Experimental Design Contracts

Design of Experiments (Experimental Design)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 681 811
Rank change year-on-year +107 +130 -84
Contract jobs citing Experimental Design 5 3 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.005% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.006% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 18
10th Percentile £363 - £474
25th Percentile £525 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.95%
75th Percentile £579 - £638
90th Percentile £592 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - £32.69 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.36% -
75th Percentile - - £51.75
90th Percentile - - £58.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Experimental Design 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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Experimental Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Experimental Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Experimental Design.

Daily rate trend for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Experimental Design over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Experimental Design.

Hourly rate trend for Experimental Design in the UK

Experimental Design
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +98 4 £550 - 30
East of England - 2 £550 - 5
UK excluding London - 2 £550 - 19
London +98 1 £270 - 10
Work from Home - 1 £573 - 9

Experimental Design
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) Looker
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) A/B Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Market Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Game Development
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks