Statistics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Statistics
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Statistics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Statistics over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 284 340
Rank change year-on-year +21 +56 -54
Contract jobs citing Statistics 133 167 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.71% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.79% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 98 113
10th Percentile £243 £146 £140
25th Percentile £380 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £430 £420
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% +2.38% -1.91%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £550
90th Percentile £588 £725 £623
UK median daily rate £493 £503 £520
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.37% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 14
10th Percentile - £16.85 £19.16
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.98 £19.52
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.49 £19.72
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% -1.14% +14.29%
75th Percentile £34.12 £20.47 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £22.10 £26.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £19.49 £26.89
% change year-on-year +23.14% -27.51% +19.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Statistics 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Statistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +53 58 £493 -24.15% 50
North West +57 53 £493 -14.26% 31
South East +1 29 £355 +1.43% 40
East of England +20 18 £388 +3.33% 23
Midlands +30 15 £480 +20.00% 36
West Midlands +21 9 £400 -21.95% 19
Wales +11 8 £275 -52.17% 7
East Midlands +20 6 £575 +43.75% 17
Yorkshire +5 5 £320 -53.45% 10
South West +5 3 £525 +1.45% 25
Scotland +23 2 £425 -8.11% 8
Statistics
UK

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.51%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (4.51%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (3.76%) Documentum
3 5 (3.76%) SAS
4 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.75%) Drupal
5 1 (0.75%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.02%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (3.76%) SPSS
6 1 (0.75%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.75%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.03%) Power Platform
2 9 (6.77%) Azure
3 7 (5.26%) AWS
4 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.75%) GCP
5 1 (0.75%) Google App Engine
5 1 (0.75%) npm
5 1 (0.75%) Serverless
5 1 (0.75%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) 3G
1 8 (6.02%) 4G
1 8 (6.02%) 5G
1 8 (6.02%) SAN
2 6 (4.51%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (4.51%) DNS
2 6 (4.51%) GGSN
2 6 (4.51%) LTE
2 6 (4.51%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (4.51%) RANAP
2 6 (4.51%) SGSN
2 6 (4.51%) VoLTE
2 6 (4.51%) Wireshark
3 5 (3.76%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.50%) 2G
6 1 (0.75%) FTP
6 1 (0.75%) HTTP
6 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) Power BI
2 15 (11.28%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.27%) Tableau
4 9 (6.77%) PowerPivot
4 9 (6.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.51%) Big Data
6 6 (4.51%) Metadata
6 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (3.76%) Data Mining
7 5 (3.76%) EDMS
7 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.01%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.50%) Informix
10 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.26%) JIRA
1 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) GitLab
2 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 51 (38.35%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (21.80%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.27%) Finance
4 11 (8.27%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (8.27%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.02%) Local Government
5 8 (6.02%) Publishing
6 7 (5.26%) Multimedia
7 4 (3.01%) Banking
7 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.50%) Marketing
9 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Aviation
10 1 (0.75%) German Language
10 1 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Analyst
2 15 (11.28%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.53%) Capacity Manager
4 13 (9.77%) Problem Manager
4 13 (9.77%) Senior
5 12 (9.02%) Availability Manager
5 12 (9.02%) Capacity and Availability Manager
6 7 (5.26%) Performance Analyst
6 7 (5.26%) Software Asset Manager
6 7 (5.26%) Software Manager
7 6 (4.51%) Administrator
7 6 (4.51%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.51%) DBA
7 6 (4.51%) SharePoint Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Developer
8 5 (3.76%) Document Controller
9 4 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.26%) Configuration Manager
10 3 (2.26%) Operations Manager
10 3 (2.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.27%) HTML
2 8 (6.02%) CSS
3 5 (3.76%) PySpark
4 3 (2.26%) D3.js
4 3 (2.26%) React Native
5 2 (1.50%) Node.js
5 2 (1.50%) RESTful
6 1 (0.75%) .NET
6 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.75%) CSS3
6 1 (0.75%) Flask
6 1 (0.75%) HTML5
6 1 (0.75%) JSON
6 1 (0.75%) Kafka
6 1 (0.75%) NumPy
6 1 (0.75%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.75%) REST
6 1 (0.75%) RxJS
6 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.81%) Management Information System
2 22 (16.54%) Virtual Team
3 8 (6.02%) CMDB
3 8 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.76%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.76%) HP Storage
6 3 (2.26%) NHS
7 2 (1.50%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Life Science
8 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.52%) Linux
2 7 (5.26%) Solaris
2 7 (5.26%) Windows
3 5 (3.76%) AIX
4 3 (2.26%) Debian
4 3 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.50%) HPUX
5 2 (1.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.10%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (31.58%) Quality Management
3 39 (29.32%) Mentoring
4 37 (27.82%) Service Management
5 29 (21.80%) ITIL
6 28 (21.05%) Problem Management
7 26 (19.55%) Computer Science
8 22 (16.54%) Virtual Team Management
9 19 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (14.29%) Mathematics
9 19 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 17 (12.78%) Data Modelling
10 17 (12.78%) Data Science
11 16 (12.03%) Availability Management
11 16 (12.03%) Capacity Management
11 16 (12.03%) Data Analysis
12 15 (11.28%) Project Management
12 15 (11.28%) Time Management
13 14 (10.53%) Agile
13 14 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.57%) SQL
2 30 (22.56%) Python
3 12 (9.02%) R
4 9 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.76%) Java
7 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.50%) Bash
8 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (43.61%) Security Cleared
2 51 (38.35%) SC Cleared
3 31 (23.31%) Degree
4 17 (12.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.26%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PgMP
8 1 (0.75%) PhD
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.04%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.26%) QA
3 2 (1.50%) GDPR
3 2 (1.50%) SLA
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (3.76%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (3.76%) NetBackup
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) VMware
3 6 (4.51%) Empirix
3 6 (4.51%) NetScout
4 5 (3.76%) Brocade
4 5 (3.76%) Cisco
4 5 (3.76%) EMC
4 5 (3.76%) HP
4 5 (3.76%) Oracle
4 5 (3.76%) Symantec
5 3 (2.26%) Databricks
5 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) IBM
6 2 (1.50%) Remedy
6 2 (1.50%) Splunk
6 2 (1.50%) Sun
6 2 (1.50%) Teradata
7 1 (0.75%) Google
7 1 (0.75%) Twitter