Senior Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 681 710
Rank change year-on-year +155 +29 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 45 84 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.11% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 19 64 40
10th Percentile £60,350 £50,000 £50,438
25th Percentile £63,500 £55,000 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +17.31% -3.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £88,000 £94,577 £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -15.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 West +129 29 £71,991 -7.11% 40
Scotland +124 6 £70,000 -14.30% 9
Yorkshire +59 4 £64,000 -14.67% 27
West Midlands +51 4 £57,500 - 25
Midlands +46 4 £57,500 - 46
North of England +25 4 £64,000 -14.67% 78
South East +83 1 - - 117
Wales - 1 £85,000 - 9
Senior Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Data Science
2 40 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 40 (88.89%) Python
3 35 (77.78%) Visualisation
4 33 (73.33%) Decision-Making
5 31 (68.89%) Mentoring
5 31 (68.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 30 (66.67%) Finance
7 27 (60.00%) Big Data
7 27 (60.00%) Algorithms
8 26 (57.78%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (57.78%) Degree
8 26 (57.78%) Mathematics
9 25 (55.56%) Software Engineering
9 25 (55.56%) Data Analysis
10 24 (53.33%) Statistics
10 24 (53.33%) DevOps
11 23 (51.11%) Docker
11 23 (51.11%) Computer Science
11 23 (51.11%) DV Cleared
11 23 (51.11%) Security Cleared
11 23 (51.11%) OpenUP
11 23 (51.11%) Java
11 23 (51.11%) JavaScript
11 23 (51.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 23 (51.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (51.11%) Microservices
11 23 (51.11%) Kubernetes
11 23 (51.11%) Jupyter
11 23 (51.11%) Cyberattack

Senior 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 23 (51.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) GCP
2 4 (8.89%) Vertex AI
3 3 (6.67%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Azure
3 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.44%) dbt
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (6.67%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (6.67%) Tableau
3 2 (4.44%) Looker
3 2 (4.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
General
1 30 (66.67%) Finance
2 23 (51.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.22%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Pandas
2 4 (8.89%) PyTorch
2 4 (8.89%) scikit-learn
2 4 (8.89%) TensorFlow
2 4 (8.89%) XGBoost
3 1 (2.22%) Django
3 1 (2.22%) Flask
3 1 (2.22%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 23 (51.11%) Cyberattack
3 4 (8.89%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.44%) IoT
4 2 (4.44%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) CUDA
5 1 (2.22%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Data Science
2 40 (88.89%) Machine Learning
3 35 (77.78%) Visualisation
4 33 (73.33%) Decision-Making
5 31 (68.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 31 (68.89%) Mentoring
6 26 (57.78%) Mathematics
6 26 (57.78%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (55.56%) Data Analysis
7 25 (55.56%) Software Engineering
8 24 (53.33%) DevOps
8 24 (53.33%) Statistics
9 23 (51.11%) Computer Science
9 23 (51.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 23 (51.11%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 23 (51.11%) LLM
9 23 (51.11%) Microservices
9 23 (51.11%) MLOps
9 23 (51.11%) OpenUP
10 14 (31.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 40 (88.89%) Python
2 23 (51.11%) Java
2 23 (51.11%) JavaScript
3 9 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.89%) R
5 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (57.78%) Degree
2 23 (51.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (51.11%) DV Cleared
2 23 (51.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 23 (51.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (51.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle