Lead Data Scientist Jobs in the North of England

Lead Data Scientist
England > North of England

The median Lead Data Scientist salary in the North of England is £83,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 391 430
Rank change year-on-year +67 +39 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 1 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.009% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.024% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - £59,400
25th Percentile £81,750 £55,000 £64,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £76,389 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% +10.31% -17.31%
75th Percentile £85,250 £96,539 £74,875
90th Percentile - - £83,200
England median annual salary £85,500 £95,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,310 16,534 15,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 94.96% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 12,788 8,257
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Lead Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Scientist in the North of England

Lead Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Scientist in the North of England

Lead Data Scientist
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 Lead Data Scientist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Yorkshire +59 1 £83,500 -10.00%
Lead Data Scientist
England

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Lead 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 North of England region featuring Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations