Statistics Job Trends in the South East

Statistics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Statistics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 192 167
Rank change year-on-year -26 -25 +72
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 49 107 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.47% 1.16% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.33% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 33
10th Percentile £27,040 £24,500 £27,850
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.89% +10.47% -29.80%
75th Percentile £40,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £55,625 £65,810 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,903 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.15% +12.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,408 8,070 6,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.58% 89.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,990 3,994 4,923
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,027 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in the South East

Statistics
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Statistics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Statistics

Statistics
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the South East over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Statistics in the South East

Statistics
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Surrey +14 30 £29,500 -28.92% 25
Thames Valley -43 13 £52,500 -8.70% 81
Berkshire +12 11 - - 45
Kent -19 4 £55,000 - 21
Oxfordshire +17 2 £52,500 +10.53% 12
Hampshire +30 1 £57,500 +35.29% 33
West Sussex -5 1 £41,650 +66.60% 11
Statistics
England

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (10.20%) IIS
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.04%) R Markdown
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) AWS
2 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
3 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.08%) Azure
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) LTE
1 7 (14.29%) VSAT
2 5 (10.20%) 802.11
2 5 (10.20%) Internet
2 5 (10.20%) Wireless
3 2 (4.08%) Firewall
3 2 (4.08%) Network Security
3 2 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Data Lake
1 10 (20.41%) Metadata
2 6 (12.24%) Big Data
2 6 (12.24%) Data Mining
2 6 (12.24%) Tableau
3 5 (10.20%) Hadoop
3 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.12%) Power BI
5 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (2.04%) Power Query
6 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
1 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 19 (38.78%) Finance
2 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.49%) Telecoms
4 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 7 (14.29%) Marketing
5 7 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (10.20%) Aerospace
7 5 (10.20%) Automotive
7 5 (10.20%) Billing
7 5 (10.20%) Electronics
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Support Engineer
1 17 (34.69%) Technical Engineer
1 17 (34.69%) Technical Support
1 17 (34.69%) Technical Support Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Lead
3 8 (16.33%) Senior
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Data Science Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Support Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Data Scientist
7 1 (2.04%) Credit Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Data Manager
7 1 (2.04%) Information Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) IT Administrator
7 1 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) FHIR
2 5 (10.20%) 802.1X
2 5 (10.20%) Play Framework
3 2 (4.08%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Algorithms
2 10 (20.41%) Life Science
2 10 (20.41%) Omics
3 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.20%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.04%) FMCG
4 1 (2.04%) Genomics
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Molecular Biology
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 20 (40.82%) Decision-Making
3 19 (38.78%) Analytics
3 19 (38.78%) Computer Science
3 19 (38.78%) Data Science
4 15 (30.61%) AI
5 13 (26.53%) Mathematics
6 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (22.45%) Bioinformatics
7 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
8 10 (20.41%) Data Architecture
8 10 (20.41%) Data Strategy
8 10 (20.41%) Hematology
8 10 (20.41%) Immunology
8 10 (20.41%) Metadata Management
8 10 (20.41%) Ontologies
8 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (20.41%) Visualisation
9 9 (18.37%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (18.37%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) Python
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 10 (20.41%) R
3 5 (10.20%) Java
3 5 (10.20%) Scala
4 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) Degree
2 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
3 15 (30.61%) SC Cleared
4 10 (20.41%) PhD
5 7 (14.29%) CCNA
5 7 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (14.29%) JNCIA
5 7 (14.29%) Master's Degree
6 5 (10.20%) DBS Check
6 5 (10.20%) GCSC
6 5 (10.20%) MBA
7 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (2.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) Accessibility
2 10 (20.41%) CDISC
2 10 (20.41%) GxP
2 10 (20.41%) HL7
3 5 (10.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Freshdesk
2 5 (10.20%) BT
2 5 (10.20%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.04%) Siemens