Data Science Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Science Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Science Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 729 856
Rank change year-on-year -22 +127 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Science Leader 2 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.019% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.021% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £54,500 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 -
90th Percentile - £85,550 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -17.65% +7.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 69,492 52,026 69,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.14% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 49,104 29,723 42,553
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Science Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Science Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science Leader in the UK excluding London

Data Science Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science Leader in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Science Leader in the UK excluding London

Data Science Leader
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
North of England +42 1 £62,500 -21.88% 1
South West -27 1 - -
North West - 1 £62,500 -
Data Science Leader
UK

Data Science Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, Data Science Leader 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Science Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Julia
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation

Data Science Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Julia
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks