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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 377 514
Rank change year-on-year -170 +137 +205
Permanent jobs citing Statistical Modelling 113 354 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.68% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.74% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 47 137 156
10th Percentile - £25,000 £44,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -0.43%
75th Percentile £66,500 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,250 £91,900 £96,394
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,195 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.18% +20.22%

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 50,903 47,795 61,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.21% 91.56% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 30,118 23,045 47,857
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,326 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 30 January 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 30 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
England -125 106 £53,750 -10.42% 95
UK excluding London -128 60 £50,195 +11.54% 89
London -11 51 £52,500 -25.00% 23
Work from Home -83 26 £52,500 +16.67% 62
North of England -28 18 £62,500 +143.90% 18
Midlands -2 17 £55,000 +22.22% 10
East Midlands -10 9 £45,390 -44.98% 7
East of England +31 8 £40,000 - 14
West Midlands 0 8 £56,250 +32.35% 3
South East -36 8 £40,000 -38.46% 32
Yorkshire -36 8 £40,000 +56.10% 6
North West +4 7 £67,500 +57.89% 8
Wales +8 6 £40,000 - 4
North East +2 3 £62,500 - 4
South West -17 3 - - 7

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 6 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (35.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.86%) Power Platform
2 17 (15.04%) Azure
3 12 (10.62%) AWS
4 8 (7.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (6.19%) GCP
6 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.88%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.88%) SaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) LTE
1 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (46.02%) Tableau
2 36 (31.86%) Power BI
3 14 (12.39%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.54%) Big Data
4 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.65%) Power Query
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.88%) KDB
6 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.88%) Spotfire
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 72 (63.72%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (51.33%) Finance
3 30 (26.55%) Banking
3 30 (26.55%) Financial Institution
3 30 (26.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (25.66%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.42%) Marketing
6 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.65%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.77%) Front Office
7 2 (1.77%) Law
7 2 (1.77%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 63 (55.75%) Analyst
2 37 (32.74%) Data Analyst
3 13 (11.50%) Data Scientist
3 13 (11.50%) Trainee
4 8 (7.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (4.42%) Developer
5 5 (4.42%) Senior
6 4 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (3.54%) Data Science Developer
7 3 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 3 (2.65%) Customer Analyst
7 3 (2.65%) Lead
8 2 (1.77%) Business Analyst
8 2 (1.77%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (1.77%) Data Engineer
8 2 (1.77%) Product Lead
8 2 (1.77%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (1.77%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.19%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.19%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.31%) Pandas
4 5 (4.42%) NumPy
5 4 (3.54%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.54%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.77%) PySpark
7 1 (0.88%) React
7 1 (0.88%) SciPy
7 1 (0.88%) XGBoost
7 1 (0.88%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.43%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (17.70%) Algorithms
3 19 (16.81%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.65%) FMCG
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.88%) Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.88%) FPGA
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (69.91%) Data Science
2 70 (61.95%) Mathematics
3 64 (56.64%) AI
4 62 (54.87%) Data Analysis
5 60 (53.10%) Analytics
5 60 (53.10%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (46.02%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (41.59%) Machine Learning
8 38 (33.63%) Statistics
9 34 (30.09%) Decision-Making
10 31 (27.43%) Business Strategy
10 31 (27.43%) Portfolio Management
10 31 (27.43%) Stress Testing
11 30 (26.55%) Asset Management
11 30 (26.55%) Migration
11 30 (26.55%) Risk Analytics
11 30 (26.55%) Risk Management
11 30 (26.55%) Scenario Testing
11 30 (26.55%) Workflow
12 28 (24.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (90.27%) Python
2 66 (58.41%) SQL
3 12 (10.62%) R
4 2 (1.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 59 (52.21%) Degree
2 30 (26.55%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.77%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) CBAP
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (45.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.88%) QA
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Alteryx
1 30 (26.55%) Bloomberg
2 18 (15.93%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.65%) Google
4 1 (0.88%) Civica
4 1 (0.88%) Northgate
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle
4 1 (0.88%) Orchard
4 1 (0.88%) Pega
4 1 (0.88%) TIBCO