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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 266 293
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 +41
Contract jobs citing Statistics 72 131 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.65% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.76% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 76 94
10th Percentile £293 £271 £146
25th Percentile £416 £380 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £430
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +13.37% +1.18%
75th Percentile £584 £500 £575
90th Percentile £626 £588 £725
UK median daily rate £490 £493 £505
% change year-on-year -0.61% -2.38% -2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 32
10th Percentile £21.55 - £16.85
25th Percentile £22.61 £15.39 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.43 £22.50 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% +15.44% -2.11%
75th Percentile £28.45 £30.00 £20.47
90th Percentile £29.25 £46.18 £22.10
UK median hourly rate £25.43 £24.00 £19.49
% change year-on-year +5.96% +23.14% -29.13%

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 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 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
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 17 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 +61 21 £601 +14.38% 22
South East +32 17 £450 +39.53% 81
Midlands +17 14 £494 +2.86% 44
North of England -27 11 £550 +11.56% 130
North West -24 10 £550 +11.56% 85
West Midlands +7 9 £494 +23.44% 23
East Midlands +10 5 - - 20
Wales -1 5 £290 -23.68% 4
Scotland +8 2 £300 -29.41% 36
East of England +11 1 - - 36
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 39
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10
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 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.39%) CATIA
4 1 (1.39%) Simulink
4 1 (1.39%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.33%) AWS
2 6 (8.33%) Azure
3 4 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (5.56%) Azure AI
3 4 (5.56%) GCP
3 4 (5.56%) Google Gemini
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Broadband
2 2 (2.78%) 3G
2 2 (2.78%) 4G
2 2 (2.78%) 802.11
2 2 (2.78%) BGP
2 2 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (2.78%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (2.78%) DNS
2 2 (2.78%) GGSN
2 2 (2.78%) HSRP
2 2 (2.78%) IPsec
2 2 (2.78%) LTE
2 2 (2.78%) Network Security
2 2 (2.78%) OSPF
2 2 (2.78%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.78%) RANAP
2 2 (2.78%) SGSN
2 2 (2.78%) VoLTE
2 2 (2.78%) Wireless
2 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) Power BI
2 7 (9.72%) Tableau
3 5 (6.94%) Metadata
4 4 (5.56%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.78%) Big Data
5 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.78%) EDRMS
6 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.39%) Power Query
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Git
General
1 37 (51.39%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (47.22%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (11.11%) Finance
5 8 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 7 (9.72%) Legal
6 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.78%) Automotive
9 2 (2.78%) Back Office
9 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.78%) Law
9 2 (2.78%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.39%) Local Government
10 1 (1.39%) Military
10 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Capacity Manager
2 11 (15.28%) Availability Manager
2 11 (15.28%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 8 (11.11%) Senior
3 8 (11.11%) Service Manager
4 5 (6.94%) Analyst
4 5 (6.94%) Coordinator
4 5 (6.94%) Data Analyst
4 5 (6.94%) Lead
5 4 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Data Scientist
6 3 (4.17%) Scrum Master
7 2 (2.78%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (2.78%) Information Manager
7 2 (2.78%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.78%) Trainer
8 1 (1.39%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 4 (5.56%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.78%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.39%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Management Information System
2 10 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.78%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.39%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.39%) FMCG
5 1 (1.39%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (33.33%) ITIL
2 24 (33.33%) Service Management
3 21 (29.17%) Quality Management
4 18 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 16 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 15 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
6 15 (20.83%) Mathematics
7 13 (18.06%) Data Science
7 13 (18.06%) Decision-Making
8 12 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
8 12 (16.67%) Time Management
8 12 (16.67%) Visualisation
9 11 (15.28%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (15.28%) Availability Management
9 11 (15.28%) Capacity Management
9 11 (15.28%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (15.28%) Planning and Forecasting
10 10 (13.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.89%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) SQL
3 3 (4.17%) R
3 3 (4.17%) Scala
4 2 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (30.56%) Degree
1 22 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (26.39%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.78%) CCNP
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.39%) HNC
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Cacti
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.17%) SAP
3 2 (2.78%) Cisco
3 2 (2.78%) Empirix
3 2 (2.78%) Genesys
3 2 (2.78%) NetScout
3 2 (2.78%) SolarWinds
3 2 (2.78%) VMware
4 1 (1.39%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.39%) Ariba
4 1 (1.39%) BT
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle
4 1 (1.39%) Remedy
4 1 (1.39%) Workday