Predictive Modelling Contracts

Predictive Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Predictive Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Predictive Modelling over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 670 746
Rank change year-on-year +154 +76 -141
Contract jobs citing Predictive Modelling 63 31 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.055% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.061% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 19 62
10th Percentile £388 £470 £303
25th Percentile £425 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.18%
75th Percentile £569 £689 £660
90th Percentile £590 £825 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -19.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £44.93
25th Percentile £41.25 - £45.96
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £54.28
75th Percentile £48.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.22 - £63.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Modelling over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Predictive Modelling over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Predictive Modelling in the UK

Predictive Modelling
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Predictive Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +137 58 £525 - 83
London +101 36 £500 -20.63% 52
Work from Home +131 19 £483 -3.50% 34
UK excluding London +69 19 £520 +4.00% 32
North of England +30 7 £554 -16.38% 8
East of England - 6 £388 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £560 - 4
North West +15 2 £520 -21.51% 3
South West -3 2 £538 +7.50% 3
West Midlands - 2 £440 - 4
Midlands - 2 £440 - 9
South East - 1 - - 7
Scotland - 1 - - 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 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.59%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) AWS
2 11 (17.46%) Amazon MSK
2 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (17.46%) AWS Step Functions
2 11 (17.46%) Power Platform
2 11 (17.46%) Serverless
3 9 (14.29%) Azure
4 6 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (6.35%) GCP
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.59%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.59%) dbt
8 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Internet
1 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.10%) Tableau
2 13 (20.63%) Big Data
3 12 (19.05%) Hadoop
4 11 (17.46%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (17.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (17.46%) DynamoDB
4 11 (17.46%) Parquet
4 11 (17.46%) Power BI
5 6 (9.52%) Data Mining
5 6 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.94%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (6.35%) QlikView
8 3 (4.76%) Looker
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) RStudio
1 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.59%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 26 (41.27%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
4 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Marketing
7 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Advertising
9 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Retail
9 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Data Scientist
2 16 (25.40%) Data Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Architect
4 4 (6.35%) Business Architect
4 4 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 4 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.35%) Business Solution Architect
4 4 (6.35%) Data Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Senior
4 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Data Insight Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Insight Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Insight Data Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Machine Learning Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (3.17%) Senior Insight Analyst
7 1 (1.59%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.63%) JSON
2 11 (17.46%) Apache Avro
3 8 (12.70%) Kafka
4 4 (6.35%) scikit-learn
5 2 (3.17%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.17%) REST
5 2 (3.17%) Swagger
5 2 (3.17%) YAML
6 1 (1.59%) ADO
6 1 (1.59%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.59%) Pandas
6 1 (1.59%) Plotly
6 1 (1.59%) pytest
6 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.59%) Tkinter
6 1 (1.59%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.27%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.35%) Social Media
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (61.90%) Data Science
2 35 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 34 (53.97%) Data Modelling
4 31 (49.21%) Visualisation
5 30 (47.62%) Data Visualisation
6 26 (41.27%) Data Analysis
7 25 (39.68%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (34.92%) Computer Science
8 22 (34.92%) Mathematics
8 22 (34.92%) Statistics
9 19 (30.16%) ETL
10 18 (28.57%) Analytics
10 18 (28.57%) Decision-Making
11 14 (22.22%) Prototyping
12 13 (20.63%) Agile
13 12 (19.05%) Customer Service
14 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (17.46%) Data Ingestion
14 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (15.87%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 44 (69.84%) Python
2 36 (57.14%) SQL
3 18 (28.57%) R
4 5 (7.94%) Java
5 2 (3.17%) C#
5 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.17%) Lua
5 2 (3.17%) Perl
5 2 (3.17%) PHP
6 1 (1.59%) Bash
6 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (36.51%) Degree
2 16 (25.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (25.40%) SC Cleared
2 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.35%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) Adobe
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.59%) Progress
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Sitecore