Lead Data Scientist Job Trends in Belfast

Lead Data Scientist
County Antrim > Belfast

As of 18 February 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Data Scientist salary in Belfast.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 398 232 293
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 98.31% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 228 73 216
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £50,000 £36,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,430 £56,138
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +5.86% +12.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £87,500
County Antrim median annual salary £46,000 £59,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.60% +8.05% +10.00%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Data Scientist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Lead Data Scientist job vacancy trend in Belfast

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 18 February 2026, Lead Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Belfast region featuring Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes