Statistics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Statistics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Statistics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Statistics 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 263 268 296
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Statistics 73 132 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.75% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 78 99
10th Percentile £291 £283 £153
25th Percentile £409 £385 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +8.94% +7.78%
75th Percentile £588 £509 £575
90th Percentile £630 £588 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £493 £505
% change year-on-year -2.64% -2.38% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 33
10th Percentile £21.62 - £16.85
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.39 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.43 £22.68 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% +16.37% -1.14%
75th Percentile £28.75 £25.36 £20.47
90th Percentile £31.28 £46.18 £22.16
UK median hourly rate £25.37 £24.00 £19.49
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.14% -25.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
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 Statistics 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
South West +63 20 £601 +14.38% 31
South East +36 17 £450 +18.42% 172
Midlands +22 14 £494 +2.86% 75
North of England -27 12 £550 +11.56% 105
North West -25 11 £550 +11.56% 60
West Midlands +15 9 £494 +23.44% 43
Wales -2 6 £290 +5.45% 7
East Midlands +9 5 - - 29
Scotland +12 2 £300 -29.41% 38
East of England +13 1 - - 41
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 36
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6
Statistics
UK

Statistics
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 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.37%) CATIA
4 1 (1.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.96%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.22%) AWS
2 6 (8.22%) Azure
3 4 (5.48%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (5.48%) Azure AI
3 4 (5.48%) GCP
3 4 (5.48%) Google Gemini
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.37%) GitHub
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) 4G
1 3 (4.11%) 5G
1 3 (4.11%) Broadband
1 3 (4.11%) LTE
1 3 (4.11%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.74%) 3G
2 2 (2.74%) 802.11
2 2 (2.74%) BGP
2 2 (2.74%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (2.74%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
2 2 (2.74%) GGSN
2 2 (2.74%) HSRP
2 2 (2.74%) Network Security
2 2 (2.74%) OSPF
2 2 (2.74%) RANAP
2 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.74%) SGSN
2 2 (2.74%) VoLTE
2 2 (2.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) Power BI
2 7 (9.59%) Tableau
3 5 (6.85%) Metadata
4 4 (5.48%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.74%) Big Data
5 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.74%) EDRMS
6 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.37%) Power Query
6 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Git
General
1 37 (50.68%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (47.95%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (13.70%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (10.96%) Legal
5 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.59%) Finance
6 7 (9.59%) Telecoms
7 5 (6.85%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.74%) Back Office
9 2 (2.74%) Law
9 2 (2.74%) Military
9 2 (2.74%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.37%) Automotive
10 1 (1.37%) Local Government
10 1 (1.37%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (16.44%) Capacity Manager
2 11 (15.07%) Availability Manager
2 11 (15.07%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
4 8 (10.96%) Service Manager
5 5 (6.85%) Analyst
5 5 (6.85%) Coordinator
5 5 (6.85%) Data Analyst
5 5 (6.85%) Lead
6 4 (5.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Data Scientist
7 3 (4.11%) Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Information Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Scrum Master
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Agile Scrum Master
8 2 (2.74%) Network Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.74%) Trainer
9 1 (1.37%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) PyTorch
1 4 (5.48%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.74%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.37%) OLE
3 1 (1.37%) PySpark
3 1 (1.37%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Management Information System
2 11 (15.07%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.37%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.37%) FMCG
5 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.37%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (32.88%) ITIL
2 24 (32.88%) Service Management
3 21 (28.77%) Quality Management
4 18 (24.66%) Problem Management
5 17 (23.29%) Data Analysis
6 16 (21.92%) Collaborative Working
7 15 (20.55%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (19.18%) Decision-Making
8 14 (19.18%) Mathematics
8 14 (19.18%) Visualisation
9 12 (16.44%) Data Science
9 12 (16.44%) Performance Improvement
9 12 (16.44%) Time Management
10 11 (15.07%) Availability Management
10 11 (15.07%) Capacity Management
10 11 (15.07%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (15.07%) Planning and Forecasting
11 10 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (13.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.70%) Python
2 5 (6.85%) SQL
3 3 (4.11%) R
3 3 (4.11%) Scala
4 1 (1.37%) C++
4 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.77%) Degree
3 20 (27.40%) SC Cleared
4 19 (26.03%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.74%) CCNP
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.37%) HNC
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) SLA
2 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.74%) Cacti
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.11%) SAP
3 2 (2.74%) Cisco
3 2 (2.74%) Empirix
3 2 (2.74%) Genesys
3 2 (2.74%) NetScout
3 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds
3 2 (2.74%) VMware
4 1 (1.37%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.37%) Ariba
4 1 (1.37%) Databricks
4 1 (1.37%) Huawei
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) Workday