Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 482 538 579
Rank change year-on-year +56 +41 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 295 210 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 126 130 183
10th Percentile £41,025 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,063 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,913 £68,513
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,125 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +13.04%

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 Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
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 Scientist 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
South East +74 127 £65,000 +8.33% 59
Midlands +35 56 £55,000 +4.76% 6
South West -19 51 £65,000 +21.06% 21
West Midlands +41 47 £57,500 +9.52% 1
North of England +12 34 £60,000 +2.13% 16
North West +10 21 £60,000 -11.11% 7
East of England +2 16 £80,000 +39.13% 5
Yorkshire +53 11 £70,576 +28.32% 7
Scotland -58 11 £70,576 -0.95% 3
East Midlands -9 9 £45,000 -5.26% 5
North East -12 2 £43,200 -3.28% 2
Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, Data Scientist 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 Scientist in the job title.

1 293 (99.32%) Data Science
2 194 (65.76%) Degree
3 183 (62.03%) Algorithms
4 161 (54.58%) Data Analysis
5 158 (53.56%) Computer Science
6 157 (53.22%) Statistical Modelling
7 152 (51.53%) Decision-Making
7 152 (51.53%) Python
8 150 (50.85%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (49.49%) Mathematics
10 134 (45.42%) Cybersecurity
11 133 (45.08%) Mentoring
12 131 (44.41%) Coaching
13 129 (43.73%) Machine Learning
14 125 (42.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 122 (41.36%) Red Team
15 122 (41.36%) Digital Forensics
16 82 (27.80%) SQL
17 76 (25.76%) Agile
18 61 (20.68%) Analytics
19 54 (18.31%) R
19 54 (18.31%) Social Skills
20 52 (17.63%) Artificial Intelligence
21 47 (15.93%) PhD
22 46 (15.59%) Statistics
23 45 (15.25%) Visualisation
24 38 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
25 37 (12.54%) Natural Language Processing
26 36 (12.20%) Pandas
27 34 (11.53%) Master's Degree

Data Scientist 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.05%) SAS
2 5 (1.69%) Apache
2 5 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.69%) Luigi
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.46%) GCP
2 21 (7.12%) Azure
3 13 (4.41%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.39%) AWS
5 9 (3.05%) SaaS
6 5 (1.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.75%) Big Data
1 14 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.41%) Power BI
3 11 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.05%) Tableau
5 5 (1.69%) Bigtable
5 5 (1.69%) CouchDB
5 5 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.69%) Redis
5 5 (1.69%) RethinkDB
6 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.02%) Metadata
7 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.34%) MySQL
8 1 (0.34%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 27 (9.15%) Git
General
1 125 (42.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 54 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.53%) Finance
4 28 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.80%) Banking
6 14 (4.75%) Law
6 14 (4.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (2.71%) Games
7 8 (2.71%) Marketing
8 7 (2.37%) Retail
9 5 (1.69%) Legal
10 3 (1.02%) Advertising
11 2 (0.68%) International Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.20%) Pandas
2 28 (9.49%) TensorFlow
3 27 (9.15%) NumPy
4 22 (7.46%) Keras
5 15 (5.08%) XGBoost
6 12 (4.07%) scikit-learn
7 11 (3.73%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.05%) PySpark
9 6 (2.03%) SpaCy
10 5 (1.69%) SQLAlchemy
10 5 (1.69%) Statsmodels
11 2 (0.68%) Matplotlib
11 2 (0.68%) React
11 2 (0.68%) Seaborn
12 1 (0.34%) Django
12 1 (0.34%) Flask
12 1 (0.34%) NLTK
12 1 (0.34%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 183 (62.03%) Algorithms
2 22 (7.46%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.39%) Reinsurance
3 10 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.05%) Life Science
5 6 (2.03%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.34%) iPad
8 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.34%) Molecular Biology
8 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Windows
1 2 (0.68%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (99.32%) Data Science
2 161 (54.58%) Data Analysis
3 158 (53.56%) Computer Science
4 157 (53.22%) Statistical Modelling
5 152 (51.53%) Decision-Making
6 150 (50.85%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (49.49%) Mathematics
8 134 (45.42%) Cybersecurity
9 133 (45.08%) Mentoring
10 131 (44.41%) Coaching
11 129 (43.73%) Machine Learning
12 122 (41.36%) Digital Forensics
12 122 (41.36%) Red Team
13 76 (25.76%) Agile
14 61 (20.68%) Analytics
15 52 (17.63%) Artificial Intelligence
16 46 (15.59%) Statistics
17 45 (15.25%) Visualisation
18 38 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
19 37 (12.54%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 152 (51.53%) Python
2 82 (27.80%) SQL
3 54 (18.31%) R
4 17 (5.76%) MATLAB
5 12 (4.07%) C#
6 3 (1.02%) Java
7 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.68%) Julia
7 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.34%) C
8 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 194 (65.76%) Degree
2 47 (15.93%) PhD
3 34 (11.53%) Master's Degree
4 25 (8.47%) Security Cleared
5 20 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (6.10%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.02%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.36%) IFRS
3 4 (1.36%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 10 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (5.42%) Databricks
2 14 (4.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.03%) Google
4 5 (1.69%) Dataiku
5 4 (1.36%) Oracle
6 2 (0.68%) Alteryx