Statistics Contracts in Central London

Statistics
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Statistics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Statistics over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 123 143
Rank change year-on-year +14 +20 +22
Contract jobs citing Statistics 17 12 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.85% 0.51% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.56% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 12
10th Percentile £292 £346 £279
25th Percentile £513 £364 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £419 £688
Median % change year-on-year +31.34% -39.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £527 £838
90th Percentile £563 £781 £871
London median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.58% -5.00% -11.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.93 - -
25th Percentile £31.81 - -
Median hourly rate £42.25 - -
75th Percentile £53.31 - -
90th Percentile £59.58 - -
London median hourly rate £57.50 £43.75 £25.50
% change year-on-year +31.43% +71.57% -30.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,877 2,161 3,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.62% 91.18% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,511 2,291
10th Percentile £350 £360 £325
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 27
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Statistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Statistics in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Statistics in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in Central London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Statistics in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in Central London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Statistics in Central London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. 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
City of London +6 16 £550 +29.41% 127
City of Westminster - 1 - - 6
Statistics
London

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) LAN
1 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 4 (23.53%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Hive
3 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MLflow
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
4 4 (23.53%) Police
4 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Marketing
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Data Scientist
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Coordinator
3 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Science Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Gen AI Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) ICT Support
3 1 (5.88%) Junior
3 1 (5.88%) Junior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Scientist
3 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) TensorFlow
2 5 (29.41%) Pandas
2 5 (29.41%) scikit-learn
3 2 (11.76%) PySpark
4 1 (5.88%) NumPy
4 1 (5.88%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Multi-touch
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Data Science
2 11 (64.71%) Machine Learning
3 7 (41.18%) Actionable Insight
3 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
3 7 (41.18%) Mathematics
4 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
4 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
5 5 (29.41%) Analytical Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (29.41%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (29.41%) Predictive Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Statistical Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (23.53%) LLM
6 4 (23.53%) Regression Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 7 (41.18%) R
4 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (17.65%) PhD
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow