Data Science Jobs in Cardiff

Data Science
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 48 60
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 5 18 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.79% 2.51% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 3.28% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £36,378
25th Percentile £77,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,250 - £70,500
South Wales median annual salary £80,000 £47,500 £55,043
% change year-on-year +68.42% -13.70% -8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 549 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.94% 76.46% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 111 493 385
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year - -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £64,938 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £47,029 £46,699
% change year-on-year +6.32% +0.71% -6.60%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Cardiff

Data Science
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Cardiff

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Cardiff

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Recruitment Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Data Stewardship
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform