Statistics Contracts in the North of England

Statistics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 127 185
Rank change year-on-year -27 +58 +30
Contract jobs citing Statistics 12 58 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 1.22% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.42% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 43 18
10th Percentile £488 £335 £400
25th Percentile £493 £436 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £493 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% -24.15% +23.81%
75th Percentile £640 £500 £725
90th Percentile £664 £510 £800
England median daily rate £492 £493 £518
% change year-on-year -0.20% -4.73% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £22.59 £25.16 -
25th Percentile £22.72 £37.63 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.43 £43.22 £30.93
Median % change year-on-year -41.15% +39.74% +18.94%
75th Percentile £28.75 £46.18 £45.00
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
England median hourly rate £25.43 £24.00 £22.16
% change year-on-year +5.96% +8.30% -19.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Statistics in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West -25 11 £550 +11.56% 60
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 35
Statistics
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
1 4 (33.33%) Google Gemini
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) 3GPP
1 1 (8.33%) 4G
1 1 (8.33%) 5G
1 1 (8.33%) LTE
1 1 (8.33%) MIMO
1 1 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Metadata
1 5 (41.67%) Tableau
2 4 (33.33%) Neo4j
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Legal
3 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Head of Performance Improvement
2 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) HR Data Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Decision-Making
2 10 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (83.33%) Mathematics
2 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (75.00%) Pattern Recognition
4 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (50.00%) Data Science
4 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) Data Management
5 5 (41.67%) Information Retrieval
5 5 (41.67%) Statistical Modelling
6 4 (33.33%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Vision
6 4 (33.33%) Linear Algebra
6 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (33.33%) RDF
6 4 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Ariba
1 1 (8.33%) Huawei
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) Workday