Business Forecasting Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Business Forecasting
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Business Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business 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 293 335 467
Rank change year-on-year +42 +132 +149
Contract jobs citing Business Forecasting 11 10 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.065% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.074% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £458 £367 £450
25th Percentile £471 £481 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £704 £650 £550
90th Percentile £775 - £592
UK median daily rate £465 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -15.45% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £64.08
25th Percentile £34.13 £22.61 £64.56
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.11 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year +21.10% -57.04% -
75th Percentile £36.38 £35.00 £70.69
90th Percentile - - £71.03
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £24.43 £67.50
% change year-on-year +44.29% -63.81% +55.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Business 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Business Forecasting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Forecasting trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Business Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Forecasting.

Business Forecasting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Business Forecasting over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Business Forecasting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Forecasting
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Forecasting.

Business Forecasting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business 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 2 (18.18%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
1 2 (18.18%) Vertex AI
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Looker
1 3 (27.27%) Tableau
2 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Power Query
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Retail
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Relationships Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Relationship Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Matplotlib
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (18.18%) scikit-learn
1 2 (18.18%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Data Science
3 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Time Series Forecasting
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Deep Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Financial Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Logistic Regression
5 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) R
2 2 (18.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CIMA
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce