Principal Data Scientist Jobs in the City of London

Principal Data Scientist
Central London > City of London

The median Principal Data Scientist salary in the City of London is £115,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 - 281
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Scientist 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.030% - 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% - 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £110,000 - £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 - £95,000
75th Percentile £120,000 - £97,500
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £115,000 - £95,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,239 4,553 6,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.94% 96.44% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 3,824 5,648
10th Percentile £41,200 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Principal Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Scientist in the City of London

Principal Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Scientist in the City of London

Principal Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Principal 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 City of London region featuring Principal Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Principal Data Scientist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks