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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 684 515 632
Rank change year-on-year -169 +117 -90
Permanent jobs citing Statistical Modelling 98 158 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.36% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 48 51 69
10th Percentile £44,975 £40,240 £38,600
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +27.55%
75th Percentile £75,625 £104,375 £93,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £172,500 £127,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +26.16%

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 79,954 44,458 67,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.81% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,419 25,298 42,226
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,047
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.09% -9.01%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -147 91 £65,000 -10.34% 248
London -32 62 £69,000 -35.81% 176
UK excluding London -177 34 £65,000 +18.18% 100
Work from Home -48 31 £67,500 -5.26% 84
North of England -51 11 £65,000 +18.18% 23
South East -64 10 £65,000 +48.71% 30
North West -12 8 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Scotland +3 4 - - 6
West Midlands -38 4 £55,000 -13.21% 7
Midlands -42 4 £55,000 -7.17% 15
East of England -37 3 £47,500 -19.15% 10
Yorkshire -41 2 £63,750 +94.66% 10
North East -60 1 £65,000 +25.00% 2
Wales -66 1 £40,000 -42.03% 5
South West -75 1 £37,500 -55.88% 12

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 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.04%) Apache
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.02%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) Azure
2 22 (22.45%) Power Platform
3 16 (16.33%) AWS
4 13 (13.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (13.27%) Azure Machine Learning
5 12 (12.24%) dbt
6 11 (11.22%) GCP
7 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.16%) Snowflake
9 5 (5.10%) Google Analytics
10 3 (3.06%) SaaS
11 2 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (2.04%) Prefect
12 1 (1.02%) Azure AI
12 1 (1.02%) GitHub
12 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.45%) Power BI
2 5 (5.10%) BigQuery
2 5 (5.10%) Data Mining
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.04%) Looker
5 2 (2.04%) Power Query
5 2 (2.04%) Tableau
6 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.02%) QGIS
6 1 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 5 (5.10%) MLflow
General
1 45 (45.92%) Finance
2 37 (37.76%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
4 22 (22.45%) Marketing
5 16 (16.33%) Law
6 13 (13.27%) Retail
7 7 (7.14%) Manufacturing
8 6 (6.12%) Banking
8 6 (6.12%) Games
8 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.08%) Private Banking
9 4 (4.08%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.06%) Advertising
10 3 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (2.04%) Publishing
12 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.02%) iGaming
12 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (24.49%) Senior
2 22 (22.45%) Analyst
2 22 (22.45%) Data Scientist
3 12 (12.24%) Lead
4 11 (11.22%) Data Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Analytics Manager
5 10 (10.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Operations Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Senior Data Scientist
6 8 (8.16%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Data Manager
7 6 (6.12%) Pricing Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Marketing Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Data Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Testing Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Web Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Web Analytics Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) Pandas
1 8 (8.16%) PyTorch
2 5 (5.10%) NumPy
2 5 (5.10%) PySpark
3 4 (4.08%) Hugging Face
3 4 (4.08%) scikit-learn
3 4 (4.08%) SciPy
3 4 (4.08%) TensorFlow
4 3 (3.06%) Google JAX
4 3 (3.06%) JAX
4 3 (3.06%) Keras
5 2 (2.04%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.04%) Flash
5 2 (2.04%) Flask
5 2 (2.04%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.02%) .NET
6 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.12%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (5.10%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.08%) FMCG
6 3 (3.06%) 3D Printing
6 3 (3.06%) Life Science
7 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.04%) Hackathon
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Online Games
8 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (63.27%) Analytics
2 61 (62.24%) Machine Learning
3 54 (55.10%) Data Science
4 34 (34.69%) AI
5 30 (30.61%) Visualisation
6 26 (26.53%) Statistics
7 25 (25.51%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (25.51%) Decision-Making
8 24 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (23.47%) Actionable Insight
9 23 (23.47%) Mathematics
10 22 (22.45%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (22.45%) Data Visualisation
11 20 (20.41%) Statistical Analysis
12 19 (19.39%) CI/CD
12 19 (19.39%) MLOps
13 18 (18.37%) Personalization
14 17 (17.35%) Data Engineering
15 16 (16.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (79.59%) Python
2 62 (63.27%) SQL
3 19 (19.39%) R
4 3 (3.06%) Julia
5 1 (1.02%) C
5 1 (1.02%) C#
5 1 (1.02%) C++
5 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.02%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 33 (33.67%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) PhD
3 6 (6.12%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.08%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.06%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 21 (21.43%) Databricks
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 2 (2.04%) OpenAI