Principal Data Scientist Jobs in London

Principal Data Scientist
England > London

The median Principal Data Scientist salary in London is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 630 862
Rank change year-on-year +128 +232 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Scientist 3 3 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.013% 0.009% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.009% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - - £92,875
25th Percentile £105,000 £82,500 £93,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £117,500 £106,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £119,000 £111,500 -
England median annual salary £110,000 £45,750 £97,500
% change year-on-year +140.44% -53.08% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,181 33,417 64,405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,675 24,567 34,955
10th Percentile £38,084 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Principal Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Scientist in London

Principal Data Scientist
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Scientist in London

Principal 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 Principal Data Scientist within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 - 1 £115,000 -
Principal Data Scientist
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Principal 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 Principal Data Scientist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Recommender Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Competitor Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Git

Principal 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) git-flow
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Competitor Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Recommender Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks