Senior Data Statistician

Public Sector Resourcing, managed by AMS; Bristol; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department is seeking a Senior Data Statistician to generate statistical evidence and provide insights for decision-making. The role involves analyzing and aggregating data, designing reports, and utilizing statistical tools. This position is contract-based until March 2026 and can be worked remotely with occasional travel to the Bristol office. Applicants must be located in the UK. This role falls under IR35 legislation.

Responsibilities

• Generate evidence for decision-making and circulate reports.
• Analyze data to support operational delivery and external statistics.
• Identify trends and design new reports.
• Utilize statistical software and tools for data visualization.
• Support automation of report building.
• Advise on analysis to shape strategies and organizational effectiveness.

Tools

R

Python

Job description

On behalf of Department for Business and Trade, we are looking for a Senior Data Statistician (Inside IR35) until 31/03/2026 contract based Remotely with occasional travel to the Bristol Office.

Responsibilities

• Generate statistical and analytical evidence, supplying insight to make effective decisions and generating reports and bulletins to share internally and with external stakeholders.
• Analyse and aggregate data to ensure reliability to support operational delivery and to enable the publishing of statistics externally, for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Identify trends – accountable for identifying statistical and analytical areas requiring further investigation and opportunities for improvement, including the design of new reports to drive evidential insight.
• Utilise statistical software, databases and data‑science tools and techniques to visualise and communicate findings to colleagues to improve policies, practices and processes.
• Support developments in the automation of report building, including the use of Open Source Software (e.g. R, R Shiny, Python) to build reproducible analytical pipelines.
• Offer advice on how analysis can shape strategy, service design, workforce requirements and organisational development and effectiveness.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Department for Business and Trade guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

DE&I Commitment

Department for Business and Trade guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge that "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".