Data Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 82 57
Rank change year-on-year -40 -25 +55
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,278 3,822 9,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.22% 3.93% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.11% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 1,624 2,421
10th Percentile £41,850 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,040 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,500 £110,875 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% +6.72% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science.

Salary trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 2,077 £65,000 -7.14% 666
UK excluding London -51 1,312 £55,000 -14.10% 267
London -18 892 £80,000 - 414
Work from Home -34 863 £60,000 -13.60% 301
South East +48 401 £60,000 -7.69% 68
North of England -88 293 £50,000 -18.27% 60
Midlands +17 209 £55,000 +22.22% 33
South West -38 185 £60,000 -12.41% 51
North West -1 182 £50,000 -25.09% 37
West Midlands +13 160 £55,000 +22.22% 17
Scotland -67 112 £70,000 +3.70% 15
Yorkshire -108 78 £55,000 -10.10% 16
East of England -67 76 £56,250 -2.17% 25
East Midlands 0 49 £47,500 -13.64% 16
North East -9 33 £47,500 +3.26% 7
Wales +22 28 £47,500 -13.70% 10
Northern Ireland +19 8 £100,000 +203.03% 7

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 115 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 82 (3.60%) SAS
3 34 (1.49%) Apache
4 33 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.57%) Confluence
8 7 (0.31%) Luigi
9 6 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.088%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.044%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.044%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.044%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.044%) IIS
12 1 (0.044%) Moodle
Applications
1 74 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.26%) Trello
5 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.088%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.088%) SPSS
7 2 (0.088%) Stata
8 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.044%) Blender
Business Applications
1 21 (0.92%) Endur
2 7 (0.31%) Shopify
3 5 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.044%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 641 (28.14%) Azure
2 389 (17.08%) AWS
3 383 (16.81%) Power Platform
4 378 (16.59%) GCP
5 116 (5.09%) Snowflake
6 95 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (3.91%) SaaS
9 67 (2.94%) Matillion
10 62 (2.72%) Serverless
11 61 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 55 (2.41%) GitHub
13 41 (1.80%) Amazon S3
14 40 (1.76%) IBM Cloud
15 30 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 30 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
17 23 (1.01%) dbt
18 19 (0.83%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.92%) Network Security
2 18 (0.79%) DNS
2 18 (0.79%) HTTP
3 6 (0.26%) Firewall
3 6 (0.26%) VPN
4 5 (0.22%) MQTT
4 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.22%) Wireless
5 4 (0.18%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.088%) Broadband
6 2 (0.088%) Internet
6 2 (0.088%) LAN
6 2 (0.088%) WAN
7 1 (0.044%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (16.33%) Power BI
2 371 (16.29%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (10.62%) SQL Server
4 230 (10.10%) Tableau
5 201 (8.82%) BigQuery
6 190 (8.34%) Big Data
7 177 (7.77%) Looker
8 133 (5.84%) Data Lake
9 126 (5.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 76 (3.34%) Relational Database
11 72 (3.16%) Hadoop
12 70 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
13 66 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
14 65 (2.85%) NoSQL
15 50 (2.19%) Data Vault
16 49 (2.15%) Data Mining
16 49 (2.15%) Star Schema
17 48 (2.11%) Metadata
18 45 (1.98%) MongoDB
19 34 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 172 (7.55%) Git
2 49 (2.15%) GitLab
3 30 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.32%) JIRA
4 11 (0.48%) MLflow
5 9 (0.40%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.35%) ERwin
7 6 (0.26%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.22%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.18%) Maven
10 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.13%) GoCD
10 3 (0.13%) JUnit
10 3 (0.13%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.13%) Subversion
10 3 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.088%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.044%) RStudio
12 1 (0.044%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 698 (30.64%) Social Skills
2 475 (20.85%) Analytical Skills
3 439 (19.27%) Finance
4 317 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 231 (10.14%) Retail
6 191 (8.38%) Public Sector
7 159 (6.98%) Marketing
8 137 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
9 120 (5.27%) Banking
10 111 (4.87%) Law
11 82 (3.60%) Games
12 75 (3.29%) Legal
13 47 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 43 (1.89%) Investment Banking
15 35 (1.54%) Military
16 31 (1.36%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.23%) Financial Institution
18 22 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.92%) Health Technology
20 19 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 514 (22.56%) Data Scientist
2 474 (20.81%) Data Engineer
3 462 (20.28%) Senior
4 210 (9.22%) Senior Data Scientist
5 208 (9.13%) Principal Engineer
6 205 (9.00%) Lead
7 171 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
8 168 (7.37%) Analyst
9 166 (7.29%) Principal Data Engineer
10 157 (6.89%) Developer
11 154 (6.76%) Architect
12 114 (5.00%) Consultant
13 92 (4.04%) Data Architect
14 88 (3.86%) Data Analyst
15 87 (3.82%) Software Engineer
16 80 (3.51%) Data Manager
17 78 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Consultant
18 75 (3.29%) Python Engineer
19 61 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
20 58 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (5.84%) Pandas
2 130 (5.71%) TensorFlow
3 100 (4.39%) PySpark
4 80 (3.51%) scikit-learn
5 72 (3.16%) Kafka
6 69 (3.03%) PyTorch
7 57 (2.50%) NumPy
8 56 (2.46%) React
9 44 (1.93%) RESTful
10 40 (1.76%) CSS
11 36 (1.58%) .NET
12 35 (1.54%) HTML
13 33 (1.45%) GraphQL
13 33 (1.45%) Node.js
14 31 (1.36%) Keras
15 25 (1.10%) Django
16 23 (1.01%) XGBoost
17 21 (0.92%) XML
18 18 (0.79%) Apache Beam
19 17 (0.75%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 422 (18.53%) Algorithms
2 225 (9.88%) Self-Motivation
3 173 (7.59%) Data Structures
4 66 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 59 (2.59%) Life Science
7 58 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (2.37%) Blockchain
9 48 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 47 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 36 (1.58%) Onboarding
13 32 (1.40%) Credit Risk
14 31 (1.36%) IoT
15 24 (1.05%) Blog
16 21 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
16 21 (0.92%) Swaptions
17 18 (0.79%) Mobile App
18 17 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
19 14 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 124 (5.44%) Linux
2 45 (1.98%) Windows
3 40 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.76%) CentOS
3 40 (1.76%) Debian
4 23 (1.01%) Unix
5 6 (0.26%) Android
5 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.088%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.044%) Solaris
8 1 (0.044%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (39.16%) Machine Learning
2 784 (34.42%) Analytics
3 741 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
4 659 (28.93%) Artificial Intelligence
5 543 (23.84%) Agile
6 497 (21.82%) Data Engineering
7 491 (21.55%) Computer Science
8 477 (20.94%) Mentoring
9 465 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
10 464 (20.37%) Data Modelling
11 424 (18.61%) Data Pipeline
12 422 (18.53%) Visualisation
13 412 (18.09%) DevOps
14 410 (18.00%) Mathematics
15 409 (17.95%) Data Analysis
16 382 (16.77%) ETL
17 370 (16.24%) Decision-Making
18 288 (12.64%) Data Analytics
18 288 (12.64%) Software Engineering
19 279 (12.25%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (44.69%) Python
2 881 (38.67%) SQL
3 231 (10.14%) R
4 152 (6.67%) Java
5 99 (4.35%) C#
6 80 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 69 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 55 (2.41%) C++
9 54 (2.37%) C
10 50 (2.19%) Scala
11 39 (1.71%) MATLAB
12 36 (1.58%) TypeScript
13 35 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 35 (1.54%) Go
14 29 (1.27%) Bash
15 24 (1.05%) VB
16 16 (0.70%) VBA
17 15 (0.66%) Haskell
18 12 (0.53%) SystemVerilog
19 11 (0.48%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 782 (34.33%) Degree
2 251 (11.02%) Master's Degree
3 140 (6.15%) PhD
4 117 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 87 (3.82%) Security Cleared
6 59 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (2.33%) DBS Check
8 50 (2.19%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.76%) MCSA
9 40 (1.76%) MCSE
10 38 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 32 (1.40%) SC Cleared
12 22 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
13 18 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.53%) Postgraduate
15 11 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.26%) IIBA
17 4 (0.18%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (9.26%) GDPR
2 209 (9.17%) Data Quality
3 44 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 40 (1.76%) QA
5 14 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
6 11 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.40%) CDISC
8 6 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.26%) IFRS
8 6 (0.26%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.13%) SLA
10 2 (0.088%) COBIT
10 2 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.088%) GLBA
10 2 (0.088%) NIST
10 2 (0.088%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.088%) PMO
10 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.044%) Basel III
11 1 (0.044%) HIPAA
System Software
1 150 (6.58%) Docker
2 17 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.18%) HDFS
4 2 (0.088%) IAG
5 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.044%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 161 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 112 (4.92%) Terraform
3 10 (0.44%) Ansible
4 7 (0.31%) SysTrack
5 6 (0.26%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.26%) logstash
6 5 (0.22%) Argo
6 5 (0.22%) Grafana
6 5 (0.22%) SELinux
7 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.13%) Puppet
8 2 (0.088%) Core Impact
8 2 (0.088%) Podman
9 1 (0.044%) Kibana
9 1 (0.044%) Packer
9 1 (0.044%) yum
Vendors
1 295 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 261 (11.46%) Google
3 207 (9.09%) Databricks
4 67 (2.94%) Oracle
5 47 (2.06%) IBM
6 40 (1.76%) Red Hat
7 37 (1.62%) Alteryx
8 33 (1.45%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.01%) Sybase
10 21 (0.92%) Dell
10 21 (0.92%) OpenLink
10 21 (0.92%) TIBCO
11 14 (0.61%) Informatica
12 13 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.53%) YouTube
14 11 (0.48%) Dataiku
15 9 (0.40%) Cloudera
15 9 (0.40%) SAP
16 8 (0.35%) Samsung
16 8 (0.35%) ServiceNow