Prefect Contracts

Prefect
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Prefect skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Prefect over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 575 679
Rank change year-on-year +60 +104 +146
Contract jobs citing Prefect 7 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.002% 0.009%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.063% 0.007% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile £413 £625 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +27.45% -15.00%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £531
90th Percentile £825 - £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £510
% change year-on-year - - -7.27%

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 11,033 13,828 20,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 32.49% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,582 9,830 15,157
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 348 336
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.05 £18.44
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.30 £36.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £17.72 £25.87
% change year-on-year +20.09% -31.49% +31.80%

Prefect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Prefect in the UK

Prefect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Prefect in the UK

Prefect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prefect over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prefect in the UK

Prefect
Top 5 Contract 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 17 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 +68 7 £513 -21.15% 17
London +38 3 £750 +15.38% 9
South West - 2 £425 - 4
Work from Home - 2 £825 - 11
UK excluding London - 2 £425 - 7

Prefect
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 5 (71.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) Dagster
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) NumPy
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) Metaflow
2 2 (28.57%) Pandas
2 2 (28.57%) Polars
2 2 (28.57%) SciPy
2 2 (28.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
1 2 (28.57%) Genomics
1 2 (28.57%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Bioinformatics
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Proteomics
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Transcriptomics
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks