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 25 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
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 463 533
Rank change year-on-year +19 +70 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 236 495 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 112 258 359
10th Percentile £41,825 £43,588 £43,125
25th Percentile £51,188 £51,750 £50,000
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £89,000
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 46,844 92,689 96,631
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.58% 94.64% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 27,414 66,679 60,579
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 25 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 25 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 -34 209 £60,000 -14.29% 689
UK excluding London +69 140 £58,000 -10.77% 254
Work from Home +163 112 £62,000 -4.62% 314
London +1 79 £80,000 +6.67% 484
South West +132 56 £71,991 +10.76% 30
Midlands +33 24 £45,000 -21.74% 29
North of England +48 23 £55,000 -8.33% 88
West Midlands +18 23 £45,000 -21.74% 17
South East +1 20 £59,000 -9.23% 59
North West +26 15 £45,000 -25.00% 54
Scotland +126 12 £70,000 +7.22% 22
Yorkshire +70 7 £64,000 -9.32% 17
East of England +46 4 £58,000 -27.50% 21
North East +47 1 £52,000 +20.37% 17
East Midlands +46 1 £58,000 +25.41% 11
Wales +44 1 £85,000 +25.93% 7

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 236 (100.00%) Data Science
2 185 (78.39%) Machine Learning
3 177 (75.00%) Python
4 150 (63.56%) Analytics
5 143 (60.59%) Degree
6 135 (57.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 130 (55.08%) Visualisation
8 121 (51.27%) Statistics
9 119 (50.42%) Mathematics
10 111 (47.03%) Algorithms
11 106 (44.92%) SQL
12 99 (41.95%) Computer Science
13 98 (41.53%) Data Analysis
14 97 (41.10%) Decision-Making
15 94 (39.83%) Finance
16 73 (30.93%) Social Skills
17 72 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
18 67 (28.39%) Exploratory Data Analysis
19 64 (27.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 61 (25.85%) Big Data
21 60 (25.42%) Master's Degree
22 58 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
22 58 (24.58%) Azure
23 57 (24.15%) Security Cleared
24 52 (22.03%) DV Cleared
24 52 (22.03%) Software Engineering
25 48 (20.34%) MLOps
26 46 (19.49%) OpenUP
26 46 (19.49%) R
26 46 (19.49%) 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 (9.75%) Jupyter
2 17 (7.20%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.39%) Apache
4 5 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) GoldMine
Cloud Services
1 58 (24.58%) Azure
2 35 (14.83%) Power Platform
3 34 (14.41%) AWS
4 13 (5.51%) GCP
5 12 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (4.24%) Adobe Analytics
6 10 (4.24%) GitHub
6 10 (4.24%) Google Analytics
7 9 (3.81%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (2.12%) dbt
8 5 (2.12%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.69%) SaaS
9 4 (1.69%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.85%) Serverless
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon Neptune
11 1 (0.42%) AWS CodeCommit
11 1 (0.42%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.42%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) DAB
1 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (25.85%) Big Data
2 43 (18.22%) Tableau
3 35 (14.83%) Power BI
4 19 (8.05%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.81%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.12%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.69%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.69%) Looker
8 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.27%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.85%) MySQL
9 2 (0.85%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.85%) 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 (9.32%) Git
2 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 94 (39.83%) Finance
2 73 (30.93%) Social Skills
3 64 (27.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (14.41%) Marketing
6 21 (8.90%) Manufacturing
7 18 (7.63%) Public Sector
8 16 (6.78%) Banking
9 15 (6.36%) Law
10 10 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (3.39%) Retail
13 7 (2.97%) Games
14 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.69%) Retail Banking
15 3 (1.27%) Automotive
16 2 (0.85%) Advertising
16 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.85%) Legal
16 2 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.68%) TensorFlow
2 33 (13.98%) scikit-learn
3 22 (9.32%) PyTorch
4 21 (8.90%) Pandas
5 13 (5.51%) NumPy
6 12 (5.08%) Plotly
7 11 (4.66%) PySpark
8 8 (3.39%) Keras
9 7 (2.97%) XGBoost
10 6 (2.54%) Hugging Face
11 5 (2.12%) Google JAX
11 5 (2.12%) JAX
11 5 (2.12%) SciPy
11 5 (2.12%) SpaCy
12 2 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.85%) CSS
12 2 (0.85%) OpenCV
12 2 (0.85%) PyMC3
12 2 (0.85%) Shiny
12 2 (0.85%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 111 (47.03%) Algorithms
2 46 (19.49%) Cyberattack
3 10 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.81%) Credit Risk
5 8 (3.39%) Life Science
6 7 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.69%) Biopharmaceutical
7 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.69%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
9 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.85%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (100.00%) Data Science
2 185 (78.39%) Machine Learning
3 150 (63.56%) Analytics
4 135 (57.20%) Artificial Intelligence
5 130 (55.08%) Visualisation
6 121 (51.27%) Statistics
7 119 (50.42%) Mathematics
8 99 (41.95%) Computer Science
9 98 (41.53%) Data Analysis
10 97 (41.10%) Decision-Making
11 72 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (28.39%) Exploratory Data Analysis
13 52 (22.03%) Software Engineering
14 48 (20.34%) MLOps
15 46 (19.49%) OpenUP
16 45 (19.07%) Mentoring
16 45 (19.07%) Predictive Modelling
17 43 (18.22%) Statistical Modelling
18 40 (16.95%) Natural Language Processing
19 38 (16.10%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 177 (75.00%) Python
2 106 (44.92%) SQL
3 46 (19.49%) R
4 40 (16.95%) Java
5 25 (10.59%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.36%) C++
7 4 (1.69%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.85%) SPARQL
8 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.42%) Fortran
9 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 143 (60.59%) Degree
2 60 (25.42%) Master's Degree
3 57 (24.15%) Security Cleared
4 52 (22.03%) DV Cleared
5 32 (13.56%) PhD
6 25 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (10.17%) Numerate Degree
8 10 (4.24%) SC Cleared
9 9 (3.81%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.66%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (15.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.85%) Kibana
2 2 (0.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (8.90%) Databricks
2 16 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.08%) Google
4 10 (4.24%) Adobe
4 10 (4.24%) Marketo
4 10 (4.24%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.85%) F5
5 2 (0.85%) Oracle
5 2 (0.85%) PayPal
5 2 (0.85%) Talend
6 1 (0.42%) Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) Palantir
6 1 (0.42%) SAP