Prefect Contract Job Trends

Prefect
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Prefect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 - 608
Rank change year-on-year - - +187
Contract jobs citing Prefect 17 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% - 0.007%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% - 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £339 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £347 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.62%
75th Percentile £449 - £525
90th Percentile £588 - £570
UK excluding London median daily rate £344 - £450

All Cloud Skills
UK

Prefect falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,880 12,411 15,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.08% 36.20% 34.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,470 8,245 11,142
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 175 274
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.30 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £54.69 £46.18 £57.88
90th Percentile £76.73 £69.73 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% +29.17% +7.69%

Prefect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prefect relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Prefect job vacancy trend in the UK

Prefect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prefect

Prefect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prefect over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prefect in the UK

Prefect
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prefect within the UK over the 6 months to 15 December 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 - 17 £347 - 12
London - 9 £575 - 9
UK excluding London - 8 £344 - 7
North of England - 6 £341 - 3
North West - 6 £341 - 2
Work from Home - 5 £425 - 5
South West - 2 £435 -

Prefect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (94.12%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) dbt
2 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Snowflake
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) Dagster
4 4 (23.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Fivetran
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (41.18%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostHog
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) Head of AI
5 1 (5.88%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) AWS CDK
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Django
2 2 (11.76%) FastAPI
2 2 (11.76%) Flask
2 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) JWT
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Science
2 9 (52.94%) Analytics
2 9 (52.94%) Data Modelling
3 8 (47.06%) Data Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (47.06%) Data Transformation
3 8 (47.06%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (35.29%) ETL
5 6 (35.29%) Resource Management
6 5 (29.41%) Agile
7 4 (23.53%) Business Analytics
8 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
8 3 (17.65%) DevOps
8 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
8 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks