Data Science Jobs in the North West

Data Science
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 132 123
Rank change year-on-year -106 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 53 180 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.68% 1.80% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 2.19% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 38 99 47
10th Percentile £41,061 £35,000 £46,900
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,360 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £97,528 £71,250 £77,715
90th Percentile - £89,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £71,800
% change year-on-year +11.54% -9.47% -0.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,507 8,231 7,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 96.01% 82.32% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,825 6,235 3,868
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Manchester -16 35 £85,253 +42.09% 255
Lancashire -79 8 £47,500 +14.46% 93
Merseyside +28 5 £49,250 +27.53% 52
Cheshire -12 4 £50,250 +43.57% 119
Cumbria -78 1 - -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (15.09%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) Azure
2 19 (35.85%) AWS
3 15 (28.30%) GCP
4 13 (24.53%) Power Platform
5 12 (22.64%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (7.55%) Serverless
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.89%) dbt
9 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Broadband
1 3 (5.66%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) SAN
2 1 (1.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) Big Data
2 13 (24.53%) Power BI
3 11 (20.75%) Tableau
4 8 (15.09%) Cloud Spanner
5 5 (9.43%) Hadoop
5 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) MLflow
General
1 19 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (30.19%) Finance
3 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
4 10 (18.87%) Banking
5 8 (15.09%) Retail
6 5 (9.43%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (7.55%) Marketing
8 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.77%) Advertising
9 2 (3.77%) Automotive
10 1 (1.89%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Senior
2 16 (30.19%) Data Scientist
3 11 (20.75%) Data Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Trainer
8 3 (5.66%) Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Data Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Product Owner
9 2 (3.77%) Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Data Science Leader
9 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Head of Engineering
9 2 (3.77%) Lead
9 2 (3.77%) Lead Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Lead Enterprise Architect
10 1 (1.89%) Junior Data Engineer
10 1 (1.89%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) Node.js
1 8 (15.09%) React
1 8 (15.09%) RESTful
1 8 (15.09%) Spring Boot
2 4 (7.55%) TensorFlow
3 3 (5.66%) Kafka
3 3 (5.66%) PyTorch
3 3 (5.66%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.77%) Keras
5 1 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.89%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.74%) Algorithms
2 8 (15.09%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Machine Learning
2 24 (45.28%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (35.85%) Analytics
3 19 (35.85%) Statistics
4 16 (30.19%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (26.42%) Software Engineering
5 14 (26.42%) Visualisation
6 13 (24.53%) Computer Science
6 13 (24.53%) Mathematics
7 12 (22.64%) Agile
8 11 (20.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
8 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
9 10 (18.87%) Data Engineering
10 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
10 9 (16.98%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (15.09%) Coaching
11 8 (15.09%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) Python
2 14 (26.42%) SQL
3 12 (22.64%) Java
4 11 (20.75%) TypeScript
5 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.32%) R
7 2 (3.77%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (45.28%) Degree
2 13 (24.53%) Master's Degree
3 12 (22.64%) PhD
4 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Google
2 4 (7.55%) PayPal
3 2 (3.77%) Talend
4 1 (1.89%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) VMware