Data Scientist Jobs in London

Data Scientist
England > London

The median Data Scientist salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 319 406
Rank change year-on-year +3 +87 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 76 204 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.86% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.91% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 33 113 156
10th Percentile £47,700 £46,200 £46,570
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £120,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,289 22,453 31,519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.39% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,829 16,734 23,288
10th Percentile £41,200 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,143 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
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 Scientist 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 +5 29 £85,000 +25.93% 17
Data Scientist
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Data Science
2 61 (80.26%) Python
3 58 (76.32%) Machine Learning
4 49 (64.47%) Analytics
5 44 (57.89%) Visualisation
6 42 (55.26%) SQL
7 41 (53.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 37 (48.68%) Degree
9 33 (43.42%) Social Skills
10 31 (40.79%) Statistics
10 31 (40.79%) Algorithms
11 30 (39.47%) Master's Degree
12 25 (32.89%) Decision-Making
13 24 (31.58%) Mathematics
14 23 (30.26%) TensorFlow
15 21 (27.63%) PhD
15 21 (27.63%) MLOps
16 20 (26.32%) scikit-learn
17 19 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
17 19 (25.00%) Azure
18 18 (23.68%) AWS
19 17 (22.37%) Natural Language Processing
19 17 (22.37%) Finance
20 15 (19.74%) Data Visualisation
20 15 (19.74%) Generative AI
21 14 (18.42%) Databricks
21 14 (18.42%) Apache Spark
21 14 (18.42%) Git
22 13 (17.11%) Physics
22 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 14 (18.42%) Apache Spark
2 9 (11.84%) Apache
3 7 (9.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.32%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) Azure
2 18 (23.68%) AWS
3 5 (6.58%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.95%) GCP
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.63%) dbt
6 2 (2.63%) GitHub
6 2 (2.63%) Serverless
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.32%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud9 IDE
7 1 (1.32%) SaaS
7 1 (1.32%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) Tableau
2 4 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 4 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 4 (5.26%) Power BI
2 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.63%) Looker
3 2 (2.63%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.32%) GIS
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.32%) QGIS
4 1 (1.32%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (18.42%) Git
General
1 33 (43.42%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (22.37%) Finance
4 9 (11.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (10.53%) Games
6 7 (9.21%) Law
6 7 (9.21%) Marketing
7 6 (7.89%) Banking
7 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.26%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.26%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.32%) Electronics
10 1 (1.32%) Front Office
10 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (30.26%) TensorFlow
2 20 (26.32%) scikit-learn
3 13 (17.11%) Pandas
4 11 (14.47%) PySpark
5 9 (11.84%) NumPy
6 8 (10.53%) PyTorch
7 6 (7.89%) Plotly
8 5 (6.58%) SciPy
9 4 (5.26%) Keras
9 4 (5.26%) SpaCy
10 2 (2.63%) CSS
10 2 (2.63%) Google JAX
10 2 (2.63%) JAX
10 2 (2.63%) OpenCV
10 2 (2.63%) pydantic
10 2 (2.63%) PyMC3
10 2 (2.63%) Shiny
10 2 (2.63%) Smart Contracts
10 2 (2.63%) Statsmodels
10 2 (2.63%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 31 (40.79%) Algorithms
2 9 (11.84%) Credit Risk
3 8 (10.53%) Life Science
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Data Science
2 58 (76.32%) Machine Learning
3 49 (64.47%) Analytics
4 44 (57.89%) Visualisation
5 41 (53.95%) Artificial Intelligence
6 31 (40.79%) Statistics
7 25 (32.89%) Decision-Making
8 24 (31.58%) Mathematics
9 21 (27.63%) MLOps
10 17 (22.37%) Natural Language Processing
11 15 (19.74%) Data Visualisation
11 15 (19.74%) Generative AI
12 13 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
12 13 (17.11%) Data Modelling
12 13 (17.11%) Physics
12 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
13 12 (15.79%) Computer Science
13 12 (15.79%) DevOps
13 12 (15.79%) Neural Network
13 12 (15.79%) Propensity Modelling
Programming Languages
1 61 (80.26%) Python
2 42 (55.26%) SQL
3 5 (6.58%) R
4 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (48.68%) Degree
2 30 (39.47%) Master's Degree
3 21 (27.63%) PhD
4 9 (11.84%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) Databricks
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.32%) Foundry
3 1 (1.32%) Mapinfo
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle
3 1 (1.32%) Palantir
3 1 (1.32%) SAP