Annual Salary
£23,000 to £62,000
Average UK salary in 2022 was £33,200
(source Office for National Statistics)
Swap to Admin, HR, legal or Sales & marketing or go back to all job sectors or go to green jobs
Swap to Admin, HR, legal or Sales & marketing or go back to all job sectors or go to green jobs
Data analyst-statisticians collect numbers and statistics to identify trends, create models and present results.
Average UK salary in 2022 was £33,200
(source Office for National Statistics)
You could work: evenings; occasionally
There will be
2.4% more Data analyst-statistician jobs in 2027.
Depending on the industry or sector, you might:
You could work in an office.
You can get into this job through:
You'll usually need a degree or postgraduate degree in:
You may be able to apply for jobs if you have a degree in a subject that included statistics as part of your course, for example social science or geography.
Courses that give you the chance to spend a year in industry or get work experience through placements, internships or real business projects may give you an advantage when you are looking for graduate jobs.
You'll usually need:
You may be able to start by doing a T level in Digital Business Services. This could give you some of the skills you need to apply for a trainee position with a company.
You'll usually need:
You could start in a junior data analysis role through a data technician advanced apprenticeship.
You could go on to complete a data analysis higher apprenticeship or data scientist degree apprenticeship.
If you want to work in health data analysis you could do a medical statistician degree apprenticeship.
To get onto an apprenticeship, you'll find it useful to have:
You can develop your professional skills and gain real work experience by helping community organisations and charities. For example, with the Royal Statistical Society.
You can apply to join the Government Statistical Service (GSS) as a trainee through the Civil Service Fast Stream programme. You'll need a good degree or postgraduate qualification.
The GSS also directly recruits graduates and people with relevant experience into positions like statistical officer.
You can find out more on careers in statistics from the Royal Statistical Society.
You can use your skills to work in a lot of different areas, for example healthcare, finance, environment, sports and e-commerce.
With experience, you could:become a manager; move into teaching and academic research; work as a freelance consultant; become a data scientist to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve businesses
For other roles linked to Data Scientist, employers such as SSE have roles as a Data Analyst Apprentice.
You can find out more on careers in statistics from the Royal Statistical Society.
You'll need: