Lead Data Scientist Jobs in Scotland

Lead Data Scientist
UK > Scotland

The median Lead Data Scientist salary in Scotland is £92,778 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 214 243
Rank change year-on-year -63 +29 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 3 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.045% 0.063% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.070% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £99,000 £80,500
25th Percentile £89,016 £101,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,778 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +29.41% +41.67%
75th Percentile £96,539 £115,000 £91,250
90th Percentile - - £93,500
UK median annual salary £93,889 £72,500 £88,750
% change year-on-year +29.50% -18.31% -1.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,525 4,268 5,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 90.19% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 2,327 2,988
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,828 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Scientist in Scotland

Lead Data Scientist
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Scientist in Scotland.

Salary trend for Lead Data Scientist in Scotland

Lead Data Scientist
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Scientist within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Edinburgh +42 3 £92,778 -13.70%
Lead Data Scientist
UK

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Lead 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 Scotland region featuring Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Propensity Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (100.00%) Random Forest
1 3 (100.00%) Decision Tree
1 3 (100.00%) Price Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Agile

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Decision Tree
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Price Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Propensity Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Random Forest
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL