Data Science Jobs in England

Data Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 72 64
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 +48
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,067 4,084 6,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.44% 4.38% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 4.58% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,203 1,601 2,225
10th Percentile £42,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £89,375 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 -23 889 £80,000 - 361
South East +50 399 £60,500 -8.99% 57
North of England -86 302 £50,000 -18.27% 55
Midlands -5 204 £55,000 +22.22% 23
North West -21 186 £50,000 -24.24% 38
South West -42 167 £61,250 -9.26% 24
West Midlands +2 157 £55,000 +22.22% 13
Yorkshire -102 83 £60,000 -1.93% 13
East of England -65 74 £55,000 -4.35% 28
East Midlands -5 47 £47,500 -14.80% 10
North East -6 33 £47,500 +3.26% 4
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 88 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 74 (3.58%) SAS
3 30 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (1.16%) Apache
6 14 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.58%) Confluence
8 5 (0.24%) nginx
9 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
10 3 (0.15%) Luigi
11 2 (0.097%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.048%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.048%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.048%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 58 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.097%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.097%) SPSS
7 2 (0.097%) Stata
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.048%) Blender
Business Applications
1 28 (1.35%) Endur
2 9 (0.44%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 7 (0.34%) Shopify
4 2 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.048%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 596 (28.83%) Azure
2 337 (16.30%) AWS
3 332 (16.06%) Power Platform
4 328 (15.87%) GCP
5 104 (5.03%) Snowflake
6 90 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 72 (3.48%) Matillion
9 66 (3.19%) Serverless
10 65 (3.14%) SaaS
11 62 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 55 (2.66%) GitHub
13 40 (1.94%) IBM Cloud
14 33 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 30 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.16%) Amazon S3
16 24 (1.16%) dbt
17 21 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
18 20 (0.97%) Amazon SageMaker
19 19 (0.92%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.97%) DNS
1 20 (0.97%) HTTP
2 18 (0.87%) Network Security
3 6 (0.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.24%) Firewall
4 5 (0.24%) MQTT
4 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.24%) Wireless
5 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 2 (0.097%) Broadband
6 2 (0.097%) DHCP
6 2 (0.097%) Internet
6 2 (0.097%) IPv6
6 2 (0.097%) LAN
6 2 (0.097%) WAN
7 1 (0.048%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (15.58%) Power BI
2 320 (15.48%) Data Warehouse
3 244 (11.80%) SQL Server
4 178 (8.61%) Tableau
5 177 (8.56%) BigQuery
6 157 (7.60%) Looker
7 144 (6.97%) Big Data
8 132 (6.39%) Data Lake
9 121 (5.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 82 (3.97%) Relational Database
11 64 (3.10%) NoSQL
12 63 (3.05%) Data Mining
13 56 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
14 51 (2.47%) Metadata
15 50 (2.42%) Hadoop
16 49 (2.37%) Star Schema
17 47 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
18 45 (2.18%) MongoDB
19 35 (1.69%) RDBMS
20 34 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 140 (6.77%) Git
2 46 (2.23%) GitLab
3 32 (1.55%) JIRA
4 26 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.44%) MLflow
5 9 (0.44%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.34%) ERwin
7 6 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.19%) Maven
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) JUnit
10 3 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.097%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.097%) RStudio
11 2 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.048%) git-flow
12 1 (0.048%) GoCD
12 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 589 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 425 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
3 385 (18.63%) Finance
4 263 (12.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 216 (10.45%) Retail
6 190 (9.19%) Public Sector
7 134 (6.48%) Marketing
8 92 (4.45%) Law
9 81 (3.92%) Banking
10 74 (3.58%) Legal
11 63 (3.05%) Games
12 59 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (1.69%) Military
15 26 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.02%) Health Technology
17 21 (1.02%) Investment Banking
18 19 (0.92%) Automotive
18 19 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 476 (23.03%) Data Scientist
2 460 (22.25%) Data Engineer
3 393 (19.01%) Senior
4 173 (8.37%) Lead
5 172 (8.32%) Senior Data Scientist
6 153 (7.40%) Principal Engineer
7 151 (7.31%) Platform Engineer
8 150 (7.26%) Principal Data Engineer
9 149 (7.21%) Analyst
10 148 (7.16%) Developer
11 112 (5.42%) Architect
12 105 (5.08%) Consultant
13 79 (3.82%) Data Analyst
14 76 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 68 (3.29%) Data Manager
16 62 (3.00%) Data Architect
17 61 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
18 57 (2.76%) Python Engineer
19 48 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
20 47 (2.27%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (5.27%) Pandas
2 99 (4.79%) TensorFlow
3 75 (3.63%) PySpark
4 62 (3.00%) PyTorch
5 61 (2.95%) NumPy
6 60 (2.90%) scikit-learn
7 54 (2.61%) React
8 48 (2.32%) Kafka
9 45 (2.18%) .NET
10 43 (2.08%) RESTful
11 40 (1.94%) CSS
12 35 (1.69%) HTML
13 32 (1.55%) Node.js
14 26 (1.26%) Django
14 26 (1.26%) Keras
15 24 (1.16%) XML
16 21 (1.02%) XGBoost
17 18 (0.87%) Apache Beam
17 18 (0.87%) JSON
18 17 (0.82%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 375 (18.14%) Algorithms
2 210 (10.16%) Self-Motivation
3 136 (6.58%) Data Structures
4 66 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 56 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (2.66%) Blockchain
7 43 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 42 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 41 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.79%) Life Science
12 34 (1.64%) IoT
13 32 (1.55%) Cloud Native
14 28 (1.35%) Swaptions
15 24 (1.16%) Blog
15 24 (1.16%) Credit Risk
15 24 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
16 17 (0.82%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
18 14 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 118 (5.71%) Linux
2 42 (2.03%) Windows
3 40 (1.94%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.94%) CentOS
3 40 (1.94%) Debian
4 14 (0.68%) Unix
5 6 (0.29%) Android
5 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.097%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.048%) Solaris
7 1 (0.048%) VMS
7 1 (0.048%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (39.33%) Machine Learning
2 685 (33.14%) Analytics
3 650 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
4 590 (28.54%) Artificial Intelligence
5 473 (22.88%) Agile
6 443 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 438 (21.19%) Data Engineering
8 437 (21.14%) Computer Science
9 430 (20.80%) Data Modelling
10 425 (20.56%) Business Intelligence
11 393 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
12 388 (18.77%) ETL
13 375 (18.14%) Visualisation
14 352 (17.03%) Mathematics
15 349 (16.88%) DevOps
16 334 (16.16%) Data Analysis
17 321 (15.53%) Decision-Making
18 247 (11.95%) Coaching
19 239 (11.56%) Data Visualisation
20 237 (11.47%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 922 (44.61%) Python
2 828 (40.06%) SQL
3 214 (10.35%) R
4 128 (6.19%) Java
5 109 (5.27%) C#
6 71 (3.43%) T-SQL
7 70 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 53 (2.56%) C++
9 52 (2.52%) C
10 38 (1.84%) MATLAB
11 35 (1.69%) VB
12 33 (1.60%) TypeScript
13 30 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 29 (1.40%) Scala
15 15 (0.73%) Haskell
16 13 (0.63%) Go
17 12 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
18 10 (0.48%) Bash
18 10 (0.48%) VBA
19 9 (0.44%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 701 (33.91%) Degree
2 208 (10.06%) Master's Degree
3 127 (6.14%) PhD
4 96 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 57 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 43 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 42 (2.03%) MCSE
10 40 (1.94%) MCSA
11 36 (1.74%) DBS Check
12 31 (1.50%) SC Cleared
13 21 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
14 18 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.44%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.29%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.29%) IIBA
18 4 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
18 4 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (9.58%) GDPR
2 185 (8.95%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.79%) QA
5 12 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.48%) PMO
7 9 (0.44%) CDISC
8 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.19%) IFRS
9 4 (0.19%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.15%) SLA
11 2 (0.097%) COBIT
11 2 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.097%) GLBA
11 2 (0.097%) NIST
11 2 (0.097%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.097%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
System Software
1 129 (6.24%) Docker
2 17 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.19%) HDFS
4 2 (0.097%) IAG
5 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.048%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 121 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.18%) Terraform
3 7 (0.34%) SysTrack
4 6 (0.29%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.29%) logstash
5 5 (0.24%) SELinux
6 3 (0.15%) Argo
6 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.097%) Core Impact
7 2 (0.097%) Grafana
7 2 (0.097%) Podman
7 2 (0.097%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.048%) Kibana
8 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 261 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 211 (10.21%) Google
3 173 (8.37%) Databricks
4 68 (3.29%) Oracle
5 48 (2.32%) IBM
6 41 (1.98%) Alteryx
7 40 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.45%) Sybase
9 28 (1.35%) OpenLink
9 28 (1.35%) TIBCO
10 24 (1.16%) Salesforce
11 15 (0.73%) YouTube
12 14 (0.68%) Dataiku
12 14 (0.68%) Informatica
13 13 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.53%) SAP
15 9 (0.44%) Adobe
16 8 (0.39%) Samsung
16 8 (0.39%) ServiceNow
17 7 (0.34%) Snow