Statistical Modelling Job Trends

Statistical Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Statistical Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 531 521
Rank change year-on-year -168 -10 +8
Permanent jobs citing Statistical Modelling 111 129 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.30% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 57 50 66
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £44,625 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.08% +22.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £83,150 £172,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -18.52% +34.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Statistical Modelling 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,482 43,719 62,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.07% 88.75% 81.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58,986 24,656 34,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Statistical Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Statistical Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Statistical Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK

Statistical Modelling
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Statistical Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Statistical Modelling

Statistical Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistical Modelling over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Statistical Modelling in the UK

Statistical Modelling
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistical Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 24 September 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
England -130 104 £65,000 -3.70% 351
London -21 70 £65,000 -39.53% 240
UK excluding London -171 39 £65,000 +18.18% 147
Work from Home -44 33 £73,750 +13.46% 160
North of England -65 13 £65,000 +21.50% 35
North West -24 8 £65,000 -3.70% 18
Midlands -60 8 £72,500 +26.91% 28
South East -72 8 £67,500 +54.43% 34
West Midlands -49 7 £72,500 +22.36% 22
Scotland +1 4 - - 16
East of England -41 4 £47,500 +18.75% 10
Yorkshire -43 4 £75,000 +87.50% 13
East Midlands -34 1 - - 6
North East -66 1 £65,000 +25.00% 4
Wales -76 1 £40,000 - 11
South West -80 1 £37,500 -54.55% 16

Statistical Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (9.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) SAS
3 2 (1.80%) Apache
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.90%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.63%) Azure
2 25 (22.52%) Power Platform
3 17 (15.32%) AWS
3 17 (15.32%) Azure Machine Learning
4 15 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (10.81%) dbt
6 11 (9.91%) GCP
7 8 (7.21%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.50%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.70%) Azure AI
9 3 (2.70%) SaaS
10 2 (1.80%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (1.80%) Prefect
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Databricks
11 1 (0.90%) GitHub
11 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.52%) Power BI
2 10 (9.01%) Data Mining
3 5 (4.50%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.70%) Tableau
6 2 (1.80%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.80%) Looker
7 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.90%) QGIS
7 1 (0.90%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) MLflow
General
1 53 (47.75%) Finance
2 43 (38.74%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 23 (20.72%) Marketing
5 16 (14.41%) Law
6 13 (11.71%) Retail
7 7 (6.31%) Banking
8 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (4.50%) Games
9 5 (4.50%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.50%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.60%) Private Banking
11 3 (2.70%) Advertising
11 3 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.80%) Aviation
12 2 (1.80%) Publishing
13 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (23.42%) Data Scientist
2 25 (22.52%) Senior
3 22 (19.82%) Analyst
4 13 (11.71%) Data Analyst
4 13 (11.71%) Lead
5 12 (10.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Operations Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Analytics Manager
6 10 (9.01%) Senior Data Scientist
7 8 (7.21%) Analytics Consultant
7 8 (7.21%) Consultant
7 8 (7.21%) Risk Consultant
7 8 (7.21%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.41%) Pricing Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Marketing Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Testing Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.91%) PyTorch
2 10 (9.01%) Pandas
3 7 (6.31%) NumPy
4 6 (5.41%) Hugging Face
4 6 (5.41%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.41%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.50%) PySpark
6 4 (3.60%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.60%) Google JAX
6 4 (3.60%) JAX
6 4 (3.60%) Keras
6 4 (3.60%) SciPy
7 2 (1.80%) .NET
7 2 (1.80%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.80%) Flash
7 2 (1.80%) Flask
7 2 (1.80%) gRPC
7 2 (1.80%) ONNX
7 2 (1.80%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.80%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.82%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.91%) Credit Risk
3 7 (6.31%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.41%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) 3D Printing
6 3 (2.70%) Life Science
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.80%) CUDA
7 2 (1.80%) FMCG
7 2 (1.80%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Synthetic Data
7 2 (1.80%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (69.37%) Analytics
2 69 (62.16%) Machine Learning
3 66 (59.46%) Data Science
4 40 (36.04%) AI
5 35 (31.53%) Decision-Making
6 34 (30.63%) Visualisation
7 29 (26.13%) Actionable Insight
8 28 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (25.23%) Mathematics
9 26 (23.42%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (22.52%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (22.52%) Data Visualisation
10 25 (22.52%) MLOps
10 25 (22.52%) Statistical Analysis
11 24 (21.62%) Statistics
12 23 (20.72%) CI/CD
13 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (18.92%) Computer Science
14 21 (18.92%) Data Analysis
15 20 (18.02%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (84.68%) Python
2 73 (65.77%) SQL
3 21 (18.92%) R
4 3 (2.70%) C#
4 3 (2.70%) Julia
5 2 (1.80%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) C
6 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.90%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (36.94%) Degree
2 14 (12.61%) PhD
3 8 (7.21%) Master's Degree
3 8 (7.21%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (7.21%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (28.83%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.50%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 26 (23.42%) Databricks
2 8 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.50%) Google
4 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.80%) Thales