Scientific & QA Jobs
Senior Statistician Specialising in Environment, Food and Agriculture
The James Hutton Institute • Edinburgh, Scotland
Salary
£40k – £50k
Posted
25 October 2026
Work mode
Full-time
Sponsor match
high
Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)
Role overview
The James Hutton Institute is hiring a Senior Statistician Specialising in Environment, Food and Agriculture in Edinburgh, a full-time scientific & qa role advertised as permanent. The advertised salary is £40k – £50k. The James Hutton Institute holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.
Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) is looking for a quantitative scientist who is ready to develop a personal research profile while leading statistical consultancy across the environmental, food and agricultural sciences. Our society is facing multiple challenges, where we need to simultaneously increase food security, reduce our impact on climate change, and increase biodiversity, and the quantitative sciences are key to making better informed responses to these issues. With rapid…
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