Senior Data Statistician

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

Job summary

A leading public sector organization is hiring a Senior Data Statistician to generate analytical evidence to support decision-making. This remote role requires occasional travel to the Bristol office, and the contract lasts until 31/03/2026. Candidates must have expertise in statistical software and data analysis, and will contribute significantly to improving organizational practices and policies.

Qualifications

• Experience in generating statistical and analytical evidence to support decision making.
• Capability to analyse and aggregate data for operational delivery.
• Ability to identify trends and design reports for further investigation.

Responsibilities

• Generate statistical and analytical evidence for decision making.
• Analyse and aggregate data to ensure reliability of statistics.
• Utilise statistical software and tools for data visualization.

Skills

Statistical software

Data analysis

Report writing

Data visualization

Programming (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.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate statistical and analytical evidence, supplying insight to make effective decisions and generating reports and bulletins to share internally and with external stakeholders.
• Analysing and aggregating data to ensure reliability to support operational delivery and to enable the publishing of statistics externally, for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Identification of 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 the following: "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".