Senior Data Scientist Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 491 677
Rank change year-on-year +22 +186 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 117 43 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 73 19 70
10th Percentile £56,554 £62,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,333 £67,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -4.01% +15.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,000 £90,654
UK median annual salary £80,939 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% +6.45% +13.97%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 64,740 27,027 74,412
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 88.92% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 44,916 14,743 53,334
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,280 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Scientist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Data Scientist job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Scientist job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Scientist job vacancies 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 24 June 2026.

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 24 June 2026. 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 +9 50 £75,000 +17.19% 2
North West - 37 £75,000 - 2
Midlands +11 36 £75,000 +30.43% 1
East Midlands - 32 £75,000 - 1
South West -82 11 £58,497 -23.03% 2
East of England - 9 £86,725 - 2
Yorkshire -39 8 £75,000 +17.19%
South East -18 6 £40,000 - 10
North East - 5 £83,774 -
West Midlands -11 4 £70,860 +23.23%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Wales -45 2 £102,500 +20.59% 2
Senior Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2026, Senior Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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.

1 117 (100.00%) Data Science
2 63 (53.85%) Machine Learning
3 60 (51.28%) Python
4 47 (40.17%) Mentoring
5 42 (35.90%) SQL
6 31 (26.50%) Statistics
7 30 (25.64%) AI
8 28 (23.93%) PyTorch
9 27 (23.08%) TensorFlow
10 26 (22.22%) Roadmaps
11 25 (21.37%) Analytics
12 24 (20.51%) Hugging Face
13 23 (19.66%) Actionable Insight
13 23 (19.66%) Deep Learning
13 23 (19.66%) Project Management
13 23 (19.66%) Software Engineering
14 18 (15.38%) LLM
15 16 (13.68%) Customer Insight
16 15 (12.82%) Data Quality
16 15 (12.82%) Degree
16 15 (12.82%) Mathematics
16 15 (12.82%) Neural Network
16 15 (12.82%) R
17 13 (11.11%) Visualisation
18 11 (9.40%) Coaching
18 11 (9.40%) Data Strategy
18 11 (9.40%) Statistical Analysis
19 10 (8.55%) Generative AI
19 10 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
20 9 (7.69%) Azure

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.71%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.69%) Azure
2 8 (6.84%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.98%) AWS
3 7 (5.98%) SaaS
4 6 (5.13%) Dataform
4 6 (5.13%) dbt
5 4 (3.42%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.56%) Serverless
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.85%) GCP
7 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) LTE
1 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.84%) Power BI
1 8 (6.84%) Tableau
2 6 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.13%) Looker
2 6 (5.13%) Metabase
3 3 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.71%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Git
2 2 (1.71%) MLflow
General
1 44 (37.61%) Finance
2 22 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.98%) Retail
5 7 (5.98%) Social Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Banking
6 6 (5.13%) Wearables
7 5 (4.27%) Automotive
7 5 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.42%) Marketing
9 2 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.93%) PyTorch
2 27 (23.08%) TensorFlow
3 24 (20.51%) Hugging Face
4 6 (5.13%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.27%) EDI
6 4 (3.42%) NumPy
6 4 (3.42%) Pandas
6 4 (3.42%) PySpark
7 2 (1.71%) XGBoost
8 1 (0.85%) LangChain
8 1 (0.85%) SciPy
8 1 (0.85%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
2 1 (0.85%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (100.00%) Data Science
2 63 (53.85%) Machine Learning
3 47 (40.17%) Mentoring
4 31 (26.50%) Statistics
5 30 (25.64%) AI
6 26 (22.22%) Roadmaps
7 25 (21.37%) Analytics
8 23 (19.66%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (19.66%) Deep Learning
8 23 (19.66%) Project Management
8 23 (19.66%) Software Engineering
9 18 (15.38%) LLM
10 16 (13.68%) Customer Insight
11 15 (12.82%) Mathematics
11 15 (12.82%) Neural Network
12 13 (11.11%) Visualisation
13 11 (9.40%) Coaching
13 11 (9.40%) Data Strategy
13 11 (9.40%) Statistical Analysis
14 10 (8.55%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 60 (51.28%) Python
2 42 (35.90%) SQL
3 15 (12.82%) R
4 6 (5.13%) Julia
5 1 (0.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (12.82%) Degree
2 6 (5.13%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.13%) DV Cleared
2 6 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) PhD
4 2 (1.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.71%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.85%) Databricks
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