Data Science Jobs in the North East

Data Science
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 83 74
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 6 33 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.69% 1.71% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 2.00% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 14
10th Percentile £47,675 £38,750 -
25th Percentile £49,813 £40,800 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +3.26% -45.88%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £65,460 £71,875
England median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% -7.14% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 731 1,651 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.61% 85.46% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 386 1,337 597
10th Percentile £24,875 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.52% +12.35%
75th Percentile £64,750 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £75,759 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North East

Data Science
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the North East.

Salary trend for Data Science in the North East

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the North East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the North East

Data Science
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tyne and Wear +28 3 £49,750 -2.93% 59
Northumberland - 3 £62,500 - 2
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Broadband
1 1 (16.67%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) HBase
3 1 (16.67%) Impala
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (16.67%) QlikView
3 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQLite
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (16.67%) Plotly
2 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
2 1 (16.67%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) DataOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) PROC SQL
4 1 (16.67%) R
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) PhD
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Flume
2 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Kibana
2 1 (16.67%) logstash
2 1 (16.67%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (16.67%) PayPal
2 1 (16.67%) SAP