Statistics Contracts in England

Statistics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 383 398
Rank change year-on-year +79 +15 -58
Contract jobs citing Statistics 246 300 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.66% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 183 278
10th Percentile £302 £309 £205
25th Percentile £388 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +3.50% -0.99%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £610
90th Percentile £625 £785 £704
UK median daily rate £493 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% +0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 27
10th Percentile - £18.82 £19.31
25th Percentile £15.39 £19.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.16 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% -30.75% +41.41%
75th Percentile £43.31 £65.00 £48.88
90th Percentile £46.18 £75.00 £60.33
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £19.49 £26.89
% change year-on-year +23.14% -27.51% +19.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in England

Statistics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Statistics in England

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Statistics in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in England

Statistics
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 Statistics within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +42 102 £500 -5.88% 216
North of England +56 58 £493 -24.15% 48
North West +56 53 £493 -14.26% 29
South East 0 26 £380 +8.57% 27
East of England +28 19 £375 -16.67% 14
Midlands +19 13 £550 +37.50% 24
West Midlands +29 7 £400 -25.58% 15
East Midlands +15 6 £575 +43.75% 9
Yorkshire +6 5 £320 -53.45% 12
South West +12 3 £525 +1.45% 18
Statistics
UK

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.44%) SAS
2 6 (2.44%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (2.44%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (2.03%) Documentum
4 3 (1.22%) Apache
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) CMS
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Drupal
5 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (11.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (3.66%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.03%) SPSS
5 2 (0.81%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.81%) Revit
5 2 (0.81%) Simulink
6 1 (0.41%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Workfront
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.38%) Power Platform
2 24 (9.76%) Azure
3 16 (6.50%) AWS
4 11 (4.47%) GCP
5 6 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.63%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.63%) GitHub
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.22%) Dagster
7 3 (1.22%) dbt
7 3 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.81%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.81%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.81%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.81%) Serverless
8 2 (0.81%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.25%) SAN
2 6 (2.44%) 3G
2 6 (2.44%) 4G
2 6 (2.44%) 5G
2 6 (2.44%) DNS
2 6 (2.44%) WAN
3 5 (2.03%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (1.63%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (1.63%) DWDM
4 4 (1.63%) Firewall
4 4 (1.63%) GGSN
4 4 (1.63%) IP Telephony
4 4 (1.63%) LTE
4 4 (1.63%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (1.63%) RANAP
4 4 (1.63%) SGSN
4 4 (1.63%) VoIP
4 4 (1.63%) VoLTE
4 4 (1.63%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.41%) Tableau
2 31 (12.60%) Big Data
3 28 (11.38%) Power BI
4 20 (8.13%) Hadoop
5 16 (6.50%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.88%) Data Mining
7 9 (3.66%) PowerPivot
7 9 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.85%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.44%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.44%) Metadata
10 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Power View
10 6 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (2.03%) EDMS
11 5 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.03%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (2.85%) Git
2 5 (2.03%) JIRA
3 3 (1.22%) Poetry
3 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.81%) RStudio
4 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (43.09%) Analytical Skills
2 100 (40.65%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.67%) Finance
4 30 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.69%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.07%) Banking
7 10 (4.07%) Retail
8 9 (3.66%) Marketing
9 8 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.25%) Local Government
9 8 (3.25%) Publishing
10 5 (2.03%) Multimedia
11 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.22%) Advertising
12 3 (1.22%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 48 (19.51%) Analyst
2 33 (13.41%) Data Scientist
3 18 (7.32%) Data Analyst
3 18 (7.32%) Senior
4 14 (5.69%) Capacity Manager
5 13 (5.28%) Problem Manager
6 12 (4.88%) Availability Manager
6 12 (4.88%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 10 (4.07%) Developer
8 8 (3.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 8 (3.25%) Performance Analyst
9 7 (2.85%) Data Engineer
9 7 (2.85%) Software Asset Manager
9 7 (2.85%) Software Manager
10 6 (2.44%) Administrator
10 6 (2.44%) DBA
10 6 (2.44%) Lead
10 6 (2.44%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.44%) Quantitative Analyst
10 6 (2.44%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.28%) scikit-learn
2 11 (4.47%) HTML
2 11 (4.47%) TensorFlow
3 9 (3.66%) Pandas
4 8 (3.25%) CSS
4 8 (3.25%) PySpark
5 6 (2.44%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.63%) Kafka
6 4 (1.63%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.22%) D3.js
7 3 (1.22%) Great Expectations
7 3 (1.22%) LAPP Stack
7 3 (1.22%) Plotly
7 3 (1.22%) React Native
7 3 (1.22%) SciPy
7 3 (1.22%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.81%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.81%) Node.js
8 2 (0.81%) RESTful
8 2 (0.81%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.29%) Management Information System
2 31 (12.60%) Algorithms
3 24 (9.76%) Virtual Team
4 10 (4.07%) CMDB
5 9 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.25%) Derivative
6 8 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.44%) Credit Derivative
7 6 (2.44%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.03%) HP Storage
8 5 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.03%) Life Science
9 4 (1.63%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.63%) Social Media
10 3 (1.22%) FMCG
10 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.22%) NHS
11 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.28%) Linux
2 9 (3.66%) Windows
3 7 (2.85%) Solaris
4 5 (2.03%) AIX
5 3 (1.22%) Debian
5 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.81%) HPUX
6 2 (0.81%) Unix
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (24.39%) Mathematics
3 57 (23.17%) Data Science
4 50 (20.33%) Machine Learning
4 50 (20.33%) Mentoring
5 49 (19.92%) Computer Science
6 46 (18.70%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (17.89%) Quality Management
8 43 (17.48%) Visualisation
9 42 (17.07%) Service Management
10 38 (15.45%) Data Analysis
10 38 (15.45%) ITIL
11 37 (15.04%) Analytics
12 36 (14.63%) Data Modelling
13 35 (14.23%) Data Visualisation
14 31 (12.60%) Problem Management
15 25 (10.16%) Project Management
16 24 (9.76%) Agile
16 24 (9.76%) Virtual Team Management
17 21 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 93 (37.80%) Python
2 74 (30.08%) SQL
3 34 (13.82%) R
4 13 (5.28%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.47%) C++
6 8 (3.25%) Java
6 8 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.63%) Scala
8 3 (1.22%) Bash
8 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.81%) C
9 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.81%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) Perl
10 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (35.37%) Degree
2 70 (28.46%) Security Cleared
3 61 (24.80%) SC Cleared
4 29 (11.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (8.94%) Master's Degree
6 16 (6.50%) PhD
7 12 (4.88%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.44%) CCNA
9 6 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.44%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.81%) CCNP
11 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PgMP
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 1 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.04%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.25%) QA
2 8 (3.25%) SLA
3 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.22%) PMO
5 2 (0.81%) Basel III
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (4.07%) Docker
2 9 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.81%) XenApp
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.03%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (2.03%) HP Data Protector
2 5 (2.03%) NetBackup
3 4 (1.63%) Terraform
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.81%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 21 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.47%) Cisco
2 11 (4.47%) VMware
3 8 (3.25%) Oracle
4 5 (2.03%) Brocade
4 5 (2.03%) Databricks
4 5 (2.03%) EMC
4 5 (2.03%) HP
4 5 (2.03%) Symantec
5 4 (1.63%) Avaya
5 4 (1.63%) Empirix
5 4 (1.63%) NetScout
5 4 (1.63%) Teradata
6 3 (1.22%) Citrix
6 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.22%) Splunk
7 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.81%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.81%) SonicWALL