Data Science Job Trends in Central London

Data Science
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 70
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 88 151 112
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.44% 4.70% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.90% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 59 56 103
10th Percentile £55,750 £57,500 £47,600
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £124,375 £116,250
London median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.79% -9.38% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,233 3,083 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.26% 95.89% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,839 2,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Data Science job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Science
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Science

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
City of London +8 81 £85,000 +13.33% 59
City of Westminster +27 9 - - 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £60,000 - 1
Camden +11 1 - - 2
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.27%) Luigi
3 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.23%) Azure
2 26 (29.55%) AWS
3 23 (26.14%) GCP
4 19 (21.59%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.27%) Alation
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.27%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (2.27%) dbt
7 2 (2.27%) GitHub
7 2 (2.27%) Serverless
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.14%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.14%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) 4G
1 2 (2.27%) BGP
1 2 (2.27%) Broadband
1 2 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (2.27%) IOS XR
1 2 (2.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.45%) Power BI
2 11 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.95%) BigQuery
3 7 (7.95%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.82%) Tableau
5 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (3.41%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.41%) Metadata
7 3 (3.41%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.27%) DataStage
8 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.27%) Power Query
8 2 (2.27%) QlikView
8 2 (2.27%) Redis
9 1 (1.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) ERwin
2 6 (6.82%) Git
2 6 (6.82%) MLflow
3 2 (2.27%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.27%) PowerDesigner
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Finance
3 15 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Retail
6 5 (5.68%) Legal
7 4 (4.55%) Law
7 4 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.27%) Front Office
9 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.14%) Back Office
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (26.14%) Data Scientist
2 20 (22.73%) Lead
3 16 (18.18%) Senior
4 12 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) Senior Data Scientist
6 9 (10.23%) Architect
7 7 (7.95%) Data Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Data Science Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Data Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.55%) Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Product Owner
11 3 (3.41%) Lead Data Engineer
12 2 (2.27%) GCP Architect
12 2 (2.27%) Lead Data Scientist
12 2 (2.27%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) LangChain
1 7 (7.95%) PySpark
1 7 (7.95%) PyTorch
2 5 (5.68%) Django
2 5 (5.68%) Pandas
2 5 (5.68%) RESTful
2 5 (5.68%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.55%) Kafka
3 4 (4.55%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.41%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.27%) Jinja
5 2 (2.27%) NETCONF
5 2 (2.27%) NumPy
5 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.27%) React
5 2 (2.27%) YANG
6 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.14%) HTML
6 1 (1.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Data Structures
2 10 (11.36%) Algorithms
3 8 (9.09%) Reinsurance
4 6 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.27%) Derivative
7 2 (2.27%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.27%) Grid Computing
7 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.27%) Social Media
8 1 (1.14%) Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.14%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.14%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.59%) AI
1 41 (46.59%) Analytics
2 38 (43.18%) Machine Learning
3 23 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (25.00%) Agile
5 21 (23.86%) Data Governance
6 20 (22.73%) Data Modelling
7 18 (20.45%) CI/CD
7 18 (20.45%) Mentoring
8 17 (19.32%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (19.32%) Data Engineering
9 16 (18.18%) ETL
10 15 (17.05%) MLOps
11 14 (15.91%) Coaching
11 14 (15.91%) Computer Science
11 14 (15.91%) Data Strategy
11 14 (15.91%) Decision-Making
11 14 (15.91%) Roadmaps
12 13 (14.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.00%) Python
2 23 (26.14%) SQL
3 6 (6.82%) Java
3 6 (6.82%) R
4 4 (4.55%) C#
4 4 (4.55%) MATLAB
5 3 (3.41%) C++
5 3 (3.41%) Scala
6 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (10.23%) Master's Degree
3 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) PhD
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.27%) MBA
7 1 (1.14%) ACCA
7 1 (1.14%) CIMA
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Databricks
2 9 (10.23%) Google
3 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.55%) Intapp
5 2 (2.27%) Cisco
5 2 (2.27%) IBM
5 2 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.14%) Facebook
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud