Data Science Job Trends in Northampton

Data Science
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 3 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 1.15% 0.82% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.05% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile - - £46,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £54,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.62% -10.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £81,875 £62,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £82,250 - -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £77,500 £58,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +33.62% -7.20% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 190 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 86.54% 77.55% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 151 84 169
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,525 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £31,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,156 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,400 £71,300
Northamptonshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Data Science job vacancy trend in Northampton

Data Science
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Science

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) R
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Zoho