Data Science Job Trends in London

Data Science
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 78 87
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 572 507 809
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.57% 4.04% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 4.26% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 337 278 494
10th Percentile £46,939 £46,500 £47,325
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,813 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +11.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%

All Process & 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 18,314 11,902 20,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.37% 94.85% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,537 7,392 15,118
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in London

Data Science
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Science

Data Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 2026. 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 -10 116 £85,000 - 78
West London +11 30 £102,500 +61.42% 24
South London +35 19 - - 6
East London - 9 £110,000 - 16
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 66 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 31 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.45%) Apache
4 8 (1.40%) SAS
5 7 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.87%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.35%) Confluence
8 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) HFM
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 182 (31.82%) AWS
2 153 (26.75%) Azure
3 125 (21.85%) GCP
4 53 (9.27%) Power Platform
5 51 (8.92%) Snowflake
6 36 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 33 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (4.55%) dbt
9 25 (4.37%) Serverless
10 17 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.45%) Azure Machine Learning
12 14 (2.45%) SaaS
13 12 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (1.57%) Amazon Bedrock
16 7 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 7 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
17 6 (1.05%) Anthropic Claude
18 5 (0.87%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.01%) Broadband
2 6 (1.05%) BGP
3 5 (0.87%) 5G
3 5 (0.87%) DNS
3 5 (0.87%) IPsec
3 5 (0.87%) VPN
4 4 (0.70%) HTTP
5 2 (0.35%) Firewall
6 1 (0.17%) 4G
6 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 51 (8.92%) Power BI
4 39 (6.82%) Metadata
4 39 (6.82%) Tableau
5 38 (6.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 34 (5.94%) BigQuery
7 32 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (4.90%) NoSQL
9 21 (3.67%) Looker
10 17 (2.97%) Big Data
10 17 (2.97%) Delta Lake
10 17 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (2.45%) Hadoop
11 14 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (2.27%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.10%) DynamoDB
14 11 (1.92%) Relational Database
15 9 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.47%) Git
2 23 (4.02%) MLflow
3 5 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.70%) GitLab
4 4 (0.70%) JIRA
4 4 (0.70%) Selenium
5 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 123 (21.50%) Finance
2 117 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 112 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (6.82%) Marketing
6 34 (5.94%) Banking
7 19 (3.32%) Law
8 18 (3.15%) Advertising
9 17 (2.97%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.97%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.62%) Retail
11 10 (1.75%) Military
11 10 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.57%) Publishing
13 7 (1.22%) Agriculture
13 7 (1.22%) Legal
14 6 (1.05%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 193 (33.74%) Data Scientist
2 166 (29.02%) Senior
3 111 (19.41%) Senior Data Scientist
4 68 (11.89%) Lead
5 67 (11.71%) Data Engineer
6 41 (7.17%) Developer
7 29 (5.07%) Software Engineer
8 27 (4.72%) Architect
9 24 (4.20%) Lead Data Scientist
10 23 (4.02%) Scala Engineer
11 21 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
11 21 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
12 18 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 18 (3.15%) Consultant
12 18 (3.15%) Data Management Specialist
12 18 (3.15%) Product Specialist
13 17 (2.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 16 (2.80%) Analyst
14 16 (2.80%) Python Engineer
15 14 (2.45%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.97%) PyTorch
2 50 (8.74%) TensorFlow
3 41 (7.17%) Kafka
3 41 (7.17%) scikit-learn
4 40 (6.99%) LangChain
5 36 (6.29%) gRPC
6 24 (4.20%) LlamaIndex
7 21 (3.67%) PySpark
8 20 (3.50%) React
9 18 (3.15%) pgvector
10 15 (2.62%) Pandas
11 14 (2.45%) SpaCy
12 13 (2.27%) LangGraph
13 12 (2.10%) RESTful
14 10 (1.75%) Django
14 10 (1.75%) Seaborn
15 9 (1.57%) HTML
15 9 (1.57%) Node.js
15 9 (1.57%) XGBoost
16 8 (1.40%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.49%) Cloud Native
2 55 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.44%) Algorithms
4 49 (8.57%) Video\Live Streaming
5 40 (6.99%) Over-the-Top Content
6 24 (4.20%) AI Agents
6 24 (4.20%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.85%) Clustering
8 19 (3.32%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.97%) Public Cloud
10 16 (2.80%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.45%) e-Learning
12 13 (2.27%) Social Media
13 10 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.57%) Blog
14 9 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (0.87%) Credit Risk
17 4 (0.70%) IoT
17 4 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.32%) Linux
2 7 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (53.67%) AI
2 297 (51.92%) Machine Learning
3 244 (42.66%) Analytics
4 159 (27.80%) CI/CD
5 130 (22.73%) Data Engineering
6 117 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (19.41%) Software Engineering
8 107 (18.71%) Data Pipeline
9 104 (18.18%) Decision-Making
10 97 (16.96%) Generative AI
10 97 (16.96%) MLOps
11 93 (16.26%) Mentoring
12 91 (15.91%) Agile
12 91 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
12 91 (15.91%) Roadmaps
13 89 (15.56%) Data Modelling
14 82 (14.34%) Use Case
15 74 (12.94%) Microservices
16 72 (12.59%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 68 (11.89%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 310 (54.20%) Python
2 161 (28.15%) SQL
3 60 (10.49%) Scala
4 42 (7.34%) Go
5 30 (5.24%) Java
6 19 (3.32%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.62%) C
7 15 (2.62%) C++
8 11 (1.92%) C#
9 10 (1.75%) Bicep
9 10 (1.75%) PHP
9 10 (1.75%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.40%) R
11 5 (0.87%) Ruby
11 5 (0.87%) Rust
12 4 (0.70%) Bash
13 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.17%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 129 (22.55%) Degree
2 53 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.82%) PhD
4 32 (5.59%) Master's Degree
5 24 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 21 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.40%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.40%) Postgraduate
9 8 (1.40%) SnowPro
10 7 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.52%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.35%) GIAC
12 2 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.72%) GDPR
3 17 (2.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 14 (2.45%) QA
5 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.52%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 64 (11.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.35%) Firmware
2 2 (0.35%) IAG
Systems Management
1 38 (6.64%) Terraform
2 36 (6.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.87%) Hadoop YARN
4 4 (0.70%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.52%) Kibana
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.35%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.17%) Ansible
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (17.13%) Databricks
2 40 (6.99%) Google
3 37 (6.47%) Microsoft
4 36 (6.29%) Typelevel
5 35 (6.12%) Dell
6 19 (3.32%) Informatica
6 19 (3.32%) Teradata
7 18 (3.15%) Denodo
8 16 (2.80%) Cloudera
9 11 (1.92%) Oracle
10 7 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.05%) IBM
12 5 (0.87%) Cisco
12 5 (0.87%) HP
12 5 (0.87%) SAP
13 4 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.52%) Foundry
15 2 (0.35%) Adobe
15 2 (0.35%) Dataiku
16 1 (0.17%) DataRobot