Statistics Contract Job Trends in the South East

Statistics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 141 186
Rank change year-on-year -35 +45 +17
Contract jobs citing Statistics 16 28 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.37% 0.75% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.85% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 20
10th Percentile £380 £228 £354
25th Percentile £409 £315 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £510
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -24.02% +45.71%
75th Percentile £578 £475 £567
90th Percentile £612 £520 £588
England median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.47 £22.00 £23.49
% change year-on-year +15.77% -6.32% -9.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,726 3,307 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.28% 88.12% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 2,059 2,912
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 125 234
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.43 £65.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in the South East

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Statistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Statistics

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the South East

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Statistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Statistics

Statistics
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley -9 13 £450 - 14
Berkshire -8 11 £506 +12.50% 10
Hampshire -33 2 £479 +23.61% 8
Buckinghamshire - 2 £400 - 2
Surrey +4 1 - - 3
West Sussex - 1 - - 1
Statistics
England

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Storage
5 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Big Data
2 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Scientist
2 4 (25.00%) DBA
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
3 1 (6.25%) UAT Lead
3 1 (6.25%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Pandas
1 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (18.75%) NumPy
3 1 (6.25%) Matplotlib
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.25%) Plotly
3 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Data Science
2 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (31.25%) Model Validation
4 5 (31.25%) Predictive Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Statistical Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) LLM
5 4 (25.00%) Predictive Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Time Series Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Use Case
6 3 (18.75%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
2 3 (18.75%) OCP
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Data Guard
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (12.50%) systemd
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft