Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 527 574
Rank change year-on-year +33 +47 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 293 238 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.43% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 126 150 188
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,330 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,913 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £81,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +83 126 £65,000 +6.12% 15
Midlands +57 58 £57,500 - 12
West Midlands +51 49 £57,500 -4.17% 3
South West -30 43 £65,000 +18.44% 12
North of England +5 37 £60,000 +4.35% 18
North West +17 21 £60,000 -11.11% 9
East of England +3 16 £80,000 +42.22% 10
Yorkshire +60 14 £70,576 +28.32% 7
Scotland -59 12 £65,288 -37.82% 2
East Midlands -7 9 £45,000 -21.74% 9
North East -9 2 £43,200 -3.28% 2
Wales +13 1 £67,500 +50.00% 3
Data Scientist
UK

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 291 (99.32%) Data Science
2 192 (65.53%) Degree
3 183 (62.46%) Algorithms
4 160 (54.61%) Statistical Modelling
5 156 (53.24%) Data Analysis
6 152 (51.88%) Python
6 152 (51.88%) Decision-Making
7 151 (51.54%) Computer Science
8 143 (48.81%) Mathematics
8 143 (48.81%) Problem-Solving
9 132 (45.05%) Mentoring
10 131 (44.71%) Coaching
11 129 (44.03%) Cybersecurity
12 128 (43.69%) Machine Learning
13 126 (43.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 122 (41.64%) Red Team
14 122 (41.64%) Digital Forensics
15 81 (27.65%) SQL
16 72 (24.57%) Agile
17 65 (22.18%) Analytics
18 57 (19.45%) Artificial Intelligence
19 53 (18.09%) R
20 47 (16.04%) Social Skills
21 45 (15.36%) Visualisation
21 45 (15.36%) PhD
22 43 (14.68%) Statistics
23 36 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
23 36 (12.29%) Actionable Insight
24 35 (11.95%) Master's Degree
25 34 (11.60%) Finance

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (3.07%) SAS
2 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.34%) Apache
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.34%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.17%) Azure
2 17 (5.80%) GCP
3 12 (4.10%) AWS
3 12 (4.10%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.07%) SaaS
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.34%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.10%) Power BI
3 9 (3.07%) Big Data
3 9 (3.07%) Tableau
4 7 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.02%) Metadata
6 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.34%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.34%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) MySQL
7 1 (0.34%) Redis
7 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.34%) RethinkDB
7 1 (0.34%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 23 (7.85%) Git
General
1 126 (43.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 47 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.60%) Finance
4 24 (8.19%) Banking
5 21 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.14%) Law
7 15 (5.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (3.07%) Games
9 8 (2.73%) Marketing
10 7 (2.39%) Retail
11 5 (1.71%) Legal
12 3 (1.02%) Advertising
13 2 (0.68%) International Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.26%) Pandas
2 27 (9.22%) NumPy
3 24 (8.19%) TensorFlow
4 20 (6.83%) Keras
5 16 (5.46%) XGBoost
6 12 (4.10%) scikit-learn
7 11 (3.75%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.73%) SpaCy
9 5 (1.71%) Statsmodels
10 3 (1.02%) PySpark
11 2 (0.68%) Matplotlib
11 2 (0.68%) React
11 2 (0.68%) Seaborn
12 1 (0.34%) Django
12 1 (0.34%) Flask
12 1 (0.34%) HTML
12 1 (0.34%) NLTK
12 1 (0.34%) SciPy
12 1 (0.34%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 183 (62.46%) Algorithms
2 23 (7.85%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.41%) Life Science
5 6 (2.05%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.37%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.68%) IoT
7 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.68%) Smart Meter
7 2 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.34%) iPad
8 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.34%) Molecular Biology
8 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Windows
1 2 (0.68%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (99.32%) Data Science
2 160 (54.61%) Statistical Modelling
3 156 (53.24%) Data Analysis
4 152 (51.88%) Decision-Making
5 151 (51.54%) Computer Science
6 143 (48.81%) Mathematics
6 143 (48.81%) Problem-Solving
7 132 (45.05%) Mentoring
8 131 (44.71%) Coaching
9 129 (44.03%) Cybersecurity
10 128 (43.69%) Machine Learning
11 122 (41.64%) Digital Forensics
11 122 (41.64%) Red Team
12 72 (24.57%) Agile
13 65 (22.18%) Analytics
14 57 (19.45%) Artificial Intelligence
15 45 (15.36%) Visualisation
16 43 (14.68%) Statistics
17 36 (12.29%) Actionable Insight
17 36 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 152 (51.88%) Python
2 81 (27.65%) SQL
3 53 (18.09%) R
4 15 (5.12%) MATLAB
5 13 (4.44%) C#
6 3 (1.02%) Java
7 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.68%) Julia
7 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.34%) C
8 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 192 (65.53%) Degree
2 45 (15.36%) PhD
3 35 (11.95%) Master's Degree
4 24 (8.19%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.02%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.37%) IFRS
3 4 (1.37%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (5.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.10%) Databricks
3 5 (1.71%) Dataiku
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle
5 3 (1.02%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.68%) Google