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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 377 263
Rank change year-on-year +70 -114 -48
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 964 854 2,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.87% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.91% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 488 529 759
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £43,015 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,180 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +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 86,141 93,563 159,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 95.54% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 60,433 55,405 83,263
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 27 May 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 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +100 894 £55,000 -10.86% 473
London +167 525 £60,000 -14.29% 263
Work from Home +100 415 £52,500 -4.55% 194
UK excluding London -33 405 £45,000 -10.00% 277
North of England +35 85 £45,000 -12.35% 62
Midlands -21 85 £42,500 -2.86% 24
South East -22 76 £55,000 -8.33% 119
South West -33 63 £54,043 -1.04% 33
East of England +34 57 £56,250 -11.76% 28
North West +9 50 £50,000 -9.50% 34
West Midlands -31 48 £39,000 -6.87% 12
East Midlands -3 33 £45,001 -29.41% 10
Scotland -80 19 £62,055 +13.86% 6
Yorkshire +48 18 £51,528 -4.13% 17
North East +5 17 £30,000 -36.15% 12
Wales -12 16 £42,500 +52.08% 7
Northern Ireland +26 3 £45,000 +12.50% 1
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 61 (6.33%) SAS
2 30 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.83%) Apache
3 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
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
1 138 (14.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.28%) SPSS
4 10 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.41%) InDesign
5 4 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.31%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.31%) Stata
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.14%) ResourceLink
2 8 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.41%) Lawson
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
1 255 (26.45%) AWS
2 125 (12.97%) Power Platform
3 108 (11.20%) Azure
4 61 (6.33%) GCP
5 33 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (2.49%) SaaS
7 19 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.45%) Snowflake
9 11 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 9 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.93%) Serverless
11 8 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (0.83%) PaaS
12 7 (0.73%) GitHub
13 6 (0.62%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.62%) Entra ID
14 5 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.52%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.59%) WAN
2 23 (2.39%) LAN
3 16 (1.66%) WPA
4 13 (1.35%) Internet
5 10 (1.04%) DNS
6 7 (0.73%) DHCP
6 7 (0.73%) Firewall
7 5 (0.52%) SMS
7 5 (0.52%) Wireless
8 4 (0.41%) VPN
9 3 (0.31%) FTP
9 3 (0.31%) Intranet
9 3 (0.31%) Network Security
9 3 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.21%) SMTP
10 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.10%) SAN
11 1 (0.10%) SNMP
11 1 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (31.43%) Tableau
2 124 (12.86%) Power BI
3 46 (4.77%) Big Data
4 37 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (3.22%) Data Mining
6 26 (2.70%) MySQL
6 26 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.39%) Looker
8 21 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.97%) Hadoop
10 18 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.76%) Redis
12 16 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
15 11 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (1.14%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.14%) NoSQL
16 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (1.04%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 196 (20.33%) Git
2 7 (0.73%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.62%) JIRA
4 5 (0.52%) GitLab
4 5 (0.52%) Postman
4 5 (0.52%) SoapUI
4 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.31%) gulp
5 3 (0.31%) PostCSS
5 3 (0.31%) rollup.js
5 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.31%) Vite
6 2 (0.21%) MLflow
6 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.10%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.10%) GDB
7 1 (0.10%) Maven
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
General
1 465 (48.24%) Social Skills
2 435 (45.12%) Analytical Skills
3 205 (21.27%) Retail
4 193 (20.02%) Finance
5 175 (18.15%) Presentation Skills
6 82 (8.51%) Marketing
7 59 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (4.98%) Law
9 41 (4.25%) Banking
10 39 (4.05%) Games
11 34 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 26 (2.70%) Legal
14 23 (2.39%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.76%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.56%) Public Sector
17 14 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.45%) Local Government
18 12 (1.24%) Advertising
19 9 (0.93%) Billing
Job Titles
1 412 (42.74%) Analyst
2 303 (31.43%) Senior
3 246 (25.52%) Data Analyst
4 157 (16.29%) Senior Analyst
5 156 (16.18%) Data Scientist
6 116 (12.03%) Senior Data Analyst
7 100 (10.37%) Senior Data Scientist
8 73 (7.57%) Lead
9 37 (3.84%) Developer
10 35 (3.63%) Lead Data Analyst
11 33 (3.42%) Data Manager
12 29 (3.01%) Analytics Manager
13 26 (2.70%) Service Analyst
14 21 (2.18%) Lead Data Scientist
14 21 (2.18%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.07%) Administrator
16 19 (1.97%) Service Desk Analyst
17 18 (1.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 17 (1.76%) Support Analyst
19 16 (1.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (11.41%) TensorFlow
2 67 (6.95%) Pandas
3 58 (6.02%) scikit-learn
4 53 (5.50%) PySpark
5 46 (4.77%) PyTorch
6 40 (4.15%) Kafka
6 40 (4.15%) NumPy
7 33 (3.42%) .NET
8 28 (2.90%) Keras
9 20 (2.07%) CSS
9 20 (2.07%) HTML
10 19 (1.97%) XML
11 14 (1.45%) Web Services
12 12 (1.24%) Apache Beam
13 11 (1.14%) React
14 10 (1.04%) JSON
14 10 (1.04%) RESTful
14 10 (1.04%) XGBoost
15 9 (0.93%) .NET Framework
16 8 (0.83%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 162 (16.80%) Algorithms
2 78 (8.09%) Management Information System
3 47 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 31 (3.22%) Life Science
6 30 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.18%) Driving Licence
8 18 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.35%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.24%) Blog
11 11 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.04%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.04%) Social Media
13 9 (0.93%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.83%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.83%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
15 7 (0.73%) Blockchain
16 6 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.36%) Windows
2 21 (2.18%) Android
3 17 (1.76%) Linux
4 9 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.31%) Unix
5 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 420 (43.57%) Analytics
3 370 (38.38%) Visualisation
4 323 (33.51%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (31.64%) Data Analysis
6 280 (29.05%) Data Science
7 276 (28.63%) Computer Science
8 274 (28.42%) Actionable Insight
9 228 (23.65%) Machine Learning
10 202 (20.95%) Business Intelligence
11 201 (20.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 192 (19.92%) Decision-Making
13 186 (19.29%) Storytelling
14 172 (17.84%) Business Strategy
15 168 (17.43%) Data Pipeline
16 139 (14.42%) Data Visualisation
17 134 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 129 (13.38%) Artificial Intelligence
19 128 (13.28%) Customer Intelligence
20 114 (11.83%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 516 (53.53%) Python
2 495 (51.35%) SQL
3 113 (11.72%) R
4 45 (4.67%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.46%) C#
6 41 (4.25%) Java
7 28 (2.90%) MATLAB
8 22 (2.28%) VBA
9 21 (2.18%) C++
10 17 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.56%) C
12 14 (1.45%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.93%) VB
14 8 (0.83%) Groovy
15 7 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.62%) Go
17 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.31%) Bash
18 3 (0.31%) Perl
18 3 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 645 (66.91%) Degree
2 186 (19.29%) Master's Degree
3 180 (18.67%) DBS Check
4 84 (8.71%) PhD
5 83 (8.61%) Numerate Degree
6 52 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.63%) Security Cleared
8 20 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.04%) MBA
10 8 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.62%) CCNA
12 6 (0.62%) HNC
13 5 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.52%) SC Cleared
14 4 (0.41%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.41%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.22%) QA
3 28 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.49%) 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%) IFRS
11 4 (0.41%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.41%) MiFID
12 3 (0.31%) CRD IV
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
14 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.83%) Docker
3 3 (0.31%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.21%) Firmware
4 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (0.93%) Kubernetes
1 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.73%) Terraform
3 5 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.41%) Ansible
5 3 (0.31%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (0.31%) Perfmon
5 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.21%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.10%) Grafana
7 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 198 (20.54%) Databricks
2 145 (15.04%) Microsoft
3 24 (2.49%) Oracle
3 24 (2.49%) SAP
4 23 (2.39%) Google
5 15 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.14%) Kronos
7 10 (1.04%) Alteryx
8 9 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.83%) Cisco
9 8 (0.83%) Cognos
10 7 (0.73%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.73%) iManage
10 7 (0.73%) Mapbox
11 6 (0.62%) Adobe
12 5 (0.52%) Citrix
12 5 (0.52%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.52%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.52%) Splunk
13 4 (0.41%) Meraki