Hybrid/Remote Experimental Design Contract Job Trends

Design of Experiments (Experimental Design)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Experimental Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 312 390
Rank change year-on-year -3 +78 +176
Contract jobs citing Experimental Design 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% 0.033% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.037% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £693 - -
UK median daily rate £420 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -32.80% +31.58% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £25.93 £71.50
% change year-on-year +208.52% -63.73% +104.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Experimental Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Experimental Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Experimental Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Experimental Design
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Experimental Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Experimental Design over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Experimental Design daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Experimental Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) A/B Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Pricing Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft