Data Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Science
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 163 115
Rank change year-on-year -38 -48 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 589 1,312 1,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.48% 1.75% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.13% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 226 639 641
10th Percentile £41,750 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,058 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -14.10% +8.07%
75th Percentile £83,738 £72,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,528 £92,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
South East -22 205 £57,500 -4.17% 115
South West +54 109 £70,000 +16.67% 69
North of England -103 93 £57,500 +15.00% 208
Midlands -49 68 £57,468 +4.49% 73
East of England +29 55 £78,369 +42.49% 59
North West -108 55 £56,250 +12.50% 134
Scotland +66 50 £70,000 - 79
West Midlands -43 42 £58,750 +6.82% 45
Yorkshire +10 32 £63,652 +15.73% 55
East Midlands +19 24 £40,000 -15.79% 27
North East +23 6 £57,250 +20.53% 20
Wales +18 5 £80,000 +68.42% 21
Northern Ireland +38 4 - - 11
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 (7.81%) Apache Spark
2 33 (5.60%) SharePoint
3 24 (4.07%) Jupyter
4 15 (2.55%) Apache
4 15 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.53%) SAS
6 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 22 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.55%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Maximo
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 247 (41.94%) Azure
2 185 (31.41%) AWS
3 147 (24.96%) GCP
4 105 (17.83%) Power Platform
5 86 (14.60%) Serverless
6 80 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (4.75%) Amazon SageMaker
7 28 (4.75%) PowerApps
8 26 (4.41%) Power Automate
9 25 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (4.07%) Snowflake
11 22 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (3.23%) Amazon S3
12 19 (3.23%) Vertex AI
13 13 (2.21%) Azure Machine Learning
13 13 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (2.04%) GitHub
15 9 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
17 6 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (11.04%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.17%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) MQTT
3 1 (0.17%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.17%) SAN
3 1 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (20.03%) Big Data
2 105 (17.83%) Power BI
3 89 (15.11%) Data Lake
3 89 (15.11%) Tableau
4 42 (7.13%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (6.45%) NoSQL
6 27 (4.58%) Data Mining
6 27 (4.58%) Hadoop
7 20 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.72%) Metadata
9 15 (2.55%) Relational Database
10 14 (2.38%) MongoDB
11 13 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.87%) MySQL
13 10 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.70%) Metadata Repository
14 8 (1.36%) Cloud Spanner
14 8 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (5.43%) Git
2 9 (1.53%) JIRA
3 6 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.68%) ERwin
4 4 (0.68%) GitLab
4 4 (0.68%) Subversion
5 3 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.17%) MLflow
7 1 (0.17%) Postman
General
1 228 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
2 205 (34.80%) Social Skills
3 182 (30.90%) Finance
4 139 (23.60%) Law
5 62 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (9.51%) Retail
7 53 (9.00%) Banking
8 52 (8.83%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (5.26%) Manufacturing
10 23 (3.90%) Marketing
10 23 (3.90%) Public Sector
11 20 (3.40%) Legal
12 13 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (2.04%) Automotive
14 9 (1.53%) Electronics
14 9 (1.53%) Local Government
14 9 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.02%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 242 (41.09%) Senior
2 128 (21.73%) Data Scientist
3 107 (18.17%) Lead
4 72 (12.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 45 (7.64%) Senior Data Scientist
6 42 (7.13%) Data Engineer
7 41 (6.96%) Analyst
8 30 (5.09%) Developer
9 26 (4.41%) Software Engineer
10 24 (4.07%) Data Analyst
11 22 (3.74%) Data Manager
12 19 (3.23%) Senior Manager
13 16 (2.72%) Architect
13 16 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (2.55%) Trainer
15 12 (2.04%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (1.70%) Product Owner
17 9 (1.53%) Data Analytics Director
17 9 (1.53%) Data Science Leader
17 9 (1.53%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.79%) TensorFlow
2 39 (6.62%) PyTorch
3 32 (5.43%) React
4 31 (5.26%) Kafka
5 27 (4.58%) scikit-learn
6 23 (3.90%) PySpark
7 16 (2.72%) Hugging Face
8 15 (2.55%) NumPy
9 14 (2.38%) LangChain
10 12 (2.04%) Keras
10 12 (2.04%) Node.js
11 11 (1.87%) .NET
11 11 (1.87%) Pandas
12 9 (1.53%) CSS
12 9 (1.53%) HTML
13 8 (1.36%) RESTful
13 8 (1.36%) Spring Boot
13 8 (1.36%) XGBoost
14 6 (1.02%) PyArrow
15 5 (0.85%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 133 (22.58%) Algorithms
2 67 (11.38%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (7.81%) Cyberattack
4 43 (7.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.72%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.70%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.53%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.36%) IoT
11 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.02%) Robotics
14 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
15 4 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
15 4 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
15 4 (0.68%) Market Risk
15 4 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.55%) Linux
2 10 (1.70%) Unix
3 5 (0.85%) Windows
4 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (62.82%) Machine Learning
2 287 (48.73%) Analytics
3 267 (45.33%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (39.05%) Artificial Intelligence
5 217 (36.84%) Agile
6 183 (31.07%) Computer Science
7 159 (26.99%) Visualisation
8 153 (25.98%) Mentoring
9 141 (23.94%) Business Intelligence
10 139 (23.60%) Data Engineering
11 126 (21.39%) Mathematics
12 125 (21.22%) Decision-Making
13 119 (20.20%) Data Analysis
14 114 (19.35%) Statistics
15 108 (18.34%) CI/CD
15 108 (18.34%) Roadmaps
16 95 (16.13%) DevOps
17 92 (15.62%) Software Engineering
18 90 (15.28%) Actionable Insight
19 81 (13.75%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 297 (50.42%) Python
2 150 (25.47%) SQL
3 80 (13.58%) TypeScript
4 53 (9.00%) Java
5 51 (8.66%) R
6 48 (8.15%) JavaScript
7 17 (2.89%) C++
8 13 (2.21%) MATLAB
9 11 (1.87%) C#
10 10 (1.70%) Scala
11 7 (1.19%) Julia
12 6 (1.02%) VBA
13 5 (0.85%) Bicep
13 5 (0.85%) Go
13 5 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.34%) Bash
14 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.17%) C
15 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.17%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 311 (52.80%) Degree
2 108 (18.34%) PhD
3 79 (13.41%) Master's Degree
4 66 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (10.36%) Security Cleared
6 49 (8.32%) DV Cleared
7 26 (4.41%) Numerate Degree
8 18 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.04%) SC Cleared
10 10 (1.70%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.70%) Postgraduate
11 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.34%) CCFP
13 2 (0.34%) CISSP
13 2 (0.34%) CITP
13 2 (0.34%) EnCE
13 2 (0.34%) GCFE
13 2 (0.34%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.22%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.41%) GDPR
3 15 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 15 (2.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (1.70%) QA
5 9 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.68%) Basel II
6 4 (0.68%) Basel III
6 4 (0.68%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (0.68%) IFRS
6 4 (0.68%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 47 (7.98%) Docker
2 8 (1.36%) HDFS
3 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.21%) Grafana
2 13 (2.21%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.36%) Terraform
4 3 (0.51%) Kibana
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) EnCase
5 2 (0.34%) FTK
5 2 (0.34%) RSA Security Analytics
6 1 (0.17%) logstash
6 1 (0.17%) Oozie
Vendors
1 91 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.81%) Google
3 40 (6.79%) Databricks
4 28 (4.75%) OpenAI
5 27 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 22 (3.74%) Oracle
7 15 (2.55%) PayPal
8 11 (1.87%) Informatica
9 8 (1.36%) SAP
10 6 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.68%) Palantir
11 4 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.68%) Talend
12 3 (0.51%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.34%) FireEye
13 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.34%) NetWitness
13 2 (0.34%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.34%) Splunk
14 1 (0.17%) YouTube