Data Science Jobs in the Midlands

Data Science
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 138 184
Rank change year-on-year -5 +46 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 204 225 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.75% 2.34% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.42% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 145 65 78
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,450 £34,850
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.93% +15.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £77,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,970
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,601 9,302 10,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.44% 96.63% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,103 4,665 6,954
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,660 £38,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,950 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Midlands +2 157 £55,000 +22.22% 13
East Midlands -5 47 £47,500 -14.80% 10
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (1.47%) SAS
2 2 (0.98%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.98%) IIS
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.49%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 21 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 73 (35.78%) Azure
2 55 (26.96%) Power Platform
3 29 (14.22%) GCP
4 25 (12.25%) AWS
5 17 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (8.33%) Matillion
6 15 (7.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (7.35%) Snowflake
7 11 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.43%) Contentful
8 7 (3.43%) Google Analytics
8 7 (3.43%) Google Tag Manager
8 7 (3.43%) Serverless
8 7 (3.43%) Vercel
9 5 (2.45%) Azure App Service
9 5 (2.45%) SaaS
10 4 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) DNS
1 5 (2.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.98%) Broadband
2 2 (0.98%) DHCP
2 2 (0.98%) IPv6
2 2 (0.98%) LAN
2 2 (0.98%) WAN
2 2 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (25.98%) Power BI
3 45 (22.06%) SQL Server
4 24 (11.76%) Looker
5 22 (10.78%) Tableau
6 21 (10.29%) Data Lake
7 18 (8.82%) BigQuery
8 15 (7.35%) Star Schema
9 14 (6.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.45%) Big Data
13 3 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.98%) GIS
14 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.98%) MySQL
14 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.37%) Git
2 12 (5.88%) GitLab
3 2 (0.98%) MSBuild
General
1 38 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.20%) Finance
4 30 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.27%) Retail
6 21 (10.29%) Public Sector
7 17 (8.33%) Legal
8 16 (7.84%) Marketing
9 13 (6.37%) Games
10 12 (5.88%) Law
11 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.47%) Advertising
12 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.98%) Automotive
13 2 (0.98%) Banking
13 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.98%) International Banking
13 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.49%) Local Government
14 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (29.90%) Data Engineer
2 58 (28.43%) Data Scientist
3 37 (18.14%) Senior
4 30 (14.71%) Analyst
5 28 (13.73%) Senior Analyst
6 21 (10.29%) Data Analyst
7 19 (9.31%) Senior Data Analyst
7 19 (9.31%) Senior Data Scientist
8 18 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (8.82%) Principal Data Engineer
8 18 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (7.35%) Lead
10 14 (6.86%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 14 (6.86%) Consultant
10 14 (6.86%) Data Manager
11 9 (4.41%) Customer Analyst
11 9 (4.41%) Operations Analyst
11 9 (4.41%) Senior Operations Analyst
12 8 (3.92%) Data Governance Analyst
12 8 (3.92%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.41%) React
2 8 (3.92%) Node.js
3 7 (3.43%) GraphQL
3 7 (3.43%) Next.js
3 7 (3.43%) REST
4 3 (1.47%) JWT
4 3 (1.47%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.47%) RESTful
5 2 (0.98%) .NET
5 2 (0.98%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.98%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.98%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.49%) ERC20
6 1 (0.49%) Pandas
6 1 (0.49%) PySpark
6 1 (0.49%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.49%) SpaCy
6 1 (0.49%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.49%) Truffle
6 1 (0.49%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.59%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (12.25%) Algorithms
3 22 (10.78%) Data Structures
4 14 (6.86%) Freedom of Information
4 14 (6.86%) Taxonomies
5 12 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.94%) IoT
8 4 (1.96%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.98%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.98%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.98%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (0.98%) Lidar
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.47%) Windows
2 2 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (46.57%) Analytics
2 83 (40.69%) Machine Learning
3 76 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 58 (28.43%) Data Engineering
6 55 (26.96%) ETL
7 54 (26.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 53 (25.98%) Data Modelling
9 52 (25.49%) Mentoring
10 47 (23.04%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (22.55%) Agile
12 41 (20.10%) Statistical Modelling
13 40 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (18.14%) Decision-Making
15 36 (17.65%) Data Analysis
16 33 (16.18%) Actionable Insight
16 33 (16.18%) Coaching
16 33 (16.18%) Roadmaps
17 31 (15.20%) Computer Science
18 30 (14.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 91 (44.61%) SQL
2 82 (40.20%) Python
3 17 (8.33%) R
4 9 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.96%) C#
5 4 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.47%) Java
6 3 (1.47%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.98%) PHP
7 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.49%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 70 (34.31%) Degree
2 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.94%) PhD
4 4 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.96%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.98%) MCSE
5 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.98%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 2 (0.98%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.82%) GDPR
3 10 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.75%) Google
3 19 (9.31%) Databricks
4 13 (6.37%) Alteryx
5 7 (3.43%) Informatica
6 3 (1.47%) Oracle
7 2 (0.98%) Remedy
8 1 (0.49%) YouTube