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2026 GSR DAP ONS Job Description
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Locations: Titchfield (Fareham), Darlington, and Manchester
Salary: National £28,138
Number of places: 4
About the ONS
At the Office for National Statistics (ONS), we have unrivalled access to a vast breadth and depth of data. Every day, we use this to produce trusted statistics and insightful analysis that informs both the public and policymakers on the issues that matter most.
ONS is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution, and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime, and migration.
ONS is at the forefront in providing trusted and impartial evidence to central government, devolved administrations, and the public to help understand impacts to our society and economy. Through the wide range of data, we have available, and developments in how we gather and analyse it, we continue to ensure our evidence provides clear insights and impacts. There has never been a busier and more exciting time to play a key role in shaping the future.
The ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations working between office and remote throughout the week. Apprenticeship roles are only available as an allocated office location in the Titchfield (Fareham), Manchester or Darlington offices.
All colleagues are required to work from their contractually allocated site for at least 40% of their working time. Due to current capacity constraints, there is currently an exception for colleagues based at the Darlington Economic Campus, this is expected to move to 40% attendance in 2027-28 for Darlington.
ONS induction process will be conducted in person.
The Apprenticeship Role
Our GSR apprentices can be found working across a range of topics, including social surveys, demography, and crime statistics.
As an apprentice it is likely you will:
Develop skills across diverse projects, working with a range of stakeholders, communicating key messages to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Apply what you are learning through your degree in a supportive environment.
Analyse and interpret data to understand movements, draw on a wide range of sources to develop a narrative.
Quality assures data and analysis, identify and address issues in data processes, systems, and methods where they arise.
Engage in and encourage a culture of curiosity to identify trends, stories, and errors within statistics.
The Apprentice Community
There is an active and growing analyst apprentice community within ONS. All apprentices will receive peer support from others including those further along their apprenticeship journey, as well as monthly meetings with a senior social researcher.
Learning and Development Opportunities:
ONS is modern, technically focused and data driven and as an apprentice within ONS, you will have access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities to enhance your skillsets including coding (e.g., ‘R’ and Python), Excel skills, analytical skills, leadership and management, wellbeing and more.
There are opportunities to expand your knowledge and get involved in new cross-cutting analysis, working with colleagues across the office and wider government to deliver projects on a variety of social and economic indicators.
Finally, the apprentice role offers the opportunity to contribute to high-profile ONS publications and develop the GSR technical skills needed (Application of Knowledge, Analysis of Data, and Effective Communication) to become a successful government social researcher.
Further Information
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, diverse, and equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader we are committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
We aim to develop all our staff to enable them to make a full contribution to meeting the Department’s objectives, and to fulfil their own potential. We are an organisation that takes well-being seriously and lives and breathes the desire to modernise the workplace of the future. Everyone, from our office-based colleagues across our office sites, to our field interviewers and airports and ports passenger survey teams, are part of a diverse and inclusive family.
Eligibility Requirements
Candidates will need to hold the right to work in the UK and meet Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Security Clearance
For ONS the requirement for Security Check (SC) clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying and the department will consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.
If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available on Gov.uk on this link. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.
At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:
Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
Security Services records
Nationality Requirements
These roles are broadly open to the following groups:
UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Please contact: gsr-ons@ons.gov.uk for more information on the ONS Degree Apprenticeship Programme.
