Statistics Contracts in the South West

Statistics
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 155 153
Rank change year-on-year +44 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Statistics 10 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.55% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.18% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile - £483 £376
25th Percentile £600 £494 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% -2.33% +5.91%
75th Percentile £875 £538 £781
90th Percentile £1,040 - £873
England median daily rate £490 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +1.03% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.40
Median hourly rate - - £34.80
75th Percentile - - £37.19
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +10.42% +14.29% -23.64%

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 1,655 2,705 3,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.24% 82.87% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1,714 2,246
10th Percentile £220 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £687 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 379 285
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.60 £29.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.10 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.92% -10.57% +26.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £71.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Statistics in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Statistics in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Statistics in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in the South West

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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 6 July 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
Wiltshire - 6 £601 -
Devon - 2 - - 1
Bristol +12 1 - - 6
Somerset - 1 £1,100 - 2
Statistics
England

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Capacity Manager
2 5 (50.00%) Availability Manager
2 5 (50.00%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of AI
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Data Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Quality Management
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Service Management
3 5 (50.00%) Availability Management
3 5 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 5 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 5 (50.00%) Time Management
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Web Development
5 2 (20.00%) Workflow
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) QMS
6 1 (10.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle