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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 654 710 640
Rank change year-on-year +56 -70 +81
Permanent jobs citing Statistical Analysis 224 271 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.26% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.27% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 132 148 191
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,275 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £54,882 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -0.21% -
75th Percentile £63,000 £68,975 £66,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,102 £77,500
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 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 2 May 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 2 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 +38 203 £51,528 -6.11% 116
UK excluding London -32 104 £51,528 +3.06% 68
London +92 100 £55,000 -8.33% 55
Work from Home +34 57 £50,000 -8.90% 51
North of England +64 39 £50,000 -13.04% 16
South East +10 28 £60,000 +20.00% 21
North West +24 26 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Yorkshire +93 13 £51,528 -6.31% 6
South West -46 13 £60,000 +7.26% 8
Wales - 9 £51,528 - 6
West Midlands +17 6 £56,282 +12.56% 5
Midlands 0 6 £56,282 +12.56% 8
East of England +4 5 £80,001 +100.00% 2
Scotland -66 3 £51,528 +28.82% 9
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 (24.55%) SAS
2 20 (8.93%) Apache Spark
3 15 (6.70%) Apache
4 7 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.68%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.79%) SPSS
4 4 (1.79%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (30.36%) Power Platform
2 51 (22.77%) AWS
3 35 (15.63%) Azure
4 13 (5.80%) GCP
4 13 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.36%) Azure Machine Learning
5 12 (5.36%) Power Automate
6 11 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.91%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
7 8 (3.57%) GitHub
8 7 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.89%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.45%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (0.45%) Intacct
11 1 (0.45%) SaaS
11 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.70%) Tableau
2 61 (27.23%) Power BI
3 55 (24.55%) Data Mining
4 42 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (13.84%) Amazon QuickSight
6 28 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 12 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.91%) DynamoDB
8 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.91%) QlikView
9 8 (3.57%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (3.13%) Power Query
10 7 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.68%) Big Data
11 6 (2.68%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.68%) PowerPivot
11 6 (2.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.13%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) Maven
4 1 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 91 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (39.73%) Social Skills
3 56 (25.00%) Finance
4 30 (13.39%) Presentation Skills
5 29 (12.95%) Retail
6 27 (12.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.82%) Banking
8 21 (9.38%) Marketing
9 15 (6.70%) Law
10 10 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (4.46%) Public Sector
11 9 (4.02%) Retail Finance
12 8 (3.57%) Legal
13 7 (3.13%) Military
14 5 (2.23%) Local Government
14 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 5 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.34%) Aviation
16 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (39.73%) Analyst
2 64 (28.57%) Senior
3 51 (22.77%) Data Analyst
4 32 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 30 (13.39%) Data Scientist
6 13 (5.80%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 12 (5.36%) Business Manager
7 12 (5.36%) Senior Data Analyst
8 11 (4.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (3.57%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.13%) Developer
10 7 (3.13%) Logistics Engineer
10 7 (3.13%) Risk Analyst
11 6 (2.68%) Head of IT
11 6 (2.68%) Head of IT Operations
11 6 (2.68%) Principal Data Engineer
11 6 (2.68%) Principal Data Scientist
11 6 (2.68%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.36%) PyTorch
2 11 (4.91%) Pandas
3 10 (4.46%) TensorFlow
4 9 (4.02%) scikit-learn
5 8 (3.57%) MXNet
5 8 (3.57%) XML
6 7 (3.13%) Kedro
6 7 (3.13%) Web Services
7 6 (2.68%) Flash
8 5 (2.23%) ATL
8 5 (2.23%) Shiny
9 3 (1.34%) EDI
9 3 (1.34%) NumPy
10 2 (0.89%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.89%) LangChain
10 2 (0.89%) RESTful
10 2 (0.89%) SciPy
11 1 (0.45%) NLTK
11 1 (0.45%) SpaCy
11 1 (0.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.18%) Onboarding
2 22 (9.82%) Algorithms
3 20 (8.93%) Credit Risk
4 16 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.57%) Life Science
6 7 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
6 7 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.23%) Blog
8 4 (1.79%) IoT
9 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.34%) Equities
9 3 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.34%) NHS
10 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.45%) Derivative
11 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Industry 4.0
11 1 (0.45%) PMI
11 1 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.68%) Windows
2 2 (0.89%) Android
2 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (55.80%) Analytics
2 93 (41.52%) Business Intelligence
3 90 (40.18%) Machine Learning
4 85 (37.95%) Data Science
5 82 (36.61%) Visualisation
6 75 (33.48%) Data Visualisation
7 70 (31.25%) Decision-Making
8 67 (29.91%) Data Analysis
9 64 (28.57%) Statistics
10 57 (25.45%) Mathematics
11 49 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (19.64%) Data Modelling
13 39 (17.41%) Data Analytics
14 36 (16.07%) Computer Science
15 31 (13.84%) Agile
15 31 (13.84%) ETL
15 31 (13.84%) Statistical Modelling
16 29 (12.95%) Actionable Insight
17 28 (12.50%) Validation
18 24 (10.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (65.18%) Python
2 126 (56.25%) SQL
3 68 (30.36%) R
4 17 (7.59%) MATLAB
5 13 (5.80%) T-SQL
6 9 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (4.02%) Java
6 9 (4.02%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.68%) C++
8 5 (2.23%) VB
9 4 (1.79%) C
10 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 101 (45.09%) Degree
2 24 (10.71%) Numerate Degree
3 19 (8.48%) Master's Degree
4 15 (6.70%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.91%) PhD
6 10 (4.46%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.89%) MBA
9 2 (0.89%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.45%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.70%) CRD IV
1 15 (6.70%) IFRS
1 15 (6.70%) IFRS 9
2 11 (4.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 10 (4.46%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.57%) QA
5 7 (3.13%) CDISC
5 7 (3.13%) PMO
6 6 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.68%) SLA
7 2 (0.89%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) GLP
8 1 (0.45%) GMP
System Software
1 6 (2.68%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.25%) Oracle
3 10 (4.46%) Alteryx
3 10 (4.46%) Google
4 9 (4.02%) Databricks
5 8 (3.57%) Dataiku
6 7 (3.13%) IBM
7 6 (2.68%) iManage
7 6 (2.68%) SAP
7 6 (2.68%) Sun
8 5 (2.23%) YouTube
9 2 (0.89%) CA
9 2 (0.89%) Cognos
9 2 (0.89%) 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