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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 116 165
Rank change year-on-year -21 +49 -62
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 193 401 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.02% 2.30% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.76% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 32 129 170
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £71,188 £85,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% -7.14% -3.45%

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 8,777 14,553 13,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.07% 83.59% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,223 10,031 7,752
10th Percentile £29,300 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,928 £36,750 £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 £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
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 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 29 May 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 29 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
Thames Valley -5 125 £64,750 +3.60% 48
Berkshire +98 115 £65,810 +1.25% 25
Surrey +49 31 £80,000 +60.00% 8
Middlesex - 18 - - 1
Hampshire -9 14 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Buckinghamshire -67 7 £61,250 -5.77% 4
Kent +31 4 £42,500 -10.53% 7
Oxfordshire +23 3 - - 24
West Sussex +37 1 £42,500 -15.00% 9
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 (17.10%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.81%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.11%) Apache
3 6 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.52%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Maximo
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 123 (63.73%) Azure
2 51 (26.42%) AWS
2 51 (26.42%) GCP
3 38 (19.69%) Power Platform
4 32 (16.58%) Serverless
5 28 (14.51%) PowerApps
6 27 (13.99%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (13.47%) Power Automate
8 17 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (7.77%) Vertex AI
10 12 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.11%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.59%) Azure App Service
12 5 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.59%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.59%) PaaS
13 4 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.95%) Broadband
2 2 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.72%) Data Lake
2 40 (20.73%) Big Data
3 38 (19.69%) Power BI
4 30 (15.54%) Tableau
5 25 (12.95%) Data Mining
6 19 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (9.33%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.81%) Hadoop
9 7 (3.63%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (3.63%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.11%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.07%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
14 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.04%) Metadata
15 1 (0.52%) Impala
Development Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) ERwin
3 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 125 (64.77%) Law
2 92 (47.67%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (44.04%) Social Skills
4 30 (15.54%) Influencing Skills
4 30 (15.54%) Retail
5 13 (6.74%) Finance
6 6 (3.11%) Legal
6 6 (3.11%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.07%) Electronics
7 4 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.55%) Automotive
8 3 (1.55%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 110 (56.99%) Senior
2 69 (35.75%) Lead
3 26 (13.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 16 (8.29%) Developer
5 13 (6.74%) Data Scientist
6 9 (4.66%) Data Analytics Director
7 8 (4.15%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.11%) Senior Manager
9 5 (2.59%) Python Engineer
9 5 (2.59%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.59%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.07%) Analyst
10 4 (2.07%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (2.07%) Python Data Engineer
10 4 (2.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (1.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (1.55%) Data Science Leader
11 3 (1.55%) FPGA Engineer
11 3 (1.55%) Operations Analyst
12 2 (1.04%) Senior Information Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.36%) Kafka
2 12 (6.22%) React
3 11 (5.70%) .NET
4 7 (3.63%) PySpark
4 7 (3.63%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.63%) TensorFlow
5 6 (3.11%) CSS
5 6 (3.11%) HTML
5 6 (3.11%) Hugging Face
5 6 (3.11%) LangChain
5 6 (3.11%) PyArrow
6 5 (2.59%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.07%) XML
8 2 (1.04%) Pandas
9 1 (0.52%) Django
9 1 (0.52%) Flask
9 1 (0.52%) MDX
9 1 (0.52%) Next.js
9 1 (0.52%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.52%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 29 (15.03%) Algorithms
3 26 (13.47%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (6.74%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.70%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.55%) FPGA
9 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.15%) Linux
2 7 (3.63%) Unix
3 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (68.91%) Machine Learning
2 117 (60.62%) Analytics
3 107 (55.44%) Agile
4 101 (52.33%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (36.79%) Data Engineering
6 69 (35.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 65 (33.68%) Roadmaps
8 61 (31.61%) Data Governance
9 59 (30.57%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (30.57%) Mentoring
10 55 (28.50%) Computer Science
11 49 (25.39%) Actionable Insight
11 49 (25.39%) DevOps
12 44 (22.80%) Data Integration
13 42 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (20.21%) Decision-Making
15 38 (19.69%) CI/CD
16 37 (19.17%) Data Analytics
17 36 (18.65%) Data Analysis
17 36 (18.65%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 63 (32.64%) Python
2 32 (16.58%) SQL
3 30 (15.54%) TypeScript
4 9 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.15%) C#
5 8 (4.15%) MATLAB
6 7 (3.63%) C++
6 7 (3.63%) R
7 6 (3.11%) Java
8 5 (2.59%) Bicep
8 5 (2.59%) Go
8 5 (2.59%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.04%) Scala
9 2 (1.04%) VBA
10 1 (0.52%) Fortran
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (54.40%) Degree
2 28 (14.51%) PhD
3 27 (13.99%) Master's Degree
4 24 (12.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.18%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.11%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.11%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.04%) CCFP
9 2 (1.04%) CISSP
9 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.04%) EnCE
9 2 (1.04%) GCFA
9 2 (1.04%) GCFE
9 2 (1.04%) GREM
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (19.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (4.66%) GDPR
3 8 (4.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (3.63%) HDFS
2 3 (1.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.11%) Grafana
2 6 (3.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.04%) EnCase
3 2 (1.04%) FTK
3 2 (1.04%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 62 (32.12%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.99%) ServiceNow
3 24 (12.44%) Google
4 21 (10.88%) OpenAI
5 12 (6.22%) Databricks
6 6 (3.11%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.07%) SAP
8 3 (1.55%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.04%) FireEye
9 2 (1.04%) NetWitness
9 2 (1.04%) PayPal
9 2 (1.04%) Splunk
10 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.52%) ESRI
10 1 (0.52%) IBM
10 1 (0.52%) Informatica
10 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle
10 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.52%) Talend