Data Science Jobs in Wales

Data Science
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 123 84
Rank change year-on-year +33 -39 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 17 13 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.88% 0.76% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.79% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 38
10th Percentile - - £42,439
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,069 £51,613
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £57,063
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -3.62% +14.13%
75th Percentile £73,299 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - £71,500 £75,800
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,351 1,646 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 70.04% 96.26% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 920 809 1,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +12.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Wales

Data Science
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Wales

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Wales

Data Science
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South Wales +24 12 £40,000 -27.33% 3
West Wales +20 5 £66,199 +48.06%
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (17.65%) SAS
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) GCP
1 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (35.29%) BigQuery
2 6 (35.29%) Looker
2 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 6 (35.29%) Tableau
3 3 (17.65%) Data Vault
3 3 (17.65%) QlikView
4 2 (11.76%) Big Data
4 2 (11.76%) GIS
General
1 11 (64.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Principal Data Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) Data Analysis
3 8 (47.06%) Data Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (47.06%) Mentoring
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (35.29%) Change Management
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 6 (35.29%) DataOps
4 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Data Architecture
5 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
6 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
6 3 (17.65%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Postgraduate
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) GDPR
2 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft