Statistics Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Statistics
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Statistics 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.65% 0.88% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £173 £464
% change year-on-year +159.83% -62.63% +15.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 737 315 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.71% 92.38% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 181 259
10th Percentile £316 £213 £382
25th Percentile £400 £381 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.07 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £20.90 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Statistics

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Statistics

Statistics
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Sheffield - 5 £514 - 1
Statistics
Yorkshire

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (100.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 5 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 5 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Scientist
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 5 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Naive Bayes
1 5 (100.00%) Support Vector Machines
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Scala
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk