Hybrid/Remote Predictive Analytics Contract Job Trends

Predictive Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Predictive Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 290 327
Rank change year-on-year -16 +37 +145
Contract jobs citing Predictive Analytics 31 23 23
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.25% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 14
10th Percentile £485 - £263
25th Percentile £525 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £466 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.96% +24.33% -42.31%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £469
90th Percentile £715 £794 £538
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £413
% change year-on-year -12.00% +51.52% -36.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Predictive 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,532 9,200 13,690
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.62% 90.82% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,830 6,310 9,132
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £415 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £760 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 227 541
10th Percentile £17.05 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £27.72 £20.45 £23.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.04 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +47.28% +2.41% -30.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

Predictive Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Predictive Analytics and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Predictive Analytics job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Predictive Analytics
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Predictive Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Predictive Analytics over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Predictive Analytics daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Predictive Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 11 (35.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (6.45%) dbt
4 2 (6.45%) Google Gemini
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) LangSmith
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (3.23%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Big Data
1 11 (35.48%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.23%) Data Hub
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) GIS
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) QGIS
3 1 (3.23%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
General
1 14 (45.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 14 (45.16%) Public Sector
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Data Scientist
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Lead
2 6 (19.35%) Lead Data Scientist
2 6 (19.35%) Senior Data Scientist
3 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Management Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Service Desk Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Service Management Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.23%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS Architect
5 1 (3.23%) SAP Architect
5 1 (3.23%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) LangChain
1 2 (6.45%) LangGraph
1 2 (6.45%) NumPy
1 2 (6.45%) Pandas
1 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
1 2 (6.45%) React
1 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
1 2 (6.45%) Statsmodels
1 2 (6.45%) XGBoost
2 1 (3.23%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.23%) CrewAI
2 1 (3.23%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Middleware
2 1 (3.23%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (3.23%) pgvector
2 1 (3.23%) PySpark
2 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) SCADA
4 1 (3.23%) Smart Meter
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Analytics
2 25 (80.65%) Machine Learning
3 20 (64.52%) Data Science
4 18 (58.06%) Decision-Making
5 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (45.16%) AI
6 14 (45.16%) Data Governance
6 14 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (41.94%) Statistical Modelling
8 12 (38.71%) Visualisation
9 8 (25.81%) Data Architecture
9 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
9 8 (25.81%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (22.58%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
10 7 (22.58%) Data Analysis
10 7 (22.58%) Natural Language Processing
11 6 (19.35%) Feature Engineering
11 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
11 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) Python
2 14 (45.16%) SQL
3 11 (35.48%) R
4 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) Scala
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.90%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.23%) NIST
4 1 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Istio
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Nessus
1 1 (3.23%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Google
1 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Ariba
4 1 (3.23%) Foundry
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.23%) Palantir
4 1 (3.23%) Pegasus
4 1 (3.23%) Qualys
4 1 (3.23%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.23%) Workday