Data Science Job Trends in Gloucester

Data Science
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 30 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 5 2 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 2.70% 1.40% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 1.55% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £50,000 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £51,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,875 £70,000
90th Percentile - £63,000 £80,650
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% -20.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 129 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucester 82.16% 90.21% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 81 62 148
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £50,000 £40,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £79,725 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.91% -8.18%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Data Science
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Data Science

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 (20.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Epics
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality