Data Science Jobs in England

Data Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 74 60
Rank change year-on-year -42 -14 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,069 3,771 7,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.41% 4.20% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 4.39% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,193 1,540 2,223
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,416 85,899 127,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.47% 95.61% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53,988 50,919 73,096
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
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 Science within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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 -19 896 £80,000 - 371
South East +40 393 £60,000 -11.11% 65
North of England -88 299 £50,000 -18.27% 72
Midlands +4 205 £55,000 +22.22% 34
North West -9 185 £50,000 -25.93% 39
South West -50 175 £61,250 -9.26% 44
West Midlands +14 159 £55,000 +22.22% 21
Yorkshire -106 81 £60,249 -1.52% 26
East of England -57 75 £55,000 -4.35% 29
East Midlands -5 46 £47,500 -14.80% 13
North East -7 33 £47,500 +3.26% 7
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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 91 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 69 (3.33%) SAS
3 31 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.26%) Apache
5 24 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.58%) Confluence
8 5 (0.24%) Luigi
8 5 (0.24%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.097%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.097%) IIS
11 1 (0.048%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.048%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.048%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 58 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.097%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.097%) SPSS
7 2 (0.097%) Stata
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.048%) Blender
Business Applications
1 23 (1.11%) Endur
2 7 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 7 (0.34%) Shopify
3 2 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.048%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.048%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 582 (28.13%) Azure
2 327 (15.80%) Power Platform
3 323 (15.61%) GCP
4 319 (15.42%) AWS
5 103 (4.98%) Snowflake
6 90 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 69 (3.33%) Matillion
9 63 (3.04%) SaaS
10 62 (3.00%) Serverless
11 60 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 57 (2.75%) GitHub
13 40 (1.93%) IBM Cloud
14 31 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 29 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.16%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.06%) dbt
18 18 (0.87%) Azure App Service
18 18 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
19 17 (0.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.92%) DNS
1 19 (0.92%) HTTP
2 18 (0.87%) Network Security
3 6 (0.29%) Firewall
3 6 (0.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.24%) MQTT
4 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.24%) Wireless
5 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 2 (0.097%) Broadband
6 2 (0.097%) Internet
6 2 (0.097%) LAN
6 2 (0.097%) WAN
7 1 (0.048%) DHCP
7 1 (0.048%) IPv6
7 1 (0.048%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (15.37%) Power BI
2 314 (15.18%) Data Warehouse
3 238 (11.50%) SQL Server
4 186 (8.99%) Tableau
5 180 (8.70%) BigQuery
6 157 (7.59%) Looker
7 145 (7.01%) Big Data
8 125 (6.04%) Data Lake
9 118 (5.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 77 (3.72%) Relational Database
11 61 (2.95%) Data Mining
12 60 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
13 59 (2.85%) NoSQL
14 50 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
14 50 (2.42%) Hadoop
15 49 (2.37%) Star Schema
16 48 (2.32%) Metadata
17 46 (2.22%) MongoDB
18 30 (1.45%) MySQL
18 30 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 154 (7.44%) Git
2 46 (2.22%) GitLab
3 32 (1.55%) JIRA
4 27 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.43%) MLflow
5 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.39%) ERwin
7 6 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.19%) Maven
10 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.14%) JUnit
10 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.097%) GoCD
11 2 (0.097%) RStudio
11 2 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.048%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.048%) git-flow
12 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 618 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 432 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
3 386 (18.66%) Finance
4 265 (12.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 216 (10.44%) Retail
6 185 (8.94%) Public Sector
7 128 (6.19%) Marketing
8 99 (4.78%) Law
9 84 (4.06%) Banking
10 75 (3.62%) Legal
11 62 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.80%) Games
13 42 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (1.69%) Military
15 29 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
19 19 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
20 17 (0.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 494 (23.88%) Data Scientist
2 450 (21.75%) Data Engineer
3 402 (19.43%) Senior
4 188 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
5 178 (8.60%) Lead
6 154 (7.44%) Principal Engineer
7 151 (7.30%) Analyst
8 150 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
9 149 (7.20%) Principal Data Engineer
10 142 (6.86%) Developer
11 111 (5.36%) Architect
12 105 (5.07%) Consultant
13 79 (3.82%) Data Analyst
14 76 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 67 (3.24%) Data Manager
16 60 (2.90%) Data Architect
17 59 (2.85%) Python Engineer
18 57 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
19 48 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
20 47 (2.27%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.85%) Pandas
2 115 (5.56%) TensorFlow
3 88 (4.25%) PySpark
4 72 (3.48%) scikit-learn
5 62 (3.00%) PyTorch
6 59 (2.85%) NumPy
7 54 (2.61%) React
8 48 (2.32%) Kafka
9 44 (2.13%) .NET
10 43 (2.08%) RESTful
11 40 (1.93%) CSS
12 36 (1.74%) HTML
13 31 (1.50%) Node.js
14 28 (1.35%) Keras
15 24 (1.16%) Django
16 21 (1.01%) XGBoost
16 21 (1.01%) XML
17 18 (0.87%) Apache Beam
18 17 (0.82%) JWT
19 15 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 392 (18.95%) Algorithms
2 207 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 138 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 66 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 56 (2.71%) Blockchain
6 55 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.08%) Life Science
7 43 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 41 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 38 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.50%) IoT
12 25 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
13 24 (1.16%) Blog
13 24 (1.16%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.11%) Swaptions
15 18 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 118 (5.70%) Linux
2 43 (2.08%) Windows
3 40 (1.93%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.93%) CentOS
3 40 (1.93%) Debian
4 16 (0.77%) Unix
5 6 (0.29%) Android
5 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.097%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.097%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.048%) Solaris
7 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (39.39%) Machine Learning
2 681 (32.91%) Analytics
3 652 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
4 599 (28.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 465 (22.47%) Agile
6 457 (22.09%) Computer Science
7 443 (21.41%) Mentoring
8 436 (21.07%) Data Engineering
9 422 (20.40%) Data Modelling
10 416 (20.11%) Business Intelligence
11 388 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
11 388 (18.75%) Visualisation
12 380 (18.37%) ETL
13 372 (17.98%) Mathematics
14 342 (16.53%) DevOps
15 340 (16.43%) Data Analysis
16 334 (16.14%) Decision-Making
17 263 (12.71%) Statistics
18 248 (11.99%) Coaching
19 241 (11.65%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 924 (44.66%) Python
2 830 (40.12%) SQL
3 213 (10.29%) R
4 127 (6.14%) Java
5 107 (5.17%) C#
6 70 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 67 (3.24%) T-SQL
8 52 (2.51%) C
8 52 (2.51%) C++
9 39 (1.88%) MATLAB
10 33 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 30 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 30 (1.45%) Scala
12 29 (1.40%) VB
13 15 (0.72%) Haskell
14 13 (0.63%) Go
15 12 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
16 10 (0.48%) U-SQL
16 10 (0.48%) VBA
17 9 (0.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 735 (35.52%) Degree
2 229 (11.07%) Master's Degree
3 137 (6.62%) PhD
4 106 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 56 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 48 (2.32%) DBS Check
9 43 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.98%) MCSE
11 40 (1.93%) MCSA
12 30 (1.45%) SC Cleared
13 23 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.48%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.29%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.29%) IIBA
18 4 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
18 4 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (9.42%) GDPR
2 186 (8.99%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 35 (1.69%) QA
5 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (0.43%) CDISC
7 7 (0.34%) PMO
8 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.19%) IFRS
9 4 (0.19%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
10 3 (0.14%) SLA
11 2 (0.097%) COBIT
11 2 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.097%) GLBA
11 2 (0.097%) NIST
11 2 (0.097%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.097%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
System Software
1 131 (6.33%) Docker
2 17 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.19%) HDFS
4 2 (0.097%) IAG
5 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.048%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 124 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.98%) Terraform
3 7 (0.34%) SysTrack
4 6 (0.29%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.29%) logstash
5 5 (0.24%) SELinux
6 4 (0.19%) Grafana
7 3 (0.14%) Argo
7 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.14%) Puppet
8 2 (0.097%) Core Impact
8 2 (0.097%) Podman
9 1 (0.048%) Kibana
9 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 262 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 210 (10.15%) Google
3 180 (8.70%) Databricks
4 65 (3.14%) Oracle
5 48 (2.32%) IBM
6 40 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 38 (1.84%) Alteryx
8 26 (1.26%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.21%) Sybase
10 23 (1.11%) OpenLink
10 23 (1.11%) TIBCO
11 16 (0.77%) Informatica
12 14 (0.68%) YouTube
13 13 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.58%) Dataiku
15 10 (0.48%) SAP
16 9 (0.43%) Adobe
17 8 (0.39%) Samsung
17 8 (0.39%) ServiceNow
18 7 (0.34%) Cloudera