Senior Data Scientist Jobs in Leeds

Senior Data Scientist
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in Leeds is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 181 183
Rank change year-on-year +53 +2 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 8 5 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.35% 0.16% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.17% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile - £53,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -17.27% -
75th Percentile £89,760 £62,500 £73,346
90th Percentile £96,539 £64,000 £75,927
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £69,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -17.27% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,174 2,940 3,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 95.18% 97.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,766 2,560
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in Leeds

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in Leeds

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in Leeds

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior 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 Leeds region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) Data Science
2 7 (87.50%) Banking
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
4 4 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 4 (50.00%) Use Case
4 4 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (50.00%) Pandas
4 4 (50.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (50.00%) Random Forest
4 4 (50.00%) Decision Tree
4 4 (50.00%) LLM
5 3 (37.50%) Metadata
5 3 (37.50%) Pricing Strategy
5 3 (37.50%) Marketing
5 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 3 (37.50%) SAS
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (37.50%) Customer Segmentation
5 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
6 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Propensity Modelling
6 2 (25.00%) XGBoost

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
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 3 (37.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Marketing
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Pandas
2 2 (25.00%) XGBoost
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Decision Tree
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) LLM
3 4 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (50.00%) Random Forest
3 4 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Use Case
4 3 (37.50%) Customer Segmentation
4 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Pricing Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Propensity Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks