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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 385 402
Rank change year-on-year +53 +17 -65
Contract jobs citing Statistics 270 358 542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.69% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 207 331
10th Percentile £262 £206 £205
25th Percentile £380 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £505 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £619
90th Percentile £605 £780 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £430 £418
% change year-on-year +13.37% +2.99% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 41 35
10th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £19.52
25th Percentile £15.69 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% -29.13% +23.15%
75th Percentile £42.88 £22.16 £43.88
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £59.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £19.49 £19.91
% change year-on-year +15.44% -2.11% +17.12%

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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +78 250 £493 -3.80% 365
UK excluding London +34 131 £488 +13.37% 188
London +37 106 £500 -5.88% 182
Work from Home +59 83 £493 +9.56% 155
North of England +49 56 £493 -24.15% 48
North West +68 51 £493 -14.26% 30
South East -1 30 £330 -5.71% 41
East of England +27 18 £388 +3.33% 30
Midlands +20 15 £480 +20.00% 30
West Midlands +21 9 £400 -21.95% 14
Wales +11 7 £380 -33.91% 5
East Midlands +14 6 £575 +43.75% 16
Yorkshire +8 5 £320 -53.45% 11
South West 0 3 £525 +1.45% 27
Scotland +21 2 £425 -9.33% 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 19 (7.04%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.19%) SAS
3 7 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.22%) Documentum
4 6 (2.22%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (2.22%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.11%) Apache
5 3 (1.11%) CMS
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (3.33%) SPSS
5 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.74%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.74%) Revit
6 2 (0.74%) Simulink
6 2 (0.74%) Stata
7 1 (0.37%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.96%) Power Platform
2 29 (10.74%) Azure
3 17 (6.30%) AWS
4 15 (5.56%) GCP
5 6 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.11%) GitHub
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.74%) Dagster
7 2 (0.74%) dbt
7 2 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.74%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.37%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.70%) DNS
2 8 (2.96%) 3G
2 8 (2.96%) 4G
2 8 (2.96%) 5G
3 7 (2.59%) SAN
4 6 (2.22%) Diameter Protocol
4 6 (2.22%) Firewall
4 6 (2.22%) GGSN
4 6 (2.22%) LTE
4 6 (2.22%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (2.22%) RANAP
4 6 (2.22%) SGSN
4 6 (2.22%) VoLTE
4 6 (2.22%) WAN
4 6 (2.22%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.85%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.48%) DWDM
6 4 (1.48%) IP Telephony
6 4 (1.48%) Network Security
6 4 (1.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.33%) Tableau
2 35 (12.96%) Power BI
3 31 (11.48%) Big Data
4 19 (7.04%) Hadoop
5 16 (5.93%) Data Mining
5 16 (5.93%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.07%) PowerPivot
7 9 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.22%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.22%) EDMS
9 6 (2.22%) Metadata
9 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Power View
9 6 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Git
2 4 (1.48%) JIRA
3 3 (1.11%) RStudio
3 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.74%) Poetry
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (42.96%) Social Skills
2 112 (41.48%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.30%) Finance
4 30 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.93%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.81%) Banking
7 13 (4.81%) Marketing
8 12 (4.44%) Retail
9 8 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.96%) Local Government
9 8 (2.96%) Publishing
10 7 (2.59%) Multimedia
10 7 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.48%) Advertising
12 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.48%) Legal
13 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.11%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 58 (21.48%) Analyst
2 41 (15.19%) Data Scientist
3 25 (9.26%) Data Analyst
4 22 (8.15%) Senior
5 14 (5.19%) Capacity Manager
6 13 (4.81%) Problem Manager
7 12 (4.44%) Availability Manager
7 12 (4.44%) Capacity and Availability Manager
8 9 (3.33%) Developer
9 8 (2.96%) Performance Analyst
10 7 (2.59%) Administrator
10 7 (2.59%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.59%) Software Asset Manager
10 7 (2.59%) Software Manager
11 6 (2.22%) Credit Analyst
11 6 (2.22%) DBA
11 6 (2.22%) Document Controller
11 6 (2.22%) Qualitative Analyst
11 6 (2.22%) Quantitative Analyst
11 6 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.44%) scikit-learn
2 11 (4.07%) HTML
2 11 (4.07%) Pandas
2 11 (4.07%) TensorFlow
3 10 (3.70%) PySpark
4 8 (2.96%) CSS
5 6 (2.22%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.48%) D3.js
7 3 (1.11%) Kafka
7 3 (1.11%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.11%) React Native
7 3 (1.11%) SciPy
8 2 (0.74%) Great Expectations
8 2 (0.74%) JSON
8 2 (0.74%) LAPP Stack
8 2 (0.74%) NumPy
8 2 (0.74%) Plotly
8 2 (0.74%) RESTful
8 2 (0.74%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.74%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 31 (11.48%) Algorithms
3 24 (8.89%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.44%) Credit Risk
4 12 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.70%) CMDB
6 9 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.59%) Derivative
8 6 (2.22%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.85%) HP Storage
9 5 (1.85%) Life Science
10 4 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.11%) NHS
11 3 (1.11%) Social Media
12 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.70%) Linux
2 9 (3.33%) Windows
3 7 (2.59%) Solaris
4 5 (1.85%) AIX
5 2 (0.74%) Debian
5 2 (0.74%) HPUX
5 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.74%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.26%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (25.93%) Mathematics
3 68 (25.19%) Data Science
4 61 (22.59%) Computer Science
5 54 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 53 (19.63%) Visualisation
7 51 (18.89%) Mentoring
8 50 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (17.78%) Data Analysis
10 45 (16.67%) Analytics
11 44 (16.30%) Quality Management
12 42 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
13 39 (14.44%) Service Management
14 37 (13.70%) ITIL
15 35 (12.96%) Data Modelling
16 32 (11.85%) Problem Management
17 30 (11.11%) Project Management
18 26 (9.63%) Agile
19 25 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
20 24 (8.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 109 (40.37%) Python
2 81 (30.00%) SQL
3 42 (15.56%) R
4 13 (4.81%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.07%) C++
6 8 (2.96%) Java
6 8 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.48%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.11%) Bash
8 3 (1.11%) Scala
9 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.74%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (37.78%) Degree
2 69 (25.56%) Security Cleared
3 61 (22.59%) SC Cleared
4 33 (12.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (8.52%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.78%) PhD
7 14 (5.19%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.96%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.59%) Postgraduate
10 6 (2.22%) CCNA
11 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.74%) CCNP
12 2 (0.74%) CCSP
12 2 (0.74%) CISSP
12 2 (0.74%) MBA
13 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.37%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.33%) QA
2 9 (3.33%) SLA
3 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.11%) PMO
5 2 (0.74%) Basel III
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (3.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.74%) XenApp
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (1.85%) HP Data Protector
2 5 (1.85%) NetBackup
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (1.11%) Terraform
4 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.74%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 24 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.07%) Cisco
3 10 (3.70%) VMware
4 7 (2.59%) Databricks
4 7 (2.59%) Oracle
5 6 (2.22%) Empirix
5 6 (2.22%) NetScout
6 5 (1.85%) Brocade
6 5 (1.85%) EMC
6 5 (1.85%) HP
6 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.85%) Symantec
7 4 (1.48%) Avaya
8 3 (1.11%) Citrix
8 3 (1.11%) Google
8 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.11%) Splunk
8 3 (1.11%) Teradata
9 2 (0.74%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.74%) SonicWALL