Experimental Design Contract Job Trends in England

Design of Experiments (Experimental Design)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Experimental Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 461 537
Rank change year-on-year -67 +76 +165
Contract jobs citing Experimental Design 7 31 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.022% 0.12% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.13% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 9
10th Percentile - £363 £210
25th Percentile £381 £550 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £402 £650 £575
90th Percentile £596 £725 £672
UK median daily rate £401 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -35.84% +25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £22.30 -
25th Percentile - £23.88 £70.25
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year - -62.94% +104.29%
75th Percentile - £45.13 £72.75
90th Percentile - £56.30 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.93 £71.50
% change year-on-year - -63.73% +104.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Experimental Design 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Experimental Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Experimental Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Experimental Design job vacancy trend in England

Experimental Design
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Experimental Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Experimental Design in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Experimental Design in England

Experimental Design
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Experimental Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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 -37 3 £388 - 12
North West - 3 £388 - 6
London -34 2 £550 -12.00% 14
Midlands - 2 - - 7
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Experimental Design
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Experimental Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Service Designer
3 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
3 1 (14.29%) UX Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) Data Science
1 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Information Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Quantitative Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Service Design
2 3 (42.86%) Time Management
2 3 (42.86%) Usability Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) User Research
2 3 (42.86%) UX Design
2 3 (42.86%) UX Research
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Ethnography
3 2 (28.57%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft