Predictive Analytics Contracts

Predictive Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Predictive Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Predictive Analytics over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 694 760
Rank change year-on-year +144 +66 -116
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics 36 28 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.047% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.052% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 49
10th Percentile £263 £415 £363
25th Percentile £325 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +17.39% +6.48%
75th Percentile £538 £713 £638
90th Percentile £744 £950 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -20.93% - +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £29.19 -
25th Percentile £76.59 £32.30 -
Median hourly rate £78.19 £33.65 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +132.35% +3.22% -
75th Percentile £79.78 £35.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.19 £32.30 -
% change year-on-year +142.06% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Predictive Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Predictive Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Predictive Analytics in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Predictive Analytics in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analytics over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Analytics in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Predictive Analytics in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +127 33 £400 -41.82% 48
Work from Home +143 23 £375 -43.40% 17
London +113 18 £375 -46.43% 25
UK excluding London +68 14 £425 -20.93% 24
South East +11 6 £569 +26.39% 8
North of England +36 5 £425 - 5
North West +19 4 - - 2
West Midlands +29 2 £500 +25.00% 2
Midlands +27 2 £500 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire +27 1 £425 - 1
South West +19 1 - - 3

Predictive Analytics
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
1 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 3 (8.33%) IaaS
2 3 (8.33%) PaaS
2 3 (8.33%) SaaS
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Neptune
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
3 2 (5.56%) Serverless
3 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Data Mining
1 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.56%) Big Data
2 2 (5.56%) Cloudera CDH
2 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) Power Query
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) kappa
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 13 (36.11%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Architect
1 7 (19.44%) Data Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Head of Infrastructure
5 2 (5.56%) Information Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (2.78%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) IT Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) PySpark
1 2 (5.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Clustering
2 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.11%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (11.11%) Taxonomies
3 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) FMCG
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Analytics
2 17 (47.22%) Data Governance
3 11 (30.56%) Data Analysis
3 11 (30.56%) Data Cleansing
3 11 (30.56%) Data Management
3 11 (30.56%) Machine Learning
4 10 (27.78%) Data Security
5 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 7 (19.44%) Agile
6 7 (19.44%) Data Science
6 7 (19.44%) Data Strategy
7 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (16.67%) Data Integration
8 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.89%) Use Case
9 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (11.11%) Ontologies
9 4 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
9 4 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) SQL
2 9 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) R
4 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (30.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Splunk
3 1 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce