Linear Regression Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Linear Regression
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Linear Regression skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linear Regression 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 - £788
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Linear Regression 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 15,689 12,960 17,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.83% 87.26% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,582 7,621 11,014
10th Percentile £220 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,758 745 1,210
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +42.45%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.10 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.03 £73.14 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Linear Regression
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Linear Regression job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Linear Regression
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Linear Regression.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Linear Regression

Linear Regression
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 Linear Regression within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
North West - 3 £450 - 3
South East - 3 £425 - 1
North of England - 3 £450 - 3
Linear Regression
UK

Linear Regression
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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (50.00%) NumPy
1 3 (50.00%) Pandas
1 3 (50.00%) Prophet
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (50.00%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) ARIMA
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (50.00%) Decision Tree
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Logistic Regression
2 3 (50.00%) OCR
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (50.00%) Random Forest
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Sage