Hybrid/Remote Statistics Job Trends

Statistics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Statistics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 195 253
Rank change year-on-year -115 +58 +114
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 64 280 257
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.70% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.82% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 30 85 93
10th Percentile £27,040 £25,000 £31,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £25,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £113,875 £85,850 £117,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,245 15,409 20,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.79% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,423 9,065 16,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,781 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Statistics and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Statistics job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Statistics
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Statistics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Statistics

Statistics
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Statistics over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Statistics salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (9.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (14.06%) Chatbot
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) Power Platform
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
3 9 (14.06%) Azure
3 9 (14.06%) GCP
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (7.81%) Azure Machine Learning
4 5 (7.81%) Dagster
4 5 (7.81%) Snowflake
4 5 (7.81%) Vertex AI
5 3 (4.69%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.56%) dbt
6 1 (1.56%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.56%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.56%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) Tableau
2 14 (21.88%) Power BI
3 6 (9.38%) Looker
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.81%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (7.81%) BigQuery
4 5 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.81%) Delta Lake
4 5 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (7.81%) Pinecone
4 5 (7.81%) Weaviate
5 4 (6.25%) Power Query
6 3 (4.69%) Big Data
7 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.56%) Mixpanel
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) MLflow
General
1 25 (39.06%) Finance
2 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
3 19 (29.69%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.88%) Marketing
5 8 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.25%) Advertising
8 3 (4.69%) Avionics
8 3 (4.69%) Electronics
8 3 (4.69%) Front Office
9 2 (3.13%) Legal
9 2 (3.13%) Retail
10 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Law
10 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Analyst
2 13 (20.31%) Data Analyst
3 11 (17.19%) Customer Analyst
4 9 (14.06%) Developer
4 9 (14.06%) Trainer
5 8 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
5 8 (12.50%) Digital Analytics Analyst
6 7 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (10.94%) Consultant
7 6 (9.38%) Analyst Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Analytics Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Digital Analytics Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Digital Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Senior
8 5 (7.81%) Data Consultant
8 5 (7.81%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (7.81%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) PyTorch
1 6 (9.38%) TensorFlow
2 5 (7.81%) Faiss
2 5 (7.81%) vLLM
3 3 (4.69%) Java Concurrency
4 2 (3.13%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.56%) LightGBM
5 1 (1.56%) Pandas
5 1 (1.56%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.25%) Digital Media
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.69%) Equities
5 3 (4.69%) FMCG
6 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.56%) Genomics
7 1 (1.56%) Life Science
7 1 (1.56%) Omics
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) Computer Science
2 28 (43.75%) Data Science
3 25 (39.06%) Business Intelligence
4 24 (37.50%) Mathematics
5 23 (35.94%) AI
6 21 (32.81%) Analytics
6 21 (32.81%) Decision-Making
7 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (29.69%) CRM
8 19 (29.69%) Data Analysis
9 17 (26.56%) Visualisation
10 16 (25.00%) Customer Experience
10 16 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (17.19%) Economics
12 11 (17.19%) Machine Learning
13 10 (15.63%) A/B Testing
13 10 (15.63%) Workflow
14 9 (14.06%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) Python
2 27 (42.19%) SQL
3 11 (17.19%) Java
4 8 (12.50%) R
5 6 (9.38%) Scala
6 5 (7.81%) Bash
6 5 (7.81%) Go
7 3 (4.69%) C
7 3 (4.69%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (4.69%) MATLAB
7 3 (4.69%) Tcl
8 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (62.50%) Degree
2 17 (26.56%) Master's Degree
3 14 (21.88%) PhD
4 8 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (9.38%) DBS Check
6 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
7 3 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 2 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Salesforce
2 9 (14.06%) PayPal
3 8 (12.50%) Google
4 6 (9.38%) Databricks
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.81%) Palantir
6 1 (1.56%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow