The first table below looks at the demand for Predictive Analytics skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Predictive Analytics over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Predictive Analytics
Rank 526 582 583
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +1
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.005% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £350 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Predictive Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Predictive Analytics within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Predictive Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Predictive Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics within the UK.

Predictive Analytics Daily Rate Trend

Predictive Analytics
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Predictive Analytics within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +47 3 £350 -6.66%
London +39 2 £300 -20.00%
South East - 1 £350 -
Berkshire - 1 £350 -
Reading - 1 £350 -

Predictive Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Predictive Analytics also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Predictive Analytics.

1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) SPSS
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (44.44%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) OLAP
3 4 (44.44%) MDX
3 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) SAS
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (22.22%) Time Management
5 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (22.22%) Market Research
5 2 (22.22%) Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Jetty
6 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
6 1 (11.11%) Business Development
6 1 (11.11%) Statistics
6 1 (11.11%) French Language
6 1 (11.11%) German Language
6 1 (11.11%) Velocity
6 1 (11.11%) Blog

Predictive Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Predictive Analytics also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Predictive Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) MDX
2 1 (11.11%) Velocity
2 1 (11.11%) FreeMarker
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) XSLT
2 1 (11.11%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (11.11%) Jetty
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) SPSS
2 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 4 (44.44%) OLAP
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) French Language
2 1 (11.11%) German Language
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Report Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Junior
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
2 1 (11.11%) Statistics
2 1 (11.11%) Blog
2 1 (11.11%) Open Source
2 1 (11.11%) Neural Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) Time Management
2 2 (22.22%) Market Research
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
3 1 (11.11%) Business Development
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) OWASP
3 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) IBM