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 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 511 636
Rank change year-on-year 0 +125 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 117 40 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 64 16 58
10th Percentile £62,333 £63,500 £49,819
25th Percentile £66,875 £70,000 £57,536
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% +10.29%

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 69,080 30,398 62,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.71% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,750 17,453 43,175
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,083
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
% change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%

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 July 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 July 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 +5 48 £77,500 +7.64% 31
Midlands 0 36 £75,000 - 11
North West +27 35 £77,500 -6.06% 13
East Midlands - 32 £75,000 - 1
South West -72 14 £58,497 -31.18% 9
Yorkshire -27 8 £75,000 +17.19% 14
East of England - 7 £86,725 - 3
Wales -51 5 £100,000 +17.65% 6
North East - 5 £83,774 - 4
South East -15 4 - - 12
West Midlands -31 4 £70,860 - 10
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
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 July 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 65 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 57 (48.72%) Python
4 48 (41.03%) Mentoring
5 44 (37.61%) SQL
6 31 (26.50%) AI
7 28 (23.93%) PyTorch
7 28 (23.93%) TensorFlow
8 27 (23.08%) Roadmaps
9 26 (22.22%) Statistics
10 24 (20.51%) Hugging Face
10 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
11 23 (19.66%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (19.66%) Deep Learning
11 23 (19.66%) Project Management
12 22 (18.80%) Analytics
13 16 (13.68%) Customer Insight
13 16 (13.68%) Degree
13 16 (13.68%) R
14 15 (12.82%) Data Quality
14 15 (12.82%) Mathematics
14 15 (12.82%) Neural Network
15 14 (11.97%) LLM
16 11 (9.40%) Coaching
17 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
17 10 (8.55%) SaaS
17 10 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
18 9 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
18 9 (7.69%) CI/CD
18 9 (7.69%) Data Engineering

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 10 (8.55%) SaaS
2 9 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.84%) AWS
4 6 (5.13%) Dataform
4 6 (5.13%) dbt
5 5 (4.27%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (4.27%) Azure
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) Power BI
1 9 (7.69%) Tableau
2 7 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.13%) Looker
3 6 (5.13%) Metabase
4 3 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.71%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Git
2 2 (1.71%) MLflow
General
1 44 (37.61%) Finance
2 23 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.84%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.13%) Banking
5 6 (5.13%) Wearables
6 5 (4.27%) Automotive
6 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Marketing
8 3 (2.56%) Retail
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
1 28 (23.93%) TensorFlow
2 24 (20.51%) Hugging Face
3 6 (5.13%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.42%) Pandas
4 4 (3.42%) PySpark
5 3 (2.56%) NumPy
6 2 (1.71%) XGBoost
7 1 (0.85%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
2 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (100.00%) Data Science
2 65 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 48 (41.03%) Mentoring
4 31 (26.50%) AI
5 27 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 26 (22.22%) Statistics
7 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
8 23 (19.66%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (19.66%) Deep Learning
8 23 (19.66%) Project Management
9 22 (18.80%) Analytics
10 16 (13.68%) Customer Insight
11 15 (12.82%) Mathematics
11 15 (12.82%) Neural Network
12 14 (11.97%) LLM
13 11 (9.40%) Coaching
14 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
14 10 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (7.69%) CI/CD
15 9 (7.69%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 57 (48.72%) Python
2 44 (37.61%) SQL
3 16 (13.68%) R
4 6 (5.13%) Julia
Qualifications
1 16 (13.68%) Degree
2 6 (5.13%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) PhD
3 4 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
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 2 (1.71%) Databricks
80 Senior Data Scientist jobs in the UK excluding London