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 8 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 514 607
Rank change year-on-year +9 +93 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 142 37 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 84 13 41
10th Percentile £62,333 - £49,396
25th Percentile £74,375 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +30.77% -1.57%
75th Percentile £90,747 - £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £86,725 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.03% +17.24% +5.84%

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 72,153 30,862 56,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 89.57% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 49,865 17,782 37,476
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -6.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +7 56 £77,513 -3.11% 32
North West +32 38 £80,000 -3.03% 14
Midlands +7 37 £75,000 - 11
East Midlands - 31 £75,000 - 2
South West -78 16 £58,497 -31.18% 9
Yorkshire -25 13 £75,013 +17.21% 18
South East -26 12 £90,000 - 30
Wales -51 8 £100,000 +17.65%
East of England - 7 £86,725 - 7
West Midlands -19 6 £75,000 - 9
North East - 5 £83,774 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Scotland +10 2 £75,013 +7.16%
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 8 August 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.

1 142 (100.00%) Data Science
2 81 (57.04%) Machine Learning
3 61 (42.96%) Python
4 48 (33.80%) Mentoring
5 47 (33.10%) AI
5 47 (33.10%) SQL
6 36 (25.35%) Analytics
7 29 (20.42%) PyTorch
7 29 (20.42%) Statistics
8 28 (19.72%) TensorFlow
9 27 (19.01%) Roadmaps
10 26 (18.31%) Software Engineering
11 24 (16.90%) Actionable Insight
11 24 (16.90%) Deep Learning
11 24 (16.90%) Hugging Face
12 23 (16.20%) Project Management
13 17 (11.97%) Degree
13 17 (11.97%) R
14 16 (11.27%) Customer Insight
15 15 (10.56%) Data Quality
15 15 (10.56%) LLM
15 15 (10.56%) Mathematics
15 15 (10.56%) Neural Network
16 12 (8.45%) Coaching
16 12 (8.45%) Data Engineering
16 12 (8.45%) Decision-Making
17 11 (7.75%) CI/CD
17 11 (7.75%) SaaS
17 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
18 10 (7.04%) Business Intelligence

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 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.75%) SaaS
2 10 (7.04%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.34%) AWS
4 7 (4.93%) Azure
5 6 (4.23%) Dataform
5 6 (4.23%) dbt
6 5 (3.52%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.11%) Serverless
8 1 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.70%) GCP
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.70%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) Power BI
1 10 (7.04%) Tableau
2 8 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.23%) Looker
3 6 (4.23%) Metabase
4 3 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.41%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Git
2 2 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 54 (38.03%) Finance
2 25 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.34%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.23%) Banking
5 6 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.23%) Wearables
6 5 (3.52%) Automotive
6 5 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.52%) Marketing
6 5 (3.52%) Retail
7 2 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.42%) PyTorch
2 28 (19.72%) TensorFlow
3 24 (16.90%) Hugging Face
4 7 (4.93%) scikit-learn
5 5 (3.52%) PySpark
6 4 (2.82%) Pandas
7 3 (2.11%) NumPy
7 3 (2.11%) XGBoost
8 1 (0.70%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
1 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
1 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) Data Science
2 81 (57.04%) Machine Learning
3 48 (33.80%) Mentoring
4 47 (33.10%) AI
5 36 (25.35%) Analytics
6 29 (20.42%) Statistics
7 27 (19.01%) Roadmaps
8 26 (18.31%) Software Engineering
9 24 (16.90%) Actionable Insight
9 24 (16.90%) Deep Learning
10 23 (16.20%) Project Management
11 16 (11.27%) Customer Insight
12 15 (10.56%) LLM
12 15 (10.56%) Mathematics
12 15 (10.56%) Neural Network
13 12 (8.45%) Coaching
13 12 (8.45%) Data Engineering
13 12 (8.45%) Decision-Making
14 11 (7.75%) CI/CD
14 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (42.96%) Python
2 47 (33.10%) SQL
3 17 (11.97%) R
4 6 (4.23%) Julia
Qualifications
1 17 (11.97%) Degree
2 9 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.63%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.23%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.82%) PhD
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.41%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (2.82%) Databricks
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.70%) Workday
92 Senior Data Scientist jobs in the UK excluding London