Statistics Contracts in the South East

Statistics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 149 181
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 +71
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Statistics 11 38 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.80% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.97% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 19
10th Percentile £370 £238 £146
25th Percentile £425 £243 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £320 £325
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -1.54% -1.52%
75th Percentile £475 £371 £509
90th Percentile £513 £454 £561
England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £15.60 £14.66
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.06 £17.45
Median hourly rate £25.30 £30.00 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +53.93% -17.57%
75th Percentile £25.45 - £19.98
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.30 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +15.00% +2.33% -17.31%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,150 3,920 5,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.31% 82.16% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 2,363 3,392
10th Percentile £238 £260 £250
25th Percentile £393 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +0.11% +2.66%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 309 234
10th Percentile £13.54 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.09
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.18 £64.91
90th Percentile £70.16 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Statistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the South East

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the South East over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the South East

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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

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DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
Thames Valley +5 9 £450 +57.89% 49
Berkshire +12 7 £450 +76.47% 36
Hampshire +7 1 £333 -14.06% 3
Oxfordshire -15 1 - - 9
West Sussex - 1 - - 7
Buckinghamshire - 1 £535 - 4
Statistics
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Manager
4 1 (9.09%) UAT Lead
4 1 (9.09%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) NumPy
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) Pandas
1 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Debian
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Service Management
3 3 (27.27%) SWOT Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) LLM
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Time Series Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy
2 1 (9.09%) BT
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) VMware