Statistics Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Statistics
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Statistics 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.61% 0.70% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.83% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £491 - £289
25th Percentile £496 £313 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £325 £298
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% +9.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £512 £338 £302
90th Percentile £513 - £302
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £556 £390
% change year-on-year -12.23% +42.56% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Statistics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 599 602 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.90% 84.20% 82.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 395 420
10th Percentile £250 £198 £270
25th Percentile £374 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £602
90th Percentile £649 £745 £713
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £498
% change year-on-year -3.66% +4.32% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 21
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £13.25 £20.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.13 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.77% -41.94% +143.24%
75th Percentile £25.00 £53.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.65 £57.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.18 £27.25
% change year-on-year +0.66% -11.27% +53.78%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Statistics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Statistics job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Statistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Statistics

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Statistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Statistics

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 4 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Naive Bayes
1 4 (100.00%) Support Vector Machines
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft