Data Science Jobs in Leeds

Data Science
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 93 74
Rank change year-on-year +38 -19 +74
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 27 38 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.53% 1.73% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 1.97% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 20 25 55
10th Percentile £55,325 £38,000 £36,024
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,306 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £71,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £89,750 £83,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £64,000 £63,750 £61,180
% change year-on-year +0.39% +4.20% -4.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 725 1,929 3,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 94.90% 87.96% 97.23%
Number of salaries quoted 511 1,350 1,785
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £34,308
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,750 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% +4.76%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Leeds

Data Science
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Leeds

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Leeds

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (25.93%) SAS
2 6 (22.22%) Apache Spark
3 4 (14.81%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) GCP
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 5 (18.52%) Azure
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (14.81%) Serverless
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (7.41%) dbt
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) NoSQL
2 9 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 11 (40.74%) Finance
3 10 (37.04%) Banking
4 7 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Games
6 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Senior
2 9 (33.33%) Lead
3 8 (29.63%) Data Engineer
4 7 (25.93%) Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Management Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Lead Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Data Scientist
6 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (7.41%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead Data Scientist
9 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) PyTorch
1 6 (22.22%) scikit-learn
1 6 (22.22%) TensorFlow
2 3 (11.11%) Plotly
2 3 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Credit Risk
1 7 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Management Information System
1 7 (25.93%) Market Risk
1 7 (25.93%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Agile
1 14 (51.85%) Analytics
1 14 (51.85%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 10 (37.04%) ETL
5 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 9 (33.33%) DevOps
5 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 8 (29.63%) Visualisation
7 7 (25.93%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (25.93%) Data Integration
7 7 (25.93%) Data Management
7 7 (25.93%) Fraud Detection
7 7 (25.93%) Microservices
7 7 (25.93%) Predictive Analytics
7 7 (25.93%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (25.93%) Risk Analytics
7 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) Python
2 22 (81.48%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) R
4 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Basel II
1 7 (25.93%) Basel III
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
1 7 (25.93%) Dodd-Frank
1 7 (25.93%) GDPR
1 7 (25.93%) IFRS
1 7 (25.93%) IFRS 9
1 7 (25.93%) PCI DSS
2 4 (14.81%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Databricks
1 2 (7.41%) Google
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle
1 2 (7.41%) Palantir