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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 556 677
Rank change year-on-year +93 +121 +97
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics 71 37 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.084% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.099% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 10
10th Percentile £435 £263 £391
25th Percentile £519 £325 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -30.43% -0.86%
75th Percentile £775 £581 £875
90th Percentile £950 £744 £953
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £425 £675
% change year-on-year +52.94% -37.04% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £29.81
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £32.30
75th Percentile - - £35.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £32.30

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 27,277 37,277 49,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.02% 84.89% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,264 23,714 34,361
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,273 2,624 1,687
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.11 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.12% +17.29% +54.76%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analytics over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

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

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 21 June 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 +80 66 £650 +62.50% 574
London +62 34 £575 +43.75% 301
UK excluding London +56 31 £650 +52.94% 299
Work from Home +54 29 £506 +30.58% 328
East of England +35 11 £650 - 36
South East +53 10 £763 +34.07% 70
Midlands +14 5 £650 +52.94% 41
South West +39 3 £600 - 33
North of England +13 3 £650 - 93
North West +8 3 £650 - 62
East Midlands - 3 £750 - 18
West Midlands +10 2 £613 +44.12% 23

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 20 (28.17%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.82%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.41%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.82%) Sketch
2 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.41%) SAP QM
1 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.41%) SAP SRM
1 1 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
1 1 (1.41%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 40 (56.34%) Azure
2 33 (46.48%) AWS
3 9 (12.68%) GCP
3 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (9.86%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (5.63%) dbt
6 3 (4.23%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.82%) Collibra
7 2 (2.82%) Figma
7 2 (2.82%) SaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub
8 1 (1.41%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) 5G
1 1 (1.41%) Internet
1 1 (1.41%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (1.41%) Modbus
1 1 (1.41%) MQTT
1 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) Big Data
2 15 (21.13%) Tableau
3 14 (19.72%) Hadoop
4 8 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (11.27%) Power BI
5 5 (7.04%) BigQuery
5 5 (7.04%) Data Lake
5 5 (7.04%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.41%) Flink
8 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.41%) OLAP
8 1 (1.41%) OLTP
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) MLflow
2 3 (4.23%) Git
3 1 (1.41%) ERwin
General
1 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (19.72%) Finance
4 8 (11.27%) Marketing
5 6 (8.45%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.04%) Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Front Office
6 5 (7.04%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.63%) Advertising
7 4 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.41%) Automotive
10 1 (1.41%) Dutch Language
10 1 (1.41%) Electronics
10 1 (1.41%) Legal
10 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (33.80%) Developer
2 12 (16.90%) Data Scientist
3 11 (15.49%) Data Science Developer
4 10 (14.08%) Senior
5 6 (8.45%) Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Head of AI
6 5 (7.04%) Head of Analytics
6 5 (7.04%) Head of Data Science
6 5 (7.04%) Head of Engineering
6 5 (7.04%) Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (2.82%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) PyTorch
2 13 (18.31%) TensorFlow
3 12 (16.90%) Pandas
3 12 (16.90%) scikit-learn
4 11 (15.49%) Matplotlib
4 11 (15.49%) NumPy
4 11 (15.49%) Seaborn
5 4 (5.63%) RESTful
6 2 (2.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.82%) CSS
6 2 (2.82%) CSS3
6 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.82%) HTML
6 2 (2.82%) HTML5
6 2 (2.82%) JWT
6 2 (2.82%) OAuth
6 2 (2.82%) PySpark
6 2 (2.82%) React
6 2 (2.82%) Vue
7 1 (1.41%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.76%) Algorithms
2 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.23%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (4.23%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.82%) IoT
4 2 (2.82%) Life Science
4 2 (2.82%) Robotics
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.41%) LIMS
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) NHS
5 1 (1.41%) SCADA
5 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Analytics
2 59 (83.10%) Machine Learning
3 54 (76.06%) Artificial Intelligence
4 44 (61.97%) Data Science
5 25 (35.21%) Decision-Making
5 25 (35.21%) Visualisation
6 24 (33.80%) LLM
7 21 (29.58%) Data Governance
8 20 (28.17%) Data Analysis
9 18 (25.35%) Data Analytics
9 18 (25.35%) Statistical Modelling
10 16 (22.54%) Agile
10 16 (22.54%) CI/CD
10 16 (22.54%) Computer Science
10 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (19.72%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (19.72%) Generative AI
13 13 (18.31%) Data Strategy
13 13 (18.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.11%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) R
2 20 (28.17%) SQL
3 2 (2.82%) Bash
3 2 (2.82%) Go
3 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Degree
2 10 (14.08%) Master's Degree
3 9 (12.68%) PhD
4 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.82%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.04%) GDPR
3 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (1.41%) ISO 13485
5 1 (1.41%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.41%) NCSC
5 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Kubeflow
2 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 2 (2.82%) Kibana
3 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Databricks
2 4 (5.63%) SAP
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.82%) Adobe
4 2 (2.82%) Google
4 2 (2.82%) Informatica
4 2 (2.82%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.41%) Apple
5 1 (1.41%) Criteo
5 1 (1.41%) Siemens
5 1 (1.41%) Sparx
5 1 (1.41%) Splunk
5 1 (1.41%) Virgin Media