Statistics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Statistics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Statistics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 375 269
Rank change year-on-year +59 -106 -61
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 882 917 2,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.88% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.92% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 503 572 720
10th Percentile £27,784 £33,270 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,336 £51,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -5.22% +2.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Statistics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Statistics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Statistics.

Salary trend for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Statistics in the UK

Statistics
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +79 806 £55,000 -10.86% 353
London +137 452 £60,000 -11.44% 215
UK excluding London -28 397 £45,000 -6.90% 148
Work from Home +79 349 £51,528 -6.77% 171
North of England +48 94 £45,000 -10.00% 49
South East -15 72 £55,000 -10.86% 27
Midlands -20 71 £42,500 - 23
South West -8 58 £54,043 +2.94% 18
East of England +44 57 £49,250 -10.45% 15
North West +19 52 £50,000 - 30
West Midlands -7 45 £40,001 +0.45% 14
Yorkshire +76 26 £51,528 -4.13% 12
East Midlands -15 22 £44,500 -22.61% 9
Wales -4 21 £42,500 +52.08% 6
Scotland -76 20 £51,528 -17.56% 11
North East +5 16 £37,500 -20.19% 8
Northern Ireland +34 4 £45,000 +12.50% 2

Statistics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (8.62%) SAS
2 42 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.15%) Apache
4 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.34%) Luigi
6 3 (0.34%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Confluence
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 126 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (2.38%) SPSS
4 10 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.45%) InDesign
5 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.34%) Stata
7 2 (0.23%) EViews
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.45%) Lawson
3 3 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.34%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.34%) SAP PM
4 2 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 206 (23.36%) AWS
2 119 (13.49%) Power Platform
3 117 (13.27%) Azure
4 62 (7.03%) GCP
5 37 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (2.95%) SaaS
7 20 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.59%) Snowflake
9 9 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.02%) PaaS
9 9 (1.02%) Serverless
10 7 (0.79%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (0.68%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.68%) GitHub
12 5 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.57%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.45%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.83%) WAN
2 23 (2.61%) LAN
3 16 (1.81%) WPA
4 13 (1.47%) Internet
5 11 (1.25%) DNS
6 8 (0.91%) DHCP
6 8 (0.91%) Firewall
7 7 (0.79%) Wireless
8 5 (0.57%) SMS
9 4 (0.45%) VPN
10 3 (0.34%) Intranet
10 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.23%) FTP
11 2 (0.23%) LTE
11 2 (0.23%) SMTP
11 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.11%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (25.96%) Tableau
2 118 (13.38%) Power BI
3 41 (4.65%) Big Data
4 32 (3.63%) Data Mining
5 31 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.29%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.61%) Looker
7 23 (2.61%) MySQL
8 21 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.04%) Hadoop
10 16 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (1.70%) Redis
12 13 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.36%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (1.25%) Text Mining
15 10 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (1.13%) GIS
15 10 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 136 (15.42%) Git
2 7 (0.79%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.68%) Postman
3 6 (0.68%) SoapUI
4 5 (0.57%) GitLab
4 5 (0.57%) gulp
4 5 (0.57%) PostCSS
4 5 (0.57%) rollup.js
4 5 (0.57%) SonarQube
4 5 (0.57%) Vite
5 4 (0.45%) JIRA
6 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.23%) MLflow
7 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) AdminStudio
8 1 (0.11%) GDB
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 384 (43.54%) Social Skills
2 383 (43.42%) Analytical Skills
3 207 (23.47%) Finance
4 157 (17.80%) Retail
5 133 (15.08%) Presentation Skills
6 80 (9.07%) Marketing
7 52 (5.90%) Banking
8 51 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (4.99%) Law
10 40 (4.54%) Games
11 34 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 19 (2.15%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.81%) Public Sector
15 14 (1.59%) Advertising
15 14 (1.59%) Legal
15 14 (1.59%) Local Government
15 14 (1.59%) Retail Finance
16 13 (1.47%) Investment Banking
17 10 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 348 (39.46%) Analyst
2 232 (26.30%) Senior
3 182 (20.63%) Data Analyst
4 136 (15.42%) Data Scientist
5 116 (13.15%) Senior Analyst
6 78 (8.84%) Senior Data Scientist
7 76 (8.62%) Lead
8 63 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
9 35 (3.97%) Developer
9 35 (3.97%) Lead Data Analyst
10 32 (3.63%) Data Manager
11 30 (3.40%) Analytics Manager
12 26 (2.95%) Service Analyst
13 23 (2.61%) Administrator
13 23 (2.61%) Lead Data Scientist
14 20 (2.27%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.15%) Service Desk Analyst
16 17 (1.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 16 (1.81%) Junior
18 15 (1.70%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (9.98%) TensorFlow
2 49 (5.56%) Pandas
3 45 (5.10%) PyTorch
4 40 (4.54%) scikit-learn
5 38 (4.31%) Kafka
5 38 (4.31%) NumPy
6 35 (3.97%) .NET
7 34 (3.85%) PySpark
8 25 (2.83%) Keras
9 18 (2.04%) CSS
9 18 (2.04%) HTML
9 18 (2.04%) XML
10 14 (1.59%) Web Services
11 13 (1.47%) JSON
12 12 (1.36%) Apache Beam
12 12 (1.36%) RESTful
12 12 (1.36%) XGBoost
13 11 (1.25%) React
14 10 (1.13%) .NET Framework
15 9 (1.02%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 131 (14.85%) Algorithms
2 81 (9.18%) Management Information System
3 40 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 39 (4.42%) Data Structures
5 30 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (3.17%) Credit Risk
7 23 (2.61%) Life Science
8 16 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.36%) Blog
10 11 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (1.13%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.13%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.13%) Social Media
12 9 (1.02%) Taxonomies
13 8 (0.91%) Cloud Native
14 7 (0.79%) Biopharmaceutical
14 7 (0.79%) Blockchain
14 7 (0.79%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.68%) Animation
15 6 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.31%) Windows
2 21 (2.38%) Android
3 14 (1.59%) Linux
4 7 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Unix
5 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (47.73%) Mathematics
2 355 (40.25%) Analytics
3 284 (32.20%) Visualisation
4 263 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
5 253 (28.68%) Computer Science
5 253 (28.68%) Data Analysis
6 247 (28.00%) Data Science
7 216 (24.49%) Machine Learning
8 205 (23.24%) Actionable Insight
9 194 (22.00%) Business Intelligence
10 161 (18.25%) Decision-Making
11 139 (15.76%) Root Cause Analysis
12 126 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
13 122 (13.83%) Business Strategy
14 121 (13.72%) Agile
15 120 (13.61%) Storytelling
16 118 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
17 112 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
18 101 (11.45%) Data Analytics
19 100 (11.34%) Economics
Programming Languages
1 458 (51.93%) Python
2 421 (47.73%) SQL
3 119 (13.49%) R
4 48 (5.44%) JavaScript
5 45 (5.10%) C#
6 36 (4.08%) Java
7 25 (2.83%) MATLAB
8 24 (2.72%) C++
9 20 (2.27%) T-SQL
10 19 (2.15%) VBA
11 17 (1.93%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.81%) C
13 8 (0.91%) VB
14 7 (0.79%) Groovy
15 6 (0.68%) Go
15 6 (0.68%) PHP
16 3 (0.34%) Bash
16 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.34%) Perl
17 2 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 566 (64.17%) Degree
2 159 (18.03%) Master's Degree
3 111 (12.59%) DBS Check
4 78 (8.84%) Numerate Degree
5 74 (8.39%) PhD
6 46 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.85%) Security Cleared
8 18 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.13%) MBA
10 8 (0.91%) CCNA
11 7 (0.79%) HNC
12 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.68%) SC Cleared
13 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.45%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.34%) CCNP
15 3 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.29%) QA
4 24 (2.72%) SLA
5 18 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 18 (2.04%) GDPR
6 16 (1.81%) IFRS
6 16 (1.81%) IFRS 9
7 15 (1.70%) CRD IV
8 12 (1.36%) CDISC
8 12 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.79%) ISO 14001
10 7 (0.79%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.23%) MiFID
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
12 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 39 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (0.91%) Kubernetes
1 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.79%) Terraform
3 5 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.45%) Ansible
5 3 (0.34%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (0.34%) Perfmon
5 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 130 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 127 (14.40%) Databricks
3 22 (2.49%) Google
3 22 (2.49%) Oracle
4 15 (1.70%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.47%) SAP
6 12 (1.36%) Alteryx
7 10 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.91%) Cisco
8 8 (0.91%) Cognos
9 7 (0.79%) Adobe
9 7 (0.79%) Dataiku
9 7 (0.79%) iManage
9 7 (0.79%) Mapbox
10 5 (0.57%) Rapid7
10 5 (0.57%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.45%) Avaya
11 4 (0.45%) Citrix
11 4 (0.45%) JD Edwards
11 4 (0.45%) MicroStrategy