Data Science Jobs in Berkshire

Data Science
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 121 95
Rank change year-on-year +91 -26 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 131 45 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.02% 1.35% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.76% 1.61% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 73
10th Percentile £64,543 £42,650 £35,550
25th Percentile £65,358 £50,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,810 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £69,358 £78,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £75,743 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -1.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,496 2,790 2,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.61% 83.68% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 559 1,823 1,556
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £84,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Berkshire

Data Science
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Data Science in Berkshire

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Berkshire over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Berkshire

Data Science
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 2025. 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
Slough - 49 - - 267
Windsor +8 39 - - 7
Maidenhead - 39 £64,000 - 5
Reading +33 3 £65,810 +38.55% 15
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 26 (19.85%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (75.57%) Azure
2 31 (23.66%) GCP
3 26 (19.85%) Power Automate
3 26 (19.85%) Power Platform
3 26 (19.85%) PowerApps
4 23 (17.56%) AWS
5 15 (11.45%) Vertex AI
6 13 (9.92%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (56.49%) Data Lake
2 35 (26.72%) Big Data
3 26 (19.85%) Power BI
3 26 (19.85%) Tableau
4 24 (18.32%) Data Mining
5 9 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.87%) Hadoop
5 9 (6.87%) NoSQL
General
1 126 (96.18%) Law
2 91 (69.47%) Social Skills
3 68 (51.91%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (29.77%) Influencing Skills
5 30 (22.90%) Retail
6 14 (10.69%) Finance
7 13 (9.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Electronics
8 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (65.65%) Senior
2 65 (49.62%) Lead
3 13 (9.92%) Senior Manager
4 9 (6.87%) Data Analytics Director
5 5 (3.82%) Data Scientist
6 3 (2.29%) Data Science Leader
7 2 (1.53%) Product Lead
7 2 (1.53%) Trainer
8 1 (0.76%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.92%) Hugging Face
1 13 (9.92%) LangChain
1 13 (9.92%) PyTorch
1 13 (9.92%) TensorFlow
2 9 (6.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (20.61%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.87%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (87.79%) Analytics
2 103 (78.63%) Machine Learning
3 79 (60.31%) Roadmaps
4 77 (58.78%) Agile
5 69 (52.67%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (47.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 62 (47.33%) Data Engineering
7 52 (39.69%) Actionable Insight
8 51 (38.93%) Computer Science
9 48 (36.64%) Data Governance
10 46 (35.11%) Business Intelligence
11 42 (32.06%) Thought Leadership
12 41 (31.30%) Predictive Modelling
13 40 (30.53%) MLOps
13 40 (30.53%) Strategic Thinking
14 39 (29.77%) Co-Creation
14 39 (29.77%) Innovative Thinking
14 39 (29.77%) People Analytics
14 39 (29.77%) Scorecard
14 39 (29.77%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.63%) SQL
2 3 (2.29%) Python
3 2 (1.53%) C++
3 2 (1.53%) R
4 1 (0.76%) Fortran
4 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 63 (48.09%) Degree
2 26 (19.85%) Master's Degree
3 23 (17.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.87%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.87%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.29%) PhD
6 1 (0.76%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.61%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (6.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 13 (9.92%) Grafana
1 13 (9.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (40.46%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.37%) OpenAI
3 26 (19.85%) ServiceNow
4 24 (18.32%) Google
5 12 (9.16%) Databricks
6 3 (2.29%) SAP
7 2 (1.53%) PayPal