Hybrid/Remote Time Series Forecasting Contract Job Trends

Time Series Forecasting
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Time Series Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 320 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs citing Time Series Forecasting 13 5 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.042% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.048% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £591 - -
25th Percentile £713 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £738 £775 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Time Series Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Time Series Forecasting and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Time Series Forecasting job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Time Series Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Time Series Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Time Series Forecasting

Time Series Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Time Series Forecasting over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Time Series Forecasting daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Time Series Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Jupyter
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Vertex AI
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
2 3 (23.08%) Tableau
3 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Data Scientist
4 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) scikit-learn
2 7 (53.85%) Matplotlib
2 7 (53.85%) Pandas
3 6 (46.15%) NumPy
4 5 (38.46%) XGBoost
5 4 (30.77%) PyTorch
6 3 (23.08%) SciPy
6 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
7 2 (15.38%) Plotly
7 2 (15.38%) REST
7 2 (15.38%) Seaborn
7 2 (15.38%) Statsmodels
7 2 (15.38%) Web Services
8 1 (7.69%) Dask
8 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
8 1 (7.69%) Polars
8 1 (7.69%) Prophet
8 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Algorithms
2 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Data Science
2 11 (84.62%) Machine Learning
3 9 (69.23%) Data Analysis
4 8 (61.54%) Computer Science
5 7 (53.85%) Natural Language Processing
6 6 (46.15%) AI
6 6 (46.15%) Deep Learning
6 6 (46.15%) Logistic Regression
6 6 (46.15%) Random Forest
7 5 (38.46%) Analytics
7 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
7 5 (38.46%) LSTM
7 5 (38.46%) Transfer Learning
7 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
8 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
8 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
8 4 (30.77%) Software Architecture
8 4 (30.77%) Statistical Modelling
9 3 (23.08%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
1 3 (23.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubeflow
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
1 2 (15.38%) Dataiku
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Sage