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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +33 -4 -27
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 17 10 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.41% 1.18% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 1.47% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £63,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £75,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £80,619 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% +28.00% +4.17%

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 296 682 657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 94.27% 80.33% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 193 521 299
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £87,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.85% +2.86%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) iSCSI
1 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 10 (58.82%) Manufacturing
1 10 (58.82%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Publishing
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (11.76%) Administrator
1 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (5.88%) Research Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) PyTorch
1 11 (64.71%) scikit-learn
1 11 (64.71%) TensorFlow
2 9 (52.94%) Keras
2 9 (52.94%) NumPy
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) FHIR
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) CRISPR
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.88%) Genomics
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Omics
3 1 (5.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Machine Learning
2 13 (76.47%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (70.59%) Software Engineering
4 11 (64.71%) Computer Science
4 11 (64.71%) Deep Learning
4 11 (64.71%) Mathematics
4 11 (64.71%) Reinforcement Learning
5 10 (58.82%) Bioinformatics
5 10 (58.82%) Biology
5 10 (58.82%) Computational Biology
5 10 (58.82%) Data Engineering
5 10 (58.82%) Data Visualisation
5 10 (58.82%) Statistics
5 10 (58.82%) User Experience
5 10 (58.82%) UX Design
5 10 (58.82%) Visualisation
6 9 (52.94%) Analytics
6 9 (52.94%) Data Analytics
6 9 (52.94%) Physics
6 9 (52.94%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) R
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Degree
2 11 (64.71%) PhD
3 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) CDISC
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) DICOM
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
1 1 (5.88%) QA
1 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
1 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Salt
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Facebook
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) YouTube