Data Science Jobs in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 48 101
Rank change year-on-year 0 +53 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 104 164 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.36% 4.91% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.57% 5.36% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 74 117 118
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,368 £52,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £112,188 £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £136,750 £112,500 £135,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £73,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.25% -4.84% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,867 3,062 4,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.29% 91.65% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 2,381 3,559
10th Percentile £42,100 £41,315 £42,950
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.73%) Apache
1 7 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (6.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.38%) Azure
2 41 (39.42%) AWS
3 22 (21.15%) GCP
4 11 (10.58%) SaaS
5 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.73%) Serverless
7 6 (5.77%) Azure AI
7 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.81%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.81%) PaaS
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.92%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) Broadband
2 1 (0.96%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (7.69%) Power BI
3 6 (5.77%) MySQL
3 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.85%) Power Query
4 4 (3.85%) Tableau
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.88%) Big Data
5 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.88%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.92%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.92%) Parquet
6 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.92%) Redis
6 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Git
2 3 (2.88%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (18.27%) Finance
4 18 (17.31%) Law
5 11 (10.58%) Banking
6 7 (6.73%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.73%) Marketing
7 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.85%) Games
9 3 (2.88%) Advertising
9 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.92%) Front Office
10 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (21.15%) Senior
2 20 (19.23%) Lead
3 19 (18.27%) Analyst
4 17 (16.35%) Data Engineer
4 17 (16.35%) Data Scientist
5 16 (15.38%) Qualitative Analyst
5 16 (15.38%) Quantitative Analyst
6 13 (12.50%) Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Lead Data Engineer
8 10 (9.62%) Senior Data Scientist
9 8 (7.69%) Architect
9 8 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) .NET Developer
12 4 (3.85%) Head of Engineering
13 3 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
13 3 (2.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 3 (2.88%) Principal Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) ARM Templates
1 8 (7.69%) TensorFlow
2 7 (6.73%) PySpark
3 6 (5.77%) scikit-learn
4 5 (4.81%) .NET
4 5 (4.81%) Pandas
4 5 (4.81%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.85%) Plotly
5 4 (3.85%) React
6 3 (2.88%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.88%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (2.88%) Node.js
7 2 (1.92%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.92%) Django
7 2 (1.92%) Kafka
7 2 (1.92%) LINQ
7 2 (1.92%) Next.js
7 2 (1.92%) REST
8 1 (0.96%) Loki
8 1 (0.96%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Algorithms
2 7 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.88%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.88%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (2.88%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.92%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.96%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.96%) Online Games
8 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.96%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.08%) Analytics
2 40 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 36 (34.62%) Machine Learning
4 34 (32.69%) Artificial Intelligence
5 25 (24.04%) Mathematics
6 22 (21.15%) Statistics
7 20 (19.23%) Data Engineering
7 20 (19.23%) MLOps
7 20 (19.23%) Physics
8 19 (18.27%) Kalman Filter
9 17 (16.35%) Mentoring
10 15 (14.42%) ETL
10 15 (14.42%) Roadmaps
10 15 (14.42%) Visualisation
11 14 (13.46%) Natural Language Processing
11 14 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (13.46%) Statistical Modelling
12 13 (12.50%) DevOps
12 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 79 (75.96%) Python
2 36 (34.62%) SQL
3 25 (24.04%) C#
4 20 (19.23%) Java
5 19 (18.27%) C++
6 10 (9.62%) Scala
7 5 (4.81%) R
8 4 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.85%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.88%) F#
9 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.92%) Bash
10 2 (1.92%) Go
10 2 (1.92%) Rust
11 1 (0.96%) C
11 1 (0.96%) Cypher
11 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (52.88%) Degree
2 29 (27.88%) Master's Degree
3 18 (17.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (12.50%) PhD
5 9 (8.65%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.88%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.88%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) Data Quality
1 7 (6.73%) GDPR
2 6 (5.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 16 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.46%) Terraform
3 3 (2.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.42%) Google
3 13 (12.50%) Databricks
4 6 (5.77%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.77%) SAP
4 6 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.77%) Workday
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle