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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 383 412
Rank change year-on-year +67 +29 -76
Contract jobs citing Statistics 277 332 539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.66% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 192 332
10th Percentile £243 £215 £213
25th Percentile £350 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £600 £788 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £405 £432
% change year-on-year +20.37% -6.25% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 36 38
10th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £18.85
25th Percentile £19.05 £16.98 £19.62
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.49 £26.14
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% -25.43% +11.45%
75th Percentile £30.00 £21.73 £40.81
90th Percentile £46.18 £51.10 £56.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.25 £19.49 £19.52
% change year-on-year +19.29% -0.15% +13.16%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
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% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
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% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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 +80 253 £475 -5.47% 392
UK excluding London +32 136 £488 +20.37% 193
London +52 105 £463 -11.90% 210
Work from Home +60 83 £490 +6.29% 133
North of England +49 56 £493 -24.15% 48
North West +60 50 £493 -19.51% 28
South East +4 34 £318 -2.31% 57
East of England +16 16 £375 - 25
Midlands +18 15 £480 +20.00% 26
West Midlands +13 9 £400 -21.95% 16
Wales +11 9 £380 -33.91% 7
East Midlands +8 6 £575 +43.75% 10
Yorkshire +6 6 £260 -62.12% 12
South West +3 4 £525 +1.45% 24
Scotland +19 2 £425 -9.33% 9

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 23 (8.30%) SharePoint
2 18 (6.50%) SAS
3 8 (2.89%) Documentum
4 7 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 6 (2.17%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (2.17%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (1.44%) CMS
7 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.36%) Apache
8 1 (0.36%) Drupal
8 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (13.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.97%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.61%) SPSS
5 5 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.72%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.72%) Revit
6 2 (0.72%) Simulink
6 2 (0.72%) Stata
7 1 (0.36%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Workfront
2 1 (0.36%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.16%) Power Platform
2 39 (14.08%) Azure
3 15 (5.42%) GCP
4 14 (5.05%) AWS
5 5 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.81%) PaaS
5 5 (1.81%) SaaS
5 5 (1.81%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.08%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.72%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.72%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.36%) npm
9 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.36%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.61%) DNS
2 7 (2.53%) 3G
2 7 (2.53%) 4G
2 7 (2.53%) 5G
3 6 (2.17%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (2.17%) Firewall
3 6 (2.17%) GGSN
3 6 (2.17%) LTE
3 6 (2.17%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (2.17%) RANAP
3 6 (2.17%) SAN
3 6 (2.17%) SGSN
3 6 (2.17%) VoLTE
3 6 (2.17%) WAN
3 6 (2.17%) Wireshark
4 5 (1.81%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (1.44%) DWDM
5 4 (1.44%) IP Telephony
5 4 (1.44%) Network Security
5 4 (1.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.88%) Tableau
2 42 (15.16%) Power BI
3 30 (10.83%) Big Data
4 17 (6.14%) Hadoop
5 16 (5.78%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.69%) Data Mining
7 11 (3.97%) PowerPivot
8 9 (3.25%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.89%) EDMS
9 8 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.17%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.17%) Metadata
10 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Power View
10 6 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.81%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.81%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (1.81%) Tableau Server
12 3 (1.08%) Presto
Development Applications
1 13 (4.69%) Git
2 4 (1.44%) JIRA
3 3 (1.08%) RStudio
3 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 118 (42.60%) Analytical Skills
1 118 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.80%) Finance
3 33 (11.91%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (5.42%) Marketing
5 15 (5.42%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.69%) Banking
6 13 (4.69%) Retail
7 8 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.89%) Local Government
7 8 (2.89%) Publishing
8 7 (2.53%) Multimedia
8 7 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Advertising
9 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.08%) Retail Finance
11 3 (1.08%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (22.02%) Analyst
2 43 (15.52%) Data Scientist
3 28 (10.11%) Data Analyst
4 26 (9.39%) Senior
5 14 (5.05%) Capacity Manager
5 14 (5.05%) Problem Manager
6 12 (4.33%) Availability Manager
6 12 (4.33%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 11 (3.97%) Developer
8 8 (2.89%) Data Engineer
8 8 (2.89%) Document Controller
8 8 (2.89%) Performance Analyst
9 7 (2.53%) Administrator
9 7 (2.53%) Network Engineer
9 7 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (2.53%) Software Asset Manager
9 7 (2.53%) Software Manager
10 6 (2.17%) Credit Analyst
10 6 (2.17%) DBA
10 6 (2.17%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.33%) HTML
2 9 (3.25%) CSS
2 9 (3.25%) Pandas
2 9 (3.25%) PySpark
2 9 (3.25%) TensorFlow
3 8 (2.89%) scikit-learn
4 4 (1.44%) ADO
4 4 (1.44%) D3.js
4 4 (1.44%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.08%) Kafka
5 3 (1.08%) React Native
6 2 (0.72%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.72%) JSON
6 2 (0.72%) Node.js
6 2 (0.72%) NumPy
6 2 (0.72%) RESTful
6 2 (0.72%) Shiny
6 2 (0.72%) Tkinter
6 2 (0.72%) Vue
6 2 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.61%) Management Information System
2 31 (11.19%) Algorithms
3 25 (9.03%) Virtual Team
4 13 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.33%) Credit Risk
6 10 (3.61%) CMDB
7 9 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.53%) Derivative
8 7 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.17%) Credit Derivative
9 6 (2.17%) Social Media
10 5 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.81%) FMCG
10 5 (1.81%) HP Storage
11 4 (1.44%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.44%) NHS
12 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.08%) Life Science
12 3 (1.08%) Wiki
13 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.53%) Solaris
1 7 (2.53%) Windows
2 6 (2.17%) Linux
3 5 (1.81%) AIX
4 2 (0.72%) HPUX
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Debian
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.32%) Mathematics
1 84 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (26.71%) Computer Science
2 74 (26.71%) Data Science
3 56 (20.22%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (19.13%) Analytics
4 53 (19.13%) Data Analysis
4 53 (19.13%) Visualisation
5 51 (18.41%) Mentoring
6 49 (17.69%) Machine Learning
7 45 (16.25%) Quality Management
8 44 (15.88%) Service Management
9 39 (14.08%) Data Visualisation
10 38 (13.72%) Data Modelling
11 36 (13.00%) Agile
11 36 (13.00%) ITIL
12 33 (11.91%) Project Management
13 32 (11.55%) Problem Management
14 30 (10.83%) Decision-Making
15 28 (10.11%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 114 (41.16%) Python
2 90 (32.49%) SQL
3 50 (18.05%) R
4 14 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.97%) C++
6 8 (2.89%) Java
6 8 (2.89%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.81%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.08%) Bash
9 3 (1.08%) Scala
10 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.72%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.36%) C
11 1 (0.36%) Perl
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 122 (44.04%) Degree
2 68 (24.55%) Security Cleared
3 60 (21.66%) SC Cleared
4 33 (11.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (10.47%) Master's Degree
6 26 (9.39%) PhD
7 20 (7.22%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.89%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.53%) Postgraduate
10 6 (2.17%) CCNA
11 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.72%) CCNP
12 2 (0.72%) CCSP
12 2 (0.72%) CISSP
12 2 (0.72%) MBA
13 1 (0.36%) CFA
13 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.25%) QA
3 7 (2.53%) SLA
4 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.08%) PMO
6 2 (0.72%) Basel III
6 2 (0.72%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.81%) Docker
3 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) HDFS
4 2 (0.72%) XenApp
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (1.81%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (1.81%) NetBackup
2 4 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.72%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.97%) Cisco
3 9 (3.25%) VMware
4 8 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.53%) Databricks
5 7 (2.53%) Oracle
6 6 (2.17%) Empirix
6 6 (2.17%) NetScout
6 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.81%) Brocade
7 5 (1.81%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.81%) EMC
7 5 (1.81%) HP
7 5 (1.81%) Symantec
8 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.44%) Avaya
9 3 (1.08%) Adobe
9 3 (1.08%) Google
9 3 (1.08%) Splunk
9 3 (1.08%) Teradata