Data Science Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 119 159
Rank change year-on-year +11 +40 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 157 177 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.17% 2.66% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.74% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 113 45 56
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,100 £41,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,016 6,455 6,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.85% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,272 4,743
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,510 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Birmingham +26 70 £57,500 +21.05% 9
Warwickshire +47 31 £75,000 -3.23% 1
Worcestershire +2 18 £57,500 -11.54%
Staffordshire -2 13 £35,000 - 2
Solihull +4 7 £55,000 +12.82%
Wolverhampton 0 5 £47,500 - 1
Shropshire 0 4 £66,250 -
Coventry +1 3 - - 2
Herefordshire +4 2 £85,000 -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (1.27%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.27%) IIS
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.27%) SAS
1 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (13.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.76%) Azure
2 45 (28.66%) Power Platform
3 21 (13.38%) AWS
4 19 (12.10%) GCP
5 13 (8.28%) Matillion
6 11 (7.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 11 (7.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (7.01%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.46%) Contentful
7 7 (4.46%) Google Analytics
7 7 (4.46%) Google Tag Manager
7 7 (4.46%) Serverless
7 7 (4.46%) Vercel
8 6 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.18%) SaaS
10 4 (2.55%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) DNS
1 4 (2.55%) HTTP
2 2 (1.27%) DHCP
2 2 (1.27%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (31.85%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (27.39%) Power BI
3 28 (17.83%) SQL Server
4 21 (13.38%) Tableau
5 15 (9.55%) Looker
6 12 (7.64%) Data Lake
6 12 (7.64%) Star Schema
7 10 (6.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (5.73%) BigQuery
8 9 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.91%) Big Data
10 3 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.27%) GIS
11 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.27%) MySQL
11 2 (1.27%) Spatial Data
11 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) GitLab
2 7 (4.46%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) MSBuild
General
1 30 (19.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 22 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (14.01%) Finance
2 22 (14.01%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.83%) Legal
4 15 (9.55%) Marketing
4 15 (9.55%) Retail
5 14 (8.92%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.28%) Games
7 10 (6.37%) Law
8 2 (1.27%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) International Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Local Government
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (31.21%) Data Scientist
2 41 (26.11%) Data Engineer
3 35 (22.29%) Senior
4 30 (19.11%) Analyst
5 28 (17.83%) Senior Analyst
6 21 (13.38%) Data Analyst
7 19 (12.10%) Senior Data Analyst
8 18 (11.46%) Senior Data Scientist
9 14 (8.92%) Data Manager
10 12 (7.64%) Lead
11 10 (6.37%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 10 (6.37%) Consultant
12 9 (5.73%) Customer Analyst
12 9 (5.73%) Operations Analyst
12 9 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Principal Data Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Senior Operations Analyst
13 8 (5.10%) Data Governance Analyst
13 8 (5.10%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.73%) React
2 7 (4.46%) GraphQL
2 7 (4.46%) Next.js
2 7 (4.46%) Node.js
2 7 (4.46%) REST
3 2 (1.27%) .NET
3 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.27%) JWT
3 2 (1.27%) PostGIS
3 2 (1.27%) RESTful
4 1 (0.64%) Kafka
4 1 (0.64%) Pandas
4 1 (0.64%) PySpark
4 1 (0.64%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.47%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (15.29%) Algorithms
3 18 (11.46%) Data Structures
4 14 (8.92%) Freedom of Information
4 14 (8.92%) Taxonomies
5 10 (6.37%) Management Information System
6 8 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.55%) Educational Technology
7 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.27%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.27%) Lidar
8 2 (1.27%) Robotics
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Linux
1 2 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (53.50%) Analytics
2 63 (40.13%) Machine Learning
3 58 (36.94%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (35.03%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (26.11%) Data Modelling
5 41 (26.11%) Statistical Modelling
6 40 (25.48%) Cybersecurity
7 38 (24.20%) ETL
7 38 (24.20%) Mentoring
8 37 (23.57%) Data Engineering
8 37 (23.57%) Decision-Making
9 33 (21.02%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (21.02%) Data Analysis
10 32 (20.38%) Agile
10 32 (20.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 32 (20.38%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (18.47%) Computer Science
12 28 (17.83%) Coaching
13 26 (16.56%) Red Team
13 26 (16.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (45.22%) SQL
2 60 (38.22%) Python
3 9 (5.73%) R
3 9 (5.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.55%) C#
4 4 (2.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.91%) Java
6 2 (1.27%) PHP
6 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (40.76%) Degree
2 4 (2.55%) PhD
3 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.27%) MCSE
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.73%) GDPR
3 8 (5.10%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (21.66%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.83%) Databricks
2 17 (10.83%) Google
3 13 (8.28%) Alteryx
4 7 (4.46%) Informatica
5 2 (1.27%) Remedy
6 1 (0.64%) YouTube