The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Scientist role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Scientist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Scientist
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £75,000 -
% change year-on-year
-26.66% -
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1727 1409 1581
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 94.01% 97.44% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1495 1270 1426
Average salary £40,000 £39,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.26% -1.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Data Scientist
South East

Data Scientist
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Pig

Data Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Pig
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) MATLAB