Lead Data Scientist Jobs in London

Lead Data Scientist
England > London

The median Lead Data Scientist salary in London is £75,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 480 589
Rank change year-on-year +96 +109 +165
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 9 23 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.070% 0.097% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.10% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 23
10th Percentile - £90,000 £62,322
25th Percentile £46,500 £95,000 £70,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,250 £111,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.36% +30.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £106,250 £137,500 £100,520
90th Percentile £108,875 - £106,750
England median annual salary £85,500 £95,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -20.83%

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 11,585 22,238 32,603
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 16,672 24,036
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Scientist in London

Lead Data Scientist
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Scientist in London

Lead Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Scientist in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Scientist in London

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 9 (100.00%) Data Science
2 6 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
4 3 (33.33%) Business Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Propensity Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Marketing
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Econometrics
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Data Development
4 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) LLM
5 1 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) ETL

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Private Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
1 9 (100.00%) Data Science
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (33.33%) Business Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Data Development
4 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Econometrics
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Propensity Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) LLM
5 1 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) R