Lead Data Scientist Job Trends in the East Midlands

Lead Data Scientist
England > East Midlands

The median Lead Data Scientist salary in the East Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.037% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% -29.50% +37.93%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,537 2,001 2,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.83% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 909 2,232
10th Percentile £26,175 £29,247 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Data Scientist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Lead Data Scientist job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Lead Data Scientist
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Scientist within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 1 £70,000 - 2
Lead Data Scientist
England

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 February 2026, Lead Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Monetization
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Monetization
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks