Data Science Jobs

Data Science
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 153 103
Rank change year-on-year +14 -50 -49
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 1,350 1,801 2,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.24% 1.79% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.17% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 509 973 1,505
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,944 82,826 80,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.68% 82.49% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,417 56,101 51,969
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science.

Salary trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
England +13 1,262 £75,000 +7.14% 2,176
UK excluding London +4 650 £64,000 +6.67% 942
London +17 570 £82,500 +10.00% 1,458
Work from Home +32 551 £66,367 -1.68% 916
South East +57 264 £57,500 -4.17% 263
South West +49 104 £77,500 +24.00% 81
North of England -73 91 £57,500 -4.17% 260
Midlands +18 71 £60,000 +4.35% 135
East of England +52 67 £68,500 -14.38% 99
North West -79 56 £56,250 -6.25% 165
Scotland +50 45 £70,000 - 56
West Midlands +2 36 £61,250 +4.26% 92
East Midlands +40 33 £40,000 -17.95% 42
Yorkshire -1 28 £57,500 -11.54% 72
North East +10 7 £47,500 +5.56% 25
Wales +13 5 £67,562 +2.06% 37
Northern Ireland +37 4 - - 26

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 103 (7.63%) Apache Spark
2 46 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (3.26%) SharePoint
4 36 (2.67%) Apache
5 23 (1.70%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.96%) SAS
7 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.44%) Luigi
8 6 (0.44%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.074%) CMS
10 1 (0.074%) Confluence
10 1 (0.074%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.074%) Mule
10 1 (0.074%) OpenStack
Applications
1 37 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 6 (0.44%) Sketch
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.30%) SPSS
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.074%) SPSS Modeler
7 1 (0.074%) Stata
7 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.074%) Maximo
2 1 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.074%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.074%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.074%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.074%) SAP LE
2 1 (0.074%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.074%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.074%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.074%) SAP SCM
2 1 (0.074%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 626 (46.37%) Azure
2 567 (42.00%) AWS
3 423 (31.33%) GCP
4 299 (22.15%) Serverless
5 269 (19.93%) AWS Lambda
6 170 (12.59%) Power Platform
7 60 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 47 (3.48%) Snowflake
8 47 (3.48%) Vertex AI
9 45 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (3.33%) SaaS
10 44 (3.26%) Amazon SageMaker
10 44 (3.26%) GitHub
11 36 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 33 (2.44%) Azure AI
14 31 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
14 31 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
15 30 (2.22%) Power Automate
15 30 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 215 (15.93%) Broadband
2 6 (0.44%) MQTT
3 5 (0.37%) 4G
3 5 (0.37%) 5G
3 5 (0.37%) Unified Communications
3 5 (0.37%) WAN
4 4 (0.30%) SMS
4 4 (0.30%) VPN
5 3 (0.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.22%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.15%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.15%) Modbus
7 1 (0.074%) DNS
7 1 (0.074%) Intranet
7 1 (0.074%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.074%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.074%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.37%) Power BI
2 141 (10.44%) Big Data
3 130 (9.63%) Tableau
4 129 (9.56%) Data Lake
5 115 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
6 58 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 55 (4.07%) Metadata
8 49 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 46 (3.41%) Hadoop
10 44 (3.26%) Data Mining
11 40 (2.96%) SQL Server
12 37 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
13 36 (2.67%) Delta Lake
14 34 (2.52%) BigQuery
15 33 (2.44%) MySQL
16 29 (2.15%) MongoDB
16 29 (2.15%) Relational Database
17 26 (1.93%) Spark SQL
18 22 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
19 21 (1.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (5.26%) Git
2 25 (1.85%) MLflow
3 17 (1.26%) GitLab
4 16 (1.19%) JIRA
5 15 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.89%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.37%) webpack
9 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.30%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.30%) Subversion
10 3 (0.22%) Babel
10 3 (0.22%) ERwin
10 3 (0.22%) gulp
10 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 536 (39.70%) Analytical Skills
2 397 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 324 (24.00%) Law
4 303 (22.44%) Finance
5 141 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (10.07%) Marketing
7 118 (8.74%) Retail
8 72 (5.33%) Banking
9 62 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (3.63%) Legal
11 46 (3.41%) Public Sector
12 39 (2.89%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.85%) Games
14 21 (1.56%) Publishing
15 20 (1.48%) Tech for Good
16 17 (1.26%) Health Technology
17 16 (1.19%) Advertising
17 16 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 15 (1.11%) Electronics
19 14 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 552 (40.89%) Senior
2 253 (18.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 203 (15.04%) Data Scientist
4 197 (14.59%) Lead
5 133 (9.85%) Data Engineer
6 100 (7.41%) Developer
7 94 (6.96%) Senior Data Scientist
8 93 (6.89%) Analyst
9 63 (4.67%) Architect
10 45 (3.33%) Data Analyst
11 44 (3.26%) Software Engineer
12 41 (3.04%) Senior Developer
13 40 (2.96%) Data Manager
13 40 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
14 35 (2.59%) Product Manager
15 28 (2.07%) Senior Manager
16 25 (1.85%) Lead Data Scientist
17 24 (1.78%) Data Architect
17 24 (1.78%) Python Developer
18 23 (1.70%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (7.33%) TensorFlow
2 94 (6.96%) React
3 84 (6.22%) PySpark
4 83 (6.15%) scikit-learn
5 82 (6.07%) PyTorch
6 54 (4.00%) Pandas
7 45 (3.33%) .NET
7 45 (3.33%) NumPy
8 40 (2.96%) Kafka
9 35 (2.59%) Keras
10 34 (2.52%) CSS
10 34 (2.52%) RESTful
11 33 (2.44%) HTML
12 24 (1.78%) Node.js
13 22 (1.63%) Hugging Face
13 22 (1.63%) Lambda Expressions
14 21 (1.56%) LangChain
15 20 (1.48%) YAML
16 19 (1.41%) Metaflow
17 18 (1.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 233 (17.26%) Self-Motivation
2 201 (14.89%) Algorithms
3 54 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 49 (3.63%) Cloud Native
5 46 (3.41%) Cyberattack
5 46 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
8 21 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.33%) Credit Risk
10 17 (1.26%) IoT
10 17 (1.26%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (0.59%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.30%) Unix
2 28 (2.07%) Linux
3 8 (0.59%) Windows
4 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.22%) VMS
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (58.30%) Machine Learning
2 597 (44.22%) Analytics
3 580 (42.96%) Problem-Solving
4 541 (40.07%) Agile
5 487 (36.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 425 (31.48%) Mentoring
7 376 (27.85%) CI/CD
8 306 (22.67%) Computer Science
9 299 (22.15%) Visualisation
10 264 (19.56%) Data Engineering
11 252 (18.67%) Roadmaps
12 246 (18.22%) Creative Thinking
13 238 (17.63%) DevOps
14 229 (16.96%) Clean Code
15 224 (16.59%) Performance Metrics
15 224 (16.59%) Personalization
16 212 (15.70%) Decision-Making
17 208 (15.41%) Business Intelligence
18 193 (14.30%) MLOps
19 189 (14.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 827 (61.26%) Python
2 383 (28.37%) SQL
3 256 (18.96%) TypeScript
4 104 (7.70%) Java
5 93 (6.89%) JavaScript
6 88 (6.52%) R
7 55 (4.07%) C#
8 40 (2.96%) Scala
9 31 (2.30%) C++
10 23 (1.70%) Go
11 15 (1.11%) Bicep
11 15 (1.11%) MATLAB
12 13 (0.96%) Bash
13 10 (0.74%) SPARQL
14 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.52%) Julia
15 7 (0.52%) Rust
15 7 (0.52%) VBA
16 6 (0.44%) C
16 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 673 (49.85%) Degree
2 287 (21.26%) PhD
3 168 (12.44%) Master's Degree
4 143 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 85 (6.30%) Security Cleared
6 58 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 44 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 44 (3.26%) Numerate Degree
8 26 (1.93%) SC Cleared
9 24 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.26%) Postgraduate
11 15 (1.11%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.89%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.89%) PMP
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.37%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.30%) CBAP
16 3 (0.22%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (10.44%) Data Quality
2 45 (3.33%) GDPR
3 33 (2.44%) QA
4 23 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 18 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.52%) NIST
7 3 (0.22%) Basel II
7 3 (0.22%) Basel III
7 3 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.22%) IFRS
7 3 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.15%) JTAG
8 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.074%) CDISC
9 1 (0.074%) DICOM
9 1 (0.074%) HL7
System Software
1 157 (11.63%) Docker
2 12 (0.89%) HDFS
3 6 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.22%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 166 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 81 (6.00%) Terraform
3 23 (1.70%) Prometheus
4 22 (1.63%) Kubeflow
5 20 (1.48%) Grafana
6 10 (0.74%) Ansible
7 4 (0.30%) Kibana
7 4 (0.30%) logstash
7 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Oozie
8 3 (0.22%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.074%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.074%) Salt
Vendors
1 173 (12.81%) Google
2 162 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 147 (10.89%) Databricks
4 65 (4.81%) OpenAI
5 39 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 37 (2.74%) Oracle
7 35 (2.59%) SAP
8 24 (1.78%) Foundry
9 17 (1.26%) Adobe
10 15 (1.11%) Informatica
11 14 (1.04%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.81%) Workday
13 10 (0.74%) PayPal
14 9 (0.67%) Marketo
14 9 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.59%) Splunk
15 8 (0.59%) Teradata
16 6 (0.44%) Palantir
16 6 (0.44%) Talend
16 6 (0.44%) Yahoo!