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 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 262 304 321
Rank change year-on-year +42 +17 -37
Contract jobs citing Statistics 136 145 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.71% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 81 125
10th Percentile £243 £146 £140
25th Percentile £363 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £405 £432
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -6.25% +1.27%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £550
90th Percentile £581 £725 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 15
10th Percentile - £16.85 £15.51
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.98 £19.26
Median hourly rate £23.25 £19.49 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% -0.15% +11.54%
75th Percentile £30.00 £20.23 £21.88
90th Percentile £44.53 £22.16 £25.90
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £19.49 £26.00
% change year-on-year +15.44% -25.04% +10.76%

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 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 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
North of England +55 56 £493 -24.15% 50
North West +55 50 £493 -19.51% 29
South East +3 34 £318 -2.31% 60
East of England +19 16 £375 - 26
Midlands +20 15 £480 +20.00% 23
West Midlands +14 9 £400 -21.95% 14
Wales +11 9 £380 -33.91% 7
Yorkshire +9 6 £260 -62.12% 12
East Midlands +6 6 £575 +43.75% 9
South West +7 4 £525 +1.45% 24
Scotland +23 2 £425 -9.33% 11
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 16 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.88%) Documentum
3 7 (5.15%) SAS
4 6 (4.41%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (4.41%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.74%) CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Drupal
6 1 (0.74%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (16.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (6.62%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (3.68%) SPSS
6 1 (0.74%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.74%) Stata
6 1 (0.74%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 9 (6.62%) Azure
3 5 (3.68%) AWS
4 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.74%) GCP
5 1 (0.74%) Google App Engine
5 1 (0.74%) npm
5 1 (0.74%) PaaS
5 1 (0.74%) SaaS
5 1 (0.74%) Serverless
5 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.74%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) 3G
1 7 (5.15%) 4G
1 7 (5.15%) 5G
2 6 (4.41%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (4.41%) DNS
2 6 (4.41%) GGSN
2 6 (4.41%) LTE
2 6 (4.41%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (4.41%) RANAP
2 6 (4.41%) SAN
2 6 (4.41%) SGSN
2 6 (4.41%) VoLTE
2 6 (4.41%) Wireshark
3 5 (3.68%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.74%) 2G
4 1 (0.74%) FTP
4 1 (0.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.76%) Power BI
2 15 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.82%) Tableau
4 9 (6.62%) PowerPivot
4 9 (6.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (5.88%) EDMS
5 8 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (5.15%) Big Data
7 6 (4.41%) Metadata
7 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Power View
7 6 (4.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.94%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.47%) Informix
11 2 (1.47%) Presto
12 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Git
1 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.74%) GitLab
2 1 (0.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (50.74%) Social Skills
2 50 (36.76%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (19.12%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.09%) Finance
4 11 (8.09%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (7.35%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.88%) Local Government
6 8 (5.88%) Publishing
7 7 (5.15%) Multimedia
8 4 (2.94%) Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.47%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Aviation
11 1 (0.74%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.74%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Analyst
2 16 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.29%) Capacity Manager
3 14 (10.29%) Problem Manager
3 14 (10.29%) Senior
4 12 (8.82%) Availability Manager
4 12 (8.82%) Capacity and Availability Manager
5 8 (5.88%) Document Controller
6 7 (5.15%) Performance Analyst
6 7 (5.15%) Software Asset Manager
6 7 (5.15%) Software Manager
7 6 (4.41%) Administrator
7 6 (4.41%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.41%) DBA
7 6 (4.41%) SharePoint Engineer
8 4 (2.94%) Data Engineer
8 4 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.21%) Incident Manager
9 3 (2.21%) Senior Data Analyst
9 3 (2.21%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.09%) HTML
2 8 (5.88%) CSS
3 4 (2.94%) PySpark
4 3 (2.21%) D3.js
4 3 (2.21%) React Native
5 2 (1.47%) Node.js
5 2 (1.47%) RESTful
6 1 (0.74%) CSS3
6 1 (0.74%) Express.js
6 1 (0.74%) HTML5
6 1 (0.74%) JSON
6 1 (0.74%) Kafka
6 1 (0.74%) NumPy
6 1 (0.74%) Pandas
6 1 (0.74%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.74%) React
6 1 (0.74%) REST
6 1 (0.74%) RxJS
6 1 (0.74%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.26%) Management Information System
2 23 (16.91%) Virtual Team
3 9 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.88%) CMDB
5 7 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.68%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.68%) HP Storage
7 4 (2.94%) NHS
8 2 (1.47%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.47%) Social Media
9 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.74%) Life Science
9 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Solaris
2 6 (4.41%) Linux
3 5 (3.68%) AIX
3 5 (3.68%) Windows
4 2 (1.47%) HPUX
4 2 (1.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.74%) Debian
5 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.71%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (31.62%) Quality Management
3 38 (27.94%) Mentoring
3 38 (27.94%) Service Management
4 30 (22.06%) Computer Science
5 29 (21.32%) Problem Management
6 28 (20.59%) ITIL
7 25 (18.38%) Mathematics
8 23 (16.91%) Virtual Team Management
9 20 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (13.97%) Data Analysis
10 19 (13.97%) Visualisation
11 18 (13.24%) Data Science
12 17 (12.50%) Project Management
13 16 (11.76%) Availability Management
13 16 (11.76%) Capacity Management
14 15 (11.03%) Data Modelling
14 15 (11.03%) Proactive Monitoring
14 15 (11.03%) Time Management
15 14 (10.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.68%) SQL
2 29 (21.32%) Python
3 14 (10.29%) R
4 9 (6.62%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.68%) Java
7 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.47%) Bash
8 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (43.38%) Security Cleared
2 52 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 36 (26.47%) Degree
4 17 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.68%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.94%) PhD
8 3 (2.21%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.74%) PgMP
9 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.74%) PMP
9 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.74%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.74%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.41%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (3.68%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (3.68%) NetBackup
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.15%) VMware
3 6 (4.41%) Empirix
3 6 (4.41%) NetScout
4 5 (3.68%) Brocade
4 5 (3.68%) Cisco
4 5 (3.68%) EMC
4 5 (3.68%) HP
4 5 (3.68%) Oracle
4 5 (3.68%) Symantec
5 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.21%) Databricks
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) Splunk
7 2 (1.47%) Sun
7 2 (1.47%) Teradata
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) Google
8 1 (0.74%) Intel
8 1 (0.74%) JDA