Statistical Analysis Contracts

Statistical Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 462 525 648
Rank change year-on-year +63 +123 +6
Contract jobs citing Statistical Analysis 58 57 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 39
10th Percentile £276 £344 £310
25th Percentile £400 £378 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £555
90th Percentile £675 £698 £1,093
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £501 £450
% change year-on-year -6.89% +11.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £18.95 £38.16 -
25th Percentile £19.62 £40.91 £18.75
Median hourly rate £21.79 £45.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +133.31% -48.00%
75th Percentile £24.52 £50.08 £20.25
90th Percentile £25.52 £52.83 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.79 - £19.50
% change year-on-year - - -21.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Statistical Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK

Statistical Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK

Statistical Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Statistical Analysis in the UK

Statistical Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK

Statistical Analysis
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +50 40 £475 - 238
UK excluding London +67 28 £466 -6.89% 78
London +39 23 £475 +18.75% 180
Work from Home +40 19 £425 -12.82% 84
Scotland - 12 £467 - 3
North of England +14 5 £455 -18.75% 12
South West +46 4 £650 -1.89% 6
North West +16 4 £455 - 7
South East +45 3 £575 +21.05% 28
East of England +29 2 £408 +1.88% 18
Yorkshire +4 1 £350 -37.50% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
Midlands - 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

Statistical Analysis
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 7 (12.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.17%) SAS
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.90%) Acrobat
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.97%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (12.07%) AWS
4 5 (8.62%) Azure
4 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.90%) GCP
5 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.72%) Cloud9 IDE
7 1 (1.72%) dbt
7 1 (1.72%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Textract
7 1 (1.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Skype
2 1 (1.72%) 3G
2 1 (1.72%) 4G
2 1 (1.72%) 5G
2 1 (1.72%) DHCP
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) LAN
2 1 (1.72%) LTE
2 1 (1.72%) SMTP
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) Tableau
2 14 (24.14%) Power BI
3 10 (17.24%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.45%) Text Mining
6 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.72%) Looker
6 1 (1.72%) Mixpanel
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.72%) QlikView
6 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) MLflow
3 1 (1.72%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (31.03%) Finance
4 10 (17.24%) Banking
5 9 (15.52%) Investment Banking
6 7 (12.07%) Marketing
7 5 (8.62%) Retail
8 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
9 3 (5.17%) Advertising
9 3 (5.17%) Games
10 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.72%) Back Office
11 1 (1.72%) Electronics
11 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.72%) Military
11 1 (1.72%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Analyst
2 12 (20.69%) Data Scientist
3 11 (18.97%) Data Analyst
4 9 (15.52%) Python Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Lead
6 6 (10.34%) Senior
7 4 (6.90%) Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Support Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Information Scientist
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (3.45%) Service Desk Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Service Manager
10 1 (1.72%) SAP Analyst
10 1 (1.72%) SAP Data Analyst
10 1 (1.72%) SQL Analyst
10 1 (1.72%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) PyTorch
1 4 (6.90%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.45%) NumPy
2 2 (3.45%) Pandas
2 2 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.72%) Great Expectations
3 1 (1.72%) OpenCV
3 1 (1.72%) pydantic
3 1 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.72%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (15.52%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.62%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) Life Science
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) FMCG
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) PKI
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
1 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
1 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) Data Science
1 29 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 22 (37.93%) Analytics
2 22 (37.93%) Machine Learning
2 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (34.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (32.76%) Experimental Design
4 19 (32.76%) Visualisation
5 16 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (27.59%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 15 (25.86%) Actionable Insight
6 15 (25.86%) Natural Language Processing
7 14 (24.14%) Data Analysis
7 14 (24.14%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (20.69%) Data Security
9 11 (18.97%) Critical Thinking
9 11 (18.97%) Risk Management
10 10 (17.24%) Data Modelling
11 9 (15.52%) Community of Practice
11 9 (15.52%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 42 (72.41%) Python
2 33 (56.90%) SQL
3 14 (24.14%) R
4 11 (18.97%) Java
4 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.97%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.17%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.72%) ABAP
6 1 (1.72%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) PhD
5 1 (1.72%) ISEB
5 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.90%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.72%) SCCM
1 1 (1.72%) SCOM
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) Adobe
3 4 (6.90%) SAP
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) Remedy
4 2 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (1.72%) Arista
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Dell
5 1 (1.72%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.72%) Intel
5 1 (1.72%) Juniper
5 1 (1.72%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.72%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.72%) Nokia
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds