Statistics Contracts

Statistics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 350 326 380
Rank change year-on-year -24 +54 +30
Contract jobs citing Statistics 176 274 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.73% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 177 217
10th Percentile £331 £243 £206
25th Percentile £402 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £493 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% -2.38% +1.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £589
90th Percentile £638 £618 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £490 £450
% change year-on-year -0.05% +8.94% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 36 41
10th Percentile £21.33 £15.39 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.85 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.37 £24.00 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +23.14% -25.81%
75th Percentile £28.15 £42.88 £22.16
90th Percentile £35.74 £46.18 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.43 £22.68 £19.49
% change year-on-year +12.13% +16.37% -1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Statistics over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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 -25 155 £492 -0.20% 919
London +11 77 £458 -8.50% 585
UK excluding London +5 73 £490 -0.05% 458
Work from Home +18 63 £475 -3.65% 400
South West +63 20 £601 +14.38% 31
South East +36 17 £450 +18.42% 170
Midlands +22 14 £494 +2.86% 74
North of England -27 12 £550 +11.56% 103
North West -25 11 £550 +11.56% 59
West Midlands +15 9 £494 +23.44% 42
Wales -2 6 £290 +5.45% 6
East Midlands +9 5 - - 29
Scotland +12 2 £300 -29.41% 39
East of England +13 1 - - 44
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 35
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

Statistics
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 19 (10.80%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.41%) SAS
3 4 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (15.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (10.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) CATIA
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.57%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.91%) Power Platform
2 20 (11.36%) Azure
3 16 (9.09%) AWS
4 9 (5.11%) GCP
5 7 (3.98%) GitHub
6 5 (2.84%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (2.27%) Azure AI
7 4 (2.27%) Google Gemini
8 3 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.70%) SaaS
9 2 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.57%) Serverless
10 1 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) Network Security
2 3 (1.70%) 4G
2 3 (1.70%) 5G
2 3 (1.70%) Broadband
2 3 (1.70%) DNS
2 3 (1.70%) Firewall
2 3 (1.70%) LTE
2 3 (1.70%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.14%) 3G
3 2 (1.14%) 802.11
3 2 (1.14%) BGP
3 2 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.14%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (1.14%) HSRP
3 2 (1.14%) IPsec
3 2 (1.14%) OSPF
3 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.14%) VoLTE
3 2 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.91%) Power BI
2 18 (10.23%) Tableau
3 11 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 10 (5.68%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.41%) Big Data
6 6 (3.41%) Metadata
7 5 (2.84%) Power Query
8 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.27%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.70%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.70%) MySQL
10 2 (1.14%) EDRMS
10 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.14%) PowerPivot
10 2 (1.14%) Redis
11 1 (0.57%) KDB
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.55%) Git
2 2 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 83 (47.16%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (41.48%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.18%) Finance
4 27 (15.34%) Public Sector
5 25 (14.20%) Marketing
6 16 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (6.82%) Telecoms
8 11 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (5.68%) Legal
10 9 (5.11%) Banking
11 7 (3.98%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.14%) Advertising
14 2 (1.14%) Back Office
14 2 (1.14%) Law
14 2 (1.14%) Police
14 2 (1.14%) Publishing
14 2 (1.14%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 48 (27.27%) Data Scientist
2 23 (13.07%) Senior
3 22 (12.50%) Analyst
4 12 (6.82%) Capacity Manager
5 11 (6.25%) Availability Manager
5 11 (6.25%) Capacity and Availability Manager
6 10 (5.68%) Data Analyst
7 9 (5.11%) Senior Data Scientist
7 9 (5.11%) Service Manager
8 8 (4.55%) Lead
9 7 (3.98%) Coordinator
9 7 (3.98%) Developer
10 5 (2.84%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.27%) Trainer
12 3 (1.70%) Commercial Analyst
12 3 (1.70%) Consultant
12 3 (1.70%) IT Analyst
12 3 (1.70%) Network Engineer
12 3 (1.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.68%) TensorFlow
2 8 (4.55%) Pandas
3 6 (3.41%) PySpark
4 5 (2.84%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.84%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.70%) Shiny
6 2 (1.14%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.14%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.14%) NumPy
6 2 (1.14%) Plotly
7 1 (0.57%) Django
7 1 (0.57%) Flask
7 1 (0.57%) HTML
7 1 (0.57%) Jinja
7 1 (0.57%) Nunjucks
7 1 (0.57%) OLE
7 1 (0.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.77%) Algorithms
2 19 (10.80%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.82%) Multi-touch
4 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.70%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.14%) Derivative
8 2 (1.14%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.14%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.14%) Linked Data
8 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.14%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Linux
1 5 (2.84%) Windows
2 3 (1.70%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.50%) Data Science
1 66 (37.50%) Mathematics
2 64 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 59 (33.52%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (25.57%) Machine Learning
5 42 (23.86%) Computer Science
6 41 (23.30%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (22.73%) Visualisation
8 38 (21.59%) Decision-Making
9 32 (18.18%) Analytics
10 28 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
10 28 (15.91%) Statistical Modelling
11 27 (15.34%) ITIL
12 26 (14.77%) Service Management
13 25 (14.20%) Artificial Intelligence
14 24 (13.64%) Agile
15 23 (13.07%) Actionable Insight
16 22 (12.50%) Quality Management
17 21 (11.93%) Collaborative Working
18 20 (11.36%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.45%) Python
2 54 (30.68%) SQL
3 27 (15.34%) R
4 5 (2.84%) C++
4 5 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (2.84%) Java
5 3 (1.70%) Bash
5 3 (1.70%) Scala
5 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.14%) Go
6 2 (1.14%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.57%) C
7 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (44.32%) Degree
2 42 (23.86%) Security Cleared
3 38 (21.59%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.36%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (11.36%) Master's Degree
5 17 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (7.95%) PhD
7 8 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.14%) CCNP
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.14%) MBA
9 1 (0.57%) CISA
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) GCIH
9 1 (0.57%) HNC
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) SLA
3 5 (2.84%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.84%) GDPR
4 4 (2.27%) QA
5 3 (1.70%) WCAG
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.14%) Firmware
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.27%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Cacti
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) SCCM
4 1 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 17 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.55%) Databricks
3 6 (3.41%) Alteryx
3 6 (3.41%) Google
4 4 (2.27%) Cisco
4 4 (2.27%) SAP
5 2 (1.14%) Empirix
5 2 (1.14%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.14%) Genesys
5 2 (1.14%) NetScout
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle
5 2 (1.14%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.14%) Spotify
5 2 (1.14%) VMware
6 1 (0.57%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.57%) Facebook
6 1 (0.57%) Instagram
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) Talend
6 1 (0.57%) Workday