Data Science Jobs in Central London

Data Science
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 105 82
Rank change year-on-year +54 -23 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 179 152 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 4.74% 2.89% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 3.05% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 127 132 245
10th Percentile £47,800 £57,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,125 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,500 £133,850 £109,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% +6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,494 4,985 7,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.46% 94.79% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 4,127 6,411
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +58 155 £72,500 -6.45% 29
City of Westminster +11 17 £75,000 -
West End of London +25 11 £59,125 - 1
Camden - 6 £55,000 -
Southwark +11 1 £72,500 -3.33%
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (3.91%) Apache Spark
1 7 (3.91%) SAS
2 5 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.12%) Stata
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.35%) Azure
2 26 (14.53%) AWS
2 26 (14.53%) Power Platform
3 14 (7.82%) GCP
4 6 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (3.35%) SaaS
5 5 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (2.23%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.68%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.12%) GitHub
8 2 (1.12%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.56%) Dropbox
9 1 (0.56%) Figma
9 1 (0.56%) Serverless
9 1 (0.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (26.26%) Tableau
2 26 (14.53%) Power BI
3 20 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.59%) Big Data
5 9 (5.03%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.35%) Data Mining
6 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.79%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.23%) Power Query
9 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.12%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.12%) MySQL
10 2 (1.12%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 29 (16.20%) Git
2 6 (3.35%) JIRA
3 5 (2.79%) MLflow
4 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.12%) ERwin
4 2 (1.12%) RStudio
4 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.56%) git-flow
5 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.06%) Finance
4 9 (5.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (3.91%) Marketing
6 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Games
8 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.12%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (31.84%) Data Scientist
2 52 (29.05%) Senior
3 32 (17.88%) Senior Data Scientist
4 30 (16.76%) Analyst
5 19 (10.61%) Data Engineer
5 19 (10.61%) Developer
6 16 (8.94%) Lead
7 10 (5.59%) Data Analyst
8 9 (5.03%) Qualitative Analyst
8 9 (5.03%) Quantitative Analyst
9 8 (4.47%) Data Manager
10 7 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Product Owner
11 6 (3.35%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.35%) Junior
12 5 (2.79%) Architect
12 5 (2.79%) Information Manager
12 5 (2.79%) Senior IT Manager
12 5 (2.79%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.79%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.67%) PySpark
2 31 (17.32%) Pandas
3 29 (16.20%) TensorFlow
4 26 (14.53%) scikit-learn
5 7 (3.91%) NumPy
6 5 (2.79%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.23%) JSON
7 4 (2.23%) Kafka
7 4 (2.23%) RESTful
8 3 (1.68%) Keras
9 2 (1.12%) .NET
9 2 (1.12%) ATL
9 2 (1.12%) CSS
9 2 (1.12%) D3.js
9 2 (1.12%) Google Chart
9 2 (1.12%) HTML
9 2 (1.12%) Node.js
9 2 (1.12%) Shiny
10 1 (0.56%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.82%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (3.91%) Life Science
4 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.23%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (40.78%) Machine Learning
2 66 (36.87%) Visualisation
3 60 (33.52%) Statistics
4 57 (31.84%) Analytics
5 56 (31.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 53 (29.61%) Mathematics
7 51 (28.49%) Computer Science
8 40 (22.35%) Decision-Making
9 38 (21.23%) Actionable Insight
10 37 (20.67%) Natural Language Processing
11 36 (20.11%) Data Modelling
11 36 (20.11%) MLOps
12 35 (19.55%) Predictive Modelling
13 33 (18.44%) Data Visualisation
13 33 (18.44%) Physics
14 32 (17.88%) Customer Experience
14 32 (17.88%) Neural Network
15 30 (16.76%) Agile
15 30 (16.76%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 124 (69.27%) Python
2 97 (54.19%) SQL
3 34 (18.99%) R
4 17 (9.50%) C++
5 13 (7.26%) C#
6 10 (5.59%) Scala
7 8 (4.47%) Java
8 7 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.79%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.23%) C
11 3 (1.68%) VBA
12 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.56%) Dart
13 1 (0.56%) F#
13 1 (0.56%) Go
13 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 84 (46.93%) Degree
2 49 (27.37%) Master's Degree
3 24 (13.41%) DBS Check
4 22 (12.29%) PhD
5 17 (9.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.91%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.79%) Postgraduate
7 5 (2.79%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.12%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (20.11%) Databricks
2 9 (5.03%) Google
3 6 (3.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.79%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.23%) Samsung
6 3 (1.68%) Oracle
7 2 (1.12%) Embarcadero
7 2 (1.12%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) Splunk
8 1 (0.56%) Apple
8 1 (0.56%) BEA
8 1 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.56%) Facebook
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) Spotify