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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 528 504
Rank change year-on-year -171 -24 +17
Permanent jobs citing Statistical Modelling 111 126 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.29% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 63 45 66
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,000 £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 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,200 £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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -1.89% 391
London -30 71 £65,000 -39.53% 264
UK excluding London -156 38 £65,000 +18.18% 148
Work from Home -36 34 £75,000 +7.14% 169
North of England -72 14 £65,000 +21.50% 38
North West -23 9 £65,000 -3.70% 25
Midlands -50 9 £72,500 +26.91% 23
West Midlands -42 8 £72,500 +22.36% 20
Scotland -1 5 £62,500 - 11
South East -64 5 £70,000 +15.50% 38
Yorkshire -38 4 £75,000 +87.50% 10
East of England -39 4 £47,500 +18.75% 20
East Midlands -38 1 - - 3
North East -61 1 £65,000 +25.00% 4
South West -72 1 £37,500 -54.55% 13

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 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.43%) Azure
2 26 (23.42%) Power Platform
3 19 (17.12%) Azure Machine Learning
4 18 (16.22%) AWS
5 17 (15.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.81%) dbt
8 9 (8.11%) GCP
9 7 (6.31%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.60%) SaaS
11 3 (2.70%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.70%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.80%) Amazon Bedrock
12 2 (1.80%) Prefect
13 1 (0.90%) Azure Databricks
13 1 (0.90%) GitHub
13 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.90%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.42%) Power BI
2 12 (10.81%) Data Mining
3 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.70%) Looker
5 3 (2.70%) Tableau
6 2 (1.80%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.80%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.80%) MySQL
7 1 (0.90%) Big Data
7 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.90%) QGIS
7 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) MLflow
General
1 59 (53.15%) Finance
2 44 (39.64%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (36.94%) Social Skills
4 20 (18.02%) Marketing
5 15 (13.51%) Law
6 14 (12.61%) Retail
7 8 (7.21%) Banking
8 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (4.50%) Games
9 5 (4.50%) Private Banking
10 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.70%) Advertising
11 3 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.80%) Aviation
12 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.80%) Publishing
13 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (25.23%) Data Scientist
2 27 (24.32%) Senior
3 21 (18.92%) Analyst
4 14 (12.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 14 (12.61%) Operations Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Data Analyst
5 13 (11.71%) Lead
6 11 (9.91%) Senior Data Scientist
7 10 (9.01%) Analytics Manager
8 9 (8.11%) Analytics Consultant
8 9 (8.11%) Consultant
8 9 (8.11%) Risk Consultant
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.41%) Data Manager
10 6 (5.41%) Pricing Analyst
11 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Analyst
12 4 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Data Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Decision Scientist
13 3 (2.70%) Lead Data 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 23 (20.72%) Algorithms
2 14 (12.61%) Credit Risk
3 7 (6.31%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.41%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.70%) Life Science
7 2 (1.80%) 3D Printing
7 2 (1.80%) CUDA
7 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
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 79 (71.17%) Analytics
2 70 (63.06%) Machine Learning
3 69 (62.16%) Data Science
4 41 (36.94%) AI
5 37 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 37 (33.33%) Visualisation
6 31 (27.93%) Actionable Insight
7 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (26.13%) Mathematics
8 29 (26.13%) Statistical Analysis
9 28 (25.23%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (25.23%) Data Visualisation
9 28 (25.23%) MLOps
10 26 (23.42%) CI/CD
10 26 (23.42%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (22.52%) Statistics
12 24 (21.62%) Data Analysis
13 23 (20.72%) Computer Science
14 22 (19.82%) Data Engineering
15 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 99 (89.19%) Python
2 77 (69.37%) 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 40 (36.04%) Degree
2 14 (12.61%) PhD
3 10 (9.01%) Numerate Degree
4 9 (8.11%) Master's Degree
5 8 (7.21%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.60%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.50%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 28 (25.23%) Databricks
2 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.70%) Google
4 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.80%) Thales