Data Scientist Jobs in England

Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Data Scientist salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 525 434
Rank change year-on-year +125 -91 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 495 466 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.52% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.56% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 241 320 453
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,159 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,570 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,875 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +14.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in England.

Salary trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the England 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 +76 203 £75,000 +8.37% 94
South East +69 125 £65,000 +8.33% 12
Midlands +32 59 £56,250 -2.17% 13
West Midlands +49 50 £57,500 +4.55% 4
South West -28 45 £65,000 +18.44% 12
North of England +26 38 £60,000 +2.13% 23
North West +21 22 £60,000 -11.11% 10
East of England +4 16 £80,000 +39.13% 10
Yorkshire +61 14 £70,576 +28.32% 11
East Midlands -11 9 £45,000 -21.74% 9
North East -10 2 £43,200 -3.28% 2
Data Scientist
UK

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 493 (99.60%) Data Science
2 332 (67.07%) Python
3 311 (62.83%) Degree
4 290 (58.59%) Machine Learning
5 271 (54.75%) Algorithms
6 234 (47.27%) Mathematics
7 211 (42.63%) Computer Science
8 203 (41.01%) Decision-Making
9 202 (40.81%) SQL
10 190 (38.38%) Data Analysis
11 168 (33.94%) Statistical Modelling
12 166 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
13 145 (29.29%) Statistics
14 144 (29.09%) Artificial Intelligence
15 138 (27.88%) Social Skills
16 136 (27.47%) Analytics
16 136 (27.47%) Mentoring
17 134 (27.07%) Cybersecurity
18 132 (26.67%) Coaching
19 131 (26.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 122 (24.65%) Red Team
20 122 (24.65%) Digital Forensics
21 117 (23.64%) Visualisation
22 111 (22.42%) Predictive Modelling
23 105 (21.21%) Natural Language Processing
24 101 (20.40%) R
25 99 (20.00%) Master's Degree
26 89 (17.98%) Actionable Insight
27 86 (17.37%) TensorFlow
28 79 (15.96%) Pandas

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (5.05%) SAS
2 20 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.61%) Apache
3 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 72 (14.55%) Azure
2 58 (11.72%) AWS
3 45 (9.09%) GCP
4 24 (4.85%) Power Platform
5 14 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
6 12 (2.42%) GitHub
7 9 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (1.82%) SaaS
8 5 (1.01%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.20%) Serverless
12 1 (0.20%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (12.12%) Tableau
2 29 (5.86%) Big Data
3 25 (5.05%) Data Mining
4 24 (4.85%) Power BI
5 17 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.03%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
7 9 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.82%) Text Mining
8 5 (1.01%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.61%) Bigtable
10 3 (0.61%) CouchDB
10 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.61%) Metadata
10 3 (0.61%) Redis
10 3 (0.61%) RethinkDB
11 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (14.55%) Git
2 2 (0.40%) RStudio
2 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.20%) git-flow
3 1 (0.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 138 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 131 (26.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 62 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.11%) Finance
5 26 (5.25%) Marketing
6 23 (4.65%) Banking
6 23 (4.65%) Retail
7 21 (4.24%) Law
8 18 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.42%) Games
11 8 (1.62%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.01%) Legal
13 3 (0.61%) Advertising
14 2 (0.40%) International Banking
14 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.20%) Electronics
15 1 (0.20%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (17.37%) TensorFlow
2 79 (15.96%) Pandas
3 64 (12.93%) scikit-learn
4 48 (9.70%) PySpark
5 35 (7.07%) NumPy
6 33 (6.67%) PyTorch
7 22 (4.44%) Keras
8 16 (3.23%) XGBoost
9 7 (1.41%) Kedro
9 7 (1.41%) SpaCy
10 6 (1.21%) MXNet
11 5 (1.01%) Statsmodels
12 4 (0.81%) .NET
12 4 (0.81%) React
13 3 (0.61%) SciPy
13 3 (0.61%) SQLAlchemy
14 2 (0.40%) Matplotlib
14 2 (0.40%) Seaborn
15 1 (0.20%) Anaconda
15 1 (0.20%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 271 (54.75%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 13 (2.63%) Life Science
4 12 (2.42%) Credit Risk
4 12 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.82%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.01%) PMI
8 4 (0.81%) Pricing Data
8 4 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.61%) Blog
9 3 (0.61%) CUDA
9 3 (0.61%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.61%) Semantic Web
9 3 (0.61%) Social Media
10 2 (0.40%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.40%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.40%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.40%) Android
1 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.40%) Windows
1 2 (0.40%) Windows Vista
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (99.60%) Data Science
2 290 (58.59%) Machine Learning
3 234 (47.27%) Mathematics
4 211 (42.63%) Computer Science
5 203 (41.01%) Decision-Making
6 190 (38.38%) Data Analysis
7 168 (33.94%) Statistical Modelling
8 166 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
9 145 (29.29%) Statistics
10 144 (29.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 136 (27.47%) Analytics
11 136 (27.47%) Mentoring
12 134 (27.07%) Cybersecurity
13 132 (26.67%) Coaching
14 122 (24.65%) Digital Forensics
14 122 (24.65%) Red Team
15 117 (23.64%) Visualisation
16 111 (22.42%) Predictive Modelling
17 105 (21.21%) Natural Language Processing
18 89 (17.98%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 332 (67.07%) Python
2 202 (40.81%) SQL
3 101 (20.40%) R
4 19 (3.84%) C#
5 18 (3.64%) MATLAB
6 8 (1.62%) C++
6 8 (1.62%) Java
6 8 (1.62%) VBA
7 5 (1.01%) C
8 4 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.40%) Julia
10 1 (0.20%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 311 (62.83%) Degree
2 99 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 73 (14.75%) PhD
4 41 (8.28%) DBS Check
5 33 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 21 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.22%) SC Cleared
9 6 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.01%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.81%) IFRS
3 4 (0.81%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.40%) QA
4 2 (0.40%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (2.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.21%) Terraform
3 2 (0.40%) Core Impact
4 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 66 (13.33%) Databricks
2 19 (3.84%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.22%) Dataiku
4 10 (2.02%) Google
5 5 (1.01%) Alteryx
6 4 (0.81%) Oracle
7 2 (0.40%) Sage
8 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow