Statistics Contracts in the North West

Statistics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 81 138
Rank change year-on-year -45 +57 +37
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Statistics 7 47 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.31% 1.92% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 2.29% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 38 5
10th Percentile £434 £414 £378
25th Percentile £467 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -6.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £620 £498 £538
90th Percentile £656 £500 £545
England median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £16.85
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +14.32% +2.33% -19.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,982 2,053 2,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.76% 83.97% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,234 1,741
10th Percentile £299 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £671 £679 £669
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 157 158
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.08 £35.00 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +9.80% +46.36%
75th Percentile £53.13 £52.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Statistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Statistics

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the North West over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Statistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Statistics

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire - 4 £520 - 5
Manchester -5 1 £425 +165.63% 32
Cumbria -17 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £680 - 3
Statistics
England

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Anthropic Claude
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure AI
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Neo4j
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Legal
2 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Performance Improvement
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) TensorFlow
2 4 (57.14%) PyTorch
2 4 (57.14%) Streamlit
3 1 (14.29%) OLE
3 1 (14.29%) Pandas
3 1 (14.29%) pytest
3 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
3 1 (14.29%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 7 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Pattern Recognition
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Computer Vision
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
3 4 (57.14%) Linear Algebra
3 4 (57.14%) LLM
3 4 (57.14%) Multi-Agent System
3 4 (57.14%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (57.14%) RDF
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (42.86%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Ariba
1 1 (14.29%) SAP