Data Science Jobs in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 109 77
Rank change year-on-year +56 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 155 133 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.61% 2.80% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 2.95% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 120 116 240
10th Percentile £47,950 £53,750 £48,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +1.61% +10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £104,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £111,375
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.92% +8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,103 4,512 6,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.38% 95.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 3,784 5,617
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the City of London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London Bridge +20 1 £72,500 -3.33%
Data Science
Central London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 7 (4.52%) SAS
2 6 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.58%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.29%) Stata
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.74%) Azure
2 29 (18.71%) AWS
3 21 (13.55%) Power Platform
4 15 (9.68%) GCP
5 6 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.23%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.58%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.94%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.29%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.29%) Figma
9 2 (1.29%) GitHub
9 2 (1.29%) SaaS
9 2 (1.29%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.65%) Tableau
2 21 (13.55%) Power BI
3 20 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.81%) Big Data
5 6 (3.87%) Data Mining
5 6 (3.87%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.23%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.58%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.58%) Power Query
8 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.94%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.29%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.29%) QGIS
9 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 19 (12.26%) Git
2 6 (3.87%) JIRA
3 5 (3.23%) MLflow
4 2 (1.29%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.29%) ERwin
4 2 (1.29%) RStudio
4 2 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.65%) git-flow
5 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.97%) Finance
4 5 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.23%) Marketing
5 4 (2.58%) Games
5 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Front Office
7 2 (1.29%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (29.03%) Data Scientist
2 37 (23.87%) Senior
3 23 (14.84%) Analyst
4 20 (12.90%) Data Engineer
5 19 (12.26%) Developer
5 19 (12.26%) Senior Data Scientist
6 17 (10.97%) Lead
7 9 (5.81%) Data Analyst
7 9 (5.81%) Qualitative Analyst
7 9 (5.81%) Quantitative Analyst
8 7 (4.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.52%) Junior
8 7 (4.52%) Product Owner
9 6 (3.87%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.23%) Information Manager
10 5 (3.23%) Junior Analyst
10 5 (3.23%) Junior Quantitative Analyst
10 5 (3.23%) Senior IT Manager
10 5 (3.23%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.23%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.42%) PySpark
2 22 (14.19%) Pandas
3 19 (12.26%) TensorFlow
4 17 (10.97%) scikit-learn
5 8 (5.16%) NumPy
6 6 (3.87%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.58%) JSON
7 4 (2.58%) RESTful
8 3 (1.94%) Kafka
8 3 (1.94%) Keras
9 2 (1.29%) .NET
9 2 (1.29%) ATL
9 2 (1.29%) D3.js
9 2 (1.29%) Google Chart
9 2 (1.29%) Shiny
10 1 (0.65%) CSS
10 1 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.65%) HTML
10 1 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.35%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.52%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.58%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.29%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.65%) PMI
7 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (41.94%) Machine Learning
2 48 (30.97%) Analytics
3 46 (29.68%) Visualisation
4 45 (29.03%) Artificial Intelligence
5 43 (27.74%) Statistics
6 42 (27.10%) Mathematics
7 41 (26.45%) Computer Science
8 29 (18.71%) Agile
8 29 (18.71%) Data Modelling
8 29 (18.71%) Decision-Making
9 28 (18.06%) Natural Language Processing
10 27 (17.42%) Actionable Insight
11 26 (16.77%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (16.77%) MLOps
12 25 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (16.13%) Predictive Modelling
13 23 (14.84%) ETL
13 23 (14.84%) Physics
14 22 (14.19%) Neural Network
15 21 (13.55%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (70.97%) Python
2 82 (52.90%) SQL
3 29 (18.71%) R
4 18 (11.61%) C++
5 12 (7.74%) C#
6 9 (5.81%) Scala
7 7 (4.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (4.52%) Java
8 4 (2.58%) C
8 4 (2.58%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.94%) VBA
10 1 (0.65%) Go
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (41.29%) Degree
2 32 (20.65%) Master's Degree
3 16 (10.32%) PhD
4 14 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (9.03%) DBS Check
5 8 (5.16%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.23%) Postgraduate
6 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.29%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (16.77%) Databricks
2 8 (5.16%) Google
3 6 (3.87%) Alteryx
3 6 (3.87%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.94%) Oracle
5 2 (1.29%) Embarcadero
5 2 (1.29%) Informatica
6 1 (0.65%) Apple
6 1 (0.65%) Facebook
6 1 (0.65%) IBM
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk