Statistics Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Statistics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Statistics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 285 295
Rank change year-on-year -91 +10 +68
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 133 313 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.87% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.98% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 67 115 146
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £29,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,625 £64,801 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,250 £84,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Statistics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Statistics

Statistics
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Statistics in the UK excluding London

Statistics
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East -17 46 £29,500 -37.89% 36
North of England -67 25 £57,500 +27.15% 20
Midlands -1 22 £40,000 -11.11% 6
North West -14 18 £57,500 +4.55% 12
South West +1 16 £35,536 -13.85% 6
East Midlands -11 13 £40,000 -51.52% 3
Wales +13 9 £29,000 - 4
West Midlands +2 9 £61,250 +53.13% 3
Scotland -2 7 £57,500 +8.75% 3
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 1
East of England +12 4 £70,000 +86.67% 15
Yorkshire -48 4 £37,500 +46.34% 4
North East +5 3 £57,500 +44.23% 6
Statistics
UK

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.76%) IIS
2 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.51%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) CATIA
4 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 14 (10.53%) AWS
2 14 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 7 (5.26%) GCP
3 7 (5.26%) Google Workspace
4 5 (3.76%) Azure
4 5 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.01%) SurveyMonkey
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.75%) dbt
6 1 (0.75%) OCI
6 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.27%) Firewall
2 7 (5.26%) Network Security
3 6 (4.51%) Internet
3 6 (4.51%) LTE
3 6 (4.51%) VSAT
4 5 (3.76%) Wireless
5 4 (3.01%) 802.11
5 4 (3.01%) Bluetooth
5 4 (3.01%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (3.01%) Modbus
5 4 (3.01%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.01%) VLAN
5 4 (3.01%) Wireshark
5 4 (3.01%) ZigBee
6 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.75%) LAN
7 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
7 1 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.05%) Power BI
2 24 (18.05%) Tableau
3 10 (7.52%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.52%) Metadata
4 9 (6.77%) Big Data
5 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.76%) Data Mining
6 5 (3.76%) Data Vault
6 5 (3.76%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.76%) Looker
6 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.01%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.01%) Power Query
8 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) GitLab
2 4 (3.01%) Burp Suite
2 4 (3.01%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.50%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) MLflow
General
1 51 (38.35%) Finance
2 50 (37.59%) Social Skills
3 42 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (16.54%) Marketing
5 16 (12.03%) Telecoms
6 14 (10.53%) Manufacturing
7 10 (7.52%) Electronics
7 10 (7.52%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (6.02%) Aerospace
8 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (5.26%) Advertising
9 7 (5.26%) Law
10 6 (4.51%) Avionics
10 6 (4.51%) Billing
10 6 (4.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (3.76%) Banking
11 5 (3.76%) Environmental Health
11 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
11 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Analyst
2 25 (18.80%) Lead
3 23 (17.29%) Data Analyst
4 19 (14.29%) Senior
5 14 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) Technical Support
5 14 (10.53%) Technical Support Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Customer Analyst
6 11 (8.27%) Developer
7 8 (6.02%) Digital Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) Senior Data Analyst
8 7 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (5.26%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.51%) Analyst Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 6 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.52%) FHIR
2 5 (3.76%) Play Framework
3 4 (3.01%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.26%) Snowpark
5 2 (1.50%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.50%) PySpark
5 2 (1.50%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.50%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.75%) EDI
6 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Algorithms
2 12 (9.02%) Life Science
3 11 (8.27%) Omics
4 6 (4.51%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.76%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.76%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.76%) IoT
6 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.01%) CAN bus
6 4 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.01%) Digital Media
6 4 (3.01%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.01%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (3.01%) SCADA
7 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.26%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.26%) FMCG
8 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.76%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Android
2 4 (3.01%) Kali Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.36%) Data Science
2 51 (38.35%) Decision-Making
3 48 (36.09%) Analytics
4 41 (30.83%) Computer Science
5 38 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 38 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (24.81%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (24.06%) Visualisation
8 31 (23.31%) AI
8 31 (23.31%) Data Visualisation
9 26 (19.55%) Data Analysis
9 26 (19.55%) Mathematics
10 25 (18.80%) Economics
11 22 (16.54%) Statistical Analysis
12 20 (15.04%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (13.53%) CRM
13 18 (13.53%) Customer Service
14 16 (12.03%) A/B Testing
14 16 (12.03%) Data Analytics
14 16 (12.03%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.59%) Python
2 45 (33.83%) SQL
3 23 (17.29%) R
4 9 (6.77%) Java
5 5 (3.76%) ANSI SQL
5 5 (3.76%) Scala
6 4 (3.01%) C++
6 4 (3.01%) Rust
7 3 (2.26%) C
7 3 (2.26%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (2.26%) MATLAB
7 3 (2.26%) Tcl
8 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 72 (54.14%) Degree
2 27 (20.30%) Security Cleared
3 21 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 20 (15.04%) Master's Degree
5 18 (13.53%) PhD
6 12 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (6.77%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (6.02%) DBS Check
9 6 (4.51%) CCNA
9 6 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (4.51%) JNCIA
10 5 (3.76%) HNC
10 5 (3.76%) MBA
11 4 (3.01%) GCSC
12 3 (2.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.27%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.52%) CDISC
2 10 (7.52%) GxP
2 10 (7.52%) HL7
3 6 (4.51%) SLA
4 5 (3.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.76%) NEBOSH
5 3 (2.26%) GDPR
6 2 (1.50%) QA
7 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.26%) Docker
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (3.01%) Nessus
2 4 (3.01%) Nmap
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.77%) Salesforce
3 11 (8.27%) Google
4 10 (7.52%) Cisco
5 8 (6.02%) Databricks
6 6 (4.51%) Freshdesk
6 6 (4.51%) Oracle
6 6 (4.51%) PayPal
7 5 (3.76%) BT
7 5 (3.76%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.76%) VMware
8 4 (3.01%) HubSpot
8 4 (3.01%) Qualtrics
8 4 (3.01%) Splunk
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.75%) SAP
9 1 (0.75%) Siemens
9 1 (0.75%) TIBCO