Statistics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Statistics
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 286 333
Rank change year-on-year +26 +47 -52
Contract jobs citing Statistics 132 158 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.76% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 93 116
10th Percentile £271 £146 £140
25th Percentile £380 £313 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £432
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.17% +5.37%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £551
90th Percentile £588 £725 £624
UK median daily rate £490 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.34% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 32 15
10th Percentile - £16.85 £19.21
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.98 £19.52
Median hourly rate £23.25 £19.49 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% -2.11% +15.42%
75th Percentile £30.00 £20.47 £24.38
90th Percentile £45.85 £22.10 £26.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £19.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% -29.13% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,089 20,700 27,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.28% 89.44% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,222 14,252 18,988
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,065 1,263 1,349
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.69 £61.53
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Statistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +57 57 £493 -24.15% 56
North West +56 52 £493 -19.51% 36
South East +3 31 £323 -4.44% 76
East of England +25 17 £388 +3.33% 29
Midlands +18 15 £480 +20.00% 27
West Midlands +23 9 £400 -21.95% 14
Wales +10 7 £380 -33.91% 8
East Midlands +14 6 £575 +43.75% 13
Yorkshire +5 5 £320 -53.45% 13
South West +3 3 £525 +1.45% 27
Scotland +22 2 £425 -9.33% 9
Statistics
UK

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.30%) Documentum
2 7 (5.30%) SAS
3 6 (4.55%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.06%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (3.79%) SPSS
6 1 (0.76%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.76%) Stata
6 1 (0.76%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.36%) Power Platform
2 8 (6.06%) Azure
3 6 (4.55%) AWS
4 2 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.76%) GCP
5 1 (0.76%) Google App Engine
5 1 (0.76%) npm
5 1 (0.76%) Serverless
5 1 (0.76%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.06%) 3G
1 8 (6.06%) 4G
1 8 (6.06%) 5G
2 6 (4.55%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (4.55%) DNS
2 6 (4.55%) GGSN
2 6 (4.55%) LTE
2 6 (4.55%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (4.55%) RANAP
2 6 (4.55%) SAN
2 6 (4.55%) SGSN
2 6 (4.55%) VoLTE
2 6 (4.55%) Wireshark
3 5 (3.79%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (1.52%) 2G
5 1 (0.76%) FTP
5 1 (0.76%) HTTP
5 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.36%) Power BI
1 15 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.33%) Tableau
3 9 (6.82%) PowerPivot
3 9 (6.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.30%) EDMS
6 6 (4.55%) Big Data
6 6 (4.55%) Metadata
6 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.03%) Data Mining
8 4 (3.03%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.52%) Informix
10 2 (1.52%) Presto
Development Applications
1 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (2.27%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.52%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 68 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 50 (37.88%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (19.70%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.33%) Finance
4 11 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.58%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.06%) Local Government
6 8 (6.06%) Publishing
7 7 (5.30%) Multimedia
8 4 (3.03%) Banking
8 4 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Marketing
10 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Aviation
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 30 (22.73%) Analyst
2 15 (11.36%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.61%) Capacity Manager
3 14 (10.61%) Problem Manager
4 13 (9.85%) Senior
5 12 (9.09%) Availability Manager
5 12 (9.09%) Capacity and Availability Manager
6 7 (5.30%) Document Controller
6 7 (5.30%) Performance Analyst
6 7 (5.30%) Software Asset Manager
6 7 (5.30%) Software Manager
7 6 (4.55%) Administrator
7 6 (4.55%) DBA
7 6 (4.55%) SharePoint Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.27%) Developer
10 3 (2.27%) Incident Manager
10 3 (2.27%) Senior Data Analyst
10 3 (2.27%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.33%) HTML
2 8 (6.06%) CSS
3 4 (3.03%) PySpark
4 3 (2.27%) D3.js
4 3 (2.27%) React Native
5 2 (1.52%) Node.js
5 2 (1.52%) RESTful
6 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.76%) CSS3
6 1 (0.76%) Express.js
6 1 (0.76%) HTML5
6 1 (0.76%) JSON
6 1 (0.76%) Kafka
6 1 (0.76%) NumPy
6 1 (0.76%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.76%) React
6 1 (0.76%) REST
6 1 (0.76%) RxJS
6 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 23 (17.42%) Virtual Team
3 8 (6.06%) CMDB
3 8 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.79%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.79%) HP Storage
6 3 (2.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.52%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.52%) Social Media
8 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Life Science
8 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Linux
1 7 (5.30%) Solaris
2 6 (4.55%) Windows
3 5 (3.79%) AIX
4 2 (1.52%) HPUX
4 2 (1.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) Debian
5 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.15%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (32.58%) Quality Management
3 39 (29.55%) Mentoring
4 37 (28.03%) Service Management
5 29 (21.97%) Problem Management
6 28 (21.21%) ITIL
7 27 (20.45%) Computer Science
8 23 (17.42%) Virtual Team Management
9 19 (14.39%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (14.39%) Mathematics
9 19 (14.39%) Visualisation
10 18 (13.64%) Data Analysis
11 17 (12.88%) Project Management
12 16 (12.12%) Availability Management
12 16 (12.12%) Capacity Management
12 16 (12.12%) Data Science
13 15 (11.36%) Data Modelling
13 15 (11.36%) Proactive Monitoring
13 15 (11.36%) Time Management
14 14 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.79%) SQL
2 27 (20.45%) Python
3 12 (9.09%) R
4 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.79%) Java
7 3 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.52%) Bash
8 2 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (43.94%) Security Cleared
2 51 (38.64%) SC Cleared
3 31 (23.48%) Degree
4 17 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.27%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.52%) PhD
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PgMP
8 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PMP
8 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.76%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (1.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.52%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.79%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (3.79%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (3.79%) NetBackup
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.30%) VMware
3 6 (4.55%) Empirix
3 6 (4.55%) NetScout
4 5 (3.79%) Brocade
4 5 (3.79%) Cisco
4 5 (3.79%) EMC
4 5 (3.79%) HP
4 5 (3.79%) Oracle
4 5 (3.79%) Symantec
5 3 (2.27%) Databricks
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) IBM
6 2 (1.52%) Splunk
6 2 (1.52%) Sun
6 2 (1.52%) Teradata
7 1 (0.76%) Google
7 1 (0.76%) Intel
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) Twitter