Data Science Job Trends in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 65 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 81 106 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.49% 3.99% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 4.17% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57 53 94
10th Percentile £57,000 £57,500 £46,425
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -5.06% -1.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £124,750 £118,875
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -6.25%

All Process & 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 2,004 2,540 2,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.34% 95.67% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,464 1,623 2,347
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,650
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 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Science
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Science

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 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.47%) Luigi
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.27%) Azure
2 25 (30.86%) AWS
3 23 (28.40%) GCP
4 18 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.47%) Alation
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (2.47%) GitHub
7 2 (2.47%) Serverless
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.23%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.23%) dbt
8 1 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) 4G
1 2 (2.47%) BGP
1 2 (2.47%) Broadband
1 2 (2.47%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (2.47%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (2.47%) IOS XR
1 2 (2.47%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) Power BI
2 11 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.64%) BigQuery
3 7 (8.64%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (4.94%) Tableau
6 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.70%) Metadata
6 3 (3.70%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.47%) DataStage
7 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.47%) Power Query
7 2 (2.47%) QlikView
7 2 (2.47%) Redis
8 1 (1.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) ERwin
2 6 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.47%) MLflow
3 2 (2.47%) PowerDesigner
General
1 28 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Finance
3 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Retail
6 5 (6.17%) Legal
7 4 (4.94%) Law
7 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.47%) Front Office
9 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.23%) Back Office
10 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Data Scientist
2 20 (24.69%) Lead
3 16 (19.75%) Senior
4 12 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Senior Data Scientist
6 9 (11.11%) Architect
7 7 (8.64%) Data Architect
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Data Science Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Lead Architect
9 5 (6.17%) Lead Data Architect
10 4 (4.94%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.94%) Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Product Owner
11 3 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
12 2 (2.47%) AWS Data Engineer
12 2 (2.47%) GCP Architect
12 2 (2.47%) Lead Data Scientist
12 2 (2.47%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) LangChain
1 7 (8.64%) PySpark
1 7 (8.64%) PyTorch
2 5 (6.17%) Django
2 5 (6.17%) Pandas
2 5 (6.17%) RESTful
2 5 (6.17%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.94%) Kafka
3 4 (4.94%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.70%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.47%) Jinja
5 2 (2.47%) NETCONF
5 2 (2.47%) NumPy
5 2 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.47%) React
5 2 (2.47%) YANG
6 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.23%) Node.js
6 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Data Structures
2 10 (12.35%) Algorithms
3 8 (9.88%) Reinsurance
4 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.47%) Derivative
7 2 (2.47%) Grid Computing
7 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.47%) Social Media
8 1 (1.23%) Clustering
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.23%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.23%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (49.38%) AI
2 39 (48.15%) Analytics
3 34 (41.98%) Machine Learning
4 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (25.93%) Agile
6 20 (24.69%) Data Governance
7 19 (23.46%) Data Modelling
8 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 17 (20.99%) Data Engineering
10 16 (19.75%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (18.52%) ETL
12 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
12 14 (17.28%) Coaching
12 14 (17.28%) Computer Science
12 14 (17.28%) Data Strategy
12 14 (17.28%) Roadmaps
13 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (16.05%) Visualisation
14 12 (14.81%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) Python
2 21 (25.93%) SQL
3 6 (7.41%) Java
4 4 (4.94%) C#
5 3 (3.70%) C++
5 3 (3.70%) Scala
6 2 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.47%) R
6 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.23%) Bicep
7 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Degree
2 9 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.47%) MBA
4 2 (2.47%) PhD
4 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Terraform
3 2 (2.47%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Databricks
2 9 (11.11%) Google
3 8 (9.88%) OpenAI
4 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.94%) Intapp
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco
6 2 (2.47%) IBM
6 2 (2.47%) Informatica