Data Science Job Trends in the South East

Data Science
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 111 163
Rank change year-on-year -89 +52 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 121 226 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.77% 2.63% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 2.97% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 69 24 129
10th Percentile £40,400 £38,750 £41,220
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,650 £89,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,294 7,609 13,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.94% 88.64% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,038 3,980 9,655
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Science
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Science

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the South East over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
Hampshire -5 44 £70,000 +27.27% 22
Thames Valley -95 33 £55,000 -14.06% 29
Surrey -6 25 £70,000 +12.00% 13
Oxfordshire 0 14 £45,250 - 6
Berkshire -85 14 £60,000 -8.83% 16
Middlesex +40 10 - - 8
Buckinghamshire -10 5 £91,500 +81.19% 7
East Sussex - 5 £60,000 - 7
Kent -23 2 - - 7
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (9.92%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (12.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.14%) AWS
2 21 (17.36%) GCP
3 20 (16.53%) Azure
4 14 (11.57%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.92%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (9.92%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.13%) dbt
7 4 (3.31%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 4 (3.31%) Prefect
7 4 (3.31%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.48%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (2.48%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.65%) GitHub
9 2 (1.65%) SaaS
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) Broadband
2 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.22%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.57%) NoSQL
2 14 (11.57%) Power BI
3 13 (10.74%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.26%) MySQL
5 9 (7.44%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.96%) Looker
8 5 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.13%) Redis
9 4 (3.31%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.31%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.31%) Metadata
9 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.31%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.48%) Flink
11 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.65%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) GitLab
2 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.65%) JUnit
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 40 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Finance
4 7 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.31%) Marketing
6 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.48%) Retail
7 2 (1.65%) Games
7 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (21.49%) Software Engineer
2 22 (18.18%) Data Scientist
3 19 (15.70%) Data Engineer
4 17 (14.05%) C++ Software Engineer
5 16 (13.22%) Lead
6 15 (12.40%) Senior
7 13 (10.74%) Consultant
8 9 (7.44%) Analyst
8 9 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Associate Director
9 6 (4.96%) Principal Consultant
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Data Scientist
10 5 (4.13%) Data Manager
10 5 (4.13%) Software Team Leader
10 5 (4.13%) Team Leader
11 4 (3.31%) Data Custodian
11 4 (3.31%) Head of Engineering
12 3 (2.48%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) Kafka
1 6 (4.96%) PyTorch
1 6 (4.96%) TensorFlow
2 4 (3.31%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (2.48%) REST
3 3 (2.48%) Spring
3 3 (2.48%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.65%) .NET
4 2 (1.65%) Faiss
4 2 (1.65%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.65%) Flask
4 2 (1.65%) Godot
4 2 (1.65%) Google JAX
4 2 (1.65%) gRPC
4 2 (1.65%) JAX
4 2 (1.65%) Node.js
4 2 (1.65%) PySpark
4 2 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.65%) React
4 2 (1.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Life Science
2 7 (5.79%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.96%) Hackathon
3 6 (4.96%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.31%) Replication
4 4 (3.31%) Robotics
5 3 (2.48%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.48%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.65%) Tandem
6 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.50%) AI
2 37 (30.58%) Agile
2 37 (30.58%) Machine Learning
3 36 (29.75%) Software Engineering
4 33 (27.27%) Analytics
5 23 (19.01%) Decision-Making
6 17 (14.05%) ETL
6 17 (14.05%) Roadmaps
6 17 (14.05%) Use Case
7 15 (12.40%) Computer Science
7 15 (12.40%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (11.57%) Data Analysis
8 14 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 12 (9.92%) Mentoring
9 12 (9.92%) Project Management
10 11 (9.09%) Hematology
10 11 (9.09%) Immunology
10 11 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (38.84%) Python
2 24 (19.83%) C++
3 13 (10.74%) SQL
4 12 (9.92%) VBA
5 11 (9.09%) Java
6 7 (5.79%) C#
7 6 (4.96%) Scala
8 3 (2.48%) C
8 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.65%) Go
9 2 (1.65%) Julia
10 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (38.02%) Degree
2 31 (25.62%) Master's Degree
3 20 (16.53%) Security Cleared
4 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.96%) APMP
5 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.96%) MBA
6 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.65%) PhD
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.70%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.31%) GDPR
4 3 (2.48%) PERC
5 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.65%) QA
5 2 (1.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Google
2 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.13%) Databricks
4 3 (2.48%) Braze
4 3 (2.48%) Confluent
5 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle
5 2 (1.65%) Typelevel
6 1 (0.83%) Infor
6 1 (0.83%) Informatica
6 1 (0.83%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Talend