Data Science Jobs in the North of England

Data Science
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 57 148
Rank change year-on-year -86 +91 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 302 1,001 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.75% 5.72% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 5.90% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 167 185 174
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,123 £40,749
25th Percentile £39,720 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,336 £87,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,457 16,959 16,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.81% 96.89% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,096 8,063 10,789
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,130
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North West -21 186 £50,000 -24.24% 39
Yorkshire -102 83 £60,000 -1.93% 14
North East -6 33 £47,500 +3.26% 4
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (3.64%) SAS
2 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.32%) Confluence
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 112 (37.09%) Azure
2 97 (32.12%) GCP
3 52 (17.22%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.60%) AWS
5 22 (7.28%) Matillion
5 22 (7.28%) Snowflake
6 18 (5.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (4.64%) SaaS
8 7 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (2.32%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.99%) dbt
10 5 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.32%) Azure App Service
11 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) DNS
1 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 3 (0.99%) Network Security
3 2 (0.66%) Firewall
4 1 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (27.15%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (21.85%) BigQuery
3 58 (19.21%) Looker
4 48 (15.89%) SQL Server
5 47 (15.56%) Power BI
6 35 (11.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (8.28%) Big Data
8 24 (7.95%) Star Schema
9 23 (7.62%) Data Lake
10 18 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (5.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (5.30%) Metadata
12 11 (3.64%) Tableau
13 10 (3.31%) Data Vault
13 10 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (1.66%) Oracle Database
15 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (8.61%) Git
2 18 (5.96%) GitLab
3 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.32%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 91 (30.13%) Analytical Skills
2 90 (29.80%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.23%) Finance
4 43 (14.24%) Retail
5 35 (11.59%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.95%) Banking
7 17 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.64%) Law
9 11 (3.64%) Marketing
10 8 (2.65%) Legal
11 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.66%) Games
13 4 (1.32%) Local Government
13 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.33%) Publishing
16 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 115 (38.08%) Data Engineer
2 65 (21.52%) Platform Engineer
3 57 (18.87%) Principal Data Engineer
3 57 (18.87%) Principal Engineer
4 51 (16.89%) Senior
5 37 (12.25%) Data Scientist
6 31 (10.26%) Architect
7 30 (9.93%) Lead
8 21 (6.95%) Senior Data Scientist
9 20 (6.62%) Consultant
10 19 (6.29%) Data Architect
11 18 (5.96%) Analyst
12 17 (5.63%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 17 (5.63%) Developer
13 13 (4.30%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.64%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.31%) DataOps Engineer
15 10 (3.31%) DataOps Leader
15 10 (3.31%) Operations Engineer
16 9 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.31%) Pandas
2 8 (2.65%) .NET
2 8 (2.65%) React
3 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.99%) PySpark
5 5 (1.66%) XGBoost
6 4 (1.32%) JWT
6 4 (1.32%) RESTful
6 4 (1.32%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 4 (1.32%) Unreal Engine
7 3 (0.99%) NumPy
8 2 (0.66%) Django
8 2 (0.66%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.66%) Flask
8 2 (0.66%) HTML
8 2 (0.66%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.66%) LangChain
8 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.66%) SpaCy
9 1 (0.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.15%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (8.28%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.64%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.64%) Blog
5 8 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.32%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.99%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.66%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.32%) Animation
9 4 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.32%) Virtual Reality
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.66%) Life Science
10 2 (0.66%) NHS
11 1 (0.33%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.32%) Windows
2 6 (1.99%) Linux
3 2 (0.66%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (44.04%) Agile
2 119 (39.40%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (38.41%) Data Engineering
4 103 (34.11%) Data Pipeline
5 98 (32.45%) Analytics
6 95 (31.46%) Machine Learning
7 89 (29.47%) ETL
8 86 (28.48%) Mentoring
9 81 (26.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 77 (25.50%) DataOps
10 77 (25.50%) DevOps
11 70 (23.18%) Business Intelligence
12 65 (21.52%) Platform Engineering
13 62 (20.53%) Change Management
14 56 (18.54%) Data Modelling
15 53 (17.55%) Visualisation
16 39 (12.91%) CI/CD
17 38 (12.58%) Data Analytics
18 35 (11.59%) Data Governance
19 34 (11.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 119 (39.40%) SQL
2 91 (30.13%) Python
3 19 (6.29%) T-SQL
4 14 (4.64%) R
5 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.32%) Go
7 3 (0.99%) C#
8 2 (0.66%) Julia
8 2 (0.66%) PHP
8 2 (0.66%) Scala
9 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (9.93%) Degree
2 10 (3.31%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.65%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.32%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.99%) OCP
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.99%) PhD
8 2 (0.66%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.66%) CISA
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) CRISC
8 2 (0.66%) FFIEC
8 2 (0.66%) SANS
9 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (21.85%) GDPR
2 40 (13.25%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.66%) QA
5 2 (0.66%) COBIT
5 2 (0.66%) GLBA
5 2 (0.66%) IFRS
5 2 (0.66%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.99%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.30%) Terraform
2 10 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.32%) SysTrack
4 3 (0.99%) Ansible
4 3 (0.99%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (21.19%) Google
2 58 (19.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.31%) Databricks
4 7 (2.32%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.32%) Snow
5 5 (1.66%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.66%) Oracle
5 5 (1.66%) YouTube
6 4 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.99%) SAP
8 1 (0.33%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.33%) Facebook
8 1 (0.33%) VMware
8 1 (0.33%) Zend