Statistical Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Statistical Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Statistical Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 700 653
Rank change year-on-year +25 -47 +59
Permanent jobs citing Statistical Analysis 222 276 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.26% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.28% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 130 153 189
10th Percentile £34,900 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £54,882 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -0.21% +1.85%
75th Percentile £63,000 £69,650 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,102 £77,012
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.06% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Statistical Analysis 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

Statistical Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Statistical Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK

Statistical Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Statistical Analysis.

Salary trend for Statistical Analysis in the UK

Statistical Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistical Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Statistical Analysis in the UK

Statistical Analysis
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistical Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +57 201 £51,528 -6.21% 101
UK excluding London -20 103 £51,528 +3.06% 58
London +99 100 £55,000 -8.33% 49
Work from Home +26 56 £50,000 -9.09% 45
North of England +71 38 £50,000 -13.04% 15
South East +20 29 £57,500 +15.00% 18
North West +31 25 £50,000 -25.93% 6
Yorkshire +94 13 £51,528 -6.31% 8
South West -24 13 £60,000 +5.26% 7
Wales - 9 £51,528 - 6
West Midlands +18 6 £56,282 +12.56% 3
Midlands 0 6 £56,282 +12.56% 4
East of England +1 4 £80,001 +100.00% 3
Scotland -73 3 £51,528 +28.82% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

Statistical Analysis
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 55 (24.77%) SAS
2 20 (9.01%) Apache Spark
3 15 (6.76%) Apache
4 7 (3.15%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (15.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (2.25%) SPSS
5 4 (1.80%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (29.73%) Power Platform
2 51 (22.97%) AWS
3 34 (15.32%) Azure
4 13 (5.86%) GCP
4 13 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
5 12 (5.41%) Power Automate
6 11 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.95%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.60%) Amazon SageMaker
7 8 (3.60%) GitHub
8 7 (3.15%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.45%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.45%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.45%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.45%) Google Data Studio
10 1 (0.45%) SaaS
10 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.98%) Tableau
2 59 (26.58%) Power BI
3 56 (25.23%) Data Mining
4 42 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (14.41%) Amazon QuickSight
6 29 (13.06%) SQL Server
7 12 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.95%) DynamoDB
8 11 (4.95%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.95%) QlikView
9 8 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.60%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (3.15%) Power Query
10 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.70%) Big Data
11 6 (2.70%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.70%) PowerPivot
11 6 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.15%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.80%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) Maven
4 1 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 91 (40.99%) Analytical Skills
2 86 (38.74%) Social Skills
3 56 (25.23%) Finance
4 30 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
5 29 (13.06%) Retail
6 27 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.91%) Banking
8 21 (9.46%) Marketing
9 15 (6.76%) Law
10 10 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (4.50%) Public Sector
11 9 (4.05%) Retail Finance
12 8 (3.60%) Legal
13 7 (3.15%) Military
14 5 (2.25%) Local Government
14 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 5 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.35%) Aviation
16 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (39.64%) Analyst
2 65 (29.28%) Senior
3 51 (22.97%) Data Analyst
4 32 (14.41%) Senior Analyst
5 29 (13.06%) Data Scientist
6 13 (5.86%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 12 (5.41%) Business Manager
7 12 (5.41%) Senior Data Analyst
8 10 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (3.60%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (3.60%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.15%) Logistics Engineer
10 7 (3.15%) Risk Analyst
11 6 (2.70%) Database Analyst
11 6 (2.70%) Head of IT
11 6 (2.70%) Head of IT Operations
11 6 (2.70%) Principal Data Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) Principal Data Scientist
11 6 (2.70%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.95%) Pandas
1 11 (4.95%) PyTorch
2 10 (4.50%) TensorFlow
3 9 (4.05%) scikit-learn
4 8 (3.60%) MXNet
4 8 (3.60%) XML
5 7 (3.15%) Kedro
5 7 (3.15%) Web Services
6 6 (2.70%) Flash
7 5 (2.25%) ATL
7 5 (2.25%) Shiny
8 3 (1.35%) EDI
8 3 (1.35%) NumPy
9 2 (0.90%) SciPy
10 1 (0.45%) D3.js
10 1 (0.45%) JSON
10 1 (0.45%) Laravel
10 1 (0.45%) MDX
10 1 (0.45%) NLTK
10 1 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.77%) Onboarding
2 20 (9.01%) Algorithms
2 20 (9.01%) Credit Risk
3 16 (7.21%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.60%) Life Science
5 7 (3.15%) Biopharmaceutical
5 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.25%) Blog
7 4 (1.80%) IoT
8 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.35%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Equities
9 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.45%) Derivative
10 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Industry 4.0
10 1 (0.45%) PMI
10 1 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Android
2 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (56.31%) Analytics
2 92 (41.44%) Business Intelligence
3 88 (39.64%) Machine Learning
4 85 (38.29%) Data Science
5 81 (36.49%) Visualisation
6 74 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
7 68 (30.63%) Decision-Making
8 66 (29.73%) Data Analysis
9 63 (28.38%) Statistics
10 55 (24.77%) Mathematics
11 48 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (20.27%) Data Modelling
13 38 (17.12%) Data Analytics
14 34 (15.32%) Computer Science
15 32 (14.41%) ETL
16 31 (13.96%) Agile
17 29 (13.06%) Statistical Modelling
18 28 (12.61%) Actionable Insight
18 28 (12.61%) Validation
19 24 (10.81%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (64.86%) Python
2 126 (56.76%) SQL
3 67 (30.18%) R
4 18 (8.11%) MATLAB
5 13 (5.86%) T-SQL
6 9 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.15%) Java
9 5 (2.25%) C++
9 5 (2.25%) VB
10 4 (1.80%) C
11 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (44.14%) Degree
2 23 (10.36%) Numerate Degree
3 19 (8.56%) Master's Degree
4 15 (6.76%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.95%) PhD
6 10 (4.50%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.90%) MBA
9 2 (0.90%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.45%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.76%) CRD IV
1 15 (6.76%) IFRS
1 15 (6.76%) IFRS 9
2 11 (4.95%) Actionable Recommendations
2 11 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.05%) QA
4 8 (3.60%) PMO
5 7 (3.15%) CDISC
6 6 (2.70%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.70%) SLA
7 2 (0.90%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) GLP
8 1 (0.45%) GMP
System Software
1 6 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.31%) Oracle
3 10 (4.50%) Alteryx
3 10 (4.50%) Google
4 9 (4.05%) Databricks
5 8 (3.60%) Dataiku
6 7 (3.15%) IBM
7 6 (2.70%) iManage
7 6 (2.70%) SAP
7 6 (2.70%) Sun
8 5 (2.25%) YouTube
9 2 (0.90%) CA
9 2 (0.90%) Cognos
9 2 (0.90%) Workday
10 1 (0.45%) Adobe
10 1 (0.45%) HP
10 1 (0.45%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.45%) Sage
10 1 (0.45%) Sawtooth Software
10 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow