Experimental Design Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Design of Experiments (Experimental Design)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Experimental Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Experimental Design 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.089% - 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £401 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -35.84% +31.58% -24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Experimental Design 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 1,425 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.23% 85.69% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 903 1,066
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £674 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 46 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.12 £16.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.19 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Experimental Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Experimental Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Experimental Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Experimental Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Experimental Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Experimental Design within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Coventry - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Experimental Design
England

Experimental Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Co-Creation
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft