Principal Data Scientist Jobs in England

Principal Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Principal Data Scientist salary in England is £110,000 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 805 929 1123
Rank change year-on-year +124 +194 -259
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Scientist 18 21 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.023% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.025% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 7
10th Percentile - - £63,950
25th Percentile £105,000 £43,125 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £45,750 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +140.44% -53.08% -
75th Percentile £117,500 £75,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £119,000 £97,500 -
UK median annual salary £110,000 £45,750 £97,500
% change year-on-year +140.44% -53.08% -

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%

Principal Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Scientist in England

Principal Data Scientist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Scientist in England

Principal 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 Principal 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
East of England - 9 - - 1
London +128 3 £110,000 +22.22% 4
Principal Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Principal 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 Principal Data Scientist in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Data Science
2 11 (61.11%) Degree
2 11 (61.11%) PhD
3 9 (50.00%) Bioinformatics
3 9 (50.00%) Line Management
3 9 (50.00%) Biotechnology
3 9 (50.00%) Life Science
3 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 9 (50.00%) GCP
4 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 7 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (38.89%) Computer Vision
5 7 (38.89%) Databricks
6 6 (33.33%) Sentiment Analysis
6 6 (33.33%) MXNet
6 6 (33.33%) Terraform
6 6 (33.33%) scikit-learn
6 6 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 6 (33.33%) TensorFlow
6 6 (33.33%) Generative AI
6 6 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
6 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (33.33%) PyTorch
6 6 (33.33%) Dataiku
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 6 (33.33%) Data Analytics
6 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
1 9 (50.00%) GCP
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) git-flow
1 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (16.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) MXNet
1 6 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 6 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 6 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Data Science
2 9 (50.00%) Bioinformatics
2 9 (50.00%) Biotechnology
2 9 (50.00%) Line Management
2 9 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 7 (38.89%) Computer Vision
4 6 (33.33%) Analytics
4 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 6 (33.33%) Deep Learning
4 6 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 6 (33.33%) Sentiment Analysis
4 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Coaching
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Recommender Systems
6 2 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C
2 1 (5.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Degree
1 11 (61.11%) PhD
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Databricks
2 6 (33.33%) Dataiku
2 6 (33.33%) Google