Senior Data Scientist Jobs in Leeds

Senior Data Scientist
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in Leeds is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 130 176
Rank change year-on-year +57 +46 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 4 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.52% 0.31% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile - - £53,000
25th Percentile £62,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +30.43% -16.88%
75th Percentile £70,813 £92,019 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,475 £96,539 £64,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £64,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.67% +30.43% -16.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 724 2,177 2,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 95.99% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 502 1,572 1,717
10th Percentile £28,050 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,486 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,959 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in Leeds

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in Leeds

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in Leeds over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Senior 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 Leeds region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (75.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Segmentation

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Storytelling
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality