Data Science Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Science
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 76 128
Rank change year-on-year -5 +52 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 104 220 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.07% 3.27% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 3.86% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 17 49 95
10th Percentile £48,250 £43,750 £34,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £65,810 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £75,000 - £92,500
South East median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% -11.11% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,186 5,702 5,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.90% 84.81% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 3,926 3,077
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,313 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +82 86 £65,810 +1.25% 43
Buckinghamshire -62 11 £59,000 -9.23% 9
Oxfordshire +17 7 £61,250 -7.55% 32
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 26 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.96%) Azure
2 33 (31.73%) Power Platform
3 26 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 26 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 15 (14.42%) Vertex AI
5 12 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (10.58%) GCP
7 5 (4.81%) AWS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Serverless
8 1 (0.96%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (39.42%) Data Lake
2 33 (31.73%) Power BI
3 32 (30.77%) Tableau
4 29 (27.88%) Big Data
5 24 (23.08%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.88%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.96%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.96%) Impala
8 1 (0.96%) MySQL
8 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.96%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.96%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) ERwin
1 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 83 (79.81%) Law
2 51 (49.04%) Social Skills
3 45 (43.27%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (29.81%) Retail
5 13 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Aeronautics
8 1 (0.96%) Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Electronics
8 1 (0.96%) Finance
8 1 (0.96%) Games
8 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.96%) Marketing
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (62.50%) Lead
2 49 (47.12%) Senior
3 12 (11.54%) Data Scientist
4 4 (3.85%) Developer
5 3 (2.88%) Data Science Leader
5 3 (2.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (1.92%) Data Analytics Director
6 2 (1.92%) Product Lead
6 2 (1.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (1.92%) Software Engineer
6 2 (1.92%) Trainer
7 1 (0.96%) Analyst
7 1 (0.96%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 1 (0.96%) MATLAB Engineer
7 1 (0.96%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (0.96%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (0.96%) Salesforce Architect
7 1 (0.96%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (0.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) Hugging Face
1 2 (1.92%) Kafka
1 2 (1.92%) React
2 1 (0.96%) .NET
2 1 (0.96%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.96%) GStreamer
2 1 (0.96%) Laravel
2 1 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (0.96%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.96%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (31.73%) Algorithms
2 13 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) Clustering
6 1 (0.96%) IoT
6 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (86.54%) Analytics
2 66 (63.46%) Machine Learning
3 56 (53.85%) Data Engineering
4 49 (47.12%) Artificial Intelligence
5 48 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (43.27%) Agile
7 43 (41.35%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (40.38%) Data Governance
9 39 (37.50%) Roadmaps
10 38 (36.54%) Data Integration
11 36 (34.62%) Business Strategy
12 34 (32.69%) DevOps
12 34 (32.69%) Natural Language Processing
13 33 (31.73%) Computer Science
13 33 (31.73%) Data Analytics
14 32 (30.77%) Data Analysis
14 32 (30.77%) Mentoring
14 32 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (29.81%) Visualisation
16 29 (27.88%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.19%) Python
2 12 (11.54%) SQL
3 6 (5.77%) MATLAB
4 3 (2.88%) C++
4 3 (2.88%) R
5 2 (1.92%) Java
6 1 (0.96%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.96%) Fortran
6 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.96%) Julia
6 1 (0.96%) Scala
6 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (50.96%) Degree
2 11 (10.58%) Master's Degree
3 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) PhD
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.96%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (5.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (51.92%) Microsoft
2 26 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 17 (16.35%) Google
4 15 (14.42%) OpenAI
5 12 (11.54%) Databricks
6 3 (2.88%) SAP
7 2 (1.92%) F5
7 2 (1.92%) PayPal
8 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.96%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.96%) Informatica
8 1 (0.96%) Medallia
8 1 (0.96%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.96%) Salesforce