Data Science Jobs in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 101 82
Rank change year-on-year +53 -19 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 160 133 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.78% 2.87% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 3.02% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 118 115 228
10th Percentile £48,293 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £105,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,080 4,410 6,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.02% 95.23% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,434 3,685 5,541
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,162 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £96,188 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 9 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
London Bridge +21 1 £72,500 -3.33%
Data Science
Central 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 (4.38%) SAS
2 6 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.50%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.25%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.63%) Azure
2 28 (17.50%) AWS
3 21 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.13%) GCP
5 6 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.88%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.25%) GitHub
8 2 (1.25%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.63%) Figma
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.63%) SaaS
9 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.00%) Tableau
2 21 (13.13%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (13.13%) Power BI
3 10 (6.25%) Big Data
4 7 (4.38%) Data Mining
5 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.13%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.50%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.88%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.88%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.88%) Power Query
8 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.25%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.25%) QGIS
9 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 26 (16.25%) Git
2 6 (3.75%) JIRA
3 5 (3.13%) MLflow
4 2 (1.25%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.25%) ERwin
4 2 (1.25%) RStudio
4 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.63%) git-flow
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.63%) Finance
4 5 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.13%) Marketing
5 4 (2.50%) Games
6 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.25%) Front Office
7 2 (1.25%) Legal
7 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Back Office
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (31.25%) Data Scientist
2 45 (28.13%) Senior
3 25 (15.63%) Analyst
3 25 (15.63%) Senior Data Scientist
4 20 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 19 (11.88%) Developer
6 16 (10.00%) Lead
7 10 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 9 (5.63%) Qualitative Analyst
8 9 (5.63%) Quantitative Analyst
9 7 (4.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.38%) Product Owner
10 6 (3.75%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.75%) Senior Manager
11 5 (3.13%) Information Manager
11 5 (3.13%) Junior
11 5 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Senior IT Manager
11 5 (3.13%) Technology Manager
12 4 (2.50%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.63%) PySpark
2 27 (16.88%) Pandas
3 25 (15.63%) TensorFlow
4 22 (13.75%) scikit-learn
5 7 (4.38%) NumPy
6 6 (3.75%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.50%) JSON
7 4 (2.50%) RESTful
8 3 (1.88%) Kafka
8 3 (1.88%) Keras
9 2 (1.25%) .NET
9 2 (1.25%) ATL
9 2 (1.25%) D3.js
9 2 (1.25%) Google Chart
9 2 (1.25%) Shiny
10 1 (0.63%) CSS
10 1 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.63%) HTML
10 1 (0.63%) pytest
10 1 (0.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.50%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.38%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.50%) Pricing Data
6 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.25%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (43.13%) Machine Learning
2 52 (32.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 51 (31.88%) Visualisation
4 50 (31.25%) Analytics
4 50 (31.25%) Statistics
5 49 (30.63%) Mathematics
6 44 (27.50%) Computer Science
7 34 (21.25%) Decision-Making
8 33 (20.63%) Actionable Insight
8 33 (20.63%) Natural Language Processing
9 32 (20.00%) MLOps
10 31 (19.38%) Predictive Modelling
11 30 (18.75%) Data Modelling
12 29 (18.13%) Agile
12 29 (18.13%) Neural Network
12 29 (18.13%) Physics
13 27 (16.88%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (15.00%) Customer Experience
15 24 (15.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 117 (73.13%) Python
2 89 (55.63%) SQL
3 31 (19.38%) R
4 17 (10.63%) C++
5 12 (7.50%) C#
6 9 (5.63%) Scala
7 6 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.75%) Java
7 6 (3.75%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.50%) C
9 3 (1.88%) VBA
10 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) Go
11 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (45.63%) Degree
2 39 (24.38%) Master's Degree
3 20 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 16 (10.00%) PhD
5 15 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.38%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.13%) Postgraduate
7 5 (3.13%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.25%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (20.00%) Databricks
2 8 (5.00%) Google
3 5 (3.13%) Alteryx
3 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.88%) Oracle
5 2 (1.25%) Embarcadero
5 2 (1.25%) Informatica
5 2 (1.25%) Splunk
6 1 (0.63%) Apple
6 1 (0.63%) Facebook
6 1 (0.63%) IBM