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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 110 124
Rank change year-on-year -50 +14 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 1,292 1,868 2,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.80% 3.17% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.31% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 639 677 750
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £34,972
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £44,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 59,837 56,365 67,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.55% 95.59% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41,306 29,082 41,028
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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 18 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 +42 392 £60,000 -11.11% 125
North of England -85 289 £50,000 -18.27% 62
Midlands +8 206 £55,000 +22.22% 40
North West -9 178 £50,000 -25.93% 32
South West -45 176 £60,000 -11.76% 62
West Midlands +14 159 £55,000 +22.22% 25
Scotland -63 123 £69,500 +4.91% 19
Yorkshire -107 78 £60,000 -1.93% 23
East of England -63 75 £55,000 -4.35% 28
East Midlands +6 47 £47,500 -13.64% 15
North East -10 33 £47,500 +3.26% 7
Wales +26 27 £47,500 -13.70% 13
Northern Ireland +16 4 £77,500 +134.85% 8
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 (3.56%) SAS
2 44 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.62%) 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 1 (0.077%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.077%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.077%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.077%) Moodle
7 1 (0.077%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.86%) 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 (28.10%) Azure
2 258 (19.97%) GCP
3 237 (18.34%) Power Platform
4 140 (10.84%) AWS
5 82 (6.35%) Snowflake
6 61 (4.72%) Matillion
7 59 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.57%) SaaS
8 48 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 40 (3.10%) IBM Cloud
10 36 (2.79%) Serverless
11 33 (2.55%) Amazon S3
12 30 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 30 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (1.78%) Google Docs
14 23 (1.78%) Lucidchart
14 23 (1.78%) Miro
14 23 (1.78%) Slack
15 12 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.77%) DNS
1 10 (0.77%) 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%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (18.73%) Data Warehouse
2 229 (17.72%) Power BI
3 172 (13.31%) SQL Server
4 167 (12.93%) BigQuery
5 155 (12.00%) Looker
6 102 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (7.82%) Big Data
8 92 (7.12%) Data Lake
9 82 (6.35%) Tableau
10 59 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (3.48%) Star Schema
12 42 (3.25%) Metadata
13 41 (3.17%) Hadoop
14 33 (2.55%) Relational Database
15 27 (2.09%) Redis
16 24 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (1.78%) Scylla
18 22 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 19 (1.47%) Data Vault
20 17 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 64 (4.95%) Git
2 30 (2.32%) GitLab
3 12 (0.93%) JIRA
4 10 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.31%) ERwin
5 4 (0.31%) Maven
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.23%) JUnit
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%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 346 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 285 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (21.05%) Finance
4 248 (19.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (12.46%) Public Sector
6 149 (11.53%) Retail
7 85 (6.58%) Banking
8 70 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (5.19%) Law
9 67 (5.19%) Marketing
10 41 (3.17%) Games
11 38 (2.94%) Legal
12 35 (2.71%) Investment Banking
12 35 (2.71%) Military
13 23 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 20 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.08%) Automotive
17 13 (1.01%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 336 (26.01%) Data Engineer
2 290 (22.45%) Data Scientist
3 197 (15.25%) Principal Engineer
4 189 (14.63%) Senior
5 158 (12.23%) Platform Engineer
6 147 (11.38%) Principal Data Engineer
7 121 (9.37%) Lead
8 89 (6.89%) Analyst
9 88 (6.81%) Consultant
10 84 (6.50%) Software Engineer
11 83 (6.42%) Senior Data Scientist
12 81 (6.27%) Architect
13 76 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 59 (4.57%) Data Architect
15 56 (4.33%) Developer
16 55 (4.26%) Data Analyst
17 50 (3.87%) Principal Software Engineer
18 42 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
19 38 (2.94%) Data Manager
20 37 (2.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.95%) Pandas
2 35 (2.71%) Kafka
3 34 (2.63%) GraphQL
3 34 (2.63%) NumPy
4 30 (2.32%) React
4 30 (2.32%) TensorFlow
5 21 (1.63%) Keras
6 19 (1.47%) PyTorch
6 19 (1.47%) RESTful
7 18 (1.39%) Node.js
8 15 (1.16%) PySpark
8 15 (1.16%) XGBoost
9 14 (1.08%) CSS
9 14 (1.08%) HTML
9 14 (1.08%) scikit-learn
10 11 (0.85%) XML
11 10 (0.77%) .NET
11 10 (0.77%) EDI
11 10 (0.77%) REST
11 10 (0.77%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 255 (19.74%) Algorithms
2 209 (16.18%) Self-Motivation
3 114 (8.82%) Data Structures
4 48 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (3.48%) Cloud Native
6 41 (3.17%) Blockchain
7 40 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (2.17%) Life Science
9 23 (1.78%) Product Ownership
10 22 (1.70%) IoT
10 22 (1.70%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
11 14 (1.08%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.01%) Onboarding
13 11 (0.85%) Blog
13 11 (0.85%) Credit Risk
14 10 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.70%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.62%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 83 (6.42%) Linux
2 42 (3.25%) Windows
3 40 (3.10%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (3.10%) CentOS
3 40 (3.10%) Debian
4 7 (0.54%) 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
1 525 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 474 (36.69%) Machine Learning
3 439 (33.98%) Analytics
4 384 (29.72%) Agile
5 376 (29.10%) Mentoring
6 366 (28.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 341 (26.39%) Data Engineering
8 294 (22.76%) Business Intelligence
9 279 (21.59%) Data Pipeline
10 274 (21.21%) Data Analysis
11 264 (20.43%) DevOps
12 261 (20.20%) Computer Science
13 251 (19.43%) ETL
14 249 (19.27%) Data Modelling
14 249 (19.27%) Decision-Making
15 232 (17.96%) Coaching
16 230 (17.80%) Mathematics
17 229 (17.72%) Cybersecurity
18 175 (13.54%) Statistical Modelling
19 172 (13.31%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 435 (33.67%) Python
2 413 (31.97%) SQL
3 99 (7.66%) R
4 67 (5.19%) Java
5 52 (4.02%) T-SQL
6 42 (3.25%) JavaScript
7 35 (2.71%) Scala
8 34 (2.63%) C#
9 31 (2.40%) Bash
10 30 (2.32%) Go
11 27 (2.09%) C++
12 22 (1.70%) C
13 16 (1.24%) MATLAB
14 15 (1.16%) Haskell
14 15 (1.16%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.93%) SystemVerilog
16 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.31%) JSX
17 4 (0.31%) SPARQL
18 2 (0.15%) Julia
Qualifications
1 414 (32.04%) Degree
2 88 (6.81%) Master's Degree
3 61 (4.72%) PhD
4 56 (4.33%) Security Cleared
5 48 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 47 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.10%) MCSA
8 40 (3.10%) MCSE
9 30 (2.32%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.08%) SC Cleared
11 13 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
12 10 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.46%) IIBA
14 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.31%) OCP
14 4 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.31%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (14.71%) GDPR
2 132 (10.22%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.01%) QA
5 9 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
7 7 (0.54%) CDISC
8 4 (0.31%) IFRS
8 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
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 (5.96%) 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 96 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.88%) Terraform
3 7 (0.54%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.39%) 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%) yum
Vendors
1 212 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 210 (16.25%) Google
3 77 (5.96%) Databricks
4 47 (3.64%) IBM
5 40 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 30 (2.32%) Dell
7 28 (2.17%) Alteryx
8 22 (1.70%) Oracle
9 10 (0.77%) Informatica
9 10 (0.77%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.70%) SAP
11 7 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.54%) Snow
11 7 (0.54%) YouTube
12 6 (0.46%) Dataiku
12 6 (0.46%) iManage
13 5 (0.39%) Talend
13 5 (0.39%) Teradata
14 4 (0.31%) BiZZdesign
15 3 (0.23%) Cloudera