Data Science Jobs in the South East

Data Science
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 167 116
Rank change year-on-year +48 -51 +67
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 400 310 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.42% 2.04% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.15% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 143 185 243
10th Percentile £43,750 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% - +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,047 14,389 18,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 85.01% 94.53% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,909 8,366 12,181
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 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
Thames Valley +39 224 £65,000 - 22
Buckinghamshire +79 174 £65,000 - 4
Hampshire +52 106 £80,000 +31.47% 8
Surrey -18 33 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Oxfordshire +18 27 £67,500 -25.00% 7
Berkshire -64 23 £65,000 - 11
East Sussex +34 22 £52,500 -2.33%
Kent +6 12 £47,500 -
West Sussex +33 2 £46,250 +28.47%
Sussex - 1 £46,000 -
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 19 (4.75%) SAS
2 4 (1.00%) nginx
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.50%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 112 (28.00%) Azure
2 59 (14.75%) Power Platform
3 43 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (10.00%) IBM Cloud
5 36 (9.00%) Snowflake
6 29 (7.25%) GCP
7 26 (6.50%) Serverless
8 23 (5.75%) Matillion
9 13 (3.25%) AWS
10 8 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.00%) GitHub
12 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.75%) Azure Functions
13 3 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) MQTT
1 4 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (1.00%) VPN
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.75%) Power BI
2 38 (9.50%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (9.25%) SQL Server
4 34 (8.50%) Data Lake
5 28 (7.00%) BigQuery
6 26 (6.50%) Metadata
7 25 (6.25%) Looker
8 24 (6.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (3.00%) Tableau
10 11 (2.75%) Big Data
11 9 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.00%) MySQL
13 7 (1.75%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.00%) Data Mining
17 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
17 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
17 3 (0.75%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (2.75%) Git
2 2 (0.50%) ERwin
3 1 (0.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.25%) Maven
General
1 137 (34.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 76 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 72 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 68 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (17.00%) Finance
5 42 (10.50%) Retail
6 33 (8.25%) Military
7 13 (3.25%) Marketing
8 12 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.50%) Korean Language
10 8 (2.00%) Billing
11 6 (1.50%) Legal
12 5 (1.25%) Aviation
12 5 (1.25%) Swedish Language
13 4 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.00%) Wearables
14 3 (0.75%) Games
14 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (31.50%) Data Scientist
2 69 (17.25%) Data Engineer
3 51 (12.75%) Senior
4 30 (7.50%) Architect
4 30 (7.50%) Data Architect
5 28 (7.00%) Consultant
6 25 (6.25%) Lead
7 24 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (6.00%) Principal Data Engineer
7 24 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
8 23 (5.75%) Security Engineer
9 21 (5.25%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 21 (5.25%) Software Engineer
10 20 (5.00%) Developer
11 18 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 17 (4.25%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (3.00%) Analyst
16 10 (2.50%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.50%) EDI
1 10 (2.50%) XML
2 5 (1.25%) CSS
2 5 (1.25%) HTML
2 5 (1.25%) NumPy
2 5 (1.25%) Pandas
2 5 (1.25%) RESTful
3 4 (1.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (1.00%) gRPC
3 4 (1.00%) Knex.js
3 4 (1.00%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (1.00%) Node.js
3 4 (1.00%) React
3 4 (1.00%) React Native
3 4 (1.00%) Sequelize
4 3 (0.75%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.50%) Django
5 2 (0.50%) JSON
5 2 (0.50%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.50%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 139 (34.75%) Algorithms
2 40 (10.00%) Blockchain
2 40 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 40 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.75%) Biopharmaceutical
5 7 (1.75%) IoT
5 7 (1.75%) Life Science
5 7 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.25%) Robotics
7 4 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.00%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.00%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.00%) PMI
7 4 (1.00%) Pricing Data
7 4 (1.00%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.50%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.50%) Linux
2 40 (10.00%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (10.00%) CentOS
2 40 (10.00%) Debian
3 17 (4.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 165 (41.25%) Mentoring
3 148 (37.00%) Mathematics
4 145 (36.25%) Coaching
5 141 (35.25%) Decision-Making
6 139 (34.75%) Computer Science
7 134 (33.50%) Cybersecurity
7 134 (33.50%) Data Analysis
7 134 (33.50%) Red Team
8 125 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 125 (31.25%) Machine Learning
9 117 (29.25%) Analytics
10 103 (25.75%) Statistical Modelling
11 102 (25.50%) Digital Forensics
12 81 (20.25%) DevOps
13 80 (20.00%) Data Modelling
14 77 (19.25%) Business Intelligence
15 70 (17.50%) Data Engineering
16 69 (17.25%) Agile
17 62 (15.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 85 (21.25%) Python
2 74 (18.50%) SQL
3 30 (7.50%) R
4 26 (6.50%) C#
5 23 (5.75%) T-SQL
6 21 (5.25%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.75%) C++
8 16 (4.00%) Java
9 13 (3.25%) C
9 13 (3.25%) Haskell
10 6 (1.50%) Bash
11 4 (1.00%) JSX
11 4 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 208 (52.00%) Degree
2 40 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 40 (10.00%) MCSA
2 40 (10.00%) MCSE
2 40 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (7.50%) Master's Degree
4 23 (5.75%) PhD
5 18 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.25%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.50%) Security Cleared
8 5 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.50%) MBA
10 2 (0.50%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (15.25%) GDPR
2 49 (12.25%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.75%) CDISC
5 5 (1.25%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 55 (13.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 40 (10.00%) Terraform
3 5 (1.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 46 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.00%) IBM
2 40 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 30 (7.50%) Databricks
4 24 (6.00%) Google
5 10 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.00%) SAP
7 6 (1.50%) iManage
8 5 (1.25%) Talend
9 4 (1.00%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.75%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.75%) Informatica
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle
12 1 (0.25%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.25%) Ariba
12 1 (0.25%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.25%) Vertica