Data Scientist Jobs

Data Scientist
UK

The median Data Scientist salary in the UK is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 457 549
Rank change year-on-year +2 +92 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 238 503 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.54% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 111 258 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £46,802
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.77% +13.04% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the UK

Data Scientist
Top 16 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 30 April 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 -24 208 £60,000 -14.29% 345
UK excluding London +66 139 £58,000 -10.77% 97
Work from Home +165 112 £62,000 -11.43% 181
London +1 79 £80,000 +6.67% 256
South West +129 56 £71,991 +10.76% 13
North of England +70 23 £55,000 -8.33% 46
Midlands +26 23 £45,000 -21.74% 12
West Midlands +24 22 £45,000 -21.74% 8
South East +6 20 £59,000 -9.23% 11
North West +27 15 £45,000 -25.00% 32
Scotland +128 12 £70,000 +7.22% 11
Yorkshire +63 7 £64,000 -9.32% 8
East of England +47 4 £58,000 -27.50% 4
North East +51 1 £52,000 +20.37% 6
East Midlands +41 1 £58,000 +28.89% 4
Wales +40 1 £85,000 +25.93% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, 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.

1 238 (100.00%) Data Science
2 184 (77.31%) Machine Learning
3 179 (75.21%) Python
4 152 (63.87%) Analytics
5 145 (60.92%) Degree
6 134 (56.30%) Artificial Intelligence
7 130 (54.62%) Visualisation
8 123 (51.68%) Statistics
9 121 (50.84%) Mathematics
10 111 (46.64%) Algorithms
11 108 (45.38%) SQL
12 101 (42.44%) Computer Science
13 100 (42.02%) Data Analysis
14 99 (41.60%) Decision-Making
15 93 (39.08%) Finance
16 73 (30.67%) Social Skills
17 72 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
18 67 (28.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 66 (27.73%) Exploratory Data Analysis
20 63 (26.47%) Master's Degree
21 61 (25.63%) Big Data
22 60 (25.21%) Analytical Skills
23 57 (23.95%) Azure
23 57 (23.95%) Security Cleared
24 52 (21.85%) DV Cleared
24 52 (21.85%) Software Engineering
25 48 (20.17%) MLOps
26 46 (19.33%) OpenUP
26 46 (19.33%) Tableau
26 46 (19.33%) Cyberattack

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 23 (9.66%) Jupyter
2 17 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.36%) Apache
4 5 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.26%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) GoldMine
Cloud Services
1 57 (23.95%) Azure
2 34 (14.29%) AWS
2 34 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.46%) Adobe Analytics
3 13 (5.46%) GCP
3 13 (5.46%) Google Analytics
4 11 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (4.20%) GitHub
6 9 (3.78%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (2.10%) dbt
7 5 (2.10%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.68%) SaaS
8 4 (1.68%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.84%) Serverless
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.42%) Cloud9 IDE
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) DAB
1 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (25.63%) Big Data
2 46 (19.33%) Tableau
3 34 (14.29%) Power BI
4 18 (7.56%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.78%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.10%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.68%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.68%) Looker
8 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.26%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.84%) MySQL
9 2 (0.84%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.42%) ArangoDB
10 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.42%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 22 (9.24%) Git
2 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 93 (39.08%) Finance
2 73 (30.67%) Social Skills
3 67 (28.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (25.21%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (15.13%) Marketing
6 20 (8.40%) Manufacturing
7 18 (7.56%) Law
7 18 (7.56%) Public Sector
8 16 (6.72%) Banking
9 10 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (3.36%) Retail
12 7 (2.94%) Games
13 4 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.68%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.26%) Automotive
15 2 (0.84%) Advertising
15 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.84%) Legal
15 2 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.55%) TensorFlow
2 33 (13.87%) scikit-learn
3 22 (9.24%) PyTorch
4 21 (8.82%) Pandas
5 13 (5.46%) NumPy
6 12 (5.04%) Plotly
7 11 (4.62%) PySpark
8 8 (3.36%) Keras
9 7 (2.94%) XGBoost
10 6 (2.52%) Hugging Face
11 5 (2.10%) Google JAX
11 5 (2.10%) JAX
11 5 (2.10%) SciPy
11 5 (2.10%) SpaCy
12 2 (0.84%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.84%) OpenCV
12 2 (0.84%) pydantic
12 2 (0.84%) PyMC3
12 2 (0.84%) Shiny
12 2 (0.84%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 111 (46.64%) Algorithms
2 46 (19.33%) Cyberattack
3 13 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.78%) Credit Risk
5 8 (3.36%) Life Science
6 7 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.68%) Biopharmaceutical
7 4 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.68%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.84%) IoT
9 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.84%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.42%) Clustering
10 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (100.00%) Data Science
2 184 (77.31%) Machine Learning
3 152 (63.87%) Analytics
4 134 (56.30%) Artificial Intelligence
5 130 (54.62%) Visualisation
6 123 (51.68%) Statistics
7 121 (50.84%) Mathematics
8 101 (42.44%) Computer Science
9 100 (42.02%) Data Analysis
10 99 (41.60%) Decision-Making
11 72 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (27.73%) Exploratory Data Analysis
13 52 (21.85%) Software Engineering
14 48 (20.17%) MLOps
15 46 (19.33%) OpenUP
16 45 (18.91%) Mentoring
16 45 (18.91%) Predictive Modelling
17 42 (17.65%) Statistical Modelling
18 41 (17.23%) Data Analytics
19 40 (16.81%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 179 (75.21%) Python
2 108 (45.38%) SQL
3 45 (18.91%) R
4 39 (16.39%) Java
5 25 (10.50%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.88%) C++
7 4 (1.68%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.84%) SPARQL
8 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.42%) Fortran
9 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 145 (60.92%) Degree
2 63 (26.47%) Master's Degree
3 57 (23.95%) Security Cleared
4 52 (21.85%) DV Cleared
5 32 (13.45%) PhD
6 25 (10.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (10.08%) Numerate Degree
8 10 (4.20%) SC Cleared
9 9 (3.78%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.84%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (15.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.84%) Kibana
2 2 (0.84%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (8.82%) Databricks
2 15 (6.30%) Google
2 15 (6.30%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.46%) Adobe
3 13 (5.46%) Marketo
3 13 (5.46%) Salesforce
3 13 (5.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (0.84%) F5
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle
4 2 (0.84%) PayPal
4 2 (0.84%) Talend
5 1 (0.42%) Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) Palantir
5 1 (0.42%) SAP