Data Science Jobs in London

Data Science
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 69 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 542 892 1,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.33% 3.75% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.14% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 257 575 841
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,322
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +1.52%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £72,246 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.15% -7.14% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Central London +8 146 £85,000 +17.24% 67
West London +38 24 £63,500 -29.44% 96
South London +8 22 £105,000 +55.56% 2
East London -12 10 - - 8
North London -9 7 - -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 31 (5.72%) Apache Spark
2 24 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.14%) Apache
4 13 (2.40%) nginx
5 5 (0.92%) Luigi
5 5 (0.92%) SAS
6 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 16 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.55%) Sketch
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) SPSS
4 1 (0.18%) SPSS Modeler
4 1 (0.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 218 (40.22%) AWS
2 211 (38.93%) Azure
3 127 (23.43%) GCP
4 98 (18.08%) Serverless
5 88 (16.24%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (10.89%) Power Platform
7 42 (7.75%) SaaS
8 25 (4.61%) GitHub
9 22 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.77%) Azure AI
12 14 (2.58%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
13 13 (2.40%) dbt
13 13 (2.40%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (2.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.36%) Broadband
2 5 (0.92%) MQTT
2 5 (0.92%) SMS
2 5 (0.92%) VPN
3 4 (0.74%) 4G
3 4 (0.74%) 5G
3 4 (0.74%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.74%) WAN
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.52%) Power BI
2 49 (9.04%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (7.93%) Tableau
4 22 (4.06%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.51%) DynamoDB
6 18 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (3.32%) MySQL
6 18 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.32%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.95%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.77%) NoSQL
9 14 (2.58%) Neo4j
10 12 (2.21%) Metadata
11 11 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.03%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.85%) Big Data
13 8 (1.48%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (6.46%) Git
2 11 (2.03%) GitLab
3 8 (1.48%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) webpack
6 4 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.55%) Babel
7 3 (0.55%) gulp
7 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.37%) MLflow
8 2 (0.37%) Vite
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 199 (36.72%) Analytical Skills
2 172 (31.73%) Social Skills
3 100 (18.45%) Finance
4 63 (11.62%) Law
5 58 (10.70%) Marketing
6 44 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.90%) Banking
8 25 (4.61%) Retail
9 22 (4.06%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.87%) Games
11 20 (3.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (3.14%) Publishing
13 16 (2.95%) Health Technology
14 14 (2.58%) Tech for Good
15 12 (2.21%) Legal
16 11 (2.03%) Advertising
17 10 (1.85%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.66%) Investment Banking
19 8 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (1.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (33.21%) Senior
2 76 (14.02%) Data Scientist
3 74 (13.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 69 (12.73%) Developer
5 67 (12.36%) Data Engineer
6 58 (10.70%) Lead
7 50 (9.23%) Analyst
8 46 (8.49%) Senior Data Scientist
9 25 (4.61%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.24%) Architect
11 19 (3.51%) Data Analyst
11 19 (3.51%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.14%) Product Manager
12 17 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (2.77%) Python Developer
14 15 (2.77%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.59%) React
2 39 (7.20%) Pandas
3 38 (7.01%) PyTorch
4 33 (6.09%) TensorFlow
5 32 (5.90%) PySpark
6 29 (5.35%) NumPy
6 29 (5.35%) scikit-learn
7 27 (4.98%) RESTful
8 23 (4.24%) CSS
8 23 (4.24%) SciPy
9 21 (3.87%) .NET
9 21 (3.87%) HTML
10 19 (3.51%) OpenCV
11 17 (3.14%) Node.js
12 15 (2.77%) AngularJS
13 14 (2.58%) ARM Templates
13 14 (2.58%) Kafka
13 14 (2.58%) Swagger
14 9 (1.66%) REST
14 9 (1.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.50%) Algorithms
2 74 (13.65%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.32%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.32%) Virtual Team
4 17 (3.14%) Robotics
5 16 (2.95%) Life Science
5 16 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.77%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.85%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.29%) Digital Media
9 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.29%) Multi-touch
9 7 (1.29%) Smart City
10 6 (1.11%) Mobile Games
11 5 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.92%) IoT
11 5 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.14%) Linux
2 6 (1.11%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.55%) VMS
5 2 (0.37%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (51.29%) Analytics
2 235 (43.36%) Machine Learning
3 190 (35.06%) Agile
4 176 (32.47%) Artificial Intelligence
5 162 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (25.65%) Mentoring
7 134 (24.72%) CI/CD
8 123 (22.69%) Computer Science
9 106 (19.56%) Visualisation
10 84 (15.50%) Decision-Making
11 83 (15.31%) DevOps
12 77 (14.21%) Roadmaps
12 77 (14.21%) Statistics
13 74 (13.65%) Data Engineering
14 73 (13.47%) Data Modelling
15 72 (13.28%) Creative Thinking
15 72 (13.28%) MLOps
16 71 (13.10%) Personalization
17 70 (12.92%) Clean Code
18 69 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 378 (69.74%) Python
2 177 (32.66%) SQL
3 95 (17.53%) TypeScript
4 41 (7.56%) JavaScript
5 37 (6.83%) C#
6 33 (6.09%) R
7 30 (5.54%) Java
8 26 (4.80%) Scala
9 21 (3.87%) C++
10 9 (1.66%) Bash
11 7 (1.29%) SPARQL
12 6 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.92%) C
14 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.74%) Rust
15 3 (0.55%) Bicep
15 3 (0.55%) Cypher
15 3 (0.55%) F#
15 3 (0.55%) Go
15 3 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 278 (51.29%) Degree
2 135 (24.91%) PhD
3 100 (18.45%) Master's Degree
4 52 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.14%) Security Cleared
7 10 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (1.66%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.66%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.18%) CFA
13 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.18%) PMP
13 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.78%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.51%) GDPR
2 19 (3.51%) QA
3 15 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (14.39%) Docker
2 6 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 45 (8.30%) Terraform
3 6 (1.11%) Ansible
4 4 (0.74%) Grafana
5 3 (0.55%) Packer
5 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.18%) Kibana
7 1 (0.18%) logstash
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (11.62%) Databricks
2 48 (8.86%) Google
3 46 (8.49%) Microsoft
4 19 (3.51%) SAP
5 15 (2.77%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.03%) Workday
7 6 (1.11%) Foundry
7 6 (1.11%) Oracle
7 6 (1.11%) Yahoo!
8 5 (0.92%) Adobe
9 3 (0.55%) Snowplow
9 3 (0.55%) YouTube
10 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.37%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.37%) Palantir
10 2 (0.37%) Splunk
10 2 (0.37%) Tealium
11 1 (0.18%) Intel
11 1 (0.18%) Talend