Statistics Jobs

Statistics
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 377 269
Rank change year-on-year +70 -108 -52
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 965 836 2,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.89% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.93% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 482 528 770
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,125 £43,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £49,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year -8.63% -3.43% +2.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Statistics.

Salary trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistics over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +71 895 £55,000 -8.33% 375
London +160 523 £60,000 -14.29% 196
Work from Home +86 415 £53,272 -3.14% 154
UK excluding London -54 407 £45,000 -8.63% 183
North of England +4 85 £43,750 -16.16% 53
Midlands -21 84 £42,500 -5.56% 23
South East -31 78 £55,000 +10.00% 55
South West -32 66 £54,043 -1.74% 21
East of England +17 55 £55,000 -18.52% 25
North West -14 49 £50,000 -18.37% 28
West Midlands -54 48 £39,000 -8.23% 11
East Midlands -6 32 £45,001 -33.33% 12
Scotland -91 19 £62,055 +33.45% 5
Yorkshire +47 18 £51,528 -1.85% 17
North East -8 18 £36,000 -23.38% 9
Wales -5 16 £42,500 +52.08% 6
Northern Ireland +23 3 £45,000 +12.50%
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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 59 (6.11%) SAS
2 28 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.62%) Apache
5 6 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.41%) Luigi
7 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) Confluence
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 136 (14.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.28%) SPSS
4 21 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.41%) InDesign
6 4 (0.41%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.31%) Stata
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.14%) ResourceLink
2 8 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.41%) Lawson
3 4 (0.41%) Ripple
4 3 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.31%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.31%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 249 (25.80%) AWS
2 128 (13.26%) Power Platform
3 107 (11.09%) Azure
4 58 (6.01%) GCP
5 32 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (2.59%) SaaS
7 18 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.45%) Snowflake
9 12 (1.24%) Google Gemini
10 11 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (0.93%) Amazon S3
11 9 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.93%) Serverless
12 8 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (0.83%) PaaS
13 7 (0.73%) GitHub
14 6 (0.62%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (0.62%) Google Analytics
15 5 (0.52%) Entra ID
15 5 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.59%) WAN
2 23 (2.38%) LAN
3 20 (2.07%) Internet
4 17 (1.76%) WPA
5 10 (1.04%) DNS
6 7 (0.73%) DHCP
6 7 (0.73%) Firewall
7 5 (0.52%) SMS
7 5 (0.52%) VPN
7 5 (0.52%) Wireless
8 3 (0.31%) FTP
8 3 (0.31%) Intranet
8 3 (0.31%) Network Security
8 3 (0.31%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.21%) BGP
9 2 (0.21%) MPLS
9 2 (0.21%) SMTP
9 2 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (31.19%) Tableau
2 127 (13.16%) Power BI
3 47 (4.87%) Big Data
4 37 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.11%) Data Mining
6 27 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.69%) MySQL
8 23 (2.38%) Looker
9 21 (2.18%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.97%) Hadoop
11 18 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (1.76%) Redis
13 15 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
16 11 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (1.14%) MongoDB
16 11 (1.14%) NoSQL
17 10 (1.04%) GIS
17 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 197 (20.41%) Git
2 7 (0.73%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.52%) GitLab
3 5 (0.52%) JIRA
3 5 (0.52%) Postman
3 5 (0.52%) SoapUI
3 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.31%) gulp
4 3 (0.31%) PostCSS
4 3 (0.31%) rollup.js
4 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.31%) Vite
5 2 (0.21%) MLflow
5 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.10%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.10%) GDB
6 1 (0.10%) Maven
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
General
1 467 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 434 (44.97%) Analytical Skills
3 204 (21.14%) Retail
4 197 (20.41%) Finance
5 173 (17.93%) Presentation Skills
6 83 (8.60%) Marketing
7 59 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (5.28%) Law
9 40 (4.15%) Banking
10 39 (4.04%) Games
11 34 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (3.11%) Legal
13 27 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 23 (2.38%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.66%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.66%) Public Sector
16 14 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.45%) Local Government
17 12 (1.24%) Advertising
18 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 411 (42.59%) Analyst
2 304 (31.50%) Senior
3 246 (25.49%) Data Analyst
4 155 (16.06%) Senior Analyst
5 153 (15.85%) Data Scientist
6 116 (12.02%) Senior Data Analyst
7 100 (10.36%) Senior Data Scientist
8 70 (7.25%) Lead
9 37 (3.83%) Developer
10 35 (3.63%) Lead Data Analyst
11 33 (3.42%) Data Manager
12 28 (2.90%) Analytics Manager
13 26 (2.69%) Service Analyst
14 22 (2.28%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.07%) Administrator
16 19 (1.97%) Service Desk Analyst
17 18 (1.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 18 (1.87%) Lead Data Scientist
17 18 (1.87%) Support Analyst
18 16 (1.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (11.09%) TensorFlow
2 64 (6.63%) Pandas
3 58 (6.01%) scikit-learn
4 55 (5.70%) PySpark
5 43 (4.46%) PyTorch
6 40 (4.15%) Kafka
7 38 (3.94%) NumPy
8 31 (3.21%) .NET
9 28 (2.90%) Keras
10 21 (2.18%) CSS
10 21 (2.18%) HTML
11 19 (1.97%) XML
12 14 (1.45%) Web Services
13 13 (1.35%) React
14 12 (1.24%) Apache Beam
15 11 (1.14%) JSON
16 10 (1.04%) RESTful
17 9 (0.93%) .NET Framework
17 9 (0.93%) AngularJS
17 9 (0.93%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 162 (16.79%) Algorithms
2 77 (7.98%) Management Information System
3 46 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 31 (3.21%) Life Science
6 29 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.18%) Driving Licence
8 19 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.35%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.24%) Blog
11 11 (1.14%) Blockchain
11 11 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (1.14%) Social Media
12 10 (1.04%) Product Ownership
13 9 (0.93%) Hedge funds
13 9 (0.93%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.83%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.83%) Reinsurance
15 7 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
15 7 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.35%) Windows
2 21 (2.18%) Android
3 19 (1.97%) Linux
4 8 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.41%) Unix
6 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (49.95%) Mathematics
2 419 (43.42%) Analytics
3 367 (38.03%) Visualisation
4 327 (33.89%) Problem-Solving
5 304 (31.50%) Data Analysis
6 283 (29.33%) Computer Science
7 277 (28.70%) Data Science
8 275 (28.50%) Actionable Insight
9 228 (23.63%) Machine Learning
10 203 (21.04%) Business Intelligence
11 200 (20.73%) Root Cause Analysis
12 193 (20.00%) Decision-Making
13 186 (19.27%) Storytelling
14 171 (17.72%) Business Strategy
15 168 (17.41%) Data Pipeline
16 137 (14.20%) Data Visualisation
17 134 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 128 (13.26%) Customer Intelligence
19 123 (12.75%) Artificial Intelligence
20 111 (11.50%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 514 (53.26%) Python
2 496 (51.40%) SQL
3 111 (11.50%) R
4 46 (4.77%) Java
4 46 (4.77%) JavaScript
5 41 (4.25%) C#
6 30 (3.11%) MATLAB
7 21 (2.18%) C++
7 21 (2.18%) VBA
8 18 (1.87%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.66%) C
9 16 (1.66%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.93%) VB
11 8 (0.83%) Groovy
12 7 (0.73%) PHP
13 6 (0.62%) Go
14 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.31%) Bash
15 3 (0.31%) Clojure
15 3 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 649 (67.25%) Degree
2 191 (19.79%) Master's Degree
3 180 (18.65%) DBS Check
4 91 (9.43%) PhD
5 83 (8.60%) Numerate Degree
6 55 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.63%) Security Cleared
8 20 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.04%) MBA
10 8 (0.83%) CCNA
10 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.62%) HNC
12 5 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.52%) SC Cleared
13 4 (0.41%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CCNP
13 4 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.41%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.21%) QA
3 28 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.59%) SLA
5 18 (1.87%) GDPR
6 16 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (1.14%) CDISC
7 11 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.73%) ISO 14001
9 7 (0.73%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
11 4 (0.41%) MiFID
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 1 (0.10%) CRD IV
13 1 (0.10%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 36 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.93%) Docker
3 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.73%) Terraform
4 5 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (0.41%) Ansible
6 3 (0.31%) Galera Cluster
6 3 (0.31%) Perfmon
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.21%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.10%) Grafana
8 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 200 (20.73%) Databricks
2 143 (14.82%) Microsoft
3 24 (2.49%) SAP
4 23 (2.38%) Google
4 23 (2.38%) Oracle
5 15 (1.55%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.14%) Kronos
7 10 (1.04%) Alteryx
8 9 (0.93%) Cisco
8 9 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.83%) Adobe
9 8 (0.83%) Cognos
10 7 (0.73%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.73%) iManage
10 7 (0.73%) Mapbox
11 5 (0.52%) Citrix
11 5 (0.52%) Rapid7
11 5 (0.52%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.52%) Splunk
12 4 (0.41%) Avaya