Statistics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Statistics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 258 332
Rank change year-on-year +19 +74 +49
Contract jobs citing Statistics 62 90 145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.59% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.68% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 57 83
10th Percentile £377 £189 £155
25th Percentile £409 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +9.56% -15.89%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £645 £950 £714
UK median daily rate £480 £493 £503
% change year-on-year -2.64% -1.89% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 25
10th Percentile £21.33 £22.63 -
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.00 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.22 £25.50 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +30.84% -13.38%
75th Percentile £27.66 £38.78 £19.98
90th Percentile £29.81 £46.46 £21.93
UK median hourly rate £25.37 £24.00 £19.49
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.14% -27.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,943 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,147 8,917 16,193
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 575 527
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.04 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Statistics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Statistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Statistics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Statistics.

Statistics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Statistics over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Statistics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Statistics.

Statistics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Statistics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Statistics over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Statistics hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.23%) SAS
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) AWS
1 10 (16.13%) Power Platform
2 6 (9.68%) Azure
3 5 (8.06%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 3 (4.84%) GCP
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.61%) DHCP
1 1 (1.61%) DNS
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) Internet
1 1 (1.61%) Intranet
1 1 (1.61%) Network Security
1 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) Power BI
2 7 (11.29%) Data Mining
3 6 (9.68%) Tableau
4 4 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.45%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.84%) Metadata
6 2 (3.23%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.61%) EDRMS
7 1 (1.61%) MySQL
7 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.61%) Power Query
7 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.61%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.97%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.52%) Marketing
5 5 (8.06%) Finance
5 5 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.23%) Back Office
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.61%) French Language
8 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Data Scientist
2 7 (11.29%) Analyst
3 6 (9.68%) Lead
4 5 (8.06%) Coordinator
5 4 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Trainer
6 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 2 (3.23%) Automation Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) DBA
7 2 (3.23%) Developer
7 2 (3.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 1 (1.61%) Consultant
8 1 (1.61%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Security Analyst
8 1 (1.61%) Senior Manager
8 1 (1.61%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) Pandas
2 2 (3.23%) Matplotlib
2 2 (3.23%) NumPy
2 2 (3.23%) Plotly
2 2 (3.23%) PySpark
2 2 (3.23%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.61%) Django
3 1 (1.61%) Shiny
3 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.45%) Multi-touch
2 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) IoT
4 1 (1.61%) Linked Data
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
1 2 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Android
2 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) Data Science
2 25 (40.32%) Mathematics
3 23 (37.10%) Data Analysis
4 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (29.03%) Machine Learning
6 15 (24.19%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (24.19%) Computer Science
6 15 (24.19%) Visualisation
7 13 (20.97%) Decision-Making
8 12 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (19.35%) Statistical Modelling
9 11 (17.74%) Analytics
10 10 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (16.13%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (14.52%) Data Engineering
11 9 (14.52%) Service Delivery
12 8 (12.90%) Customer Service
13 7 (11.29%) Agile
13 7 (11.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (48.39%) Python
2 20 (32.26%) SQL
3 5 (8.06%) R
4 2 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (45.16%) Degree
2 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.06%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.84%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (4.84%) PhD
5 1 (1.61%) CISA
5 1 (1.61%) CISM
5 1 (1.61%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) GCIH
5 1 (1.61%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.84%) GDPR
4 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.23%) QA
5 1 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.61%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.61%) NIST
5 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
1 1 (1.61%) Firmware
1 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.61%) SCCM
2 1 (1.61%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) Google
2 3 (4.84%) Databricks
3 2 (3.23%) Genesys
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.61%) Apple
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco
4 1 (1.61%) Citrix
4 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.61%) Nexthink
4 1 (1.61%) Remedy
4 1 (1.61%) SAP