Predictive Analysis Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Predictive Analysis
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Predictive Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analysis 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile £659 - -
England median daily rate £600 £550 £350
% change year-on-year +9.09% +57.14% -37.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Predictive Analysis 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,624 1,189 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.25% 88.60% 84.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,711 779 1,065
10th Percentile £306 £195 £275
25th Percentile £402 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.68%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 56 115
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £21.49 £13.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.83% -20.00% +21.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £22.49 £40.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £39.61 £57.75
England median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%

Predictive Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Predictive Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Predictive Analysis job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Predictive Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Predictive Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Predictive Analysis

Predictive Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analysis in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Analysis in the West Midlands

Predictive Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Predictive Analysis within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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
Birmingham - 2 £538 -
Warwickshire - 2 - - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 2
Predictive Analysis
England

Predictive Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) 5G
2 2 (40.00%) 802.11
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Bill of Materials
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Qualitative Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CWDP
1 2 (40.00%) CWNA
1 2 (40.00%) CWNE
1 2 (40.00%) CWSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Aruba
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Ekahau
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft