Prefect Contracts in England

Prefect
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Prefect skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Prefect 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 479 541 648
Rank change year-on-year +62 +107 +113
Contract jobs citing Prefect 6 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.003% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.066% 0.008% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £369
25th Percentile £413 £625 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £468
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +39.04% -20.43%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £523
90th Percentile £840 - £537
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £468
% change year-on-year -7.69% +39.04% -20.43%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Prefect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Prefect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Prefect in England

Prefect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prefect in England.

Daily rate trend for Prefect in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prefect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prefect in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prefect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +39 2 £825 +26.92% 8
South West - 2 £425 - 6
Prefect
UK

Prefect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) NumPy
2 2 (33.33%) Django
2 2 (33.33%) Metaflow
2 2 (33.33%) Pandas
2 2 (33.33%) Polars
2 2 (33.33%) SciPy
2 2 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 2 (33.33%) Genomics
1 2 (33.33%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Proteomics
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Transcriptomics
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) HDFS