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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 89 78
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 576 811 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.35% 3.46% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 3.86% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 280 492 789
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,592 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,438 £59,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -5.54%
75th Percentile £102,813 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,750 £122,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -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 12,597 20,990 27,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 95.09% 89.54% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,431 15,021 21,246
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -13 132 £85,000 +13.33% 151
West London +34 25 £63,500 -11.81% 34
South London +18 22 £105,000 +68.00% 33
East London -9 10 - - 28
North London -12 7 - - 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 41 (7.12%) Apache Spark
2 31 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.82%) Apache
4 10 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.22%) nginx
6 6 (1.04%) Luigi
7 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.52%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
Applications
1 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.04%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.04%) Sketch
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) SPSS
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) SPSS Modeler
4 1 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Shopify
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.17%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 248 (43.06%) Azure
2 241 (41.84%) AWS
3 147 (25.52%) GCP
4 123 (21.35%) Serverless
5 102 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
6 70 (12.15%) Power Platform
7 40 (6.94%) SaaS
8 27 (4.69%) GitHub
9 22 (3.82%) dbt
10 21 (3.65%) Amazon SageMaker
10 21 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (3.47%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (3.13%) Azure AI
13 18 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (2.95%) PaaS
15 16 (2.78%) Snowflake
16 15 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.63%) Broadband
2 5 (0.87%) 4G
2 5 (0.87%) 5G
2 5 (0.87%) Unified Communications
2 5 (0.87%) WAN
3 4 (0.69%) MQTT
3 4 (0.69%) SMS
3 4 (0.69%) VPN
4 2 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.17%) DNS
5 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (11.63%) Power BI
2 58 (10.07%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (6.25%) Tableau
4 28 (4.86%) DynamoDB
5 27 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 22 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 21 (3.65%) Big Data
7 21 (3.65%) MySQL
8 20 (3.47%) Relational Database
8 20 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 19 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (2.95%) Neo4j
12 16 (2.78%) Metadata
12 16 (2.78%) MongoDB
13 13 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (2.26%) Delta Lake
13 13 (2.26%) Hadoop
14 12 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (1.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 40 (6.94%) Git
2 13 (2.26%) GitLab
3 11 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.74%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.04%) JIRA
6 6 (1.04%) MLflow
7 5 (0.87%) webpack
8 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.69%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.52%) Babel
9 3 (0.52%) gulp
9 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.35%) Vite
11 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 194 (33.68%) Analytical Skills
2 164 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 134 (23.26%) Finance
4 103 (17.88%) Law
5 79 (13.72%) Marketing
6 66 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (5.90%) Banking
8 33 (5.73%) Retail
9 27 (4.69%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.99%) Games
11 18 (3.13%) Publishing
12 16 (2.78%) Health Technology
13 15 (2.60%) Financial Institution
13 15 (2.60%) Legal
13 15 (2.60%) Tech for Good
14 12 (2.08%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.91%) Advertising
15 11 (1.91%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.04%) Brand Awareness
16 6 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 185 (32.12%) Senior
2 82 (14.24%) Data Engineer
3 78 (13.54%) Data Scientist
4 77 (13.37%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 67 (11.63%) Developer
6 61 (10.59%) Lead
7 55 (9.55%) Analyst
8 40 (6.94%) Senior Data Scientist
9 29 (5.03%) Senior Developer
10 23 (3.99%) Senior Data Engineer
11 21 (3.65%) Data Analyst
12 20 (3.47%) Architect
13 19 (3.30%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (3.30%) Product Manager
14 17 (2.95%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (2.95%) Python Developer
14 17 (2.95%) Software Engineer
15 16 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.63%) React
2 46 (7.99%) PySpark
3 37 (6.42%) TensorFlow
4 34 (5.90%) scikit-learn
5 30 (5.21%) .NET
6 26 (4.51%) CSS
7 24 (4.17%) HTML
7 24 (4.17%) PyTorch
8 23 (3.99%) RESTful
9 22 (3.82%) Pandas
10 17 (2.95%) Kafka
11 16 (2.78%) Node.js
12 15 (2.60%) Swagger
12 15 (2.60%) Vue
13 14 (2.43%) ARM Templates
14 13 (2.26%) REST
15 12 (2.08%) AngularJS
15 12 (2.08%) Django
16 10 (1.74%) .NET Framework
16 10 (1.74%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 75 (13.02%) Self-Motivation
2 57 (9.90%) Algorithms
3 22 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.91%) Credit Risk
8 8 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.39%) IoT
8 8 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.39%) Smart City
9 7 (1.22%) Digital Media
9 7 (1.22%) Multi-touch
10 6 (1.04%) NHS
11 5 (0.87%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.87%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.60%) Linux
2 6 (1.04%) Windows
3 4 (0.69%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.52%) VMS
5 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.35%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (46.53%) Analytics
2 261 (45.31%) Machine Learning
3 200 (34.72%) Agile
4 199 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (34.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 160 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 152 (26.39%) Mentoring
8 119 (20.66%) Computer Science
9 112 (19.44%) DevOps
10 101 (17.53%) Data Pipeline
11 99 (17.19%) Visualisation
12 87 (15.10%) Data Engineering
12 87 (15.10%) Decision-Making
13 86 (14.93%) ETL
14 84 (14.58%) Roadmaps
15 81 (14.06%) Creative Thinking
16 79 (13.72%) Data Modelling
17 76 (13.19%) Clean Code
18 70 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
18 70 (12.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 407 (70.66%) Python
2 208 (36.11%) SQL
3 96 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 46 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 43 (7.47%) Java
6 40 (6.94%) C#
7 33 (5.73%) R
8 30 (5.21%) Scala
9 16 (2.78%) C++
10 10 (1.74%) Bicep
11 8 (1.39%) Bash
12 7 (1.22%) Rust
12 7 (1.22%) SPARQL
13 6 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.87%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.69%) Cypher
15 4 (0.69%) Go
15 4 (0.69%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.52%) F#
17 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 258 (44.79%) Degree
2 103 (17.88%) PhD
3 71 (12.33%) Master's Degree
4 63 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.13%) Security Cleared
7 11 (1.91%) Numerate Degree
8 10 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.56%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.39%) PMP
11 7 (1.22%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.69%) CBAP
13 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.52%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.35%) CFA
14 2 (0.35%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.47%) QA
3 18 (3.13%) GDPR
4 11 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 88 (15.28%) Docker
2 6 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 57 (9.90%) Terraform
3 10 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.39%) Ansible
5 7 (1.22%) Grafana
6 4 (0.69%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.17%) logstash
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (13.19%) Databricks
2 55 (9.55%) Google
3 49 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.95%) OpenAI
4 17 (2.95%) SAP
5 11 (1.91%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.91%) Workday
6 10 (1.74%) Foundry
7 8 (1.39%) Adobe
7 8 (1.39%) Splunk
8 7 (1.22%) Oracle
9 6 (1.04%) Yahoo!
10 4 (0.69%) Mapinfo
11 3 (0.52%) Palantir
11 3 (0.52%) Snowplow
11 3 (0.52%) YouTube
12 2 (0.35%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.35%) Brandwatch
12 2 (0.35%) Talend
12 2 (0.35%) Tealium