The first table below looks at the demand for the Statistician role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Statistician in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Statistician
Rank 858 889 865
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Statistician 4 10 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.009% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 12
Average salary £42,000 £27,500 £61,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.72% -55.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,900 £21,500 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £54,050 £27,795 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £27,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+12.72% -35.29%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Statistician
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Statistician within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Statistician Jobs Demand Trend

Statistician
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Statistician within the UK.

Statistician Salary Trend

Statistician
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Statistician over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Statistician Salary Histogram

Statistician
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistician within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +17 2 £53,750 +95.45%
Wales - 2 £29,500 -
South Wales - 2 £29,500 -
Cardiff - 2 £29,500 -
East of England - 1 £53,000 -
Essex - 1 £53,000 -
London - 1 £54,500 -

Statistician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Statistician in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Statistician in their job title.

1 16 (66.67%) SPSS
2 14 (58.33%) Statistics
3 13 (54.17%) SQL
4 11 (45.83%) SAS
5 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
5 9 (37.50%) Degree
5 9 (37.50%) Mathematics
6 8 (33.33%) Logistic Regression
6 8 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
6 8 (33.33%) R
7 7 (29.17%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (29.17%) Data Analysis
7 7 (29.17%) Finance
8 6 (25.00%) Data Mining
9 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
9 5 (20.83%) Regression Analysis
10 4 (16.67%) Open Source
10 4 (16.67%) RSS
10 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
10 4 (16.67%) Advertising
10 4 (16.67%) GIS
10 4 (16.67%) NHS
10 4 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (16.67%) Stata
11 3 (12.50%) Analytics
12 2 (8.333%) Market Research
12 2 (8.333%) CDISC
12 2 (8.333%) MS Access
13 1 (4.167%) Microsoft

Statistician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Statistician in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Statistician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) RSS
Application Platforms
1 11 (45.83%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (66.67%) SPSS
2 7 (29.17%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
4 4 (16.67%) Stata
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 4 (16.67%) GIS
4 2 (8.333%) MS Access
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Advertising
2 4 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.167%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Statistics
2 9 (37.50%) Mathematics
3 4 (16.67%) Open Source
3 4 (16.67%) NHS
4 1 (4.167%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.167%) Psychology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Logistic Regression
1 8 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 7 (29.17%) Data Analysis
3 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (20.83%) Regression Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (8.333%) Market Research
7 1 (4.167%) Project Management
7 1 (4.167%) Validation
7 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.167%) Marketing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) CDISC
Vendors
1 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
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Job Title: Graduate StatisticianLocation: OxfordSalary: to £24,000 + benefitsOur client requires a Graduate Statistician to join their Data Analysis team and provide statistical support across a variety of...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: 24000
Posted: 4 May 2013
Oxford, South East
Job Title: Graduate StatisticiansLocation: OxfordSalary: to £24,000 + benefitsOur client requires a Graduate Statistician to join their Data Analysis team and provide statistical support across a variety of...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: GBP0 to GBP24000 per annum + Benefits: Bonus and benefits
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