Predictive Analytics Job Trends

Predictive Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Predictive Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 608 760
Rank change year-on-year +15 +152 +85
Permanent jobs citing Predictive Analytics 103 37 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.084% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.090% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 51 19 64
10th Percentile £46,022 £51,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £63,125 £58,125 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +63.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £101,737 £78,566
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year +3.85% +26.15% -6.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Predictive Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,986 41,016 73,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.95% 93.54% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35,213 22,402 55,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,967 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,997 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Predictive Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Predictive Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Predictive Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Predictive Analytics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Predictive Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Predictive Analytics over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Predictive Analytics in the UK

Predictive Analytics
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Predictive Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +9 72 £85,000 -5.56% 35
UK excluding London +10 48 £67,500 +3.85% 27
Work from Home +51 26 £87,500 +2.94% 8
London +17 26 £87,500 -2.78% 16
North of England -31 21 £65,000 -31.32%
North West +6 12 £60,000 -
Midlands -9 9 £45,390 -21.06% 6
Yorkshire -40 9 £79,000 -16.52%
West Midlands +10 7 £56,250 -2.17% 3
South West -19 6 £66,250 +32.50% 5
South East -2 5 £85,000 +3.03% 14
East of England +3 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £109,385 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £45,390 - 3
Scotland -16 1 £36,000 -

Predictive Analytics
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 22 (21.36%) ArcGIS
2 7 (6.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.97%) Apache
5 1 (0.97%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.94%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.97%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.97%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.97%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.97%) DELMIA
1 1 (0.97%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.97%) Odoo
1 1 (0.97%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (47.57%) Azure
2 39 (37.86%) AWS
3 26 (25.24%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.74%) GCP
5 6 (5.83%) Snowflake
6 5 (4.85%) Datadog
6 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.91%) Dataform
8 3 (2.91%) dbt
8 3 (2.91%) SaaS
9 2 (1.94%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.94%) IaaS
9 2 (1.94%) PaaS
9 2 (1.94%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.97%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.97%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.59%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) GIS
1 22 (21.36%) Power BI
1 22 (21.36%) QGIS
1 22 (21.36%) Spatial Data
2 19 (18.45%) Tableau
3 11 (10.68%) Big Data
4 7 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.85%) Metadata
7 4 (3.88%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.88%) Looker
8 3 (2.91%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.91%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.94%) DB2
9 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.94%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.97%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Git
2 2 (1.94%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 41 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 36 (34.95%) Finance
3 23 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (18.45%) Banking
5 15 (14.56%) Legal
6 14 (13.59%) Financial Institution
7 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
8 7 (6.80%) Law
9 4 (3.88%) Marketing
10 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.91%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.94%) Retail
12 1 (0.97%) Advertising
12 1 (0.97%) Back Office
12 1 (0.97%) Billing
12 1 (0.97%) Games
12 1 (0.97%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 20 (19.42%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 20 (19.42%) Consultant
1 20 (19.42%) Machine Learning Consultant
1 20 (19.42%) Spatial Consultant
2 15 (14.56%) Analyst
2 15 (14.56%) Data Analyst
3 14 (13.59%) Auditor
4 13 (12.62%) Security Auditor
5 12 (11.65%) Internal Auditor
6 9 (8.74%) Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Architect
7 8 (7.77%) Senior
8 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Data Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Lead
10 5 (4.85%) Data Scientist
10 5 (4.85%) HR Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) HR Data Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.13%) PyTorch
2 8 (7.77%) TensorFlow
3 4 (3.88%) PySpark
4 3 (2.91%) Django
4 3 (2.91%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.91%) Matplotlib
4 3 (2.91%) Middleware
4 3 (2.91%) NumPy
4 3 (2.91%) Pandas
4 3 (2.91%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.91%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.97%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.97%) Kafka
5 1 (0.97%) Playwright
5 1 (0.97%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.21%) Algorithms
2 24 (23.30%) Management Information System
3 14 (13.59%) Blockchain
4 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.88%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.97%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.97%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.97%) FMCG
8 1 (0.97%) Genomics
8 1 (0.97%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.97%) IoT
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Life Science
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) AIX
1 2 (1.94%) Unix
1 2 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (100.00%) Analytics
2 61 (59.22%) AI
3 60 (58.25%) Machine Learning
4 42 (40.78%) Data Science
5 41 (39.81%) Validation
6 38 (36.89%) Data Governance
6 38 (36.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (35.92%) Project Management
8 32 (31.07%) Data Analysis
9 28 (27.18%) Predictive Modelling
10 27 (26.21%) Agile
10 27 (26.21%) Decision-Making
11 25 (24.27%) Data Integration
11 25 (24.27%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (23.30%) Data Analytics
12 24 (23.30%) Data Management
13 23 (22.33%) Feature Engineering
13 23 (22.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (21.36%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (19.42%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (53.40%) Python
2 31 (30.10%) SQL
3 7 (6.80%) R
4 4 (3.88%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.94%) VB
6 1 (0.97%) Bash
6 1 (0.97%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (14.56%) CGEIT
1 15 (14.56%) CISA
1 15 (14.56%) CISM
1 15 (14.56%) CISSP
1 15 (14.56%) FFIEC
1 15 (14.56%) SANS
2 11 (10.68%) Degree
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.94%) CITP
5 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (28.16%) Accessibility
2 26 (25.24%) GDPR
3 20 (19.42%) Data Quality
3 20 (19.42%) QA
4 15 (14.56%) COBIT
4 15 (14.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.88%) Terraform
3 3 (2.91%) Ansible
4 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.97%) MOM
Vendors
1 18 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.80%) Databricks
3 4 (3.88%) SAP
4 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.91%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.94%) Citrix
5 2 (1.94%) Civica
5 2 (1.94%) Google
5 2 (1.94%) Northgate
5 2 (1.94%) Orchard
5 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.97%) ANSYS
6 1 (0.97%) Ariba
6 1 (0.97%) Foundry
6 1 (0.97%) Genesys
6 1 (0.97%) Informatica
6 1 (0.97%) Pega
6 1 (0.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) Siemens