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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 90 80
Rank change year-on-year +33 -10 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 24 39 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.14% 1.71% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 1.96% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 48
10th Percentile £47,000 £36,250 £35,509
25th Percentile £56,250 £44,389 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +0.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £86,375 £81,831 £77,576
90th Percentile £98,474 £89,375 £83,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,249 £61,180
% change year-on-year -4.56% -1.52% -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 716 1,986 2,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 93.72% 87.03% 97.46%
Number of salaries quoted 498 1,404 1,721
10th Percentile £25,925 £31,250 £34,308
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,997 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,800 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -2.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,964 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -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 26 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 (29.17%) Apache Spark
1 7 (29.17%) SAS
2 4 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) GCP
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Serverless
3 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (12.50%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) Tableau
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Finance
3 10 (41.67%) Banking
4 7 (29.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Senior
2 8 (33.33%) Lead
3 7 (29.17%) Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Data Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Management Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Lead Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Data Scientist
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Data Scientist
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) PyTorch
1 5 (20.83%) scikit-learn
1 5 (20.83%) TensorFlow
2 3 (12.50%) Plotly
3 2 (8.33%) PySpark
4 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Credit Risk
1 7 (29.17%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Management Information System
1 7 (29.17%) Market Risk
1 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Analytics
1 13 (54.17%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (50.00%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 9 (37.50%) ETL
5 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 7 (29.17%) API Management
6 7 (29.17%) Architecture Governance
6 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 7 (29.17%) Continuous Deployment
6 7 (29.17%) Data Encryption
6 7 (29.17%) DevOps
6 7 (29.17%) Fraud Detection
6 7 (29.17%) Microservices
6 7 (29.17%) Predictive Analytics
6 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Regulatory Compliance
6 7 (29.17%) Risk Analytics
6 7 (29.17%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) Python
2 21 (87.50%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) R
4 3 (12.50%) Scala
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) Basel II
1 7 (29.17%) Basel III
1 7 (29.17%) Data Quality
1 7 (29.17%) Dodd-Frank
1 7 (29.17%) GDPR
1 7 (29.17%) IFRS
1 7 (29.17%) IFRS 9
1 7 (29.17%) PCI DSS
2 4 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Databricks
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
1 3 (12.50%) Palantir