Data Science Job Trends in Suffolk

Data Science
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Data Science skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 36 28
Rank change year-on-year -23 -8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 3 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 0.54% 0.27% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.38% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +320.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +20.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 528 262 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 94.79% 70.24% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 187 117 101
10th Percentile £27,700 £26,019 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £30,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £78,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.78% +2.86%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Suffolk

Data Science
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Data Science

Data Science
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Ipswich -2 3 £40,000 - 3
Data Science
East of England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mining
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Trainee
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Keras
1 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Metaflow
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubeflow
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks