Statistical Analysis Contracts

Statistical Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Statistical Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Statistical Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 625 643
Rank change year-on-year +92 +18 -100
Contract jobs citing Statistical Analysis 46 69 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 40 153
10th Percentile £332 £294 £263
25th Percentile £375 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £585 £570 £575
90th Percentile £713 £1,084 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £557 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +23.78% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £26.20
25th Percentile - £18.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate £54.66 £19.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +180.31% -52.73% +79.35%
75th Percentile - £20.25 £59.00
90th Percentile - - £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Statistical Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 2024.

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 11 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 20 May 2024. 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 +95 37 £431 -10.16% 130
UK excluding London +46 19 £557 +23.78% 93
London +87 18 £400 -33.33% 59
Work from Home +94 12 £350 -27.08% 81
North of England +30 9 £560 +16.67% 20
Yorkshire +17 5 £560 +16.67% 4
North West +18 4 - - 13
South West +7 3 £675 +50.00% 9
Wales - 3 £412 - 8
South East +18 2 - - 30
East of England +12 2 £300 - 7

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 11 (23.91%) SAS
2 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) SPSS
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Azure
1 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
2 4 (8.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 4 (8.70%) ChatGPT
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.52%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) DHCP
1 3 (6.52%) DNS
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
1 3 (6.52%) LAN
1 3 (6.52%) Skype
1 3 (6.52%) SMTP
1 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.52%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Data Mining
2 6 (13.04%) Power BI
3 4 (8.70%) Tableau
4 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) KDB
5 1 (2.17%) Looker
5 1 (2.17%) Metadata
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) ERwin
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Finance
4 9 (19.57%) Manufacturing
4 9 (19.57%) Marketing
5 5 (10.87%) Banking
6 4 (8.70%) Advertising
6 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.52%) Electronics
7 3 (6.52%) Military
7 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.35%) Agriculture
8 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Front Office
9 1 (2.17%) Games
9 1 (2.17%) Hungarian Language
9 1 (2.17%) Law
9 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Data Scientist
2 9 (19.57%) Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.70%) SAS Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) SAS Data Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Econometrician
5 3 (6.52%) Insight Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Information Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) PyTorch
2 4 (8.70%) Hugging Face
2 4 (8.70%) LangChain
3 3 (6.52%) RESTful
3 3 (6.52%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.17%) Jinja
4 1 (2.17%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.17%) Shiny
4 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
1 4 (8.70%) Credit Risk
1 4 (8.70%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (8.70%) Taxonomies
2 3 (6.52%) PKI
2 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.35%) Life Science
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Windows
1 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
1 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Machine Learning
1 17 (36.96%) Visualisation
2 16 (34.78%) Analytics
2 16 (34.78%) Data Analysis
3 15 (32.61%) Decision-Making
4 14 (30.43%) Data Visualisation
5 13 (28.26%) Data Science
6 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (23.91%) Computer Science
7 11 (23.91%) Statistics
8 9 (19.57%) Data Governance
9 8 (17.39%) Data Privacy
9 8 (17.39%) ITIL
9 8 (17.39%) Mathematics
9 8 (17.39%) Predictive Modelling
9 8 (17.39%) Service Management
10 7 (15.22%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (15.22%) Data Modelling
10 7 (15.22%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) SQL
3 16 (34.78%) R
4 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.35%) Java
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.22%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.70%) PhD
4 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) CDISC
3 1 (2.17%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (6.52%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (6.52%) Virtual Servers
1 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (6.52%) OPNET
1 3 (6.52%) SCCM
1 3 (6.52%) SCOM
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Remedy
3 3 (6.52%) SAP
3 3 (6.52%) SolarWinds
3 3 (6.52%) VMware
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Adobe
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Sparx