Statistical Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Statistical Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Statistical Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Statistical Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 375 434
Rank change year-on-year +67 +59 +7
Contract jobs citing Statistical Analysis 28 24 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 18
10th Percentile £379 £390 £324
25th Percentile £448 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +11.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £582 £578 £479
90th Percentile £668 £698 £501
UK median daily rate £467 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.68% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.95 - -
25th Percentile £19.62 - £18.75
Median hourly rate £21.79 - £19.50
75th Percentile £24.52 - £20.25
90th Percentile £25.52 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.79 £45.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% +133.31% -48.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Statistical Analysis 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Statistical Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Statistical Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK excluding London

Statistical Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Statistical Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK excluding London

Statistical Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistical Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistical Analysis in the UK excluding London

Statistical Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Statistical Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK excluding London

Statistical Analysis
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 Statistical Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Scotland - 12 £467 - 4
North of England +14 5 £455 -18.75% 20
South West +46 4 £650 -1.89% 8
North West +16 4 £455 - 14
South East +45 3 £575 +21.05% 31
East of England +29 2 £408 +1.88% 17
Yorkshire +4 1 £350 -37.50% 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
Midlands - 1 - - 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Statistical Analysis
UK

Statistical Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) SAS
3 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Acrobat
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Skype
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
2 1 (3.57%) SMTP
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Tableau
2 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 4 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.14%) Text Mining
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) PyCharm
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Finance
3 8 (28.57%) Banking
3 8 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.57%) Games
7 1 (3.57%) Military
7 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) JavaScript Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Data Scientist
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Information Scientist
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Support Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Head of AI
6 1 (3.57%) Head of Data Science
6 1 (3.57%) Logistics Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Data Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.57%) NumPy
2 1 (3.57%) Pandas
2 1 (3.57%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (32.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) Life Science
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Data Science
2 17 (60.71%) Decision-Making
2 17 (60.71%) Machine Learning
3 16 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (42.86%) Data Security
5 12 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 12 (42.86%) Experimental Design
6 11 (39.29%) Critical Thinking
6 11 (39.29%) Risk Management
7 9 (32.14%) Community of Practice
7 9 (32.14%) Task Automation
8 8 (28.57%) Analytics
9 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
10 6 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
11 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
11 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
12 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (14.29%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 11 (39.29%) Java
3 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
3 11 (39.29%) TypeScript
4 6 (21.43%) R
5 2 (7.14%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.57%) ABAP
6 1 (3.57%) C++
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.57%) SCCM
1 1 (3.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Adobe
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Remedy
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.57%) VMware