Data Science Jobs in the South East

Data Science
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 168 175
Rank change year-on-year +57 +7 -75
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 264 262 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.59% 1.52% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 1.85% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25 126 155
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,174 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £95,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -4.70%

All Process and 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 9,162 14,128 11,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 89.97% 81.81% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,815 9,674 7,278
10th Percentile £28,100 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Thames Valley +84 204 £64,000 +6.67% 64
Berkshire +90 193 £65,810 +1.25% 33
Surrey +49 28 £62,500 +25.00% 15
Hampshire -6 12 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Middlesex - 12 - - 21
Kent +31 7 £42,500 -26.09% 21
Oxfordshire +16 6 - - 21
Buckinghamshire +12 5 £50,500 -25.19% 10
West Sussex +24 1 £70,000 +30.72% 17
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.06%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.52%) Apache
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.38%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Maximo
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 163 (61.74%) Azure
2 98 (37.12%) GCP
3 88 (33.33%) AWS
4 45 (17.05%) Vertex AI
5 34 (12.88%) Power Platform
6 32 (12.12%) Serverless
7 28 (10.61%) PowerApps
8 27 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (9.85%) Power Automate
10 16 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (5.68%) Azure AI
12 13 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (1.89%) Azure App Service
14 5 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.89%) Azure Functions
14 5 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.89%) PaaS
15 4 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (28.79%) Data Lake
2 40 (15.15%) Data Mining
3 39 (14.77%) Big Data
4 34 (12.88%) Power BI
5 29 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (10.61%) Tableau
7 19 (7.20%) NoSQL
8 14 (5.30%) BigQuery
8 14 (5.30%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.65%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (1.52%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.14%) Metadata
13 2 (0.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.76%) Git
2 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.76%) MLflow
3 1 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 198 (75.00%) Law
2 123 (46.59%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (45.08%) Social Skills
4 55 (20.83%) Retail
5 39 (14.77%) Influencing Skills
6 28 (10.61%) Legal
6 28 (10.61%) Marketing
7 25 (9.47%) Finance
8 4 (1.52%) Electronics
9 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Automotive
10 1 (0.38%) Aviation
10 1 (0.38%) Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Local Government
10 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 156 (59.09%) Senior
2 88 (33.33%) Lead
3 29 (10.98%) Architect
4 28 (10.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 15 (5.68%) Developer
5 15 (5.68%) Product Delivery Manager
5 15 (5.68%) Product Manager
6 14 (5.30%) Cloud Architect
6 14 (5.30%) Data Architect
6 14 (5.30%) GCP Architect
6 14 (5.30%) Platform Architect
7 13 (4.92%) Senior Architect
7 13 (4.92%) Senior Data Architect
7 13 (4.92%) Senior Manager
8 9 (3.41%) Data Analytics Director
8 9 (3.41%) Data Scientist
9 7 (2.65%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.27%) Data Engineer
11 5 (1.89%) Analyst
11 5 (1.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.44%) Kafka
2 16 (6.06%) PyTorch
2 16 (6.06%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.92%) Hugging Face
3 13 (4.92%) LangChain
4 11 (4.17%) .NET
5 8 (3.03%) React
6 7 (2.65%) PySpark
7 5 (1.89%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.89%) CSS
7 5 (1.89%) HTML
8 4 (1.52%) Pandas
8 4 (1.52%) PyArrow
8 4 (1.52%) XML
9 3 (1.14%) NumPy
9 3 (1.14%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.76%) Keras
10 2 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.76%) Metaflow
10 2 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 44 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 25 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.68%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.52%) IoT
7 3 (1.14%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.14%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.14%) FPGA
7 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.65%) Linux
1 7 (2.65%) Unix
2 3 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (73.86%) Machine Learning
2 153 (57.95%) Agile
3 150 (56.82%) Analytics
4 138 (52.27%) Roadmaps
5 126 (47.73%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (44.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 103 (39.02%) Data Engineering
8 87 (32.95%) Mentoring
9 79 (29.92%) Actionable Insight
10 77 (29.17%) Generative AI
11 75 (28.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 72 (27.27%) Data Governance
13 71 (26.89%) DevOps
14 66 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
15 64 (24.24%) LLM
16 63 (23.86%) MLOps
17 60 (22.73%) Use Case
18 58 (21.97%) Computer Science
19 57 (21.59%) Data Integration
19 57 (21.59%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (28.03%) Python
2 30 (11.36%) SQL
3 27 (10.23%) TypeScript
4 17 (6.44%) Go
5 16 (6.06%) Java
6 8 (3.03%) C#
6 8 (3.03%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.65%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.27%) C++
9 5 (1.89%) Bicep
10 4 (1.52%) R
11 2 (0.76%) Scala
11 2 (0.76%) VBA
12 1 (0.38%) Fortran
12 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (44.70%) Degree
2 39 (14.77%) Master's Degree
3 28 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (10.23%) PhD
5 13 (4.92%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.79%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.89%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.76%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (3.41%) GDPR
3 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (1.89%) HDFS
2 4 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.92%) Grafana
2 13 (4.92%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.76%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (29.92%) Microsoft
2 74 (28.03%) Google
3 43 (16.29%) OpenAI
4 27 (10.23%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.68%) Foundry
6 14 (5.30%) Databricks
7 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.14%) SAP
8 3 (1.14%) Xilinx
9 1 (0.38%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.38%) ESRI
9 1 (0.38%) IBM
9 1 (0.38%) Informatica
9 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle
9 1 (0.38%) PayPal
9 1 (0.38%) Peregrine
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.38%) Talend