Statistical Modelling Contracts

Statistical Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Statistical Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Statistical Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 536 662
Rank change year-on-year +106 +126 +72
Contract jobs citing Statistical Modelling 78 42 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.097% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 31
10th Percentile £400 £408 £375
25th Percentile £478 £443 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £614 £738
90th Percentile - £764 £1,163
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +18.93% -6.36% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £21.88 - -
25th Percentile £22.55 £22.61 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.43 £23.82 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% +22.17% -0.10%
75th Percentile £28.60 £24.88 £19.75
90th Percentile £29.38 £25.70 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.43 £23.22 -
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Statistical Modelling 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 26,635 37,480 53,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 86.37% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,151 24,166 36,804
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,086 2,447 1,751
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%
75th Percentile £61.28 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

Statistical Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistical Modelling in the UK

Statistical Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Statistical Modelling in the UK

Statistical Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistical Modelling over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Statistical Modelling in the UK

Statistical Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Statistical Modelling in the UK

Statistical Modelling
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistical Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +110 72 £550 +6.80% 297
London +68 36 £550 +2.33% 183
Work from Home +47 29 £427 -13.52% 175
UK excluding London +69 27 £613 +18.93% 150
East of England +43 14 £650 +30.00% 5
North of England +22 7 £488 -6.25% 46
North West +20 6 £475 -8.65% 30
South East +35 5 £434 - 53
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 14
South West - 1 £400 - 6

Statistical Modelling
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 34 (43.59%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.41%) SAS
3 2 (2.56%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.59%) Azure
2 24 (30.77%) AWS
3 16 (20.51%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.26%) GCP
5 6 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.13%) SaaS
7 3 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.85%) Matillion
8 2 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.28%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.28%) Cloud9 IDE
9 1 (1.28%) dbt
9 1 (1.28%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub
9 1 (1.28%) Serverless
9 1 (1.28%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (44.87%) Tableau
2 21 (26.92%) Big Data
3 19 (24.36%) Hadoop
4 16 (20.51%) Power BI
5 9 (11.54%) Data Mining
6 6 (7.69%) Metadata
7 4 (5.13%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.85%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.56%) Looker
9 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.56%) PowerPivot
9 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.28%) Airbyte
10 1 (1.28%) GIS
10 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.51%) Marketing
4 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
5 10 (12.82%) Finance
6 7 (8.97%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.85%) Police
8 3 (3.85%) Retail
9 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.28%) Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.28%) Law
10 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.28%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 39 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 24 (30.77%) Senior
3 18 (23.08%) Senior Data Scientist
4 16 (20.51%) Developer
5 14 (17.95%) Data Science Developer
6 11 (14.10%) Analyst
7 9 (11.54%) Data Analyst
7 9 (11.54%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Lead
9 5 (6.41%) Lead Data Scientist
10 3 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 2 (2.56%) Automation Analyst
11 2 (2.56%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.56%) Data Modeller
11 2 (2.56%) Risk Analyst
12 1 (1.28%) Credit Analyst
12 1 (1.28%) GCP Engineer
12 1 (1.28%) Lead Data Engineer
12 1 (1.28%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 1 (1.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (37.18%) Pandas
2 26 (33.33%) scikit-learn
3 20 (25.64%) TensorFlow
4 19 (24.36%) NumPy
5 16 (20.51%) PyTorch
6 15 (19.23%) Matplotlib
7 14 (17.95%) Seaborn
8 1 (1.28%) D3.js
8 1 (1.28%) Great Expectations
8 1 (1.28%) Kafka
8 1 (1.28%) OpenCV
8 1 (1.28%) Plotly
8 1 (1.28%) Prophet
8 1 (1.28%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (1.28%) pydantic
8 1 (1.28%) PySpark
8 1 (1.28%) REST
8 1 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (1.28%) Statsmodels
8 1 (1.28%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 34 (43.59%) Algorithms
2 12 (15.38%) Multi-touch
3 5 (6.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) FMCG
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.28%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.28%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.28%) IoT
6 1 (1.28%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (80.77%) Data Science
2 54 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 47 (60.26%) Data Analysis
4 46 (58.97%) Decision-Making
5 45 (57.69%) Visualisation
6 37 (47.44%) Analytics
7 34 (43.59%) Computer Science
8 29 (37.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 29 (37.18%) Statistics
9 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (32.05%) Mathematics
11 23 (29.49%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (26.92%) Data Visualisation
12 21 (26.92%) Predictive Analytics
13 18 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (23.08%) Time Series Forecasting
14 16 (20.51%) Data Munging
14 16 (20.51%) LLM
14 16 (20.51%) Validation
15 14 (17.95%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 64 (82.05%) Python
2 46 (58.97%) SQL
3 45 (57.69%) R
4 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.85%) Scala
4 3 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.28%) ABAP
5 1 (1.28%) Java
5 1 (1.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 40 (51.28%) Degree
2 22 (28.21%) PhD
3 16 (20.51%) Master's Degree
4 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
5 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.56%) MBA
7 2 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (24.36%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (8.97%) Databricks
2 5 (6.41%) Google
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.85%) Talend
4 1 (1.28%) Foundry
4 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) Palantir
4 1 (1.28%) SAP