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 18 April 2014 within the UK.

Data Scientist
Top 23 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 18 April 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 (Click each for more statistics)	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	Find Job Vacancies
England	+122	208	£60,000	+2.12%	21
London	+80	167	£65,000	+4.00%	16
City of London	+4	32	£65,000	-7.14%	5
Cambridgeshire	-	19	£37,500	-	3
East of England	-	19	£37,500	-	5
Cambridge	-	18	£37,500	-	1
South East	-	8	£42,500	-
Leeds	-	7	£65,000	-
West Yorkshire	-	7	£65,000	-
Yorkshire	-	7	£65,000	-
Warwickshire	-	6	£42,500	-
West Midlands	-	6	£42,500	-
Oxfordshire	-	5	£42,500	-
North West	-	3	£40,000	-
Merseyside	-	2	£40,000	-
Liverpool	-	2	£40,000	-
Hampshire	-	2	£27,500	-
South West	-8	1	£45,000	-20.00%
Manchester	-	1	£60,000	-
Guildford	-	1	£37,500	-
Somerset	-	1	£45,000	-
Surrey	-	1	£37,500	-
Bath	-	1	£45,000	-

Data Scientist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 April 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.

1 177 (57.65%) Hadoop 2 174 (56.68%) Analytics 3 170 (55.37%) R 4 167 (54.40%) Python 5 150 (48.86%) Big Data 6 147 (47.88%) Statistics 7 133 (43.32%) Mathematics 8 121 (39.41%) Data Mining 9 120 (39.09%) SQL 10 96 (31.27%) PhD 10 96 (31.27%) Computer Science 11 92 (29.97%) Machine Learning 12 90 (29.32%) Degree 13 88 (28.66%) Java 14 77 (25.08%) MATLAB

15 69 (22.48%) Apache Hive 16 68 (22.15%) Relational Database 17 63 (20.52%) Predictive Modelling 17 63 (20.52%) Data Modelling 18 62 (20.20%) SPSS 18 62 (20.20%) Visualisation 19 61 (19.87%) C++ 20 58 (18.89%) SAS 21 57 (18.57%) MapReduce 22 54 (17.59%) Data Analysis 23 49 (15.96%) Apache Pig 24 44 (14.33%) Finance 25 43 (14.01%) Perl 25 43 (14.01%) MongoDB 26 42 (13.68%) NoSQL

Data Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 58 (18.89%) SAS 2 49 (15.96%) Apache Pig 3 11 (3.58%) Elasticsearch 4 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr 4 1 (0.33%) Node.js	Applications 1 62 (20.20%) SPSS 2 17 (5.54%) CPLEX 3 11 (3.58%) Stata 4 5 (1.63%) Mathematica 5 3 (0.98%) MS Excel 5 3 (0.98%) MS Office 5 3 (0.98%) S-PLUS 5 3 (0.98%) Spreadsheet 5 3 (0.98%) FastStats 6 2 (0.65%) Weka 6 2 (0.65%) Simulink
Business Applications 1 10 (3.26%) Google Analytics 2 6 (1.95%) WebTrends 3 3 (0.98%) SiteCatalyst	Cloud Services 1 20 (6.51%) Amazon AWS 2 14 (4.56%) Amazon EC2 3 13 (4.23%) Amazon S3 3 13 (4.23%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking 1 7 (2.28%) Internet 2 2 (0.65%) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 177 (57.65%) Hadoop 2 150 (48.86%) Big Data 3 121 (39.41%) Data Mining 4 69 (22.48%) Apache Hive 5 68 (22.15%) Relational Database 6 43 (14.01%) MongoDB 7 42 (13.68%) NoSQL 7 42 (13.68%) MySQL 8 37 (12.05%) Mahout 9 22 (7.17%) PostgreSQL 10 19 (6.19%) HBase 11 13 (4.23%) Data Warehouse 12 10 (3.26%) QlikView 13 9 (2.93%) Apache Cassandra 14 8 (2.61%) Base SAS 14 8 (2.61%) RDBMS 15 5 (1.63%) Neo4j 16 4 (1.30%) Oracle OLAP 16 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services 16 4 (1.30%) OLAP
Development Applications 1 11 (3.58%) Yeoman 1 11 (3.58%) Git (software) 2 7 (2.28%) Jenkins 3 2 (0.65%) ProC	General 1 44 (14.33%) Finance 2 42 (13.68%) Retail 3 34 (11.07%) Marketing 4 27 (8.79%) Games 5 24 (7.82%) Telecoms 6 9 (2.93%) Advertising 7 3 (0.98%) Law 8 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.33%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards 1 57 (18.57%) MapReduce 2 18 (5.86%) SciPy 3 16 (5.21%) Natural Language Processing 4 10 (3.26%) .NET 5 8 (2.61%) ASP.NET 6 6 (1.95%) D3.js 6 6 (1.95%) NumPy 6 6 (1.95%) XML 7 5 (1.63%) HTML 8 4 (1.30%) HTML5 9 3 (0.98%) MDX 9 3 (0.98%) RabbitMQ 10 2 (0.65%) Akka 11 1 (0.33%) Web Services 11 1 (0.33%) Lucene 11 1 (0.33%) jQuery 11 1 (0.33%) Apache Jena 11 1 (0.33%) AngularJS	Miscellaneous 1 147 (47.88%) Statistics 2 133 (43.32%) Mathematics 3 96 (31.27%) Computer Science 4 92 (29.97%) Machine Learning 5 62 (20.20%) Visualisation 6 42 (13.68%) Physics 7 39 (12.70%) Neural Network 8 35 (11.40%) Economics 9 33 (10.75%) Artificial Intelligence 10 23 (7.49%) Applied Mathematics 11 22 (7.17%) Social Media 12 20 (6.51%) Digital Media 13 18 (5.86%) Open Source 14 8 (2.61%) Data Integration 15 7 (2.28%) Social Network 16 6 (1.95%) Social Gaming 16 6 (1.95%) Management Information System 17 5 (1.63%) Biology 18 4 (1.30%) FMCG 19 3 (0.98%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems 1 16 (5.21%) Linux 2 15 (4.89%) UNIX 3 2 (0.65%) Solaris 4 1 (0.33%) Android 4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 174 (56.68%) Analytics 2 63 (20.52%) Predictive Modelling 2 63 (20.52%) Data Modelling 3 54 (17.59%) Data Analysis 4 35 (11.40%) Data Analytics 4 35 (11.40%) Statistical Analysis 5 32 (10.42%) Statistical Modelling 6 31 (10.10%) Business Analysis 7 28 (9.12%) Business Intelligence 7 28 (9.12%) E-Commerce 8 26 (8.47%) Business Analytics 9 20 (6.51%) Use Case 10 19 (6.19%) Logistic Regression 11 18 (5.86%) Data Visualisation 11 18 (5.86%) Software Engineering 11 18 (5.86%) ETL 12 17 (5.54%) OO 12 17 (5.54%) Agile Software Development 13 16 (5.21%) User Stories 14 15 (4.89%) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 170 (55.37%) R 2 167 (54.40%) Python 3 120 (39.09%) SQL 4 88 (28.66%) Java 5 77 (25.08%) MATLAB 6 61 (19.87%) C++ 7 43 (14.01%) Perl 8 26 (8.47%) VBA 9 22 (7.17%) Clojure 10 21 (6.84%) Scala 11 20 (6.51%) C# 12 15 (4.89%) Bash Shell 13 8 (2.61%) C 14 7 (2.28%) PHP 15 3 (0.98%) PowerHouse 15 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL 16 2 (0.65%) Erlang 16 2 (0.65%) Ruby 16 2 (0.65%) T-SQL 16 2 (0.65%) VB	Qualifications 1 96 (31.27%) PhD 2 90 (29.32%) Degree 3 17 (5.54%) SC Cleared 3 17 (5.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.63%) QA	System Software 1 7 (2.28%) VirtualBox
Systems Management 1 7 (2.28%) Vagrant 2 5 (1.63%) Oozie	Vendors 1 12 (3.91%) Tableau 1 12 (3.91%) Google 2 7 (2.28%) Oracle 2 7 (2.28%) Teradata 3 5 (1.63%) Business Objects 4 4 (1.30%) Informatica 5 3 (0.98%) KXEN 5 3 (0.98%) Omniture 5 3 (0.98%) Alterian 6 2 (0.65%) MapR 6 2 (0.65%) Hortonworks 6 2 (0.65%) Cloudera 6 2 (0.65%) Greenplum 6 2 (0.65%) IBM 7 1 (0.33%) Adobe 7 1 (0.33%) MicroStrategy 7 1 (0.33%) Sony 7 1 (0.33%) Cognos 7 1 (0.33%) Splunk 7 1 (0.33%) Facebook