Data Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 102 129
Rank change year-on-year -55 +27 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 1,306 1,937 1,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.84% 3.24% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 3.38% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 648 695 735
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,850 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,598 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +11.38% +5.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +40 393 £60,000 -11.11% 65
North of England -88 299 £50,000 -18.27% 72
Midlands +4 205 £55,000 +22.22% 34
North West -9 185 £50,000 -25.93% 39
South West -50 175 £61,250 -9.26% 44
West Midlands +14 159 £55,000 +22.22% 21
Scotland -55 127 £69,500 +4.91% 19
Yorkshire -106 81 £60,249 -1.52% 26
East of England -57 75 £55,000 -4.35% 29
East Midlands -5 46 £47,500 -14.80% 13
North East -7 33 £47,500 +3.26% 7
Wales +28 28 £47,500 -13.67% 8
Northern Ireland +21 4 £77,500 +134.85% 10
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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:

Application Platforms
1 46 (3.52%) SAS
2 45 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.54%) Apache
5 4 (0.31%) Confluence
5 4 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.23%) Luigi
7 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.077%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.077%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.077%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.077%) IIS
8 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.46%) Trello
4 2 (0.15%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.54%) Shopify
2 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.077%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.077%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 363 (27.79%) Azure
2 264 (20.21%) GCP
3 237 (18.15%) Power Platform
4 143 (10.95%) AWS
5 83 (6.36%) Snowflake
6 62 (4.75%) Matillion
7 61 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (4.67%) SaaS
8 46 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 40 (3.06%) IBM Cloud
10 38 (2.91%) Serverless
11 33 (2.53%) Amazon S3
12 31 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 28 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 25 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (1.76%) Google Docs
15 23 (1.76%) Lucidchart
15 23 (1.76%) Miro
15 23 (1.76%) Slack
16 13 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.84%) DNS
1 11 (0.84%) HTTP
2 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
2 4 (0.31%) MQTT
2 4 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.31%) VPN
2 4 (0.31%) Wireless
3 3 (0.23%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) Broadband
4 2 (0.15%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) Internet
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.077%) DHCP
5 1 (0.077%) IPv6
5 1 (0.077%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (18.45%) Data Warehouse
2 228 (17.46%) Power BI
3 171 (13.09%) SQL Server
4 169 (12.94%) BigQuery
5 155 (11.87%) Looker
6 102 (7.81%) Big Data
7 100 (7.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 92 (7.04%) Data Lake
9 81 (6.20%) Tableau
10 59 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (3.45%) Star Schema
12 43 (3.29%) Metadata
13 42 (3.22%) Hadoop
14 33 (2.53%) Relational Database
15 27 (2.07%) Redis
16 24 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (1.76%) Scylla
18 22 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 19 (1.45%) Data Vault
20 18 (1.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (4.82%) Git
2 30 (2.30%) GitLab
3 12 (0.92%) JIRA
4 11 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.31%) ERwin
5 4 (0.31%) JUnit
5 4 (0.31%) Maven
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.077%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.077%) GoCD
8 1 (0.077%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.077%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 347 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 284 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
3 277 (21.21%) Finance
4 256 (19.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (12.33%) Public Sector
6 150 (11.49%) Retail
7 89 (6.81%) Banking
8 75 (5.74%) Law
9 68 (5.21%) Marketing
10 64 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (3.22%) Games
12 38 (2.91%) Legal
13 35 (2.68%) Investment Banking
13 35 (2.68%) Military
14 23 (1.76%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.07%) Automotive
17 13 (1.00%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 335 (25.65%) Data Engineer
2 293 (22.43%) Data Scientist
3 199 (15.24%) Principal Engineer
4 192 (14.70%) Senior
5 157 (12.02%) Platform Engineer
6 147 (11.26%) Principal Data Engineer
7 118 (9.04%) Lead
8 91 (6.97%) Analyst
9 89 (6.81%) Consultant
10 87 (6.66%) Software Engineer
11 83 (6.36%) Architect
11 83 (6.36%) Senior Data Scientist
12 76 (5.82%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 61 (4.67%) Data Architect
14 56 (4.29%) Data Analyst
14 56 (4.29%) Developer
15 52 (3.98%) Principal Software Engineer
16 42 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
17 38 (2.91%) Data Manager
18 37 (2.83%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.98%) Pandas
2 36 (2.76%) Kafka
3 34 (2.60%) GraphQL
3 34 (2.60%) NumPy
4 30 (2.30%) React
5 28 (2.14%) TensorFlow
6 20 (1.53%) Keras
7 19 (1.45%) RESTful
8 18 (1.38%) Node.js
9 17 (1.30%) PyTorch
10 16 (1.23%) XGBoost
11 15 (1.15%) HTML
11 15 (1.15%) PySpark
12 14 (1.07%) CSS
13 13 (1.00%) scikit-learn
14 11 (0.84%) .NET
15 10 (0.77%) EDI
15 10 (0.77%) REST
15 10 (0.77%) SpaCy
15 10 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 254 (19.45%) Algorithms
2 208 (15.93%) Self-Motivation
3 116 (8.88%) Data Structures
4 49 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 41 (3.14%) Blockchain
7 40 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.76%) IoT
9 23 (1.76%) Life Science
10 21 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.07%) Freedom of Information
11 14 (1.07%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.00%) Onboarding
13 11 (0.84%) Blog
13 11 (0.84%) Credit Risk
13 11 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.77%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.61%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 85 (6.51%) Linux
2 42 (3.22%) Windows
3 40 (3.06%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (3.06%) CentOS
3 40 (3.06%) Debian
4 8 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.15%) Unix
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (40.35%) Problem-Solving
2 480 (36.75%) Machine Learning
3 441 (33.77%) Analytics
4 401 (30.70%) Agile
5 377 (28.87%) Mentoring
6 367 (28.10%) Artificial Intelligence
7 344 (26.34%) Data Engineering
8 292 (22.36%) Business Intelligence
9 283 (21.67%) Data Pipeline
10 268 (20.52%) Data Analysis
11 267 (20.44%) DevOps
12 257 (19.68%) Computer Science
13 252 (19.30%) ETL
14 251 (19.22%) Data Modelling
15 249 (19.07%) Decision-Making
16 234 (17.92%) Coaching
17 231 (17.69%) Cybersecurity
18 228 (17.46%) Mathematics
19 176 (13.48%) Statistical Modelling
20 172 (13.17%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 439 (33.61%) Python
2 416 (31.85%) SQL
3 98 (7.50%) R
4 68 (5.21%) Java
5 52 (3.98%) T-SQL
6 42 (3.22%) JavaScript
7 36 (2.76%) C#
7 36 (2.76%) Scala
8 31 (2.37%) Bash
8 31 (2.37%) Go
9 27 (2.07%) C++
10 22 (1.68%) C
11 16 (1.23%) MATLAB
12 15 (1.15%) Haskell
12 15 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
14 5 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.31%) JSX
15 4 (0.31%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 408 (31.24%) Degree
2 86 (6.58%) Master's Degree
3 63 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 61 (4.67%) PhD
5 48 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (3.14%) MCSE
7 41 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.06%) MCSA
9 37 (2.83%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
10 14 (1.07%) SC Cleared
11 10 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.46%) IIBA
12 6 (0.46%) OCP
12 6 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.31%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (14.70%) GDPR
2 132 (10.11%) Data Quality
3 41 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.00%) QA
5 9 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.54%) CDISC
7 4 (0.31%) IFRS
7 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.15%) COBIT
9 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.15%) GLBA
9 2 (0.15%) NIST
9 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.077%) Basel III
10 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.077%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (5.90%) Docker
2 10 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 62 (4.75%) Terraform
3 7 (0.54%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.38%) SELinux
5 3 (0.23%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.077%) Grafana
6 1 (0.077%) Podman
6 1 (0.077%) Rancher
Vendors
1 213 (16.31%) Google
2 204 (15.62%) Microsoft
3 76 (5.82%) Databricks
4 47 (3.60%) IBM
5 40 (3.06%) Red Hat
6 32 (2.45%) Dell
7 28 (2.14%) Alteryx
8 21 (1.61%) Oracle
9 11 (0.84%) Informatica
10 10 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.69%) SAP
12 7 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.54%) Snow
12 7 (0.54%) YouTube
13 6 (0.46%) Dataiku
13 6 (0.46%) iManage
14 5 (0.38%) Teradata
15 4 (0.31%) BiZZdesign
15 4 (0.31%) Talend
16 3 (0.23%) Cloudera