Statistics Job Trends in England

Statistics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Statistics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 280 264
Rank change year-on-year -79 -16 +79
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 259 513 522
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.03% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.15% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 112 185 278
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,009 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,586 £80,000 £71,663
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,000 £98,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Statistics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Statistics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Statistics job vacancy trend in England

Statistics
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Statistics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Statistics

Statistics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistics in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Statistics in England

Statistics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
London -53 130 £100,000 +42.86% 133
South East -31 49 £29,500 -37.89% 32
South West +12 25 £35,536 -45.33% 8
North of England -46 23 £57,500 +15.00% 32
Midlands +1 22 £40,000 -11.11% 9
East Midlands -7 14 £40,000 -51.52% 4
North West -7 14 £63,750 +13.33% 22
West Midlands -2 8 £67,500 +68.75% 5
East of England +10 5 £70,000 +35.53% 18
North East +5 5 £57,500 +44.23% 2
Yorkshire -39 4 £37,500 -17.48% 9
Statistics
UK

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.32%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.93%) IIS
2 5 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.54%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.54%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) R Markdown
Applications
1 28 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.86%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.16%) Stata
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.39%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Lawson
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.67%) Power Platform
2 32 (12.36%) AWS
3 20 (7.72%) Azure
4 19 (7.34%) GCP
5 18 (6.95%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.93%) dbt
8 4 (1.54%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.54%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.54%) SaaS
9 3 (1.16%) Dataform
9 3 (1.16%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.77%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.77%) GitHub
11 1 (0.39%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.47%) LTE
1 9 (3.47%) VSAT
2 8 (3.09%) Internet
3 6 (2.32%) Wireless
4 5 (1.93%) 802.11
4 5 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.54%) Firewall
5 4 (1.54%) Network Security
6 3 (1.16%) LAN
7 2 (0.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.77%) WAN
7 2 (0.77%) WLAN
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.39%) FTP
8 1 (0.39%) Intranet
8 1 (0.39%) Multicast
8 1 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (23.17%) Tableau
2 38 (14.67%) Power BI
3 14 (5.41%) Metadata
4 13 (5.02%) Big Data
5 11 (4.25%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.47%) Hadoop
7 8 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.09%) BigQuery
7 8 (3.09%) Data Mining
7 8 (3.09%) Looker
7 8 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.93%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.77%) Power Query
12 2 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.39%) ClickHouse
13 1 (0.39%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (3.09%) Git
2 5 (1.93%) GitLab
3 4 (1.54%) MLflow
4 2 (0.77%) Plastic SCM
5 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.39%) JIRA
5 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 117 (45.17%) Finance
2 83 (32.05%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (28.96%) Social Skills
4 44 (16.99%) Banking
5 43 (16.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (15.06%) Financial Institution
7 26 (10.04%) Law
8 25 (9.65%) Marketing
9 18 (6.95%) Games
9 18 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (6.95%) Telecoms
10 17 (6.56%) Manufacturing
11 14 (5.41%) Public Sector
12 12 (4.63%) Electronics
13 11 (4.25%) Retail
14 10 (3.86%) Front Office
15 9 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (2.70%) Billing
16 7 (2.70%) Legal
17 6 (2.32%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 75 (28.96%) Analyst
2 57 (22.01%) Data Analyst
3 39 (15.06%) Senior
4 29 (11.20%) Developer
5 25 (9.65%) Data Scientist
6 21 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 21 (8.11%) Technical Engineer
6 21 (8.11%) Technical Support
6 21 (8.11%) Technical Support Engineer
7 20 (7.72%) Lead
8 12 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (4.63%) Senior Manager
9 11 (4.25%) Senior Data Analyst
10 10 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Customer Analyst
11 9 (3.47%) Senior Data Scientist
11 9 (3.47%) Trainer
12 8 (3.09%) Digital Analyst
12 8 (3.09%) Digital Analytics Analyst
12 8 (3.09%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.95%) PyTorch
2 11 (4.25%) FHIR
2 11 (4.25%) TensorFlow
3 9 (3.47%) scikit-learn
4 8 (3.09%) Kafka
5 6 (2.32%) Pandas
5 6 (2.32%) PySpark
6 5 (1.93%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.93%) NumPy
6 5 (1.93%) Play Framework
7 4 (1.54%) ModSecurity
8 3 (1.16%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (1.16%) React
8 3 (1.16%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.77%) .NET
9 2 (0.77%) Hugging Face
10 1 (0.39%) HTML
10 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.39%) REST
10 1 (0.39%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.48%) Algorithms
2 31 (11.97%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (6.56%) Equities
5 14 (5.41%) Life Science
5 14 (5.41%) Omics
6 13 (5.02%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.25%) Credit Risk
8 8 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.32%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.93%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.54%) Derivative
11 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.54%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.16%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.77%) Digital Media
13 2 (0.77%) FMCG
13 2 (0.77%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.54%) Windows
1 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.16%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (49.03%) Data Science
2 126 (48.65%) Analytics
3 112 (43.24%) Mathematics
4 109 (42.08%) AI
5 96 (37.07%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (34.36%) Computer Science
7 83 (32.05%) Machine Learning
8 77 (29.73%) Data Analysis
9 74 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
10 63 (24.32%) Business Strategy
11 55 (21.24%) Decision-Making
12 52 (20.08%) Visualisation
13 44 (16.99%) Statistical Modelling
14 38 (14.67%) Risk Management
15 37 (14.29%) Workflow
16 36 (13.90%) Data Visualisation
17 33 (12.74%) Risk Analytics
18 32 (12.36%) Asset Management
18 32 (12.36%) Data Analytics
18 32 (12.36%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (61.39%) Python
2 75 (28.96%) SQL
3 34 (13.13%) R
4 24 (9.27%) Java
5 7 (2.70%) MATLAB
6 6 (2.32%) C
6 6 (2.32%) Scala
6 6 (2.32%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.93%) ANSI SQL
8 4 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.54%) VBA
9 3 (1.16%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (1.16%) Tcl
10 2 (0.77%) C#
11 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 171 (66.02%) Degree
2 77 (29.73%) Master's Degree
3 75 (28.96%) PhD
4 44 (16.99%) Numerate Degree
5 39 (15.06%) Security Cleared
6 27 (10.42%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.47%) CCNA
8 9 (3.47%) JNCIA
9 8 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.70%) DBS Check
10 7 (2.70%) MBA
11 5 (1.93%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.93%) GCSC
12 4 (1.54%) Postgraduate
13 3 (1.16%) CFA
14 1 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (18.15%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.49%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.02%) GDPR
4 11 (4.25%) CDISC
4 11 (4.25%) HL7
5 10 (3.86%) GxP
6 5 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.54%) QA
8 2 (0.77%) IFRS
8 2 (0.77%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.39%) DICOM
9 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
9 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (3.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.77%) Kubeflow
2 2 (0.77%) Terraform
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 30 (11.58%) Alteryx
1 30 (11.58%) Bloomberg
2 14 (5.41%) Salesforce
3 12 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.25%) Google
5 10 (3.86%) Databricks
6 9 (3.47%) Freshdesk
6 9 (3.47%) PayPal
7 8 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.70%) Oracle
9 5 (1.93%) BT
10 4 (1.54%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.16%) SAP
12 2 (0.77%) Cisco
13 1 (0.39%) Adobe
13 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.39%) Cognos
13 1 (0.39%) JD Edwards
13 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.39%) Siemens