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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 365 419
Rank change year-on-year +40 +54 +16
Contract jobs citing Statistical Analysis 30 24 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.12% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 8
10th Percentile £379 £350 £348
25th Percentile £406 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £490 £560 £485
90th Percentile £806 £576 £515
UK median daily rate £467 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +16.75% -11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £16.78 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.99 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £19.50 £26.97 -
90th Percentile - £31.14 -
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £29.39 -
% change year-on-year -3.86% - -

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 13,369 16,847 20,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.22% 82.90% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,080 10,035 13,781
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,232 1,941 1,239
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -6.05% +88.72%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 - 14 £467 - 7
South East +27 5 £425 -22.73% 24
South West - 4 £865 - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £525 - 1
East of England +10 2 £408 - 9
Yorkshire -3 1 £350 -37.16% 7
North of England -5 1 £350 -36.82% 20
Midlands -7 1 - - 10
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
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 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Acrobat
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) ChatGPT
3 4 (13.33%) Serverless
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.33%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (13.33%) Big Data
2 3 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (10.00%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.67%) Text Mining
4 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (46.67%) Finance
3 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 11 (36.67%) Investment Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.33%) Games
7 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 10 (33.33%) JavaScript Engineer
1 10 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Head of AI
4 2 (6.67%) Head of Data Science
4 2 (6.67%) Information Scientist
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Support Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Incident Manager
5 1 (3.33%) IT Support
5 1 (3.33%) IT Support Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Service Desk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Hugging Face
1 4 (13.33%) NumPy
1 4 (13.33%) Pandas
1 4 (13.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (13.33%) scikit-learn
2 3 (10.00%) Prophet
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Life Science
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Equities
4 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Data Science
2 20 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 17 (56.67%) Decision-Making
4 16 (53.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 14 (46.67%) Experimental Design
5 14 (46.67%) Natural Language Processing
6 13 (43.33%) Critical Thinking
6 13 (43.33%) Data Security
6 13 (43.33%) Risk Management
7 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (36.67%) Community of Practice
8 11 (36.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 11 (36.67%) Task Automation
9 7 (23.33%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (23.33%) Analytics
10 6 (20.00%) A/B Testing
11 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
11 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
12 4 (13.33%) Agile
12 4 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) Python
2 13 (43.33%) Java
2 13 (43.33%) JavaScript
2 13 (43.33%) TypeScript
3 12 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) R
5 2 (6.67%) C++
5 2 (6.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Basel III
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.33%) MiFID
2 1 (3.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Grafana
1 1 (3.33%) Kibana
1 1 (3.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Sage
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Remedy