Experimental Design Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Design of Experiments (Experimental Design)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Experimental Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 334 384
Rank change year-on-year -55 +50 +96
Contract jobs citing Experimental Design 7 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.043% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.049% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile £381 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -18.18% +46.67%
75th Percentile £409 - £575
90th Percentile £422 - -
UK median daily rate £401 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -35.84% +25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.93 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.93 £71.50
% change year-on-year - -63.73% +104.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Experimental Design 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,350 12,206 16,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.21% 87.88% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,394 7,131 10,850
10th Percentile £221 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,673 686 1,285
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.29 £20.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -30.74% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £73.75 £76.81
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Experimental Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Experimental Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Experimental Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Experimental Design
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Experimental Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Experimental Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Experimental Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
North of England -37 3 £388 - 12
North West - 3 £388 - 6
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 £420 - 1
Midlands - 2 - - 7
Experimental Design
UK

Experimental Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
1 2 (28.57%) User Experience Researcher
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Service Designer
2 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
2 1 (14.29%) UX Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Decision-Making
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) AI
3 4 (57.14%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) Information Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
4 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Quantitative Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Service Design
4 3 (42.86%) Time Management
4 3 (42.86%) Usability Testing
4 3 (42.86%) User Experience
4 3 (42.86%) User Research
4 3 (42.86%) UX Design
4 3 (42.86%) UX Research
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Data Security
5 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
5 2 (28.57%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (14.29%) PMO
3 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft