs citing Time Series Forecasting 19 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.005% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 1
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £525 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.83%
75th Percentile £675 - £675
90th Percentile £705 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

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 27,390 36,950 49,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.03% 85.01% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,318 23,542 34,326
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,304 2,585 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.04 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.32% +17.29% +54.76%

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 24 June 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 24 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
England - 18 £650 - 38
UK excluding London - 15 £650 - 10
East of England - 12 £650 - 5
Work from Home +36 5 £500 - 26
London - 4 £663 - 29
North West - 1 £475 - 2
South East - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £675 -
North of England - 1 £475 - 4

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 11 (57.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) Tableau
2 11 (57.89%) Big Data
3 10 (52.63%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Looker
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Data Science Developer
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) Senior
3 6 (31.58%) Data Scientist
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (5.26%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) Pandas
1 15 (78.95%) scikit-learn
2 14 (73.68%) TensorFlow
3 13 (68.42%) Matplotlib
3 13 (68.42%) NumPy
4 12 (63.16%) PyTorch
4 12 (63.16%) Seaborn
5 1 (5.26%) LangChain
5 1 (5.26%) Prophet
5 1 (5.26%) PySpark
5 1 (5.26%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (10.53%) FMCG
3 1 (5.26%) Acoustics
3 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Data Science
2 18 (94.74%) Machine Learning
3 15 (78.95%) Statistical Modelling
3 15 (78.95%) Visualisation
4 14 (73.68%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (68.42%) Analytics
5 13 (68.42%) Data Munging
5 13 (68.42%) Decision-Making
5 13 (68.42%) Generative AI
6 12 (63.16%) Data Analysis
6 12 (63.16%) LLM
6 12 (63.16%) Predictive Analytics
7 11 (57.89%) Data Analytics
7 11 (57.89%) Feature Engineering
8 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
8 9 (47.37%) Reinforcement Learning
9 4 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (15.79%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) R
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
1 9 (47.37%) Master's Degree
1 9 (47.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Databricks
1 2 (10.53%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Foundry
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI