Senior Data Scientist Jobs

Senior Data Scientist
UK

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 717 802
Rank change year-on-year +142 +85 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 112 181 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 43 117 135
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £52,100
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £59,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year - +16.24% -13.97%
75th Percentile £90,625 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,750 £115,000 £96,374
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -3.81%

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 46,641 91,861 97,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 94.62% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 27,168 66,209 60,975
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,686 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% -12.19% -
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%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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 +94 93 £80,000 - 294
Work from Home +155 59 £73,496 -2.01% 193
London +59 52 £85,000 -5.56% 224
UK excluding London +170 46 £70,000 -6.67% 91
South West +131 29 £71,991 -7.11% 11
Scotland +130 6 £70,000 -14.30% 4
Yorkshire +80 5 £64,000 -14.67% 9
North of England +66 5 £64,000 -9.32% 40
Midlands +54 4 £57,500 - 4
West Midlands +24 4 £57,500 +2.22% 3
South East +110 1 £87,500 +9.38% 23
Wales - 1 £85,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 112 (100.00%) Data Science
2 90 (80.36%) Python
3 84 (75.00%) Machine Learning
4 69 (61.61%) Visualisation
5 64 (57.14%) Decision-Making
6 62 (55.36%) Analytics
6 62 (55.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 58 (51.79%) Degree
8 51 (45.54%) Statistics
8 51 (45.54%) SQL
9 45 (40.18%) Mathematics
9 45 (40.18%) Algorithms
9 45 (40.18%) MLOps
10 39 (34.82%) Computer Science
10 39 (34.82%) Data Analysis
10 39 (34.82%) Finance
11 38 (33.93%) Social Skills
12 37 (33.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (32.14%) Software Engineering
13 36 (32.14%) Mentoring
14 33 (29.46%) DevOps
15 29 (25.89%) Azure
15 29 (25.89%) Master's Degree
16 27 (24.11%) LLM
16 27 (24.11%) Big Data
17 26 (23.21%) Natural Language Processing
17 26 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
17 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (22.32%) Storytelling
18 25 (22.32%) Docker

Senior 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 (20.54%) Jupyter
2 11 (9.82%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.46%) Apache
3 5 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.89%) Azure
2 14 (12.50%) AWS
3 11 (9.82%) GitHub
4 8 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
4 8 (7.14%) Google Analytics
5 6 (5.36%) GCP
6 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.57%) dbt
7 4 (3.57%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.57%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.89%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.11%) Big Data
2 23 (20.54%) Tableau
3 5 (4.46%) Power BI
4 4 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.57%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.57%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.57%) Looker
5 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.79%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.79%) MySQL
7 1 (0.89%) ArangoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Git
2 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (34.82%) Finance
2 38 (33.93%) Social Skills
3 37 (33.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (14.29%) Marketing
6 13 (11.61%) Banking
7 9 (8.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (7.14%) Law
9 4 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.57%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.79%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.89%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.54%) TensorFlow
2 18 (16.07%) scikit-learn
3 13 (11.61%) Pandas
4 11 (9.82%) PySpark
5 8 (7.14%) PyTorch
6 7 (6.25%) Plotly
7 6 (5.36%) XGBoost
8 4 (3.57%) Keras
8 4 (3.57%) NumPy
8 4 (3.57%) SciPy
8 4 (3.57%) SpaCy
9 2 (1.79%) PyMC3
9 2 (1.79%) Statsmodels
10 1 (0.89%) Apache Jena
10 1 (0.89%) Django
10 1 (0.89%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.89%) Flask
10 1 (0.89%) Hugging Face
10 1 (0.89%) JSON-LD
10 1 (0.89%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 45 (40.18%) Algorithms
2 23 (20.54%) Cyberattack
3 9 (8.04%) Credit Risk
4 8 (7.14%) Life Science
4 8 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.57%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.57%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.79%) IoT
6 2 (1.79%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.89%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.89%) CUDA
7 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) Data Science
2 84 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 69 (61.61%) Visualisation
4 64 (57.14%) Decision-Making
5 62 (55.36%) Analytics
5 62 (55.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 51 (45.54%) Statistics
7 45 (40.18%) Mathematics
7 45 (40.18%) MLOps
8 39 (34.82%) Computer Science
8 39 (34.82%) Data Analysis
9 36 (32.14%) Mentoring
9 36 (32.14%) Software Engineering
10 33 (29.46%) DevOps
11 27 (24.11%) LLM
12 26 (23.21%) Natural Language Processing
12 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (22.32%) Storytelling
14 24 (21.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 23 (20.54%) Exploratory Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 90 (80.36%) Python
2 51 (45.54%) SQL
3 24 (21.43%) Java
4 23 (20.54%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.50%) R
6 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.89%) Gremlin
7 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.89%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 58 (51.79%) Degree
2 29 (25.89%) Master's Degree
3 25 (22.32%) Security Cleared
4 23 (20.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (20.54%) DV Cleared
5 12 (10.71%) PhD
6 9 (8.04%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (22.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.89%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Databricks
2 9 (8.04%) Google
3 8 (7.14%) Adobe
3 8 (7.14%) Marketo
3 8 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.89%) Foundry
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle
4 1 (0.89%) Palantir