Data Scientist Jobs in the South West

Data Scientist
England > South West

The median Data Scientist salary in the South West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 211 277
Rank change year-on-year -11 +66 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 31 36 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.38% 0.67% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.72% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 29
10th Percentile £46,500 £43,125 £42,200
25th Percentile £50,625 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £74,375 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £69,865 £67,500
England median annual salary £62,879 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.80% -7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 7,783 4,986 8,097
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.27% 92.95% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,866 3,564 5,059
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,200 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.19%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in the South West over the 6 months to 7 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
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 Scientist within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 September 2024. 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 +3 18 £55,000 - 2
Gloucestershire +7 11 £57,500 - 4
Devon - 2 £60,000 -
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 7 September 2024, Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 30 (96.77%) Python
1 30 (96.77%) Data Science
2 28 (90.32%) Machine Learning
3 24 (77.42%) Agile
4 21 (67.74%) Degree
4 21 (67.74%) Computer Science
5 20 (64.52%) SQL
6 17 (54.84%) Analytics
7 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (51.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (48.39%) Databricks
8 15 (48.39%) Reinsurance
8 15 (48.39%) Natural Language Processing
9 14 (45.16%) Statistics
10 13 (41.94%) PySpark
10 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
11 12 (38.71%) Risk Assessment
12 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (32.26%) Data Analysis
13 10 (32.26%) Git
13 10 (32.26%) Big Data
13 10 (32.26%) Data Quality
14 9 (29.03%) Risk Management
14 9 (29.03%) Data Ingestion
15 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
15 8 (25.81%) Pandas
15 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
15 8 (25.81%) Algorithms
15 8 (25.81%) Mathematics
15 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 6 (19.35%) Apache
2 5 (16.13%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (16.13%) Luigi
3 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) GCP
2 5 (16.13%) Snowflake
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) Big Data
2 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) Bigtable
3 5 (16.13%) CouchDB
3 5 (16.13%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (16.13%) Redis
3 5 (16.13%) RethinkDB
4 4 (12.90%) Tableau
5 3 (9.68%) Power BI
6 2 (6.45%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.23%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Law
3 2 (6.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) PySpark
2 8 (25.81%) Pandas
3 7 (22.58%) Keras
3 7 (22.58%) NumPy
4 6 (19.35%) TensorFlow
5 5 (16.13%) PyTorch
5 5 (16.13%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (9.68%) scikit-learn
7 2 (6.45%) SpaCy
8 1 (3.23%) NLTK
8 1 (3.23%) SciPy
8 1 (3.23%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Reinsurance
2 8 (25.81%) Algorithms
3 5 (16.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (6.45%) Acoustics
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Data Science
2 28 (90.32%) Machine Learning
3 24 (77.42%) Agile
4 21 (67.74%) Computer Science
5 17 (54.84%) Analytics
6 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (48.39%) Natural Language Processing
8 14 (45.16%) Statistics
9 12 (38.71%) Risk Assessment
10 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (32.26%) Data Analysis
12 9 (29.03%) Data Ingestion
12 9 (29.03%) Risk Management
13 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (25.81%) Mathematics
14 7 (22.58%) Artificial Intelligence
15 6 (19.35%) Data Engineering
15 6 (19.35%) Visualisation
16 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (96.77%) Python
2 20 (64.52%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) Julia
4 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Degree
2 16 (51.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
4 7 (22.58%) PhD
5 6 (19.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (16.13%) Master's Degree
7 2 (6.45%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Databricks
2 5 (16.13%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Dataiku
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle