Data Scientist Jobs

Data Scientist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Data Scientist in the job title within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Data Scientist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the UK.

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Scientist over the 3 months to 1 August 2014 within the UK.

Data Scientist
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the UK over the 3 months to 1 August 2014. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Use links below to see detailed statistics and historical trends)	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+92	209	£60,000	-	17
London	+106	176	£65,000	+10.63%	13
City of London	+55	72	£70,000	-6.66%	4
East of England	-	21	£37,500	-	2
Cambridgeshire	-	16	£37,500	-	1
Cambridge	-	15	£37,500	-	1
South West	-	7	£35,000	-
Swindon	-	6	£35,000	-
Wiltshire	-	6	£35,000	-
North West	+1	5	£55,000	-18.51%	2
Cheshunt	-	5	£50,000	-
Hertfordshire	-	5	£50,000	-	1
Liverpool	-	3	£55,000	-	1
Merseyside	-	3	£55,000	-	1
Manchester	-2	2	£48,750	-27.77%	1
Somerset	-	1	£35,000	-
Bath	-	1	£35,000	-
Harrow	-	1	-	-

Data Scientist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 August 2014, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 273 (62.47%) Analytics 2 238 (54.46%) R 3 237 (54.23%) Hadoop 4 233 (53.32%) Big Data 5 220 (50.34%) Mathematics 6 203 (46.45%) Python 7 182 (41.65%) Java 8 180 (41.19%) SQL 9 177 (40.50%) Data Mining 10 173 (39.59%) Statistics 11 156 (35.70%) Degree 12 152 (34.78%) Computer Science 13 147 (33.64%) PhD 14 136 (31.12%) MATLAB 15 120 (27.46%) Machine Learning

16 108 (24.71%) Data Modelling 17 106 (24.26%) SAS 17 106 (24.26%) Visualisation 18 103 (23.57%) MapReduce 19 100 (22.88%) SPSS 19 100 (22.88%) Physics 20 99 (22.65%) Predictive Modelling 21 89 (20.37%) C++ 22 86 (19.68%) Finance 23 81 (18.54%) Data Analysis 24 80 (18.31%) Relational Database 25 78 (17.85%) Mahout 26 72 (16.48%) Apache Hive 27 70 (16.02%) Retail 28 67 (15.33%) Scala

Data Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 August 2014, IT jobs within the UK 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 1 106 (24.26%) SAS 2 48 (10.98%) Apache Pig 3 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch 4 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr	Applications 1 100 (22.88%) SPSS 2 32 (7.32%) CPLEX 3 13 (2.97%) Spreadsheet 4 11 (2.52%) Stata 5 10 (2.29%) MS Excel 6 5 (1.14%) S-PLUS 6 5 (1.14%) Mathematica 6 5 (1.14%) Weka 7 3 (0.69%) FastStats 8 2 (0.46%) MS PowerPoint 9 1 (0.23%) MS Office
Business Applications 1 15 (3.43%) Google Analytics 2 9 (2.06%) WebTrends 3 3 (0.69%) SAP InfiniteInsight 3 3 (0.69%) SiteCatalyst	Cloud Services 1 15 (3.43%) Amazon EC2 1 15 (3.43%) Amazon S3 1 15 (3.43%) Amazon EMR 2 14 (3.20%) Amazon AWS 3 4 (0.92%) SaaS 4 2 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking 1 10 (2.29%) Internet 2 3 (0.69%) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 237 (54.23%) Hadoop 2 233 (53.32%) Big Data 3 177 (40.50%) Data Mining 4 80 (18.31%) Relational Database 5 78 (17.85%) Mahout 6 72 (16.48%) Apache Hive 7 52 (11.90%) NoSQL 8 40 (9.15%) MongoDB 9 32 (7.32%) Data Warehouse 10 29 (6.64%) MySQL 11 26 (5.95%) PostgreSQL 12 24 (5.49%) Impala 13 20 (4.58%) QlikView 14 14 (3.20%) Oracle OLAP 14 14 (3.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 14 (3.20%) DataStage 14 14 (3.20%) OLAP 15 11 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra 15 11 (2.52%) HBase 16 8 (1.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 14 (3.20%) Git (software) 2 13 (2.97%) Yeoman 3 9 (2.06%) Jenkins 4 2 (0.46%) Talend Open Studio	General 1 86 (19.68%) Finance 2 70 (16.02%) Retail 3 44 (10.07%) Marketing 4 30 (6.86%) Games 5 28 (6.41%) Telecoms 6 16 (3.66%) Advertising 7 9 (2.06%) Financial Institution 8 3 (0.69%) Law 9 2 (0.46%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards 1 103 (23.57%) MapReduce 2 27 (6.18%) Natural Language Processing 3 23 (5.26%) .NET 3 23 (5.26%) ASP.NET 4 22 (5.03%) SciPy 5 13 (2.97%) D3.js 6 9 (2.06%) XML 7 8 (1.83%) HTML5 7 8 (1.83%) NumPy 7 8 (1.83%) HTML 8 6 (1.37%) RabbitMQ 9 3 (0.69%) MDX 9 3 (0.69%) Matplotlib 10 2 (0.46%) CSS3 10 2 (0.46%) Akka 10 2 (0.46%) CSS 10 2 (0.46%) Web Services 11 1 (0.23%) Lucene	Miscellaneous 1 220 (50.34%) Mathematics 2 173 (39.59%) Statistics 3 152 (34.78%) Computer Science 4 106 (24.26%) Visualisation 5 100 (22.88%) Physics 6 51 (11.67%) Neural Network 7 49 (11.21%) Economics 8 41 (9.38%) Applied Mathematics 9 39 (8.92%) Artificial Intelligence 10 32 (7.32%) Digital Media 11 19 (4.35%) Social Media 12 18 (4.12%) Data Integration 13 17 (3.89%) Open Source 13 17 (3.89%) Management Information System 14 9 (2.06%) Credit Risk 15 7 (1.60%) Chemistry 16 6 (1.37%) Social Network 16 6 (1.37%) Biology 16 6 (1.37%) Psychology 16 6 (1.37%) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 21 (4.81%) Linux 2 12 (2.75%) UNIX 3 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS 3 1 (0.23%) Android	Processes & Methodologies 1 273 (62.47%) Analytics 2 120 (27.46%) Machine Learning 3 108 (24.71%) Data Modelling 4 99 (22.65%) Predictive Modelling 5 81 (18.54%) Data Analysis 6 58 (13.27%) Data Analytics 7 54 (12.36%) Statistical Modelling 8 47 (10.76%) Big Data Analytics 9 46 (10.53%) Business Analysis 10 44 (10.07%) Data Management 11 42 (9.61%) Statistical Analysis 12 35 (8.01%) Logistic Regression 13 32 (7.32%) Cluster Analysis 13 32 (7.32%) ETL 14 31 (7.09%) Business Intelligence 15 29 (6.64%) Data Visualisation 16 28 (6.41%) E-Commerce 16 28 (6.41%) CRM 17 25 (5.72%) Agile Software Development 18 24 (5.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 238 (54.46%) R 2 203 (46.45%) Python 3 182 (41.65%) Java 4 180 (41.19%) SQL 5 136 (31.12%) MATLAB 6 89 (20.37%) C++ 7 67 (15.33%) Scala 8 40 (9.15%) VBA 9 30 (6.86%) C# 9 30 (6.86%) Clojure 10 26 (5.95%) Perl 11 18 (4.12%) Bash Shell 12 13 (2.97%) PHP 12 13 (2.97%) Ruby 13 5 (1.14%) C 14 3 (0.69%) PowerHouse 14 3 (0.69%) JavaScript 15 2 (0.46%) Erlang 16 1 (0.23%) Shell Script 16 1 (0.23%) Haskell	Qualifications 1 156 (35.70%) Degree 2 147 (33.64%) PhD 3 20 (4.58%) SC Cleared 3 20 (4.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (2.52%) QA	System Software 1 9 (2.06%) VirtualBox 2 3 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management 1 9 (2.06%) Vagrant	Vendors 1 30 (6.86%) Tableau 2 18 (4.12%) Oracle 3 17 (3.89%) Teradata 4 16 (3.66%) Google 5 14 (3.20%) Informatica 5 14 (3.20%) Business Objects 6 4 (0.92%) Omniture 7 3 (0.69%) IBM 7 3 (0.69%) Alterian 7 3 (0.69%) MapR 7 3 (0.69%) Hortonworks 7 3 (0.69%) Cloudera 7 3 (0.69%) Greenplum 8 2 (0.46%) Talend 8 2 (0.46%) Splunk 8 2 (0.46%) MicroStrategy 9 1 (0.23%) Adobe 9 1 (0.23%) Minitab