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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 667 681
Rank change year-on-year +72 +14 +187
Permanent jobs citing Predictive Analytics 56 45 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.084% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.093% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 32 24 45
10th Percentile £44,378 £53,750 £35,549
25th Percentile £58,438 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £85,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +47.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £78,088
90th Percentile £129,500 £101,292 £96,898
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.92% +13.04% +4.77%

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 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +78 50 £87,500 +2.94% 65
UK excluding London +84 30 £66,250 +1.92% 60
London +46 21 £87,500 +2.94% 15
Work from Home +52 20 £67,500 -20.59% 9
North of England +41 16 £63,750 -32.64% 13
North West - 9 £57,500 - 8
Yorkshire -3 7 £79,000 -16.52% 4
Midlands +25 5 £78,750 +6.78% 8
West Midlands +22 4 £90,000 +22.03% 2
East of England +25 3 - - 8
South East +24 2 £85,000 +30.77% 19
Wales - 2 £150,000 - 3
South West +10 1 £47,500 +5.56% 7
East Midlands - 1 £45,390 - 5
Scotland - 1 £36,000 - 1

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 4 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Chatbot
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.79%) Abaqus
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.79%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.79%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) DELMIA
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.79%) Odoo
1 1 (1.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 20 (35.71%) Azure
3 11 (19.64%) AWS
4 7 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (8.93%) Snowflake
6 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (7.14%) SaaS
7 3 (5.36%) Dataform
7 3 (5.36%) dbt
8 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.79%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.79%) Datadog
9 1 (1.79%) IaaS
9 1 (1.79%) PaaS
9 1 (1.79%) Serverless
9 1 (1.79%) Stackdriver
9 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) Power BI
2 14 (25.00%) Tableau
3 7 (12.50%) Big Data
3 7 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.93%) Metadata
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.14%) BigQuery
5 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.36%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.36%) Looker
7 2 (3.57%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.79%) DB2
8 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.79%) Power Query
8 1 (1.79%) QlikView
8 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.79%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (55.36%) Social Skills
2 22 (39.29%) Finance
3 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.86%) Legal
5 8 (14.29%) Banking
5 8 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (7.14%) Marketing
7 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (5.36%) Law
8 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.36%) Retail
9 1 (1.79%) Advertising
9 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.79%) Back Office
9 1 (1.79%) Billing
9 1 (1.79%) Games
9 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Auditor
2 8 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Architect
3 7 (12.50%) Internal Auditor
3 7 (12.50%) Lead
3 7 (12.50%) Security Auditor
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Data Scientist
6 4 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) HR Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 7 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 4 (7.14%) PySpark
4 3 (5.36%) Matplotlib
4 3 (5.36%) NumPy
4 3 (5.36%) Pandas
4 3 (5.36%) scikit-learn
4 3 (5.36%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.79%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) RESTful
5 1 (1.79%) SAP CAF
5 1 (1.79%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Management Information System
2 8 (14.29%) Blockchain
3 4 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.36%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.36%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) FMCG
6 1 (1.79%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.79%) Mobile Games
6 1 (1.79%) Social Media
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) AIX
1 1 (1.79%) Unix
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Analytics
2 35 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 32 (57.14%) AI
4 23 (41.07%) Data Governance
4 23 (41.07%) Decision-Making
5 20 (35.71%) Data Science
6 17 (30.36%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (28.57%) Visualisation
8 15 (26.79%) Data Analytics
9 14 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (21.43%) Agile
10 12 (21.43%) Data Analysis
11 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (19.64%) Validation
12 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
12 10 (17.86%) Project Management
12 10 (17.86%) Risk Management
13 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (16.07%) Data Protection
13 9 (16.07%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) Python
2 21 (37.50%) SQL
3 8 (14.29%) R
4 4 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) CISA
1 8 (14.29%) CISSP
1 8 (14.29%) FFIEC
2 7 (12.50%) CGEIT
2 7 (12.50%) CISM
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) SANS
3 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) MBA
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.57%) GDPR
2 15 (26.79%) Data Quality
3 9 (16.07%) NIST
4 8 (14.29%) Accessibility
4 8 (14.29%) COBIT
5 1 (1.79%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.79%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Ansible
2 1 (1.79%) MOM
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Databricks
3 3 (5.36%) Genesys
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
3 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) Anaplan
4 2 (3.57%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) ANSYS
5 1 (1.79%) Ariba
5 1 (1.79%) Civica
5 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.79%) Foundry
5 1 (1.79%) Northgate
5 1 (1.79%) Orchard
5 1 (1.79%) Pega
5 1 (1.79%) PTC
5 1 (1.79%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.79%) Workday