Predictive Analytics Contracts

Predictive Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 562 685
Rank change year-on-year +110 +123 +98
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics 67 38 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.087% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.10% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 17
10th Percentile £325 £263 £415
25th Percentile £425 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £413 £675
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -38.89% +14.89%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £713
90th Percentile £800 £739 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +52.94% -20.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £29.19
25th Percentile - £76.59 £32.30
Median hourly rate - £78.19 £33.65
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 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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

Predictive Analytics
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

Predictive Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analytics over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Analytics in the UK

Predictive Analytics
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

Predictive Analytics
Top 12 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 30 April 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 +90 62 £650 +62.50% 130
London +49 34 £575 +53.33% 86
UK excluding London +67 27 £650 +52.94% 49
Work from Home +49 23 £466 +24.33% 77
East of England - 14 £650 - 5
South East +43 6 £375 -34.07% 12
South West +47 3 £713 - 2
North of England +26 3 £650 +52.94% 17
North West +10 3 £650 - 12
Midlands +24 2 £650 +30.00% 8
West Midlands +15 1 £650 +30.00% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 4

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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (34.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.99%) Sketch
2 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Maximo
1 2 (2.99%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP SRM
2 1 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.49%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.49%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 36 (53.73%) Azure
2 25 (37.31%) AWS
3 13 (19.40%) Power Platform
4 9 (13.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (10.45%) Snowflake
6 6 (8.96%) GCP
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (4.48%) SaaS
9 2 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.99%) Figma
9 2 (2.99%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.99%) Google Data Studio
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.49%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.49%) Collibra
10 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) 5G
1 1 (1.49%) Internet
1 1 (1.49%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (1.49%) Modbus
1 1 (1.49%) MQTT
1 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.85%) Big Data
1 20 (29.85%) Tableau
2 17 (25.37%) Hadoop
3 12 (17.91%) Power BI
4 6 (8.96%) Data Lake
4 6 (8.96%) Delta Lake
5 5 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.97%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.99%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.99%) GIS
7 2 (2.99%) Looker
7 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.49%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.49%) OLAP
8 1 (1.49%) OLTP
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) MLflow
3 1 (1.49%) ERwin
General
1 27 (40.30%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.40%) Finance
4 7 (10.45%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.96%) Banking
5 6 (8.96%) Front Office
5 6 (8.96%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.96%) Marketing
5 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.49%) Advertising
9 1 (1.49%) Aviation
9 1 (1.49%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.49%) Electronics
9 1 (1.49%) French Language
9 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Developer
2 15 (22.39%) Senior
3 14 (20.90%) Data Science Developer
4 12 (17.91%) Data Scientist
5 10 (14.93%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.43%) Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
8 7 (10.45%) Data Analyst
9 6 (8.96%) Head of AI
9 6 (8.96%) Head of Analytics
9 6 (8.96%) Head of Data Science
9 6 (8.96%) Head of Engineering
9 6 (8.96%) Lead
10 4 (5.97%) Architect
10 4 (5.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Consultant
11 3 (4.48%) Lead Data Scientist
11 3 (4.48%) Senior Data Scientist
12 2 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 2 (2.99%) Data Analytics Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) PyTorch
1 16 (23.88%) TensorFlow
2 15 (22.39%) scikit-learn
3 14 (20.90%) Matplotlib
3 14 (20.90%) NumPy
3 14 (20.90%) Pandas
3 14 (20.90%) Seaborn
4 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.99%) CSS
4 2 (2.99%) CSS3
4 2 (2.99%) HTML
4 2 (2.99%) HTML5
4 2 (2.99%) PySpark
4 2 (2.99%) React
4 2 (2.99%) RESTful
4 2 (2.99%) Vue
5 1 (1.49%) Django
5 1 (1.49%) Kafka
5 1 (1.49%) Keras
5 1 (1.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.88%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.99%) Digital Media
2 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.99%) IoT
2 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.99%) Social Media
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (1.49%) Life Science
3 1 (1.49%) LIMS
3 1 (1.49%) NB-IoT
3 1 (1.49%) NHS
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.49%) SCADA
3 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Analytics
2 49 (73.13%) Machine Learning
3 42 (62.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 37 (55.22%) Data Science
5 28 (41.79%) Decision-Making
6 26 (38.81%) Data Analysis
6 26 (38.81%) Visualisation
7 23 (34.33%) Data Governance
8 22 (32.84%) Data Analytics
9 21 (31.34%) Statistical Modelling
10 19 (28.36%) Computer Science
10 19 (28.36%) LLM
11 16 (23.88%) Generative AI
11 16 (23.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (20.90%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (20.90%) Data Munging
13 14 (20.90%) Time Series Forecasting
14 13 (19.40%) Data Management
15 12 (17.91%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 44 (65.67%) Python
2 23 (34.33%) R
2 23 (34.33%) SQL
3 2 (2.99%) Bash
3 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.49%) Java
4 1 (1.49%) Perl
4 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.49%) Ruby
4 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Degree
2 13 (19.40%) Master's Degree
3 12 (17.91%) PhD
4 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) ISEB
6 1 (1.49%) MCITP
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (47.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.49%) ISO 13485
4 1 (1.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.49%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
4 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
2 1 (1.49%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Databricks
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) Google
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
4 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.99%) Adobe
5 2 (2.99%) Facebook
5 2 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.99%) Virgin Media
5 2 (2.99%) YouTube
6 1 (1.49%) Apple
6 1 (1.49%) Criteo
6 1 (1.49%) Informatica
6 1 (1.49%) Siemens
6 1 (1.49%) Sparx
6 1 (1.49%) Splunk