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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 September 2024.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 598 576 765
Rank change year-on-year -22 +189 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 70 43 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 39 33 48
10th Percentile £49,396 £51,367 £46,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,071 £68,036
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -1.42% +4.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £96,539 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 56,203 37,095 69,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 92.58% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 32,497 25,270 42,363
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 7 September 2024.

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 7 September 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
North of England +15 27 £62,879 -10.17% 5
North West -7 15 £60,000 -11.11% 2
South East -14 14 £50,845 -15.26% 3
West Midlands -5 11 £80,000 -8.57% 1
South West -10 11 £70,000 +9.80% 4
Midlands -25 11 £80,000 -8.57% 1
Yorkshire +30 8 £62,879 -32.23% 2
Scotland -30 5 - -
North East - 4 £62,879 - 1
East of England -12 2 £75,000 -
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 7 September 2024, 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 70 (100.00%) Data Science
2 61 (87.14%) Python
3 49 (70.00%) SQL
4 47 (67.14%) Machine Learning
5 43 (61.43%) Analytics
6 31 (44.29%) Statistics
7 30 (42.86%) Mathematics
7 30 (42.86%) Mentoring
8 28 (40.00%) Agile
9 27 (38.57%) Coaching
9 27 (38.57%) R
10 24 (34.29%) Degree
10 24 (34.29%) Computer Science
11 23 (32.86%) Natural Language Processing
12 22 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
13 20 (28.57%) Roadmaps
14 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
14 19 (27.14%) Algorithms
15 18 (25.71%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (22.86%) Data Analysis
17 16 (22.86%) Visualisation
17 16 (22.86%) Project Roadmap
17 16 (22.86%) Collaborative Working
18 15 (21.43%) Finance
19 14 (20.00%) Big Data
19 14 (20.00%) Master's Degree
20 13 (18.57%) Statistical Modelling
21 12 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
21 12 (17.14%) Power BI

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 1 (1.43%) Apache
1 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.43%) Luigi
1 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) Power Platform
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) Big Data
2 12 (17.14%) Power BI
3 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.71%) Tableau
4 2 (2.86%) Looker
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.43%) Base SAS
5 1 (1.43%) Bigtable
5 1 (1.43%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.43%) Redis
5 1 (1.43%) RethinkDB
5 1 (1.43%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 22 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.86%) Legal
5 2 (2.86%) Marketing
5 2 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) PySpark
2 4 (5.71%) Pandas
3 3 (4.29%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.29%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.86%) Keras
4 2 (2.86%) NumPy
4 2 (2.86%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.86%) SpaCy
5 1 (1.43%) EDI
5 1 (1.43%) NLTK
5 1 (1.43%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.43%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Algorithms
2 8 (11.43%) Reinsurance
3 5 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.43%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) Data Science
2 47 (67.14%) Machine Learning
3 43 (61.43%) Analytics
4 31 (44.29%) Statistics
5 30 (42.86%) Mathematics
5 30 (42.86%) Mentoring
6 28 (40.00%) Agile
7 27 (38.57%) Coaching
8 24 (34.29%) Computer Science
9 23 (32.86%) Natural Language Processing
10 20 (28.57%) Roadmaps
11 18 (25.71%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (22.86%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (22.86%) Data Analysis
13 16 (22.86%) Project Roadmap
13 16 (22.86%) Visualisation
14 13 (18.57%) Statistical Modelling
15 12 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (87.14%) Python
2 49 (70.00%) SQL
3 27 (38.57%) R
4 2 (2.86%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) Julia
5 1 (1.43%) C
5 1 (1.43%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) Degree
2 14 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 11 (15.71%) PhD
4 7 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Databricks
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.43%) Dataiku
3 1 (1.43%) Google
3 1 (1.43%) Sun