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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 296 311 280
Rank change year-on-year +15 -31 +116
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 571 1,414 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.15% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.20% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 330 689 723
10th Percentile £32,763 £31,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,850 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +0.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,938 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,875 £99,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%

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 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +55 543 £55,000 -8.33% 358
UK excluding London +58 354 £47,500 -5.00% 176
Work from Home +78 280 £57,500 - 170
London +44 191 £65,000 - 216
South East +51 119 £44,560 -25.73% 57
North of England +109 87 £51,528 +21.24% 49
South West +115 83 £50,000 +25.00% 11
Yorkshire +102 48 £51,528 +21.24% 8
North West +82 35 £47,500 +11.76% 40
Midlands +42 32 £44,500 -22.61% 22
West Midlands +86 26 £46,250 +5.11% 15
East of England +67 10 £57,500 +12.20% 22
Scotland -17 9 £70,000 +73.82% 10
Wales -2 8 £44,514 +14.89% 5
East Midlands +2 6 £44,000 -26.67% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £41,500 - 4
North East +46 4 £56,740 +19.45% 1

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
1 108 (18.91%) SAS
2 23 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.98%) Apache
4 13 (2.28%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.35%) Confluence
7 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 51 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.05%) SPSS
5 3 (0.53%) Stata
6 2 (0.35%) EViews
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Sage 200
1 6 (1.05%) Shopify
2 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.88%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.70%) HFM
3 4 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 83 (14.54%) Power Platform
2 82 (14.36%) Azure
3 68 (11.91%) AWS
4 29 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (3.68%) GCP
6 13 (2.28%) OpenShift
7 12 (2.10%) PowerApps
8 9 (1.58%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.58%) SaaS
9 8 (1.40%) Google Analytics
10 7 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.23%) dbt
10 7 (1.23%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.88%) Serverless
12 4 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.70%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.70%) Google Ads
12 4 (0.70%) Google Data Studio
12 4 (0.70%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.80%) LAN
1 16 (2.80%) WAN
1 16 (2.80%) Wireless
2 13 (2.28%) Firewall
2 13 (2.28%) Internet
3 12 (2.10%) VPN
4 9 (1.58%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (1.58%) Intranet
5 8 (1.40%) LTE
6 6 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (1.05%) SAN
6 6 (1.05%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.70%) Network Security
7 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.53%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (0.53%) DHCP
8 3 (0.53%) DNS
8 3 (0.53%) Multicast
8 3 (0.53%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (14.36%) Power BI
2 80 (14.01%) Base SAS
3 72 (12.61%) Metadata
4 47 (8.23%) Big Data
4 47 (8.23%) Tableau
5 32 (5.60%) SQL Server
6 31 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.45%) Looker
7 14 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.10%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.58%) MySQL
12 8 (1.40%) Power Query
12 8 (1.40%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.05%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (3.33%) Git
2 7 (1.23%) git-flow
3 5 (0.88%) JIRA
4 3 (0.53%) gulp
4 3 (0.53%) PostCSS
4 3 (0.53%) rollup.js
4 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.53%) Vite
5 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) MLflow
6 1 (0.18%) Postman
6 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.18%) Subversion
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 192 (33.63%) Finance
2 156 (27.32%) Social Skills
3 128 (22.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (14.71%) Pharmaceutical
6 51 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
6 51 (8.93%) Retail
7 35 (6.13%) Banking
8 24 (4.20%) Marketing
9 13 (2.28%) Law
10 12 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.10%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.93%) Games
11 11 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.40%) Retail Finance
13 7 (1.23%) Advertising
13 7 (1.23%) Legal
14 6 (1.05%) Aviation
14 6 (1.05%) Social Science
15 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 162 (28.37%) Analyst
2 118 (20.67%) Senior
3 102 (17.86%) Data Scientist
4 65 (11.38%) Programmer
4 65 (11.38%) Statistical Programmer
5 64 (11.21%) SAS Programmer
5 64 (11.21%) SAS Statistical Programmer
6 55 (9.63%) Data Analyst
7 46 (8.06%) Lead
8 44 (7.71%) Senior Data Scientist
9 41 (7.18%) Developer
10 35 (6.13%) Data Engineer
11 34 (5.95%) Senior Programmer
11 34 (5.95%) Senior SAS Programmer
11 34 (5.95%) Senior Statistical Programmer
12 33 (5.78%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (5.25%) Principal Statistical Programmer
13 30 (5.25%) Qualitative Analyst
13 30 (5.25%) Quantitative Analyst
14 27 (4.73%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (12.08%) XML
2 47 (8.23%) HTML
3 31 (5.43%) PyTorch
4 29 (5.08%) TensorFlow
5 27 (4.73%) .NET
6 26 (4.55%) Pandas
7 22 (3.85%) scikit-learn
8 21 (3.68%) NumPy
9 18 (3.15%) JSON
10 15 (2.63%) Keras
11 11 (1.93%) CSS
12 10 (1.75%) Web Services
13 9 (1.58%) React
14 8 (1.40%) XGBoost
15 7 (1.23%) ASP.NET Web API
16 5 (0.88%) Middleware
16 5 (0.88%) PySpark
16 5 (0.88%) SpaCy
16 5 (0.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 5 (0.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 94 (16.46%) Onboarding
2 83 (14.54%) Life Science
3 82 (14.36%) Algorithms
4 39 (6.83%) Cyberattack
5 32 (5.60%) Credit Risk
6 19 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.45%) Sports Betting
8 13 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.28%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.93%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.58%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.40%) Replication
13 6 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 4 (0.70%) Pricing Data
15 4 (0.70%) Public Cloud
15 4 (0.70%) Reinsurance
16 3 (0.53%) Blockchain
16 3 (0.53%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.93%) Linux
2 7 (1.23%) Windows
3 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (57.97%) Mathematics
2 266 (46.58%) Computer Science
3 205 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
4 192 (33.63%) Data Science
5 180 (31.52%) Analytics
6 159 (27.85%) Machine Learning
7 148 (25.92%) Data Analysis
8 132 (23.12%) Visualisation
9 116 (20.32%) Business Intelligence
10 111 (19.44%) Collaborative Working
11 100 (17.51%) Decision-Making
12 96 (16.81%) Line Management
13 92 (16.11%) Agile
14 88 (15.41%) Creative Thinking
14 88 (15.41%) Economics
15 87 (15.24%) Biotechnology
16 84 (14.71%) Physics
17 72 (12.61%) Data Management
18 71 (12.43%) Artificial Intelligence
18 71 (12.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 256 (44.83%) Python
2 191 (33.45%) SQL
3 108 (18.91%) R
4 80 (14.01%) SAS Macro
5 57 (9.98%) C#
6 52 (9.11%) JavaScript
7 42 (7.36%) C++
8 40 (7.01%) Java
9 29 (5.08%) T-SQL
10 27 (4.73%) MATLAB
11 10 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.23%) C
14 6 (1.05%) Gremlin
14 6 (1.05%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.88%) VBA
16 4 (0.70%) TypeScript
17 3 (0.53%) Go
18 2 (0.35%) Bash
18 2 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 388 (67.95%) Degree
2 94 (16.46%) Master's Degree
3 70 (12.26%) Numerate Degree
4 66 (11.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (11.56%) PhD
5 62 (10.86%) Security Cleared
6 51 (8.93%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.28%) HNC
9 11 (1.93%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.40%) CCNA
10 8 (1.40%) GCSC
10 8 (1.40%) JNCIA
11 6 (1.05%) CCNP
11 6 (1.05%) MBA
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.53%) MOS
12 3 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (14.19%) CDISC
2 72 (12.61%) QA
3 24 (4.20%) IFRS
3 24 (4.20%) IFRS 9
4 22 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.45%) CRD IV
6 8 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.70%) SLA
8 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 38 (6.65%) Docker
2 20 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 32 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.53%) Terraform
4 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Oozie
6 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.45%) Google
3 11 (1.93%) Cisco
3 11 (1.93%) Oracle
4 10 (1.75%) Alteryx
4 10 (1.75%) Databricks
4 10 (1.75%) SAP
5 9 (1.58%) Meraki
6 8 (1.40%) Sage
7 5 (0.88%) Informatica
7 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.88%) Talend
7 5 (0.88%) Xero
8 4 (0.70%) Anaplan
8 4 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.53%) Adobe
9 3 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (0.53%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.35%) DoubleClick
10 2 (0.35%) HP