Prefect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Prefect
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Prefect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Prefect 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.10% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £765 -
25th Percentile £563 £788 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £825 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% - -
75th Percentile £588 £863 -
90th Percentile - £885 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £825 -
% change year-on-year -30.30% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

Prefect falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 823 759 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.65% 41.63% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 485 635
10th Percentile £338 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £748
Central London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

Prefect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prefect relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Prefect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Prefect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prefect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prefect

Prefect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Dagster
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Fivetran
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform