Statistical Modelling Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Statistical Modelling
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Statistical Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 114 137
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +27
Contract jobs citing Statistical Modelling 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.32% 0.12% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.13% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £376 £385 -
25th Percentile £401 £430 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £503 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.98% -22.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £577 -
90th Percentile £594 £621 -
UK median daily rate £565 £563 £621
% change year-on-year +0.44% -9.46% +24.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Statistical Modelling 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,393 1,526 2,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.39% 88.31% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 895 1,353
10th Percentile £239 £226 £250
25th Percentile £386 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £588
90th Percentile £625 £663 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 56
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.95 £18.77 £16.38
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.34
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +18.60% +4.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.35
90th Percentile £53.75 £31.44 £68.13
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%

Statistical Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Statistical Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Statistical Modelling job vacancy trend in Scotland

Statistical Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Statistical Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Statistical Modelling

Statistical Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistical Modelling in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistical Modelling in Scotland

Statistical Modelling
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistical Modelling within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Glasgow +3 5 £403 +13.06%
Statistical Modelling
UK

Statistical Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (40.00%) Torch
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (60.00%) Feature Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft