Lead Data Scientist Jobs in England

Lead Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Lead Data Scientist salary in England is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 776 905 974
Rank change year-on-year +129 +69 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 47 45 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.055% 0.049% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.053% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 31 37 88
10th Percentile £66,250 £59,893 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £70,000 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -21.13% -1.39%
75th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £103,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £93,889 £71,250 £87,500
% change year-on-year +31.77% -18.57% -2.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Scientist in England

Lead Data Scientist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Scientist in England

Lead Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Scientist in England

Lead Data Scientist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Scientist within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 +124 23 £111,250 +23.61% 11
East of England +20 9 - - 1
Midlands - 5 £80,000 - 6
West Midlands - 5 £80,000 -
North of England +39 4 £76,389 +10.31% 2
South West -5 4 £85,139 +36.22%
Yorkshire +86 2 £92,778 +35.44% 1
South East +13 2 - - 3
North West +11 2 £60,000 -14.29%
Lead Data Scientist
UK

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Lead Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Data Science
2 36 (76.60%) Python
3 31 (65.96%) Machine Learning
4 28 (59.57%) Degree
5 25 (53.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (48.94%) Statistics
7 22 (46.81%) SQL
8 20 (42.55%) Natural Language Processing
9 18 (38.30%) Deep Learning
10 16 (34.04%) Computer Science
10 16 (34.04%) Mathematics
11 15 (31.91%) PhD
11 15 (31.91%) LLM
12 12 (25.53%) Algorithms
13 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
13 11 (23.40%) Line Management
14 10 (21.28%) Analytics
14 10 (21.28%) Generative AI
14 10 (21.28%) Pandas
15 9 (19.15%) Random Forest
15 9 (19.15%) Computer Vision
15 9 (19.15%) Decision Tree
15 9 (19.15%) Life Science
15 9 (19.15%) Biotechnology
15 9 (19.15%) Predictive Modelling
15 9 (19.15%) Finance
15 9 (19.15%) Bioinformatics
16 8 (17.02%) Neural Network
16 8 (17.02%) AWS
16 8 (17.02%) Visualisation

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
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 8 (17.02%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.51%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Big Data
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Retail
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Pandas
2 7 (14.89%) NumPy
3 6 (12.77%) PyTorch
3 6 (12.77%) TensorFlow
4 5 (10.64%) XGBoost
5 4 (8.51%) .NET
6 2 (4.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Algorithms
2 9 (19.15%) Life Science
3 7 (14.89%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Data Science
2 31 (65.96%) Machine Learning
3 25 (53.19%) Artificial Intelligence
4 23 (48.94%) Statistics
5 20 (42.55%) Natural Language Processing
6 18 (38.30%) Deep Learning
7 16 (34.04%) Computer Science
7 16 (34.04%) Mathematics
8 15 (31.91%) LLM
9 11 (23.40%) Line Management
10 10 (21.28%) Analytics
10 10 (21.28%) Generative AI
11 9 (19.15%) Bioinformatics
11 9 (19.15%) Biotechnology
11 9 (19.15%) Computer Vision
11 9 (19.15%) Decision Tree
11 9 (19.15%) Predictive Modelling
11 9 (19.15%) Random Forest
12 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
12 8 (17.02%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 36 (76.60%) Python
2 22 (46.81%) SQL
3 8 (17.02%) R
4 4 (8.51%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) C
5 3 (6.38%) C++
5 3 (6.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (59.57%) Degree
2 15 (31.91%) PhD
3 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Databricks