Predictive Analysis Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Predictive Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Predictive Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 352 404
Rank change year-on-year -52 +52 +96
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analysis 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.015% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £415 £458 -
25th Percentile £419 £473 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +11.67% -21.74%
75th Percentile £439 £528 £475
90th Percentile £440 £541 -
UK median daily rate £470 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -14.55% +22.22% -23.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Predictive Analysis 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,586 12,981 17,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.14% 86.78% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,531 7,626 11,240
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 774 1,221
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.04 £32.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -27.21% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.32 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Predictive Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Predictive Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Predictive Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Predictive Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Predictive Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Predictive Analysis

Predictive Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Predictive Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Predictive Analysis

Predictive Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Predictive Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
South East - 6 £433 - 1
Predictive Analysis
UK

Predictive Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (16.67%) Pinecone
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Pandas
1 6 (100.00%) scikit-learn
2 5 (83.33%) NumPy
3 1 (16.67%) Faiss
3 1 (16.67%) Matplotlib
3 1 (16.67%) Plotly
3 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Model Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Data Cleansing
2 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (83.33%) Decision-Making
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
2 5 (83.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Time Series Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Use Case
2 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Statistics
3 4 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google