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 3 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
3 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 452 659
Rank change year-on-year -37 +207 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 83 47 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 59 21 62
10th Percentile £56,243 £62,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,975 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.20% +17.31%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,390 £90,000 £95,885
UK median annual salary £80,939 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.17% - +16.79%

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 61,115 24,359 64,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 88.70% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 39,195 14,667 47,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,075 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -29 35 £75,000 +17.19% 8
North West - 29 £75,000 - 8
Midlands -22 16 £73,750 +28.26% 8
South West -73 11 £58,497 -18.74% 2
East Midlands - 11 £72,500 - 6
East of England - 10 £86,725 - 2
South East -19 8 £40,000 -54.29% 14
West Midlands -19 5 £75,000 +30.43% 2
Yorkshire -60 4 £66,720 +4.25%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East - 2 £66,720 -
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 3 May 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 83 (100.00%) Data Science
2 42 (50.60%) Machine Learning
3 41 (49.40%) Python
4 26 (31.33%) Mentoring
4 26 (31.33%) SQL
5 25 (30.12%) AI
6 19 (22.89%) Analytics
7 15 (18.07%) Statistics
8 14 (16.87%) LLM
8 14 (16.87%) Visualisation
9 13 (15.66%) R
10 11 (13.25%) Data Quality
10 11 (13.25%) Data Strategy
10 11 (13.25%) Degree
10 11 (13.25%) Mathematics
10 11 (13.25%) PyTorch
10 11 (13.25%) Statistical Analysis
11 10 (12.05%) TensorFlow
12 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (10.84%) Data Engineering
12 9 (10.84%) Data Transformation
12 9 (10.84%) Generative AI
12 9 (10.84%) Power BI
12 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
12 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
12 9 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (9.64%) Actionable Insight
13 8 (9.64%) Azure
13 8 (9.64%) CI/CD
13 8 (9.64%) Hugging Face

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 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.64%) Azure
3 7 (8.43%) dbt
4 6 (7.23%) Dataform
5 5 (6.02%) AWS
6 4 (4.82%) SaaS
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.61%) Serverless
8 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.20%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) LTE
1 1 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Power BI
2 8 (9.64%) Tableau
3 6 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.23%) Looker
3 6 (7.23%) Metabase
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.41%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.20%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) MLflow
General
1 22 (26.51%) Finance
2 19 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.43%) Retail
5 4 (4.82%) Automotive
5 4 (4.82%) Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Marketing
5 4 (4.82%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Advertising
7 1 (1.20%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) PyTorch
2 10 (12.05%) TensorFlow
3 8 (9.64%) Hugging Face
4 5 (6.02%) EDI
4 5 (6.02%) scikit-learn
5 4 (4.82%) NumPy
5 4 (4.82%) PySpark
6 3 (3.61%) Pandas
7 2 (2.41%) XGBoost
8 1 (1.20%) GeoPandas
8 1 (1.20%) LangChain
8 1 (1.20%) MapLibre
8 1 (1.20%) NetworkX
8 1 (1.20%) PostGIS
8 1 (1.20%) SciPy
8 1 (1.20%) Streamlit
8 1 (1.20%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.20%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Data Science
2 42 (50.60%) Machine Learning
3 26 (31.33%) Mentoring
4 25 (30.12%) AI
5 19 (22.89%) Analytics
6 15 (18.07%) Statistics
7 14 (16.87%) LLM
7 14 (16.87%) Visualisation
8 11 (13.25%) Data Strategy
8 11 (13.25%) Mathematics
8 11 (13.25%) Statistical Analysis
9 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (10.84%) Data Engineering
9 9 (10.84%) Data Transformation
9 9 (10.84%) Generative AI
9 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (9.64%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (9.64%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.43%) A/B Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (49.40%) Python
2 26 (31.33%) SQL
3 13 (15.66%) R
4 6 (7.23%) Julia
5 1 (1.20%) C++
5 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) DBS Check
2 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) PhD
4 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.41%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Argo
1 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.20%) Databricks
2 1 (1.20%) Mapbox
38 Senior Data Scientist jobs in the UK excluding London