Experimental Design Contracts

Design of Experiments (Experimental Design)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Experimental Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Experimental Design over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 691 818
Rank change year-on-year +111 +127 -120
Contract jobs citing Experimental Design 6 2 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.003% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.004% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 17
10th Percentile £363 - £465
25th Percentile £525 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
75th Percentile £579 - £638
90th Percentile £592 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £575
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - £32.69 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.36% -
75th Percentile - - £51.75
90th Percentile - - £58.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Experimental Design 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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Experimental Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Experimental Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Experimental Design.

Daily rate trend for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Experimental Design over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Experimental Design.

Hourly rate trend for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Experimental Design within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +94 5 £550 - 31
London +101 2 £270 - 12
Work from Home - 2 £573 - 14
East of England - 2 £550 - 4
UK excluding London - 2 £550 - 18

Experimental Design
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) dbt
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Tableau
2 2 (33.33%) Looker
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Games
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Segmentation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Market Segmentation
3 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI