Data Science Jobs in the South West

Data Science
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 134 95
Rank change year-on-year +54 -39 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 108 185 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.11% 1.91% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 2.34% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 55 96 184
10th Percentile £45,663 £37,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £51,698 £43,750 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.41% +28.04%
75th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £87,419
90th Percentile £111,000 £92,644 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,246 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.15% -7.14% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,228 7,892 6,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.97% 81.68% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 5,677 3,521
10th Percentile £27,150 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bristol +22 44 £70,996 +9.22% 43
Gloucestershire +74 43 £67,500 +25.58% 21
Wiltshire +46 10 £55,000 +15.79% 1
Devon +23 9 £70,000 +47.37% 6
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 20 (18.52%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.78%) SAS
3 2 (1.85%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.22%) AWS
1 24 (22.22%) Azure
2 21 (19.44%) GCP
3 18 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (6.48%) Serverless
5 5 (4.63%) Collibra
5 5 (4.63%) GitHub
5 5 (4.63%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.70%) Vertex AI
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (37.96%) Big Data
2 18 (16.67%) Power BI
3 13 (12.04%) Tableau
4 5 (4.63%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.63%) Metadata
5 4 (3.70%) Ataccama
5 4 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
5 4 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.85%) GIS
6 2 (1.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (4.63%) JIRA
3 4 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 69 (63.89%) Finance
2 40 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (32.41%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 18 (16.67%) Banking
6 8 (7.41%) Retail
7 6 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Automotive
9 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (51.85%) Data Scientist
2 41 (37.96%) Senior
3 29 (26.85%) Senior Data Scientist
4 12 (11.11%) Lead
5 10 (9.26%) Analyst
6 8 (7.41%) Data Manager
6 8 (7.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Analytics Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Data Analytics Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Data Quality Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Quality Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Voice Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Developer
10 3 (2.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (2.78%) Technical Leader
11 2 (1.85%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) React
2 5 (4.63%) Pandas
3 4 (3.70%) Node.js
3 4 (3.70%) XGBoost
4 3 (2.78%) PySpark
5 2 (1.85%) CSS
5 2 (1.85%) HTML
5 2 (1.85%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.85%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.93%) Django
6 1 (0.93%) Flask
6 1 (0.93%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (42.59%) Algorithms
2 40 (37.04%) Cyberattack
3 10 (9.26%) Reinsurance
4 8 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.70%) Robotics
7 2 (1.85%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.85%) IoT
7 2 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.93%) CUDA
8 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.93%) FMCG
8 1 (0.93%) Life Science
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (68.52%) Machine Learning
2 63 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 63 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (49.07%) Analytics
4 52 (48.15%) Mathematics
5 51 (47.22%) Statistics
6 50 (46.30%) Visualisation
7 48 (44.44%) Computer Science
8 44 (40.74%) Data Analysis
9 41 (37.96%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 41 (37.96%) Mentoring
10 40 (37.04%) OpenUP
11 35 (32.41%) Decision-Making
12 32 (29.63%) Software Engineering
13 30 (27.78%) DevOps
14 22 (20.37%) Agile
15 21 (19.44%) LLM
16 20 (18.52%) Microservices
16 20 (18.52%) MLOps
16 20 (18.52%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (60.19%) Python
2 22 (20.37%) JavaScript
2 22 (20.37%) SQL
3 20 (18.52%) Java
4 13 (12.04%) R
5 8 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.56%) Julia
7 4 (3.70%) VBA
8 2 (1.85%) C#
9 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (62.04%) Degree
2 44 (40.74%) Security Cleared
3 41 (37.96%) DV Cleared
4 23 (21.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (18.52%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (10.19%) PhD
7 7 (6.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.93%) MBA
10 1 (0.93%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.63%) GDPR
3 4 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (7.41%) Databricks
1 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.70%) Google
2 4 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (0.93%) Informatica