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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 530 636
Rank change year-on-year +59 +106 +112
Contract jobs citing Prefect 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.003% 0.008%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.077% 0.009% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile £413 £625 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +27.45% -15.00%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £531
90th Percentile £825 - £540
UK median daily rate £513 £650 £510
% change year-on-year -21.15% +27.45% -15.00%

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 9,035 11,689 17,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.12% 32.09% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,257 8,437 12,880
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £673
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 325 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.04 £15.85 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.25 £21.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -38.24% +58.14%
75th Percentile £36.38 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.63 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%

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

Prefect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prefect in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prefect in England

Prefect
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 19 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 +48 3 £750 +15.38% 11
South West - 2 £425 - 4
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 5 (71.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) Dagster
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) NumPy
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) Metaflow
2 2 (28.57%) Pandas
2 2 (28.57%) Polars
2 2 (28.57%) SciPy
2 2 (28.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
1 2 (28.57%) Genomics
1 2 (28.57%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Bioinformatics
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Proteomics
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Transcriptomics
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks