Predictive Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Predictive Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Predictive Modelling over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 607 841
Rank change year-on-year -105 +234 -60
Permanent jobs citing Predictive Modelling 183 433 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.43% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 112 181 161
10th Percentile £38,750 - £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £39,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% -29.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Predictive Modelling is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Predictive Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Predictive Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Predictive Modelling.

Salary trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Predictive Modelling over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Predictive Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 -82 173 £65,000 +36.84% 64
London +147 88 £70,000 - 41
UK excluding London -223 88 £65,000 +66.67% 27
Work from Home -106 73 £45,000 -25.00% 30
South East -20 26 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Midlands -60 21 £55,000 +44.74% 6
North of England -21 20 £44,375 -6.58% 4
West Midlands -37 14 £55,000 +44.74% 3
South West -49 11 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North West -11 10 £75,000 +92.79%
North East -13 8 £43,125 -49.26% 1
East Midlands -29 7 £45,001 -21.74% 3
Wales +4 5 £97,500 +116.67% 3
East of England -10 4 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Yorkshire +61 2 £40,207 -19.59% 3
Scotland -78 1 £100,187 +157.53% 1

Predictive Modelling
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 16 (8.74%) SAS
2 3 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.57%) AWS
2 19 (10.38%) Power Platform
3 15 (8.20%) Azure
4 12 (6.56%) GitHub
5 10 (5.46%) GCP
6 7 (3.83%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.73%) dbt
8 4 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.09%) SaaS
10 1 (0.55%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.55%) Slack
10 1 (0.55%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (27.32%) Tableau
2 19 (10.38%) Power BI
3 16 (8.74%) Big Data
3 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
4 13 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (6.01%) Data Mining
6 6 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.19%) GIS
7 4 (2.19%) Metadata
8 3 (1.64%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.55%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.55%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) RethinkDB
9 1 (0.55%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (19.13%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 68 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 56 (30.60%) Finance
3 45 (24.59%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (18.58%) Marketing
5 19 (10.38%) Banking
6 18 (9.84%) Law
7 17 (9.29%) Retail
8 12 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (6.01%) Games
10 10 (5.46%) Legal
11 9 (4.92%) Investment Banking
12 6 (3.28%) Wearables
13 5 (2.73%) Advertising
13 5 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (2.19%) Automotive
14 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (2.19%) Public Sector
15 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (54.10%) Data Scientist
2 66 (36.07%) Senior
3 45 (24.59%) Senior Data Scientist
4 32 (17.49%) Analyst
5 22 (12.02%) Data Analyst
5 22 (12.02%) Senior Analyst
6 16 (8.74%) Senior Data Analyst
7 14 (7.65%) Data Manager
8 11 (6.01%) Lead
9 10 (5.46%) Pricing Analyst
10 9 (4.92%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Lead Data Scientist
11 6 (3.28%) Analytics Manager
11 6 (3.28%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.28%) Senior Pricing Analyst
12 5 (2.73%) Head of Engineering
12 5 (2.73%) Senior Analytics Manager
12 5 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.19%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
13 4 (2.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.85%) PySpark
2 28 (15.30%) Pandas
3 27 (14.75%) scikit-learn
4 26 (14.21%) TensorFlow
5 11 (6.01%) XGBoost
6 7 (3.83%) Kedro
7 4 (2.19%) React
7 4 (2.19%) Tidyverse
8 3 (1.64%) .NET
8 3 (1.64%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.09%) Matplotlib
9 2 (1.09%) NumPy
9 2 (1.09%) Seaborn
10 1 (0.55%) JSON
10 1 (0.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (34.97%) Algorithms
2 16 (8.74%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.46%) Credit Risk
3 10 (5.46%) Taxonomies
4 4 (2.19%) Pricing Data
4 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.09%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.09%) Social Media
7 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.55%) iPad
7 1 (0.55%) Life Science
7 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (73.77%) Data Science
2 123 (67.21%) Machine Learning
3 81 (44.26%) Analytics
4 80 (43.72%) Mathematics
5 79 (43.17%) Statistics
6 72 (39.34%) Decision-Making
7 60 (32.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 60 (32.79%) Visualisation
8 58 (31.69%) Computer Science
9 50 (27.32%) Actionable Insight
10 44 (24.04%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (23.50%) Neural Network
12 42 (22.95%) MLOps
13 39 (21.31%) Natural Language Processing
14 35 (19.13%) Data Analysis
14 35 (19.13%) Propensity Modelling
15 34 (18.58%) Customer Experience
15 34 (18.58%) Generative AI
16 33 (18.03%) Physics
17 27 (14.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 136 (74.32%) Python
2 98 (53.55%) SQL
3 48 (26.23%) R
4 10 (5.46%) C#
5 8 (4.37%) Java
5 8 (4.37%) VBA
6 4 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.64%) C
7 3 (1.64%) C++
7 3 (1.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 113 (61.75%) Degree
2 69 (37.70%) Master's Degree
3 31 (16.94%) PhD
4 27 (14.75%) DBS Check
5 26 (14.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (9.84%) MBA
7 4 (2.19%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.46%) QA
3 9 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (4.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) Basel III
System Software
1 11 (6.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (19.13%) Databricks
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.19%) Google
4 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
4 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.55%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.55%) Facebook
5 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow