Prescriptive Analytics Contract Job Trends

Prescriptive Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Prescriptive Analytics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 564 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Prescriptive Analytics 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Prescriptive 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 29,557 32,912 44,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.50% 85.74% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,342 20,157 30,166
10th Percentile £300 £309 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 1,440 1,570
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.79
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.15 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +81.28%

Prescriptive Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Prescriptive Analytics in the UK

Prescriptive Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prescriptive Analytics

Prescriptive Analytics
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prescriptive Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 21 September 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
UK excluding London +12 3 - - 6
England +15 2 £550 +10.00% 3
Wales - 2 - - 2
Work from Home +25 1 - - 4
London - 1 £550 -
South East - 1 - - 3

Prescriptive 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 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) Tableau
2 2 (50.00%) Spotfire
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) Operations Research
3 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Statistics
3 2 (50.00%) Supply Chain Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Business Case
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) R
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (25.00%) Foundry
2 1 (25.00%) Palantir