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 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 306 376 267
Rank change year-on-year +70 -109 -50
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 966 837 2,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.88% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.92% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 487 527 764
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £33,575
25th Percentile £35,500 £43,750 £42,500
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 £94,625
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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +105 896 £55,000 -8.33% 410
London +164 523 £60,000 -14.29% 222
Work from Home +98 414 £52,500 -4.55% 144
UK excluding London -45 408 £45,000 -10.00% 198
North of England +21 88 £45,000 -13.76% 49
Midlands -20 85 £42,500 -5.56% 25
South East -40 75 £55,000 +10.00% 59
South West -27 66 £54,043 -1.74% 24
East of England +28 55 £55,000 -13.73% 28
North West -13 50 £50,000 -18.37% 29
West Midlands -40 48 £39,000 -8.23% 15
East Midlands +1 33 £45,001 -33.33% 10
Yorkshire +41 20 £51,528 -1.85% 12
Scotland -84 19 £62,055 +33.45% 9
North East -2 18 £36,000 -23.38% 9
Wales -10 16 £42,500 +52.08% 7
Northern Ireland +22 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 60 (6.21%) SAS
2 30 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.83%) Apache
3 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.72%) 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
1 137 (14.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (5.49%) 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%) 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
5 2 (0.21%) Ripple
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 253 (26.19%) AWS
2 126 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 108 (11.18%) Azure
4 61 (6.31%) GCP
5 33 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (2.48%) SaaS
7 18 (1.86%) 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 (0.72%) GitHub
13 6 (0.62%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.62%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.62%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.59%) WAN
2 23 (2.38%) LAN
3 18 (1.86%) Internet
4 17 (1.76%) WPA
5 10 (1.04%) DNS
6 7 (0.72%) DHCP
6 7 (0.72%) 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 (31.16%) Tableau
2 125 (12.94%) 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 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.97%) Hadoop
11 18 (1.86%) 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 (20.39%) Git
2 7 (0.72%) 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
1 466 (48.24%) Social Skills
2 435 (45.03%) Analytical Skills
3 205 (21.22%) Retail
4 195 (20.19%) Finance
5 175 (18.12%) Presentation Skills
6 83 (8.59%) Marketing
7 59 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (5.18%) Law
9 41 (4.24%) Banking
10 39 (4.04%) Games
11 34 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.90%) 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%) Local Government
17 13 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (1.24%) Advertising
19 10 (1.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 413 (42.75%) Analyst
2 306 (31.68%) Senior
3 246 (25.47%) Data Analyst
4 157 (16.25%) Senior Analyst
5 155 (16.05%) Data Scientist
6 116 (12.01%) Senior Data Analyst
7 101 (10.46%) Senior Data Scientist
8 70 (7.25%) Lead
9 37 (3.83%) Developer
10 35 (3.62%) 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%) Lead Data Scientist
16 19 (1.97%) Service Desk Analyst
17 18 (1.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 18 (1.86%) Support Analyst
18 16 (1.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (11.18%) TensorFlow
2 67 (6.94%) Pandas
3 58 (6.00%) scikit-learn
4 55 (5.69%) PySpark
5 44 (4.55%) PyTorch
6 40 (4.14%) Kafka
7 39 (4.04%) NumPy
8 32 (3.31%) .NET
9 28 (2.90%) Keras
10 20 (2.07%) CSS
10 20 (2.07%) HTML
11 19 (1.97%) XML
12 14 (1.45%) Web Services
13 12 (1.24%) Apache Beam
13 12 (1.24%) React
14 10 (1.04%) JSON
14 10 (1.04%) RESTful
15 9 (0.93%) .NET Framework
15 9 (0.93%) AngularJS
15 9 (0.93%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 162 (16.77%) Algorithms
2 77 (7.97%) Management Information System
3 46 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 31 (3.21%) Life Science
6 30 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.17%) Driving Licence
8 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.35%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.24%) Blog
11 11 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (1.14%) Social Media
12 10 (1.04%) Product Ownership
13 9 (0.93%) Blockchain
13 9 (0.93%) Hedge funds
13 9 (0.93%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.83%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.83%) Reinsurance
15 7 (0.72%) Biopharmaceutical
15 7 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.45%) Windows
2 21 (2.17%) Android
3 18 (1.86%) Linux
4 9 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.41%) Unix
6 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (50.10%) Mathematics
2 419 (43.37%) Analytics
3 367 (37.99%) Visualisation
4 326 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (31.57%) Data Analysis
6 280 (28.99%) Computer Science
7 279 (28.88%) Data Science
8 275 (28.47%) Actionable Insight
9 229 (23.71%) Machine Learning
10 201 (20.81%) Business Intelligence
11 200 (20.70%) Root Cause Analysis
12 191 (19.77%) Decision-Making
13 186 (19.25%) Storytelling
14 172 (17.81%) Business Strategy
15 168 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
16 137 (14.18%) Data Visualisation
17 134 (13.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 128 (13.25%) Customer Intelligence
19 127 (13.15%) Artificial Intelligence
20 115 (11.90%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 515 (53.31%) Python
2 494 (51.14%) SQL
3 111 (11.49%) R
4 45 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.45%) Java
6 42 (4.35%) C#
7 29 (3.00%) MATLAB
8 21 (2.17%) C++
8 21 (2.17%) VBA
9 18 (1.86%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.66%) C
11 15 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.93%) VB
13 8 (0.83%) Groovy
14 7 (0.72%) PHP
15 6 (0.62%) Go
16 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.31%) Bash
17 3 (0.31%) Clojure
17 3 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 648 (67.08%) Degree
2 190 (19.67%) Master's Degree
3 180 (18.63%) DBS Check
4 88 (9.11%) PhD
5 83 (8.59%) Numerate Degree
6 55 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.62%) 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 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.21%) QA
3 28 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.59%) SLA
5 18 (1.86%) 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 (0.72%) ISO 14001
9 7 (0.72%) 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%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 37 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.83%) 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 (0.72%) 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 (20.70%) Databricks
2 144 (14.91%) Microsoft
3 24 (2.48%) Google
3 24 (2.48%) SAP
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%) Cognos
10 7 (0.72%) Adobe
10 7 (0.72%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.72%) iManage
10 7 (0.72%) 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