Measured from live jobs
Statistician skills employers ask for
From 46 open Statistician job postings on Rolearch, read and tagged skill by skill. Updated every night as jobs open and close.
The most-asked skills
Share of Statistician postings that mention each skill.
- Researchdistinctive98%
- Pythondistinctive76%
- Statisticsdistinctive74%
- C++distinctive48%
- Machine learningdistinctive28%
- Problem solving28%
- Communication26%
- Process improvementdistinctive24%
- Risk managementdistinctive17%
- Stakeholder management15%
- Electrical engineeringdistinctive15%
- Pandasdistinctive13%
- Training and coaching13%
- Leadership11%
“Distinctive” means Statistician postings ask for it at least three times as often as jobs overall.
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Where Statistician skills carry over
Roles whose postings ask for the most similar skills. Overlap counts the skills that define each role most.
- Economist82% overlapShared: Statistics, Research, Python, Stakeholder managementHow to switch
- Operations Research Analyst64% overlapShared: Statistics, Research, Python, Problem solvingHow to switch
- Data Scientist61% overlapShared: Python, Statistics, Machine learning, ResearchHow to switch
- Medical Scientist59% overlapShared: Research, Machine learning, Statistics, PythonHow to switch
Questions
- What skills does a Statistician need?
- In 46 current Statistician job postings, the skills asked for most often are Research (98%), Python (76%), Statistics (74%), C++ (48%), Machine learning (28%). Percentages are the share of postings that mention each skill.
- What jobs can a Statistician move into?
- Measured by shared skill demand, the closest roles are Economist, Operations Research Analyst, Data Scientist, Medical Scientist. Economist shares skills such as Statistics, Research, Python.
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