Data Scientist
UK

The median Data Scientist salary in the UK is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 493 539 496
Rank change year-on-year +46 -43 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 246 670 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.56% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 168 414 456
10th Percentile £43,745 £40,814 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,396 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% - -
75th Percentile £90,938 £80,003 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,625 £91,750 £98,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +17.39% -2.13% +11.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,923 119,491 123,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.34% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37,248 74,881 84,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,005
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the UK

Data Scientist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the UK

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the UK

Data Scientist
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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 +41 228 £70,576 +8.58% 169
UK excluding London +68 116 £67,500 +17.39% 85
London +91 113 £77,750 +11.07% 105
Work from Home +52 94 £65,000 +1.96% 76
South West +57 45 £53,750 -2.06% 3
North of England +88 25 £70,576 +22.74% 23
South East +131 23 £65,000 -7.14% 29
Yorkshire +90 22 £70,576 +12.92% 3
Midlands +67 9 £60,000 - 12
Scotland +48 9 £70,576 +40.76% 6
West Midlands +100 7 £62,500 - 9
East of England +110 3 £80,000 +45.45% 10
North West +61 3 £42,500 -22.73% 19
Wales +13 2 £71,250 +24.86%
East Midlands +7 2 £43,750 -27.08% 3

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 December 2023, Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 246 (100.00%) Data Science
2 209 (84.96%) Python
3 194 (78.86%) Machine Learning
4 124 (50.41%) Degree
5 118 (47.97%) Analytics
6 112 (45.53%) SQL
7 99 (40.24%) Statistics
8 98 (39.84%) Algorithms
9 92 (37.40%) Artificial Intelligence
10 86 (34.96%) Visualisation
11 81 (32.93%) Computer Science
12 76 (30.89%) R
13 73 (29.67%) Azure
14 69 (28.05%) Mathematics
15 68 (27.64%) Data Analysis
16 67 (27.24%) Finance
17 61 (24.80%) AWS
18 55 (22.36%) Social Skills
19 53 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
19 53 (21.54%) Master's Degree
20 49 (19.92%) Natural Language Processing
21 48 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
22 47 (19.11%) Security Cleared
23 46 (18.70%) Agile
24 43 (17.48%) TensorFlow
25 42 (17.07%) Mentoring
25 42 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
26 41 (16.67%) MLOps
27 40 (16.26%) Pandas
27 40 (16.26%) Deep Learning

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 22 (8.94%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.69%) Jupyter
3 8 (3.25%) Apache
4 6 (2.44%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.67%) Azure
2 61 (24.80%) AWS
3 31 (12.60%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.76%) GCP
5 13 (5.28%) Azure Machine Learning
6 12 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (2.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (2.85%) GitHub
9 6 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.22%) SaaS
12 2 (0.81%) ChatGPT
13 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.41%) H2O.ai
13 1 (0.41%) Serverless
13 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.82%) Big Data
2 31 (12.60%) Power BI
3 27 (10.98%) Tableau
4 10 (4.07%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.63%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.63%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.22%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.81%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.81%) KNIME
9 2 (0.81%) Text Mining
10 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (5.69%) Git
2 7 (2.85%) git-flow
3 4 (1.63%) RStudio
3 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.81%) MLflow
5 1 (0.41%) Poetry
5 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 67 (27.24%) Finance
2 55 (22.36%) Social Skills
3 53 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.72%) Banking
6 17 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (5.28%) Marketing
8 11 (4.47%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.07%) Games
10 7 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.44%) Law
11 6 (2.44%) Retail
12 4 (1.63%) Publishing
13 3 (1.22%) Legal
14 2 (0.81%) Front Office
14 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.41%) Automotive
15 1 (0.41%) Music Industry
15 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (17.48%) TensorFlow
2 40 (16.26%) Pandas
3 39 (15.85%) NumPy
4 34 (13.82%) PyTorch
5 28 (11.38%) scikit-learn
6 24 (9.76%) HTML
7 20 (8.13%) Keras
8 16 (6.50%) XGBoost
9 12 (4.88%) PySpark
10 7 (2.85%) MXNet
11 6 (2.44%) SpaCy
12 3 (1.22%) SciPy
13 2 (0.81%) Gensim
13 2 (0.81%) NLTK
13 2 (0.81%) Statsmodels
14 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
14 1 (0.41%) Kafka
14 1 (0.41%) Kedro
14 1 (0.41%) Matplotlib
14 1 (0.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 98 (39.84%) Algorithms
2 23 (9.35%) Cyberattack
3 19 (7.72%) IoT
4 11 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.07%) Smart Meter
6 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.22%) Life Science
7 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.22%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.22%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.81%) Equities
8 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Linux
1 3 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (100.00%) Data Science
2 194 (78.86%) Machine Learning
3 118 (47.97%) Analytics
4 99 (40.24%) Statistics
5 92 (37.40%) Artificial Intelligence
6 86 (34.96%) Visualisation
7 81 (32.93%) Computer Science
8 69 (28.05%) Mathematics
9 68 (27.64%) Data Analysis
10 49 (19.92%) Natural Language Processing
11 48 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (18.70%) Agile
13 42 (17.07%) Mentoring
13 42 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (16.67%) MLOps
15 40 (16.26%) Deep Learning
16 39 (15.85%) Software Engineering
16 39 (15.85%) Statistical Modelling
17 37 (15.04%) Data Engineering
18 36 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 209 (84.96%) Python
2 112 (45.53%) SQL
3 76 (30.89%) R
4 24 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.54%) Java
6 16 (6.50%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.85%) Gremlin
8 6 (2.44%) SPARQL
9 5 (2.03%) C#
10 4 (1.63%) Scala
11 3 (1.22%) C++
12 2 (0.81%) C
12 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) Go
13 1 (0.41%) Rust
13 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (50.41%) Degree
2 53 (21.54%) Master's Degree
3 47 (19.11%) Security Cleared
4 37 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (14.63%) DV Cleared
6 27 (10.98%) PhD
7 7 (2.85%) Numerate Degree
7 7 (2.85%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.22%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.85%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.22%) GDPR
3 2 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 27 (10.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (13.82%) Databricks
2 10 (4.07%) Alteryx
3 9 (3.66%) Dataiku
4 7 (2.85%) Google
5 6 (2.44%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.81%) Salesforce