Predictive Analysis Contracts

Predictive Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Predictive Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Predictive Analysis 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 504 571 709
Rank change year-on-year +67 +138 +108
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analysis 16 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.025% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.029% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £412 - £289
25th Percentile £448 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 £563
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -37.78% -
75th Percentile £613 £375 £653
90th Percentile £661 £390 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 - £424
% change year-on-year - - -26.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Predictive Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Predictive Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Predictive Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Predictive Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Predictive Analysis in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analysis over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Predictive Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Predictive Analysis in the UK

Predictive Analysis
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +60 14 £525 +50.00% 14
Work from Home +47 8 £538 +34.38% 8
UK excluding London +63 5 £455 - 5
London +37 5 £525 +50.00% 11
North of England +16 2 £455 - 2
North West +14 2 £455 - 2
South East - 2 £500 - 2
South West - 1 - -

Predictive Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) Data Mining
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Tableau
4 1 (6.25%) Flink
4 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
4 1 (6.25%) Looker
4 1 (6.25%) Mixpanel
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) QlikView
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Electronics
2 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (25.00%) Marketing
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Data Scientist
2 5 (31.25%) Splunk Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Product Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (18.75%) NumPy
2 3 (18.75%) Pandas
2 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
2 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
3 2 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Loki
4 1 (6.25%) Prophet
4 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (50.00%) Observability
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Data Science
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Client Onboarding
3 6 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (37.50%) Event Correlation
3 6 (37.50%) Predictive Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 5 (31.25%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (25.00%) MLOps
5 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 4 (25.00%) SIEM
6 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
6 3 (18.75%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Istio
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) linkerd
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Splunk
2 4 (25.00%) SAP
3 3 (18.75%) Google
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) Amplitude
5 1 (6.25%) Databricks
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle