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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 92 149
Rank change year-on-year -44 +57 +14
Contract jobs citing Statistics 4 21 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 1.23% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 1.37% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £535 £479
25th Percentile £475 £550 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £601 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +17.17% -0.97%
75th Percentile £525 £601 £534
90th Percentile - - £536
England median daily rate £500 £477 £493
% change year-on-year +4.82% -3.25% -4.73%

All Process & 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 2,392 1,536 2,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.34% 90.14% 83.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 1,018 1,764
10th Percentile £313 £248 £250
25th Percentile £410 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 113 325
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.15 £47.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -22.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £68.60 £70.00 £76.20
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

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

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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 29 March 2026. 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
Bristol -22 3 £500 - 1
Devon - 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 (50.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematician
2 1 (25.00%) Build and Configuration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Statistician
2 1 (25.00%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Applied Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Operations Research
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy