Data Scientist Jobs in Chester

Data Scientist
Cheshire > Chester

The median Data Scientist salary in Chester is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 2.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Chester with a recognized job title 41 221 169
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 91.32% 77.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20 190 88
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £24,275
25th Percentile £30,938 £35,000 £26,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £40,057
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.58% -15.67%
75th Percentile £57,813 £60,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £61,125 £65,000 £73,750
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.21% -1.05% -

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in Chester

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in Chester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in Chester.

Salary trend for Data Scientist in Chester

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Chester region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) TigerGraph
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Keras
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Seaborn
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision Tree
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensionality Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Pattern Matching
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Julia
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker