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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 72 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 546 892 1,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.35% 3.74% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.13% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 259 576 837
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,375 £57,500 £62,500
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 £122,750 £122,500 £118,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% -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 12,081 21,583 31,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.25% 90.41% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,866 15,843 22,594
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £55,656 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,576 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -5.90% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £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 29 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 29 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 +9 148 £85,000 +15.25% 60
West London +32 24 £63,500 -29.44% 100
South London +11 22 £105,000 +55.56% 2
East London -11 10 - - 8
North London -12 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 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 24 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.30%) Apache
4 13 (2.38%) nginx
5 5 (0.92%) Luigi
5 5 (0.92%) SAS
6 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 16 (2.93%) 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
1 219 (40.11%) AWS
2 211 (38.64%) Azure
3 127 (23.26%) GCP
4 99 (18.13%) Serverless
5 89 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (10.81%) Power Platform
7 41 (7.51%) SaaS
8 26 (4.76%) GitHub
9 22 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.75%) Azure AI
12 14 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.56%) dbt
13 13 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
13 13 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (2.20%) Google Analytics
14 12 (2.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.27%) Broadband
2 5 (0.92%) MQTT
2 5 (0.92%) SMS
2 5 (0.92%) VPN
3 4 (0.73%) 4G
3 4 (0.73%) 5G
3 4 (0.73%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.73%) WAN
4 2 (0.37%) Internet
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.44%) Power BI
2 49 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (7.88%) Tableau
4 22 (4.03%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.66%) DynamoDB
6 19 (3.48%) Relational Database
7 18 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (3.30%) MySQL
7 18 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.93%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.75%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.56%) Neo4j
11 12 (2.20%) Metadata
12 11 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.01%) Big Data
12 11 (2.01%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.01%) SQL Server
13 8 (1.47%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 36 (6.59%) Git
2 11 (2.01%) GitLab
3 8 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) webpack
6 4 (0.73%) 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%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 199 (36.45%) Analytical Skills
2 172 (31.50%) Social Skills
3 101 (18.50%) Finance
4 64 (11.72%) Law
5 59 (10.81%) Marketing
6 45 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.86%) Banking
8 25 (4.58%) Retail
9 22 (4.03%) Games
9 22 (4.03%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (3.11%) Publishing
12 16 (2.93%) Health Technology
13 14 (2.56%) Tech for Good
14 12 (2.20%) Advertising
14 12 (2.20%) Legal
15 10 (1.83%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.65%) Investment Banking
17 8 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (32.97%) Senior
2 77 (14.10%) Data Scientist
3 74 (13.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 70 (12.82%) Developer
5 67 (12.27%) Data Engineer
6 59 (10.81%) Lead
7 54 (9.89%) Analyst
8 47 (8.61%) Senior Data Scientist
9 25 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.21%) Architect
11 19 (3.48%) Data Analyst
11 19 (3.48%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.11%) Product Manager
12 17 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (2.93%) Python Developer
13 16 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (2.75%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.71%) React
2 39 (7.14%) Pandas
3 38 (6.96%) PyTorch
4 34 (6.23%) TensorFlow
5 32 (5.86%) PySpark
6 30 (5.49%) scikit-learn
7 29 (5.31%) NumPy
8 26 (4.76%) RESTful
9 24 (4.40%) CSS
10 23 (4.21%) SciPy
11 22 (4.03%) HTML
12 21 (3.85%) .NET
13 19 (3.48%) OpenCV
14 17 (3.11%) Node.js
15 16 (2.93%) AngularJS
16 14 (2.56%) ARM Templates
16 14 (2.56%) Kafka
16 14 (2.56%) Swagger
17 10 (1.83%) REST
17 10 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 74 (13.55%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.30%) Virtual Team
5 17 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.11%) Robotics
6 16 (2.93%) Life Science
7 15 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.75%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.83%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.47%) Smart City
11 7 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.28%) Digital Media
11 7 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.28%) Multi-touch
12 6 (1.10%) IoT
12 6 (1.10%) Mobile Games
13 5 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.11%) Linux
2 6 (1.10%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) 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
1 279 (51.10%) Analytics
2 236 (43.22%) Machine Learning
3 192 (35.16%) Agile
4 176 (32.23%) Artificial Intelligence
5 163 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (25.46%) Mentoring
7 135 (24.73%) CI/CD
8 126 (23.08%) Computer Science
9 107 (19.60%) Visualisation
10 84 (15.38%) DevOps
11 83 (15.20%) Decision-Making
12 78 (14.29%) Statistics
13 77 (14.10%) Roadmaps
14 74 (13.55%) Data Engineering
15 73 (13.37%) Data Modelling
16 72 (13.19%) Creative Thinking
16 72 (13.19%) MLOps
17 71 (13.00%) Personalization
18 70 (12.82%) Clean Code
18 70 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 381 (69.78%) Python
2 179 (32.78%) SQL
3 95 (17.40%) TypeScript
4 42 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 39 (7.14%) C#
6 34 (6.23%) R
7 31 (5.68%) Java
8 25 (4.58%) Scala
9 23 (4.21%) C++
10 9 (1.65%) Bash
11 7 (1.28%) SPARQL
12 6 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.92%) C
13 5 (0.92%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.73%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.73%) Rust
15 3 (0.55%) Bicep
15 3 (0.55%) Cypher
15 3 (0.55%) F#
15 3 (0.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 281 (51.47%) Degree
2 135 (24.73%) PhD
3 102 (18.68%) Master's Degree
4 53 (9.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.11%) Security Cleared
7 10 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.65%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.18%) CFA
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
14 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.48%) GDPR
2 19 (3.48%) QA
3 15 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.38%) 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 (14.29%) Docker
2 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.42%) Terraform
3 6 (1.10%) Ansible
4 4 (0.73%) 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 62 (11.36%) Databricks
2 48 (8.79%) Google
3 46 (8.42%) Microsoft
4 19 (3.48%) SAP
5 15 (2.75%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.01%) Workday
7 6 (1.10%) Foundry
7 6 (1.10%) Oracle
7 6 (1.10%) Yahoo!
8 5 (0.92%) Adobe
9 3 (0.55%) Snowplow
9 3 (0.55%) Splunk
9 3 (0.55%) YouTube
10 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.37%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.37%) Palantir
10 2 (0.37%) Tealium
11 1 (0.18%) Intel
11 1 (0.18%) Talend