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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 703 525 543
Rank change year-on-year -178 +18 -14
Permanent jobs citing Statistical Modelling 102 148 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 50 48 67
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,563 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -1.72% +26.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £162,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +31.42%

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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £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 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Statistical Modelling in the UK

Statistical Modelling
Top 15 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 10 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 -156 95 £65,000 -7.14% 152
London -33 64 £65,000 -39.53% 103
UK excluding London -185 36 £65,000 +18.18% 67
Work from Home -41 29 £70,000 +3.70% 60
North of England -61 11 £65,000 +21.50% 16
South East -56 9 £67,500 +54.43% 21
North West -13 8 £65,000 -3.70% 7
West Midlands -32 6 £72,500 +14.40% 8
Midlands -56 6 £72,500 +22.36% 13
Scotland +3 4 - - 5
East of England -36 4 £47,500 +18.75% 4
Yorkshire -51 2 £63,750 +59.38% 8
North East -60 1 £65,000 +25.00% 1
Wales -75 1 £40,000 - 1
South West -83 1 £37,500 -55.88% 9

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 (10.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) SAS
3 2 (1.96%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.98%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.37%) Azure
2 22 (21.57%) Power Platform
3 16 (15.69%) AWS
4 15 (14.71%) Azure Machine Learning
5 13 (12.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (11.76%) dbt
7 11 (10.78%) GCP
8 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.84%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.90%) Google Analytics
11 3 (2.94%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.94%) SaaS
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon Bedrock
12 2 (1.96%) Prefect
13 1 (0.98%) Azure Databricks
13 1 (0.98%) GitHub
13 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.57%) Power BI
2 5 (4.90%) BigQuery
2 5 (4.90%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.96%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.96%) Looker
5 2 (1.96%) Tableau
6 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.98%) Power Query
6 1 (0.98%) QGIS
6 1 (0.98%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (13.73%) Git
2 7 (6.86%) MLflow
General
1 46 (45.10%) Finance
2 37 (36.27%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (30.39%) Social Skills
4 22 (21.57%) Marketing
5 16 (15.69%) Law
6 13 (12.75%) Retail
7 6 (5.88%) Banking
7 6 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.90%) Games
8 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.92%) Private Banking
9 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.94%) Advertising
10 3 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.96%) Aviation
11 2 (1.96%) Publishing
12 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (24.51%) Senior
2 24 (23.53%) Data Scientist
3 23 (22.55%) Analyst
4 13 (12.75%) Data Analyst
5 12 (11.76%) Lead
6 10 (9.80%) Analytics Manager
6 10 (9.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Operations Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Senior Data Scientist
7 8 (7.84%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.88%) Pricing Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Marketing Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Senior Data Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Testing Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Web Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Web Analytics Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) PyTorch
2 10 (9.80%) Pandas
3 7 (6.86%) NumPy
3 7 (6.86%) TensorFlow
4 6 (5.88%) Hugging Face
4 6 (5.88%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.90%) PySpark
6 4 (3.92%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.92%) Google JAX
6 4 (3.92%) JAX
6 4 (3.92%) Keras
6 4 (3.92%) SciPy
7 2 (1.96%) Flash
7 2 (1.96%) Flask
7 2 (1.96%) gRPC
7 2 (1.96%) ONNX
7 2 (1.96%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.96%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.98%) .NET
8 1 (0.98%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.61%) Algorithms
2 7 (6.86%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.94%) 3D Printing
5 3 (2.94%) FMCG
5 3 (2.94%) Life Science
6 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.96%) CUDA
6 2 (1.96%) Hackathon
6 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.96%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (1.96%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.67%) Analytics
2 65 (63.73%) Machine Learning
3 61 (59.80%) Data Science
4 39 (38.24%) AI
5 30 (29.41%) Visualisation
6 27 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (26.47%) Decision-Making
7 25 (24.51%) Actionable Insight
7 25 (24.51%) Mathematics
8 24 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (23.53%) Statistics
9 23 (22.55%) MLOps
10 22 (21.57%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (21.57%) Data Visualisation
10 22 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (20.59%) CI/CD
12 20 (19.61%) Statistical Analysis
13 18 (17.65%) Personalization
14 17 (16.67%) Data Engineering
14 17 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (83.33%) Python
2 66 (64.71%) SQL
3 20 (19.61%) R
4 3 (2.94%) Julia
5 1 (0.98%) C
5 1 (0.98%) C#
5 1 (0.98%) C++
5 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 35 (34.31%) Degree
2 14 (13.73%) PhD
3 8 (7.84%) Master's Degree
3 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (28.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.90%) QA
3 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Databricks
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.90%) Google
4 2 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.96%) Thales