Predictive Analysis Contract Job Trends

Predictive Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Predictive Analysis skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 552 634
Rank change year-on-year +6 +82 +198
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analysis 13 21 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.055% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.064% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 4
10th Percentile £426 £362 £430
25th Percentile £455 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £566 £555 £556
90th Percentile £575 £591 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £535 -
% change year-on-year -19.08% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £33.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £33.93 -

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 29,811 32,761 44,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.51% 85.67% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,528 20,142 30,042
10th Percentile £300 £309 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,799 1,460 1,542
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%
75th Percentile £44.68 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £40.64
% change year-on-year -47.37% +5.81% +76.70%

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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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analysis over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Analysis in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Predictive Analysis
Top 5 Contract Job 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 17 September 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 +23 12 £513 -6.82% 7
London +20 7 £550 - 2
UK excluding London -4 4 £433 -19.08% 5
South East - 4 £433 -
Work from Home +3 1 £500 -6.45% 6

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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) BGP
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (15.38%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) IOS XR
1 2 (15.38%) MPLS
1 2 (15.38%) NX-OS
1 2 (15.38%) OSPF
1 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
1 2 (15.38%) VXLAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
2 4 (30.77%) Tableau
3 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 3 (23.08%) Looker
3 3 (23.08%) Mixpanel
4 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.69%) Flink
5 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
5 1 (7.69%) Neo4j
5 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jaeger
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Data Scientist
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Pensions Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Product Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Pandas
1 5 (38.46%) scikit-learn
2 4 (30.77%) NumPy
3 2 (15.38%) Jinja
3 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
3 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Faiss
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Loki
4 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
4 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.69%) Plotly
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
2 7 (53.85%) Predictive Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Data Science
3 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
4 5 (38.46%) Statistics
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
5 4 (30.77%) LLM
5 4 (30.77%) Model Validation
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (30.77%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (23.08%) Observability
6 3 (23.08%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Istio
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) linkerd
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Amplitude
2 2 (15.38%) Arista
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk