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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 382 265
Rank change year-on-year +78 -117 -46
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 965 848 2,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.87% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.91% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 487 522 761
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £43,199 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,939
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.84% +1.88%

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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 29 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 29 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 +90 895 £55,000 -10.86% 395
London +158 521 £60,000 -14.29% 192
Work from Home +97 416 £53,272 -3.14% 155
UK excluding London -33 409 £45,000 -10.00% 206
North of England +18 86 £45,000 -13.76% 55
Midlands -25 85 £42,500 -2.86% 26
South East -32 77 £55,000 -0.45% 56
South West -22 66 £54,043 -1.74% 31
East of England +31 56 £56,250 -11.76% 29
North West -2 50 £50,000 -16.67% 32
West Midlands -31 48 £39,000 -8.23% 15
East Midlands -9 33 £45,001 -33.33% 11
Yorkshire +58 19 £51,528 -4.13% 17
Scotland -77 19 £62,055 +13.86% 8
North East +6 17 £30,000 -36.15% 7
Wales -12 16 £42,500 +52.08% 5
Northern Ireland +27 3 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

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 (6.22%) 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
1 137 (14.20%) 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%) 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
1 252 (26.11%) AWS
2 126 (13.06%) Power Platform
3 109 (11.30%) Azure
4 61 (6.32%) GCP
5 34 (3.52%) 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
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 17 (1.76%) WPA
4 15 (1.55%) 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
9 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.21%) BGP
10 2 (0.21%) MPLS
10 2 (0.21%) SMTP
10 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (31.30%) Tableau
2 125 (12.95%) Power BI
3 47 (4.87%) Big Data
4 37 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.11%) Data Mining
6 26 (2.69%) MySQL
6 26 (2.69%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.38%) Looker
8 21 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.97%) Hadoop
10 18 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.76%) Redis
12 15 (1.55%) 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%) GIS
16 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 197 (20.41%) 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
1 466 (48.29%) Social Skills
2 435 (45.08%) Analytical Skills
3 205 (21.24%) Retail
4 193 (20.00%) Finance
5 175 (18.13%) Presentation Skills
6 83 (8.60%) Marketing
7 59 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (4.97%) Law
9 41 (4.25%) Banking
10 39 (4.04%) Games
11 34 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 26 (2.69%) Legal
14 23 (2.38%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.76%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.55%) Public Sector
17 14 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.45%) Local Government
18 12 (1.24%) Advertising
19 10 (1.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 412 (42.69%) Analyst
2 306 (31.71%) Senior
3 246 (25.49%) Data Analyst
4 157 (16.27%) Senior Analyst
5 156 (16.17%) Data Scientist
6 116 (12.02%) Senior Data Analyst
7 101 (10.47%) Senior Data Scientist
8 71 (7.36%) Lead
9 37 (3.83%) Developer
10 35 (3.63%) Lead Data Analyst
11 33 (3.42%) Data Manager
12 29 (3.01%) Analytics Manager
13 26 (2.69%) Service Analyst
14 21 (2.18%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.07%) Administrator
16 19 (1.97%) Lead Data Scientist
16 19 (1.97%) Service Desk Analyst
17 18 (1.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 18 (1.87%) Support Analyst
18 16 (1.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (11.30%) TensorFlow
2 67 (6.94%) Pandas
3 58 (6.01%) scikit-learn
4 55 (5.70%) PySpark
5 45 (4.66%) PyTorch
6 40 (4.15%) Kafka
7 39 (4.04%) NumPy
8 32 (3.32%) .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
14 11 (1.14%) React
15 10 (1.04%) JSON
15 10 (1.04%) RESTful
16 9 (0.93%) .NET Framework
16 9 (0.93%) XGBoost
17 8 (0.83%) AngularJS
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 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
11 11 (1.14%) Social Media
12 10 (1.04%) Product Ownership
13 9 (0.93%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.83%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.83%) Hedge funds
14 8 (0.83%) Reinsurance
15 7 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
15 7 (0.73%) Blockchain
15 7 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.46%) 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
1 481 (49.84%) Mathematics
2 421 (43.63%) Analytics
3 368 (38.13%) Visualisation
4 324 (33.58%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (31.61%) Data Analysis
6 279 (28.91%) Data Science
7 276 (28.60%) Computer Science
8 275 (28.50%) Actionable Insight
9 228 (23.63%) Machine Learning
10 202 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
11 200 (20.73%) Root Cause Analysis
12 192 (19.90%) Decision-Making
13 186 (19.27%) Storytelling
14 172 (17.82%) 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
19 127 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
20 116 (12.02%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 514 (53.26%) Python
2 494 (51.19%) SQL
3 111 (11.50%) R
4 45 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 41 (4.25%) C#
5 41 (4.25%) Java
6 28 (2.90%) MATLAB
7 21 (2.18%) VBA
8 20 (2.07%) C++
9 17 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.55%) C
11 14 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.93%) VB
13 8 (0.83%) Groovy
14 7 (0.73%) PHP
15 6 (0.62%) Go
16 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.31%) Bash
17 3 (0.31%) Perl
17 3 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 644 (66.74%) Degree
2 187 (19.38%) Master's Degree
3 180 (18.65%) DBS Check
4 85 (8.81%) PhD
5 83 (8.60%) Numerate Degree
6 54 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.63%) Security Cleared
8 20 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.04%) MBA
10 9 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.73%) CCNA
13 6 (0.62%) HNC
14 5 (0.52%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.52%) SC Cleared
15 4 (0.41%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.41%) CCNP
15 4 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.41%) Postgraduate
16 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 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%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 37 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.83%) Docker
3 4 (0.41%) 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 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
2 145 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 24 (2.49%) Google
3 24 (2.49%) 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 (0.73%) Adobe
10 7 (0.73%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.73%) iManage
10 7 (0.73%) Mapbox
11 6 (0.62%) Citrix
12 5 (0.52%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.52%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.52%) Splunk
13 4 (0.41%) Meraki