Predictive Analytics Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Predictive Analytics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Predictive Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £544 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Predictive Analytics 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 in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 538 574 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.52% 93.79% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 312 492
10th Percentile £190 £193 £221
25th Percentile £406 £380 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £637 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 26
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.49% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £70.50 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

Predictive Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Predictive Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Predictive Analytics job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Predictive Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Prescriptive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM