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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 312 374
Rank change year-on-year -118 +62 +80
Contract jobs citing Statistics 126 297 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.71% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.83% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 185 193
10th Percentile £375 £233 £278
25th Percentile £411 £341 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +2.63% -11.21%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £589
90th Percentile £600 £657 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £486 £405
% change year-on-year -7.46% +20.06% -2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 39 41
10th Percentile £20.64 £15.39 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.38 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £26.40 £22.50 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +15.44% -25.04%
75th Percentile £37.19 £30.00 £26.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £46.18 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.30 £24.00 £19.49
% change year-on-year +5.42% +23.14% -2.11%

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 29,656 35,918 49,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.33% 85.38% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,620 23,009 34,128
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
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% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,566 2,286 1,643
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.71 £18.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%
75th Percentile £51.10 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.38 £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.58
% change year-on-year -37.04% -6.05% +88.72%

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 19 July 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 19 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Top 15 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 19 July 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 -97 114 £478 -2.05% 654
London -12 60 £483 -2.28% 456
UK excluding London -51 56 £450 -7.46% 251
Work from Home -20 47 £450 +0.56% 276
Midlands -9 16 £430 -18.19% 38
South East +5 14 £465 +28.28% 73
North of England -43 12 £490 -0.05% 54
West Midlands +4 10 £430 +7.38% 25
South West +43 9 £850 +61.95% 21
North West -34 9 £520 +5.48% 35
East Midlands -1 6 - - 13
Yorkshire -7 3 £425 +145.40% 17
East of England +3 2 - - 31
Wales -5 2 £290 -23.68% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 17 (13.49%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.97%) SAS
3 3 (2.38%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.59%) Simulink
5 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.79%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.25%) Azure
1 23 (18.25%) Power Platform
2 13 (10.32%) AWS
3 11 (8.73%) GCP
4 5 (3.97%) Azure AI
5 4 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (3.17%) Google Gemini
5 4 (3.17%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.59%) GitHub
6 2 (1.59%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) 802.11
2 1 (0.79%) BGP
2 1 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) HSRP
2 1 (0.79%) IPsec
2 1 (0.79%) LAN
2 1 (0.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) OSPF
2 1 (0.79%) SAN
2 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.79%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.25%) Power BI
2 17 (13.49%) Tableau
3 10 (7.94%) Hadoop
4 7 (5.56%) Big Data
5 6 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.17%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.38%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.38%) Looker
7 3 (2.38%) Metadata
7 3 (2.38%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.38%) MySQL
7 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.59%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.59%) Redis
9 1 (0.79%) Spotfire
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Git
2 6 (4.76%) PVCS
3 2 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 57 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (42.06%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (27.78%) Finance
4 18 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 17 (13.49%) Marketing
6 10 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.56%) Banking
8 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.17%) Legal
10 4 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (3.17%) Police
11 3 (2.38%) Advertising
11 3 (2.38%) Local Government
12 2 (1.59%) Automotive
12 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Retail
12 2 (1.59%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 37 (29.37%) Data Scientist
2 27 (21.43%) Analyst
3 13 (10.32%) Senior
4 11 (8.73%) Data Analyst
5 7 (5.56%) Lead
6 6 (4.76%) Capacity Manager
6 6 (4.76%) Performance Analyst
6 6 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (3.97%) Availability Manager
7 5 (3.97%) Capacity and Availability Manager
8 4 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.17%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.17%) Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Financial Analyst
8 4 (3.17%) Trainer
9 3 (2.38%) Commercial Analyst
9 3 (2.38%) IT Analyst
9 3 (2.38%) Operations Manager
9 3 (2.38%) Scrum Master
9 3 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.29%) Pandas
2 14 (11.11%) TensorFlow
3 12 (9.52%) scikit-learn
4 6 (4.76%) XML
5 4 (3.17%) PySpark
5 4 (3.17%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.17%) Streamlit
5 4 (3.17%) XGBoost
6 3 (2.38%) NumPy
7 2 (1.59%) CSS
7 2 (1.59%) HTML
7 2 (1.59%) pytest
8 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.79%) Django
8 1 (0.79%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.79%) OLE
8 1 (0.79%) Plotly
8 1 (0.79%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.35%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.35%) Multi-touch
3 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.38%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.59%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.59%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.79%) FMCG
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.35%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) Linux
3 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) Debian
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.24%) Data Science
2 48 (38.10%) Mathematics
3 47 (37.30%) Machine Learning
4 45 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 38 (30.16%) Data Analysis
6 35 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (26.19%) Visualisation
8 32 (25.40%) Computer Science
9 30 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (20.63%) Analytics
10 26 (20.63%) Statistical Modelling
11 24 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
12 22 (17.46%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (15.08%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (13.49%) Agile
15 16 (12.70%) Validation
16 13 (10.32%) Data Modelling
16 13 (10.32%) Predictive Modelling
17 12 (9.52%) Data Extraction
17 12 (9.52%) Economics
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.00%) Python
2 58 (46.03%) SQL
3 32 (25.40%) R
4 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.38%) MATLAB
5 3 (2.38%) Scala
6 2 (1.59%) Perl
7 1 (0.79%) Bash
7 1 (0.79%) C++
7 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (51.59%) Degree
2 24 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 19 (15.08%) Master's Degree
3 19 (15.08%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.11%) PhD
5 9 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.59%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) CISA
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CISM
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) GCIH
9 1 (0.79%) HNC
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (3.17%) SLA
4 3 (2.38%) NIST
4 3 (2.38%) QA
5 2 (1.59%) COBIT
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.79%) Cacti
Vendors
1 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) Google
2 4 (3.17%) OneLogin
2 4 (3.17%) Oracle
3 3 (2.38%) Amplitude
4 2 (1.59%) Facebook
4 2 (1.59%) Instagram
4 2 (1.59%) Remedy
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
4 2 (1.59%) Spotify
4 2 (1.59%) VMware
5 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.79%) Ariba
5 1 (0.79%) BT
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco
5 1 (0.79%) Informatica
5 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.79%) Talend
5 1 (0.79%) TIBCO