Biostatistics Contracts

Biostatistics (Biometry)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Biostatistics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biostatistics over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 591 -
Rank change year-on-year +65 - -
Contract jobs citing Biostatistics 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.002% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.003% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biostatistics 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,473 37,081 49,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.12% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,374 23,644 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,294 2,582 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.56 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.92 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%

Biostatistics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biostatistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biostatistics in the UK

Biostatistics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biostatistics.

Daily rate trend for Biostatistics in the UK

Biostatistics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biostatistics.

Hourly rate trend for Biostatistics in the UK

Biostatistics
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biostatistics within the UK over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Work from Home +50 4 £400 - 84
London - 1 - - 17
England - 1 - - 91

Biostatistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager