Data Science Job Trends in Derbyshire

Data Science
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 45 37
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 -18
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 4 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 0.96% 0.45% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.63% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £37,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £61,875
90th Percentile - - £65,250
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -36.00% - +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 344 316 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 82.69% 70.85% 98.22%
Number of salaries quoted 193 159 150
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £37,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £58,563
90th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Data Science
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Data Science

Data Science
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
Derby -4 4 £62,500 +25.00% 4
Data Science
East Midlands

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Keras
1 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks