Data Science Jobs in Cambridge

Data Science
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 54 60
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 11 27 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.56% 2.69% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 3.26% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 12
10th Percentile - £33,425 £47,500
25th Percentile - £46,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - +36.17% -2.08%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £72,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £83,738 £75,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +10.91% +28.51% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 827 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 94.19% 82.37% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 132 630 378
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,350
25th Percentile £32,216 £42,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,313 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,875 £87,500 £90,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Cambridge

Data Science
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Cambridge

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon SageMaker
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
General
1 9 (81.82%) Manufacturing
1 9 (81.82%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Keras
1 9 (81.82%) NumPy
1 9 (81.82%) PyTorch
1 9 (81.82%) scikit-learn
1 9 (81.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) CRISPR
2 1 (9.09%) Genomics
2 1 (9.09%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 10 (90.91%) Bioinformatics
2 10 (90.91%) Biology
2 10 (90.91%) Computational Biology
2 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
3 9 (81.82%) Data Analytics
3 9 (81.82%) Data Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (81.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 9 (81.82%) Dimensionality Reduction
3 9 (81.82%) Mathematics
3 9 (81.82%) Physics
3 9 (81.82%) PLM
3 9 (81.82%) Reinforcement Learning
3 9 (81.82%) Statistics
3 9 (81.82%) User Experience
3 9 (81.82%) UX Design
3 9 (81.82%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) R
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Degree
2 10 (90.91%) PhD
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Facebook
1 1 (9.09%) YouTube