Statistics Contracts

Statistics
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 388 413
Rank change year-on-year +74 +25 -76
Contract jobs citing Statistics 281 366 538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.69% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 214 325
10th Percentile £243 £202 £196
25th Percentile £375 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £503 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -1.98% +2.01%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £619
90th Percentile £610 £775 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £430 £418
% change year-on-year +14.01% +2.99% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 41 34
10th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £19.16
25th Percentile £15.85 £16.98 £19.62
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.49 £26.89
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% -27.51% +19.49%
75th Percentile £42.88 £22.16 £44.88
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £59.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £19.49 £19.72
% change year-on-year +16.37% -1.14% +12.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Statistics 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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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 +74 256 £493 -3.80% 390
UK excluding London +27 134 £490 +14.01% 187
London +70 109 £500 -5.21% 211
Work from Home +76 90 £493 +9.56% 201
North of England +50 58 £493 -24.15% 53
North West +67 53 £493 -14.26% 32
South East -4 28 £380 +8.57% 41
East of England +21 18 £388 +3.33% 23
Midlands +26 15 £480 +20.00% 35
West Midlands +19 9 £400 -21.95% 18
Wales +9 9 £275 -52.17% 7
East Midlands +15 6 £575 +43.75% 17
Yorkshire +7 5 £320 -53.45% 12
Scotland +23 3 £425 -9.33% 9
South West +13 3 £525 +1.45% 21

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 18 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.27%) SAS
3 7 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.14%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (2.14%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.78%) Documentum
6 4 (1.42%) Apache
7 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.07%) CMS
7 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.36%) Drupal
8 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (13.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.56%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (3.20%) SPSS
5 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.71%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.71%) Revit
6 2 (0.71%) Simulink
7 1 (0.36%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 34 (12.10%) Power Platform
2 29 (10.32%) Azure
3 19 (6.76%) AWS
4 15 (5.34%) GCP
5 6 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.42%) GitHub
7 3 (1.07%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.07%) Dagster
7 3 (1.07%) dbt
7 3 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.71%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.71%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.71%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.36%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.56%) DNS
2 8 (2.85%) 3G
2 8 (2.85%) 4G
2 8 (2.85%) 5G
2 8 (2.85%) SAN
3 6 (2.14%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (2.14%) Firewall
3 6 (2.14%) GGSN
3 6 (2.14%) LTE
3 6 (2.14%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (2.14%) RANAP
3 6 (2.14%) SGSN
3 6 (2.14%) VoLTE
3 6 (2.14%) WAN
3 6 (2.14%) Wireshark
4 5 (1.78%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (1.42%) DWDM
5 4 (1.42%) IP Telephony
5 4 (1.42%) Network Security
5 4 (1.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.81%) Tableau
2 34 (12.10%) Power BI
3 31 (11.03%) Big Data
4 19 (6.76%) Hadoop
5 16 (5.69%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.34%) Data Mining
7 10 (3.56%) PowerPivot
8 9 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.14%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.14%) Metadata
11 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Power View
11 6 (2.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.78%) EDMS
12 5 (1.78%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.78%) Qlik Sense
13 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Git
2 5 (1.78%) JIRA
3 3 (1.07%) Poetry
3 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.71%) RStudio
4 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 120 (42.70%) Social Skills
2 118 (41.99%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.37%) Finance
4 37 (13.17%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.69%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.63%) Banking
7 13 (4.63%) Marketing
8 12 (4.27%) Retail
9 10 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.85%) Local Government
10 8 (2.85%) Publishing
11 7 (2.49%) Multimedia
12 6 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.42%) Advertising
14 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.42%) Legal
15 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.07%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 62 (22.06%) Analyst
2 41 (14.59%) Data Scientist
3 24 (8.54%) Data Analyst
3 24 (8.54%) Senior
4 14 (4.98%) Capacity Manager
5 13 (4.63%) Problem Manager
6 12 (4.27%) Availability Manager
6 12 (4.27%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 11 (3.91%) Developer
8 8 (2.85%) Performance Analyst
9 7 (2.49%) Administrator
9 7 (2.49%) Lead
9 7 (2.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (2.49%) Network Engineer
9 7 (2.49%) Software Asset Manager
9 7 (2.49%) Software Manager
10 6 (2.14%) Data Engineer
10 6 (2.14%) DBA
10 6 (2.14%) Qualitative Analyst
10 6 (2.14%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.63%) scikit-learn
2 12 (4.27%) Pandas
3 11 (3.91%) HTML
3 11 (3.91%) TensorFlow
4 10 (3.56%) PySpark
5 8 (2.85%) CSS
6 6 (2.14%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.42%) D3.js
7 4 (1.42%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (1.42%) SciPy
8 3 (1.07%) Great Expectations
8 3 (1.07%) Kafka
8 3 (1.07%) LAPP Stack
8 3 (1.07%) Plotly
8 3 (1.07%) React Native
8 3 (1.07%) Seaborn
8 3 (1.07%) Shiny
9 2 (0.71%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.71%) Flask
9 2 (0.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.73%) Management Information System
2 32 (11.39%) Algorithms
3 24 (8.54%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.27%) Credit Risk
4 12 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.56%) CMDB
6 9 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.85%) Derivative
8 6 (2.14%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.78%) HP Storage
9 5 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.78%) Life Science
10 4 (1.42%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.42%) Social Media
11 3 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.07%) NHS
12 2 (0.71%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.63%) Linux
2 10 (3.56%) Windows
3 7 (2.49%) Solaris
4 5 (1.78%) AIX
5 3 (1.07%) Debian
5 3 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.71%) HPUX
6 2 (0.71%) Unix
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (25.27%) Mathematics
3 67 (23.84%) Data Science
4 58 (20.64%) Computer Science
5 54 (19.22%) Machine Learning
6 53 (18.86%) Visualisation
7 52 (18.51%) Mentoring
8 50 (17.79%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (17.44%) Data Analysis
10 44 (15.66%) Analytics
10 44 (15.66%) Quality Management
11 41 (14.59%) Data Visualisation
11 41 (14.59%) Service Management
12 40 (14.23%) ITIL
13 37 (13.17%) Data Modelling
14 32 (11.39%) Problem Management
15 31 (11.03%) Project Management
16 29 (10.32%) Agile
17 25 (8.90%) Artificial Intelligence
18 24 (8.54%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (39.50%) Python
2 82 (29.18%) SQL
3 44 (15.66%) R
4 13 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.27%) C++
6 8 (2.85%) Java
6 8 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.42%) Scala
7 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.07%) Bash
8 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.71%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) Perl
10 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (37.37%) Degree
2 71 (25.27%) Security Cleared
3 62 (22.06%) SC Cleared
4 34 (12.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (8.19%) Master's Degree
6 20 (7.12%) PhD
7 13 (4.63%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (3.20%) Postgraduate
9 8 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.14%) CCNA
11 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.71%) CCNP
11 2 (0.71%) CCSP
11 2 (0.71%) CISSP
11 2 (0.71%) MBA
12 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.17%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.56%) QA
3 9 (3.20%) SLA
4 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.07%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.71%) Basel III
6 2 (0.71%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (3.56%) Docker
2 9 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.71%) XenApp
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.78%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (1.78%) HP Data Protector
2 5 (1.78%) NetBackup
3 4 (1.42%) Terraform
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.71%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 26 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.91%) Cisco
2 11 (3.91%) VMware
3 7 (2.49%) Oracle
4 6 (2.14%) Databricks
4 6 (2.14%) Empirix
4 6 (2.14%) NetScout
5 5 (1.78%) Brocade
5 5 (1.78%) EMC
5 5 (1.78%) HP
5 5 (1.78%) Symantec
6 4 (1.42%) Avaya
6 4 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.07%) Citrix
7 3 (1.07%) Google
7 3 (1.07%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.07%) Splunk
7 3 (1.07%) Teradata
8 2 (0.71%) SonicWALL