Statistics Contract Job Trends in the South West

Statistics
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 121 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing Statistics 6 9 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.44% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £562 - £363
25th Percentile £644 - £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £804 £623 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% +24.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £990 - £541
90th Percentile £1,086 - £610
England median daily rate £488 £448 £478
% change year-on-year +8.87% -6.13% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.02
25th Percentile - - £46.05
Median hourly rate £44.81 - £46.09
75th Percentile - - £46.14
90th Percentile - - £46.16
England median hourly rate £40.73 £22.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +85.14% - -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,819 2,055 2,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.14% 83.98% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 1,190 1,903
10th Percentile £213 £312 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 182 279
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.10 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.63 £46.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.98 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in the South West

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the South West over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the South West

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Devon - 3 £508 -
Somerset +2 1 £1,100 +76.57% 1
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
Statistics
England

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) Looker
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of AI
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Data Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (16.67%) Freedom of Information Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Data Science
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Applied Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (16.67%) Micro Focus
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NetIQ
2 1 (16.67%) Okta