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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 125 146
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 +6
Contract jobs citing Statistics 5 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.50% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £486 £413
25th Percentile £1,050 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +109.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £1,150 £559 £547
90th Percentile - £597 £650
England median daily rate £475 £450 £478
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.76% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £35.12
25th Percentile - - £39.20
Median hourly rate £44.81 - £46.00
75th Percentile - - £46.09
90th Percentile - - £46.14
England median hourly rate £44.81 £22.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year +103.68% -7.37% -8.65%

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 1,771 2,212 2,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.31% 83.72% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 1,319 1,963
10th Percentile £221 £272 £310
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £708 £703 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 214 256
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.18 £20.13
25th Percentile £18.51 £48.50 £43.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +7.14% +9.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.88 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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

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
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

Statistics
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 16 September 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 - 2 - -
Somerset +5 1 £1,100 +76.57% 5
Bristol 0 1 - - 3
Dorset - 1 - - 1
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 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Head of AI
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Data Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
1 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Decision Tree
2 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle