Predictive Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Predictive Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Predictive Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Predictive Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 379 429
Rank change year-on-year +63 +50 +43
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics 24 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.063% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.075% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 8
10th Percentile £459 £304 £368
25th Percentile £575 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £425 £563
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -24.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £744 £950
90th Percentile £758 - £958
UK median daily rate £650 £400 £663
% change year-on-year +62.50% -39.62% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £32.30
75th Percentile - - £34.33
90th Percentile - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £32.30
% change year-on-year - - -0.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Predictive Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Predictive Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Predictive Analytics in the UK excluding London

Predictive Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Predictive Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Predictive Analytics in the UK excluding London

Predictive Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Analytics in the UK excluding London

Predictive Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Predictive Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Predictive Analytics in the UK excluding London

Predictive Analytics
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 Analytics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
East of England +44 12 £650 - 56
South East +59 6 £663 +16.48% 136
North of England +11 3 £650 - 115
North West +9 3 £650 - 70
South West +45 2 £650 - 43
Midlands +17 2 £650 +52.94% 74
West Midlands +15 1 £650 +52.94% 43
East Midlands - 1 - - 26
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Predictive Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (45.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) Google Ads
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) 5G
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
1 1 (4.17%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (4.17%) Modbus
1 1 (4.17%) MQTT
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Tableau
2 11 (45.83%) Big Data
2 11 (45.83%) Hadoop
3 4 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 11 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Advertising
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 12 (50.00%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Senior
4 7 (29.17%) Senior Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Data Scientist
6 3 (12.50%) Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Lead
8 1 (4.17%) Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Consultant
8 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
8 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Information Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Information Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 12 (50.00%) NumPy
1 12 (50.00%) Pandas
1 12 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 12 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 12 (50.00%) Seaborn
1 12 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (4.17%) IoT
2 1 (4.17%) NB-IoT
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.17%) Robotics
2 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Analytics
2 21 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 20 (83.33%) Data Science
3 20 (83.33%) Machine Learning
4 17 (70.83%) Decision-Making
5 15 (62.50%) Data Analysis
6 14 (58.33%) Data Analytics
6 14 (58.33%) LLM
6 14 (58.33%) Statistical Modelling
6 14 (58.33%) Visualisation
7 12 (50.00%) Computer Science
7 12 (50.00%) Data Munging
7 12 (50.00%) Generative AI
7 12 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
8 10 (41.67%) Feature Engineering
8 10 (41.67%) Reinforcement Learning
9 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (12.50%) Agile
10 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 3 (12.50%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Python
2 15 (62.50%) R
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Degree
2 10 (41.67%) Master's Degree
2 10 (41.67%) PhD
3 2 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Apple
3 1 (4.17%) Criteo
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Virgin Media