Data Science Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Science
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 151 115
Rank change year-on-year -20 -36 -17
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 53 86 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.62% 1.43% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.56% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 43 39 133
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.64% -4.96%
75th Percentile £70,625 £75,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,400 £72,500
England median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.43% +3.70% -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,771 5,507 7,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.52% 91.63% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,773 2,429 5,836
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £34,553
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.02% -4.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Science
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Science

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
East Midlands -4 32 £42,500 -45.16% 45
West Midlands -23 21 £65,500 +45.56% 29
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.89%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) Power Platform
2 11 (20.75%) AWS
3 10 (18.87%) Azure
4 8 (15.09%) SaaS
5 4 (7.55%) GCP
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.89%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Broadband
2 1 (1.89%) 4G
2 1 (1.89%) BGP
2 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.89%) IOS XR
2 1 (1.89%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) Power BI
1 14 (26.42%) Tableau
2 11 (20.75%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (15.09%) Data Lake
4 6 (11.32%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.77%) Metadata
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Power Query
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) MLflow
General
1 22 (41.51%) Finance
2 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.98%) Marketing
5 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.77%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Local Government
7 2 (3.77%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.89%) Advertising
8 1 (1.89%) Back Office
8 1 (1.89%) Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Games
8 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Data Scientist
2 11 (20.75%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Data Analyst
4 9 (16.98%) Data Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Customer Analyst
5 8 (15.09%) Digital Analyst
5 8 (15.09%) Digital Analytics Analyst
6 7 (13.21%) Developer
6 7 (13.21%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Analyst Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Analytics Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Digital Analytics Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Digital Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Head of Data Science
8 4 (7.55%) Lead
9 3 (5.66%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) PySpark
2 4 (7.55%) PyTorch
2 4 (7.55%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.89%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) Jinja
3 1 (1.89%) NETCONF
3 1 (1.89%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.89%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) FMCG
3 1 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (1.89%) Social Media
3 1 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Analytics
2 23 (43.40%) Machine Learning
3 21 (39.62%) Decision-Making
4 16 (30.19%) Visualisation
5 14 (26.42%) AI
5 14 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (24.53%) Statistics
7 12 (22.64%) Data Engineering
7 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
7 12 (22.64%) Statistical Analysis
8 11 (20.75%) CRM
8 11 (20.75%) Data Modelling
8 11 (20.75%) Data Visualisation
8 11 (20.75%) ETL
9 10 (18.87%) A/B Testing
9 10 (18.87%) Economics
10 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (16.98%) Statistical Modelling
11 8 (15.09%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (66.04%) Python
1 35 (66.04%) SQL
2 6 (11.32%) R
3 1 (1.89%) Bicep
3 1 (1.89%) C#
3 1 (1.89%) C++
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) Scala
3 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) Degree
2 8 (15.09%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (11.32%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.77%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.77%) PMP
4 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.32%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Databricks
2 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.77%) Civica
3 2 (3.77%) Google
3 2 (3.77%) Northgate
3 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.77%) Orchard
3 2 (3.77%) Zoho
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco
4 1 (1.89%) SAP