Predictive Modelling Contracts

Predictive Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Predictive Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Predictive Modelling 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 450 520 683
Rank change year-on-year +70 +163 +75
Contract jobs citing Predictive Modelling 70 62 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.16% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 48 20
10th Percentile £400 £388 £473
25th Percentile £450 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £650 £566 £714
90th Percentile £700 £589 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £51.75 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.50 -
90th Percentile £58.25 £59.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Predictive Modelling 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 Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
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 Modelling 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 +65 64 £525 - 217
London +52 48 £513 +2.50% 157
Work from Home +42 19 £563 +16.58% 99
UK excluding London +62 17 £525 +0.96% 93
North of England +18 6 £465 -16.06% 30
North West +20 5 £465 -10.58% 21
South West +48 4 £668 +24.19% 4
Scotland +15 3 £550 - 5
South East - 3 £365 - 42
Midlands +21 1 £475 +7.95% 7
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 3

Predictive Modelling
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 10 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.86%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) Confluence
4 1 (1.43%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.14%) AWS
2 16 (22.86%) Power Platform
3 8 (11.43%) Azure
4 6 (8.57%) GCP
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (5.71%) Serverless
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.86%) GitHub
7 2 (2.86%) SaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.43%) Collibra
8 1 (1.43%) dbt
8 1 (1.43%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (34.29%) Tableau
2 16 (22.86%) Power BI
3 13 (18.57%) Hadoop
4 12 (17.14%) Big Data
5 11 (15.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (12.86%) Data Mining
6 9 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (12.86%) Relational Database
7 5 (7.14%) Data Mart
7 5 (7.14%) Data Vault
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (5.71%) DynamoDB
8 4 (5.71%) Parquet
8 4 (5.71%) RDBMS
9 3 (4.29%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.86%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.43%) Looker
11 1 (1.43%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git
2 5 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (2.86%) MLflow
4 1 (1.43%) ERwin
4 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.29%) Finance
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.00%) Banking
6 6 (8.57%) Marketing
7 5 (7.14%) Retail
8 4 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.29%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (4.29%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.86%) Police
11 1 (1.43%) Advertising
11 1 (1.43%) Dutch Language
11 1 (1.43%) French Language
11 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 15 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 12 (17.14%) Senior
4 8 (11.43%) Analyst
4 8 (11.43%) Data Modeller
5 7 (10.00%) Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Lead
7 5 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (4.29%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Insight Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Solutions Consultant
10 2 (2.86%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) TensorFlow
2 7 (10.00%) Pandas
2 7 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 6 (8.57%) PySpark
3 6 (8.57%) scikit-learn
4 5 (7.14%) CSS
4 5 (7.14%) HTML
5 4 (5.71%) Apache Avro
5 4 (5.71%) JSON
5 4 (5.71%) Kafka
5 4 (5.71%) NumPy
6 3 (4.29%) Matplotlib
7 2 (2.86%) ADO
7 2 (2.86%) Node.js
7 2 (2.86%) XGBoost
8 1 (1.43%) D3.js
8 1 (1.43%) Django
8 1 (1.43%) Great Expectations
8 1 (1.43%) Loki
8 1 (1.43%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.43%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (5.71%) Multi-touch
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) IoT
4 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.86%) NHS
5 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) SCADA
5 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (58.57%) Data Science
2 37 (52.86%) Machine Learning
3 28 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 26 (37.14%) Data Visualisation
5 24 (34.29%) Data Analysis
6 22 (31.43%) Decision-Making
7 20 (28.57%) Analytics
8 17 (24.29%) Actionable Insight
8 17 (24.29%) Data Modelling
9 16 (22.86%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (21.43%) Agile
10 15 (21.43%) ETL
10 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (20.00%) Data Engineering
11 14 (20.00%) Statistics
12 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
12 12 (17.14%) Data Governance
12 12 (17.14%) Data Management
12 12 (17.14%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (75.71%) Python
2 42 (60.00%) SQL
3 16 (22.86%) R
4 8 (11.43%) Java
5 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.29%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (2.86%) Lua
7 2 (2.86%) Perl
7 2 (2.86%) PHP
7 2 (2.86%) VBA
8 1 (1.43%) Bash
8 1 (1.43%) C++
8 1 (1.43%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Degree
2 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) ISEB
6 1 (1.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Grafana
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (11.43%) Databricks
2 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.29%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.43%) Informatica
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Sparx
5 1 (1.43%) Spotify
5 1 (1.43%) TikTok