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 10 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
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 494 545 488
Rank change year-on-year +51 -57 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 248 655 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.54% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.56% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 169 402 454
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,004 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,098 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.99% -1.50% +14.29%

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 49,872 116,646 121,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.43% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,454 73,520 84,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
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 10 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 10 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 +46 228 £70,576 +8.58% 152
London +103 115 £80,000 +14.29% 96
UK excluding London +76 114 £65,000 +9.99% 75
Work from Home +63 95 £65,000 - 65
South West +55 46 £53,750 -2.06% 3
North of England +99 26 £70,576 +25.60% 19
Yorkshire +92 22 £70,576 +17.63% 1
South East +141 21 £65,000 -7.14% 21
Scotland +40 10 £70,576 +25.31% 6
Midlands +62 6 £56,250 -6.25% 14
West Midlands +97 4 £60,000 - 11
North West +72 4 £53,750 -2.27% 17
East of England +102 3 £80,000 +45.45% 9
East Midlands +16 2 £43,750 -25.53% 3
Wales +15 2 £71,250 +24.86% 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 248 (100.00%) Data Science
2 213 (85.89%) Python
3 197 (79.44%) Machine Learning
4 122 (49.19%) Degree
5 118 (47.58%) Analytics
6 114 (45.97%) SQL
7 103 (41.53%) Statistics
8 96 (38.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 95 (38.31%) Algorithms
10 84 (33.87%) Visualisation
11 80 (32.26%) Computer Science
12 73 (29.44%) R
13 72 (29.03%) Mathematics
14 71 (28.63%) Azure
15 69 (27.82%) Finance
16 64 (25.81%) Data Analysis
17 62 (25.00%) AWS
18 54 (21.77%) Natural Language Processing
19 51 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
19 51 (20.56%) Master's Degree
19 51 (20.56%) Social Skills
20 50 (20.16%) Security Cleared
21 49 (19.76%) Agile
22 48 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
23 45 (18.15%) TensorFlow
24 43 (17.34%) Mentoring
25 42 (16.94%) Deep Learning
26 41 (16.53%) MLOps
27 40 (16.13%) Software Engineering
28 39 (15.73%) Pandas

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 19 (7.66%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.05%) Jupyter
3 8 (3.23%) SAS
4 7 (2.82%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.63%) Azure
2 62 (25.00%) AWS
3 31 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 27 (10.89%) GCP
5 12 (4.84%) Azure Machine Learning
5 12 (4.84%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.03%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (2.42%) GitHub
8 4 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.21%) SaaS
10 2 (0.81%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.40%) Serverless
11 1 (0.40%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.11%) Big Data
2 31 (12.50%) Power BI
3 25 (10.08%) Tableau
4 9 (3.63%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.02%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.21%) Text Mining
9 2 (0.81%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.81%) KNIME
10 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (5.65%) Git
2 7 (2.82%) git-flow
3 5 (2.02%) RStudio
3 5 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.40%) MLflow
4 1 (0.40%) Poetry
4 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 69 (27.82%) Finance
2 51 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (20.56%) Social Skills
3 33 (13.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (7.66%) Banking
5 15 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.84%) Marketing
6 12 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.63%) Games
8 7 (2.82%) Law
9 6 (2.42%) Retail
10 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.61%) Publishing
12 3 (1.21%) Legal
13 2 (0.81%) Front Office
13 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.40%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.15%) TensorFlow
2 39 (15.73%) Pandas
3 37 (14.92%) NumPy
4 36 (14.52%) PyTorch
5 25 (10.08%) scikit-learn
6 24 (9.68%) HTML
7 22 (8.87%) Keras
8 15 (6.05%) XGBoost
9 11 (4.44%) PySpark
10 8 (3.23%) MXNet
11 6 (2.42%) SpaCy
12 2 (0.81%) .NET
12 2 (0.81%) Gensim
12 2 (0.81%) NLTK
12 2 (0.81%) SciPy
12 2 (0.81%) Statsmodels
13 1 (0.40%) Kafka
13 1 (0.40%) Matplotlib
13 1 (0.40%) NetworkX
13 1 (0.40%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 95 (38.31%) Algorithms
2 23 (9.27%) Cyberattack
3 16 (6.45%) IoT
4 11 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.23%) Smart Meter
6 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.61%) Pricing Data
7 4 (1.61%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.21%) Life Science
8 3 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.21%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.81%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.81%) Equities
9 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.40%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.21%) Linux
1 3 (1.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (100.00%) Data Science
2 197 (79.44%) Machine Learning
3 118 (47.58%) Analytics
4 103 (41.53%) Statistics
5 96 (38.71%) Artificial Intelligence
6 84 (33.87%) Visualisation
7 80 (32.26%) Computer Science
8 72 (29.03%) Mathematics
9 64 (25.81%) Data Analysis
10 54 (21.77%) Natural Language Processing
11 49 (19.76%) Agile
12 48 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
13 43 (17.34%) Mentoring
14 42 (16.94%) Deep Learning
15 41 (16.53%) MLOps
16 40 (16.13%) Software Engineering
17 38 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
18 37 (14.92%) Statistical Modelling
19 36 (14.52%) Data Engineering
20 33 (13.31%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 213 (85.89%) Python
2 114 (45.97%) SQL
3 73 (29.44%) R
4 24 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.47%) Java
6 17 (6.85%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.82%) Gremlin
8 6 (2.42%) C#
8 6 (2.42%) SPARQL
9 4 (1.61%) Scala
10 3 (1.21%) C++
11 2 (0.81%) C
11 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) Rust
12 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 122 (49.19%) Degree
2 51 (20.56%) Master's Degree
3 50 (20.16%) Security Cleared
4 37 (14.92%) DV Cleared
5 35 (14.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (11.69%) PhD
7 9 (3.63%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.82%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.21%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.21%) GDPR
3 2 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 26 (10.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (12.50%) Databricks
2 11 (4.44%) Alteryx
3 10 (4.03%) Dataiku
3 10 (4.03%) Google
4 6 (2.42%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.42%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.81%) Sage
5 2 (0.81%) Salesforce