Statistics Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Statistics
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 77 96
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +36
Contract jobs citing Statistics 7 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.62% 0.52% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.59% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £355 £178 £370
25th Percentile £358 £219 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -42.86% +61.54%
75th Percentile £438 £394 £575
90th Percentile £460 £443 £600
North West median daily rate £400 £356 £525
% change year-on-year +12.36% -32.19% +61.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.74
Median hourly rate - - £13.48
75th Percentile - - £14.22
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £25.43 £13.48
% change year-on-year - +88.65% -70.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in Manchester

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Statistics

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Statistics

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Base SAS
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) SAS Data Integration Studio
1 1 (14.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SAS Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AS400
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Mathematics
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Web Development
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) MLOps
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft