Data Scientist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Scientist
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Scientist salary in Work from Home is £70,000 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 451 415 459
Rank change year-on-year -36 +44 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 134 272 437
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.64% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.67% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 73 189 228
10th Percentile £40,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,570 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £87,500 £101,250
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,422 40,723 66,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.03% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 28,925 42,092
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Scientist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Scientist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Scientist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Scientist.

Data Scientist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Scientist over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Data Scientist salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 133 (99.25%) Data Science
2 121 (90.30%) Python
3 108 (80.60%) SQL
4 102 (76.12%) Machine Learning
5 72 (53.73%) Artificial Intelligence
6 68 (50.75%) Degree
7 67 (50.00%) Algorithms
8 66 (49.25%) Social Skills
9 65 (48.51%) Statistics
9 65 (48.51%) Natural Language Processing
10 62 (46.27%) Pandas
11 55 (41.04%) Mathematics
12 54 (40.30%) Decision-Making
13 53 (39.55%) Predictive Modelling
14 52 (38.81%) Visualisation
15 49 (36.57%) Master's Degree
16 48 (35.82%) Generative AI
17 47 (35.07%) Git
17 47 (35.07%) Finance
18 46 (34.33%) Customer Experience
19 45 (33.58%) TensorFlow
20 43 (32.09%) Databricks
20 43 (32.09%) MLOps
21 41 (30.60%) Propensity Modelling
22 39 (29.10%) scikit-learn
23 38 (28.36%) Actionable Insight
23 38 (28.36%) Physics
24 37 (27.61%) Neural Network
24 37 (27.61%) Tableau
24 37 (27.61%) PySpark

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (10.45%) SAS
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.43%) AWS
2 16 (11.94%) Azure
3 10 (7.46%) GCP
4 7 (5.22%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.99%) GitHub
5 4 (2.99%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.75%) Serverless
6 1 (0.75%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (27.61%) Tableau
2 8 (5.97%) Big Data
3 4 (2.99%) Power BI
4 3 (2.24%) Metadata
4 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.24%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.49%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.75%) Bigtable
6 1 (0.75%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Redis
6 1 (0.75%) RethinkDB
6 1 (0.75%) SAS EBI
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (35.07%) Git
General
1 66 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 47 (35.07%) Finance
3 24 (17.91%) Banking
4 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.45%) Retail
6 9 (6.72%) Marketing
7 6 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.99%) Legal
8 4 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.49%) Law
9 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (46.27%) Pandas
2 45 (33.58%) TensorFlow
3 39 (29.10%) scikit-learn
4 37 (27.61%) PySpark
5 14 (10.45%) XGBoost
6 13 (9.70%) PyTorch
7 8 (5.97%) NumPy
8 4 (2.99%) .NET
8 4 (2.99%) Tidyverse
9 3 (2.24%) Keras
10 2 (1.49%) React
11 1 (0.75%) Django
11 1 (0.75%) Flask
11 1 (0.75%) JSON
11 1 (0.75%) MXNet
11 1 (0.75%) SpaCy
11 1 (0.75%) SQLAlchemy
11 1 (0.75%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 67 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 19 (14.18%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.96%) Credit Risk
4 5 (3.73%) PMI
4 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.99%) Life Science
5 4 (2.99%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.24%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.75%) CUDA
7 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) iPad
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.75%) Robotics
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (99.25%) Data Science
2 102 (76.12%) Machine Learning
3 72 (53.73%) Artificial Intelligence
4 65 (48.51%) Natural Language Processing
4 65 (48.51%) Statistics
5 55 (41.04%) Mathematics
6 54 (40.30%) Decision-Making
7 53 (39.55%) Predictive Modelling
8 52 (38.81%) Visualisation
9 48 (35.82%) Generative AI
10 46 (34.33%) Customer Experience
11 43 (32.09%) MLOps
12 41 (30.60%) Propensity Modelling
13 38 (28.36%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (28.36%) Physics
14 37 (27.61%) Neural Network
14 37 (27.61%) Storytelling
15 36 (26.87%) Analytics
16 35 (26.12%) Data Munging
16 35 (26.12%) Demand Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 121 (90.30%) Python
2 108 (80.60%) SQL
3 25 (18.66%) R
4 4 (2.99%) C#
5 2 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (50.75%) Degree
2 49 (36.57%) Master's Degree
3 36 (26.87%) DBS Check
4 11 (8.21%) PhD
5 5 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.24%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) IFRS
1 6 (4.48%) IFRS 9
2 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (32.09%) Databricks
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.99%) Google
4 1 (0.75%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle
4 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow