Rail Analyst
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,241 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National Minimum Salary; £44,241; London Minimum Salary: £48,581 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 December 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 437201/3 |
Summary
Do you have the strong quantitative and organisational skills needed to deliver high-quality analysis and develop expertise in transport economics, even without prior transport experience?
Have you previously worked in an analytical or economist role where you managed stakeholder relationships and contributed to evidence-based decision-making?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DFT.
This role is open to members of the following professions or those eligible to become members: Government Economic Service (GES), Government Statistical Service (GSS), Government Social Research (GSR) and Government Operational Research Service (GORS)
We are recruiting for two exciting roles within the Rail Analysis team. As a Rolling Stock Analyst, you will lead economic analysis on rail fleet projects, supporting decarbonisation, performance, and value for money. As a Passenger Services Analyst, you will shape the future of passenger rail by analysing business plans, open access applications, and key spending decisions. Both roles offer the opportunity to influence national rail policy through high-quality analysis and stakeholder engagement across major transport projects.
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Responsibility for leading economic analysis, contributing to economic cases, feeding into board papers, and producing Value for Money and Analytical Assurance statements for senior boards.
- Building strong stakeholder relationships with policy teams, Train Operating Companies (TOCs), Network Rail, Office of Rail and Road, Technical Advisers, and other organisations to deliver a range of rail projects.
- Advancing the use of data and analytical models in effective decision making, including supporting technical advisers to ensure analysis meets DfT’s best practice guidance as set out in DfT’s Transport Analysis Guidance and Strength In Numbers.
- Working independently and autonomously, with scope to set deadlines and independently solve problems and find solutions.
- Communicating results to a range of audiences, including leading presentations.
- Supporting the development of the Strategy and Services Analysis team and playing a key corporate role in the Rail Analysis division.
- The potential to task-manage junior economists and support their career development.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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