Statistics Contracts

Statistics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 373 410
Rank change year-on-year +48 +37 -64
Contract jobs citing Statistics 273 364 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.63% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.70% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 212 324
10th Percentile £243 £206 £204
25th Percentile £375 £350 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £501 £516
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -2.92% +3.26%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £619
90th Percentile £613 £775 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £430 £418
% change year-on-year +13.37% +2.99% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 41 34
10th Percentile - £16.85 £19.16
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.98 £19.62
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.49 £26.89
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% -27.51% +19.94%
75th Percentile £43.09 £22.16 £44.88
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £59.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £19.49 £19.72
% change year-on-year +15.44% -1.14% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Statistics over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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
England +58 251 £493 -3.10% 379
UK excluding London +36 133 £488 +13.37% 182
London +44 106 £500 -5.21% 204
Work from Home +69 86 £493 +9.56% 194
North of England +49 58 £493 -24.15% 53
North West +64 53 £493 -14.26% 33
South East -4 29 £355 +1.43% 40
East of England +16 18 £388 +3.33% 23
Midlands +28 15 £480 +20.00% 33
West Midlands +24 9 £400 -21.95% 18
Wales +11 8 £275 -52.17% 7
East Midlands +16 6 £575 +43.75% 15
Yorkshire +12 5 £320 -53.45% 11
South West +6 3 £525 +1.45% 20
Scotland +27 2 £425 -8.11% 8

Statistics
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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.40%) SAS
3 7 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.20%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (2.20%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.83%) Documentum
6 3 (1.10%) Apache
6 3 (1.10%) CMS
6 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.37%) Drupal
8 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (13.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.66%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (3.30%) SPSS
5 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.73%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.73%) Revit
6 2 (0.73%) Simulink
7 1 (0.37%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.82%) Power Platform
2 29 (10.62%) Azure
3 18 (6.59%) AWS
4 15 (5.49%) GCP
5 6 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.10%) GitHub
7 2 (0.73%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.73%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.73%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.73%) Dagster
7 2 (0.73%) dbt
7 2 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.73%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.73%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.73%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.37%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.66%) DNS
2 8 (2.93%) 3G
2 8 (2.93%) 4G
2 8 (2.93%) 5G
2 8 (2.93%) SAN
3 6 (2.20%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (2.20%) Firewall
3 6 (2.20%) GGSN
3 6 (2.20%) LTE
3 6 (2.20%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (2.20%) RANAP
3 6 (2.20%) SGSN
3 6 (2.20%) VoLTE
3 6 (2.20%) WAN
3 6 (2.20%) Wireshark
4 5 (1.83%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (1.47%) DWDM
5 4 (1.47%) IP Telephony
5 4 (1.47%) Network Security
5 4 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.19%) Tableau
2 35 (12.82%) Power BI
3 31 (11.36%) Big Data
4 19 (6.96%) Hadoop
5 16 (5.86%) Data Mining
5 16 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.03%) PowerPivot
7 9 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.30%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.20%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.20%) Metadata
9 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Power View
9 6 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.83%) EDMS
10 5 (1.83%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.83%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (2.20%) Git
2 5 (1.83%) JIRA
3 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.73%) Poetry
4 2 (0.73%) RStudio
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 117 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 115 (42.12%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.12%) Finance
4 34 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.86%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.76%) Banking
7 13 (4.76%) Marketing
8 12 (4.40%) Retail
9 9 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.93%) Local Government
10 8 (2.93%) Publishing
11 7 (2.56%) Multimedia
12 6 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.47%) Advertising
14 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.47%) Legal
15 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.10%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 60 (21.98%) Analyst
2 41 (15.02%) Data Scientist
3 25 (9.16%) Data Analyst
4 22 (8.06%) Senior
5 14 (5.13%) Capacity Manager
6 13 (4.76%) Problem Manager
7 12 (4.40%) Availability Manager
7 12 (4.40%) Capacity and Availability Manager
8 10 (3.66%) Developer
9 8 (2.93%) Performance Analyst
10 7 (2.56%) Administrator
10 7 (2.56%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.56%) Software Asset Manager
10 7 (2.56%) Software Manager
11 6 (2.20%) Credit Analyst
11 6 (2.20%) DBA
11 6 (2.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (2.20%) Qualitative Analyst
11 6 (2.20%) Quantitative Analyst
11 6 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.40%) scikit-learn
2 11 (4.03%) HTML
2 11 (4.03%) Pandas
2 11 (4.03%) TensorFlow
3 10 (3.66%) PySpark
4 8 (2.93%) CSS
5 6 (2.20%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.47%) D3.js
7 3 (1.10%) Kafka
7 3 (1.10%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.10%) React Native
7 3 (1.10%) SciPy
7 3 (1.10%) Shiny
8 2 (0.73%) Great Expectations
8 2 (0.73%) JSON
8 2 (0.73%) LAPP Stack
8 2 (0.73%) NumPy
8 2 (0.73%) Plotly
8 2 (0.73%) RESTful
8 2 (0.73%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.48%) Management Information System
2 31 (11.36%) Algorithms
3 24 (8.79%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.40%) Credit Risk
4 12 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.66%) CMDB
6 9 (3.30%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.56%) Derivative
8 6 (2.20%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.83%) HP Storage
9 5 (1.83%) Life Science
10 4 (1.47%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) Social Media
11 3 (1.10%) NHS
12 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.40%) Linux
2 10 (3.66%) Windows
3 7 (2.56%) Solaris
4 5 (1.83%) AIX
5 3 (1.10%) Debian
5 3 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.73%) HPUX
6 2 (0.73%) Unix
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (25.27%) Mathematics
3 66 (24.18%) Data Science
4 57 (20.88%) Computer Science
5 53 (19.41%) Machine Learning
6 52 (19.05%) Visualisation
7 51 (18.68%) Business Intelligence
8 50 (18.32%) Mentoring
9 47 (17.22%) Data Analysis
10 44 (16.12%) Quality Management
11 43 (15.75%) Analytics
12 41 (15.02%) Data Visualisation
13 40 (14.65%) Service Management
14 39 (14.29%) ITIL
15 37 (13.55%) Data Modelling
16 32 (11.72%) Problem Management
17 30 (10.99%) Project Management
18 29 (10.62%) Agile
19 25 (9.16%) Artificial Intelligence
20 24 (8.79%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (40.29%) Python
2 82 (30.04%) SQL
3 43 (15.75%) R
4 13 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.03%) C++
6 8 (2.93%) Java
6 8 (2.93%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.47%) Scala
7 4 (1.47%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.10%) Bash
9 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.73%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (36.63%) Degree
2 71 (26.01%) Security Cleared
3 62 (22.71%) SC Cleared
4 33 (12.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (8.06%) Master's Degree
6 20 (7.33%) PhD
7 13 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.93%) Postgraduate
9 6 (2.20%) CCNA
10 2 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.73%) CCNP
10 2 (0.73%) CCSP
10 2 (0.73%) CISSP
10 2 (0.73%) MBA
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.66%) QA
3 9 (3.30%) SLA
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.10%) PMO
6 2 (0.73%) Basel III
6 2 (0.73%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (3.30%) Docker
1 9 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.73%) XenApp
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.83%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (1.83%) HP Data Protector
2 5 (1.83%) NetBackup
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (1.10%) Terraform
4 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.73%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 25 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.03%) Cisco
2 11 (4.03%) VMware
3 7 (2.56%) Databricks
3 7 (2.56%) Oracle
4 6 (2.20%) Empirix
4 6 (2.20%) NetScout
5 5 (1.83%) Brocade
5 5 (1.83%) EMC
5 5 (1.83%) HP
5 5 (1.83%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.83%) Symantec
6 4 (1.47%) Avaya
7 3 (1.10%) Citrix
7 3 (1.10%) Google
7 3 (1.10%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.10%) Splunk
7 3 (1.10%) Teradata
8 2 (0.73%) SonicWALL