Statistics Job Trends

Statistics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Statistics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 283 301
Rank change year-on-year -93 +18 +60
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 288 546 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.02% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.13% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 122 194 298
10th Percentile £28,275 £25,313 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,279 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,438 £77,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £114,875 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Statistics 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 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Statistics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Statistics job vacancy trend in the UK

Statistics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Statistics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Statistics

Statistics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistics over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 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 -98 242 £56,250 -6.25% 138
UK excluding London -83 134 £40,000 -11.11% 102
London -29 124 £85,000 +21.43% 54
Work from Home -111 65 £45,000 -18.18% 87
South East -30 46 £29,500 -37.89% 35
North of England -48 25 £57,500 +27.15% 21
Midlands +3 22 £40,000 -11.11% 9
North West -5 18 £57,500 +4.55% 12
South West -1 16 £35,536 -13.85% 11
East Midlands -12 13 £40,000 -51.52% 4
Wales +7 9 £29,000 - 6
West Midlands +5 9 £61,250 +53.13% 5
Scotland -6 8 £57,500 +8.75% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 2
East of England +10 4 £70,000 +86.67% 17
Yorkshire -44 4 £37,500 +46.34% 4
North East -2 3 £57,500 +44.23% 7

Statistics
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 10 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.74%) IIS
3 5 (1.74%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 40 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.47%) Chatbot
4 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.04%) Stata
7 1 (0.35%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Lawson
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (16.32%) Power Platform
2 34 (11.81%) AWS
3 24 (8.33%) Azure
4 23 (7.99%) GCP
4 23 (7.99%) Snowflake
5 7 (2.43%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (2.43%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.43%) Google Workspace
5 7 (2.43%) Vertex AI
6 5 (1.74%) Dagster
6 5 (1.74%) dbt
7 4 (1.39%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.39%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.39%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.39%) SaaS
7 4 (1.39%) SurveyMonkey
8 3 (1.04%) Dataform
9 2 (0.69%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.82%) Firewall
2 8 (2.78%) Internet
3 7 (2.43%) Network Security
4 6 (2.08%) LTE
4 6 (2.08%) VSAT
5 5 (1.74%) Wireless
6 4 (1.39%) 802.11
6 4 (1.39%) Bluetooth
6 4 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.39%) Modbus
6 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.39%) VLAN
6 4 (1.39%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.39%) ZigBee
7 3 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.69%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.35%) WAN
9 1 (0.35%) WebEx
9 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (23.61%) Tableau
2 47 (16.32%) Power BI
3 15 (5.21%) Looker
4 13 (4.51%) Big Data
4 13 (4.51%) BigQuery
4 13 (4.51%) Metadata
5 12 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.47%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.13%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.43%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.43%) Power Query
10 6 (2.08%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (1.74%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.74%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (2.78%) MLflow
2 7 (2.43%) Git
3 5 (1.74%) GitLab
4 4 (1.39%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.39%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.69%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 116 (40.28%) Finance
2 101 (35.07%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (32.99%) Social Skills
4 48 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (14.93%) Banking
6 38 (13.19%) Financial Institution
7 36 (12.50%) Marketing
8 27 (9.38%) Law
9 25 (8.68%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (6.60%) Manufacturing
11 17 (5.90%) Telecoms
12 16 (5.56%) Games
13 13 (4.51%) Advertising
14 11 (3.82%) Electronics
14 11 (3.82%) Public Sector
14 11 (3.82%) Retail
15 8 (2.78%) Aerospace
15 8 (2.78%) Front Office
16 7 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 81 (28.13%) Analyst
2 60 (20.83%) Data Analyst
3 44 (15.28%) Senior
4 30 (10.42%) Lead
5 29 (10.07%) Developer
6 25 (8.68%) Data Scientist
7 14 (4.86%) Support Engineer
7 14 (4.86%) Technical Engineer
7 14 (4.86%) Technical Support
7 14 (4.86%) Technical Support Engineer
8 13 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (4.17%) Senior Data Analyst
9 12 (4.17%) Senior Data Scientist
9 12 (4.17%) Senior Manager
10 11 (3.82%) Customer Analyst
10 11 (3.82%) Web Manager
11 10 (3.47%) Account Manager
11 10 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Consultant
12 9 (3.13%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 15 (5.21%) TensorFlow
3 10 (3.47%) FHIR
4 8 (2.78%) scikit-learn
5 6 (2.08%) Faiss
5 6 (2.08%) Pandas
5 6 (2.08%) PySpark
6 5 (1.74%) Kafka
6 5 (1.74%) NumPy
6 5 (1.74%) Play Framework
6 5 (1.74%) vLLM
7 4 (1.39%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.04%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (1.04%) React
8 3 (1.04%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.69%) .NET
9 2 (0.69%) ModSecurity
10 1 (0.35%) Caffe
10 1 (0.35%) EDI
10 1 (0.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.53%) Algorithms
2 34 (11.81%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.21%) Equities
5 12 (4.17%) Life Science
5 12 (4.17%) Omics
5 12 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.47%) Credit Risk
6 10 (3.47%) Digital Media
7 9 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.74%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.74%) IoT
10 4 (1.39%) CAN bus
10 4 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.39%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.39%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.74%) Linux
2 4 (1.39%) Android
2 4 (1.39%) Kali Linux
2 4 (1.39%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.69%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.92%) Data Science
2 126 (43.75%) Analytics
3 120 (41.67%) Mathematics
4 119 (41.32%) AI
5 105 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (34.03%) Computer Science
7 97 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
8 92 (31.94%) Data Analysis
8 92 (31.94%) Machine Learning
9 78 (27.08%) Decision-Making
10 66 (22.92%) Business Strategy
11 56 (19.44%) Visualisation
12 46 (15.97%) Statistical Modelling
13 42 (14.58%) Data Visualisation
14 41 (14.24%) Risk Management
14 41 (14.24%) Workflow
15 37 (12.85%) Asset Management
16 32 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
16 32 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
16 32 (11.11%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (56.94%) Python
2 81 (28.13%) SQL
3 37 (12.85%) R
4 31 (10.76%) Java
5 11 (3.82%) Scala
6 7 (2.43%) MATLAB
7 6 (2.08%) C
8 5 (1.74%) ANSI SQL
8 5 (1.74%) Bash
8 5 (1.74%) Go
9 4 (1.39%) C++
9 4 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.39%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.39%) Rust
9 4 (1.39%) VBA
10 3 (1.04%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.04%) Tcl
10 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 189 (65.63%) Degree
2 71 (24.65%) PhD
3 70 (24.31%) Master's Degree
4 41 (14.24%) Numerate Degree
5 40 (13.89%) Security Cleared
6 28 (9.72%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.78%) DBS Check
10 7 (2.43%) MBA
11 6 (2.08%) CCNA
11 6 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.08%) JNCIA
12 5 (1.74%) HNC
13 4 (1.39%) GCSC
14 3 (1.04%) CFA
14 3 (1.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.97%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.29%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.47%) CDISC
3 10 (3.47%) GxP
3 10 (3.47%) HL7
4 8 (2.78%) GDPR
5 7 (2.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (2.08%) SLA
7 5 (1.74%) NEBOSH
8 4 (1.39%) QA
9 2 (0.69%) IFRS
9 2 (0.69%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 12 (4.17%) Docker
2 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.74%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (1.39%) Nessus
2 4 (1.39%) Nmap
3 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (10.42%) Alteryx
1 30 (10.42%) Bloomberg
2 26 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.94%) Google
4 16 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.86%) Databricks
6 10 (3.47%) Cisco
7 9 (3.13%) PayPal
8 8 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.43%) Oracle
10 6 (2.08%) Freshdesk
11 5 (1.74%) BT
11 5 (1.74%) Palantir
11 5 (1.74%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.74%) VMware
12 4 (1.39%) HubSpot
12 4 (1.39%) Qualtrics
12 4 (1.39%) Splunk
13 3 (1.04%) SAP
14 2 (0.69%) Adobe