Data Science Jobs in the North of England

Data Science
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 156 63
Rank change year-on-year -99 -93 +91
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 91 292 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 1.61% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.97% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 63 162 172
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £39,720 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £50,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -18.27% +1.97%
75th Percentile £81,875 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,246 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.15% -7.14% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
North West -112 52 £57,500 +15.00% 488
Yorkshire +17 33 £63,652 +15.73% 370
North East +21 6 £57,250 +20.53% 111
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 17 (18.68%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.59%) Apache
3 5 (5.49%) SAS
4 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.16%) AWS
2 28 (30.77%) GCP
3 27 (29.67%) Azure
4 14 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 12 (13.19%) Azure Machine Learning
6 11 (12.09%) Serverless
7 10 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.59%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.10%) dbt
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub
10 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Broadband
2 2 (2.20%) Internet
3 1 (1.10%) PuTTY
3 1 (1.10%) SAN
3 1 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) Big Data
2 14 (15.38%) Power BI
3 12 (13.19%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.19%) Tableau
4 9 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (8.79%) Cloud Spanner
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.59%) Hadoop
6 6 (6.59%) MySQL
6 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.49%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.20%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.10%) Impala
11 1 (1.10%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 28 (30.77%) Finance
2 25 (27.47%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
4 19 (20.88%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Retail
6 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.40%) Marketing
9 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.20%) Advertising
10 2 (2.20%) Automotive
10 2 (2.20%) Games
10 2 (2.20%) Legal
11 1 (1.10%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 32 (35.16%) Senior
2 22 (24.18%) Data Engineer
2 22 (24.18%) Data Scientist
3 14 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Trainer
5 12 (13.19%) Analyst
5 12 (13.19%) Data Analyst
6 8 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Architect
8 6 (6.59%) Lead
8 6 (6.59%) Lead Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Management Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.30%) Product Owner
11 2 (2.20%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) React
1 9 (9.89%) TensorFlow
2 8 (8.79%) Node.js
2 8 (8.79%) PyTorch
2 8 (8.79%) RESTful
2 8 (8.79%) scikit-learn
2 8 (8.79%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.59%) Kafka
4 5 (5.49%) PySpark
5 4 (4.40%) Plotly
6 3 (3.30%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.20%) Keras
8 1 (1.10%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.10%) Shiny
8 1 (1.10%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (1.10%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.67%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.79%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.79%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.59%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.40%) Market Risk
6 3 (3.30%) Clustering
7 2 (2.20%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.20%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.04%) Machine Learning
2 37 (40.66%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (37.36%) Analytics
4 30 (32.97%) Statistics
5 27 (29.67%) Computer Science
5 27 (29.67%) Mathematics
6 26 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 26 (28.57%) Visualisation
7 25 (27.47%) Agile
8 24 (26.37%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (23.08%) Data Engineering
10 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
11 17 (18.68%) CI/CD
11 17 (18.68%) Mentoring
12 16 (17.58%) ETL
12 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
13 14 (15.38%) Decision-Making
14 13 (14.29%) Conversational UI
14 13 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (62.64%) Python
2 37 (40.66%) SQL
3 17 (18.68%) Java
4 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
5 11 (12.09%) R
6 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.69%) Scala
8 2 (2.20%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) C#
9 1 (1.10%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (43.96%) Degree
2 27 (29.67%) Master's Degree
3 24 (26.37%) PhD
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.59%) GDPR
2 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.40%) Basel II
3 4 (4.40%) Basel III
3 4 (4.40%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (4.40%) IFRS
3 4 (4.40%) IFRS 9
4 3 (3.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.20%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.10%) HDFS
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Kibana
3 2 (2.20%) Ansible
3 2 (2.20%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) logstash
4 1 (1.10%) Oozie
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) PayPal
2 11 (12.09%) Google
3 8 (8.79%) Databricks
4 5 (5.49%) Oracle
5 4 (4.40%) Palantir
6 2 (2.20%) Talend
7 1 (1.10%) Informatica
7 1 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) VMware