Data Science Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Science
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 110 124
Rank change year-on-year -45 +14 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 42 160 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.02% 2.05% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 2.51% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24 114 35
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,875 £35,500
25th Percentile £52,313 £47,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +22.22% -35.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,875 £80,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% -7.14% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,753 6,362 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 81.41% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 4,664 3,160
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,592
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Birmingham +1 25 £55,000 -4.35% 71
Shropshire +16 4 £63,750 -3.77% 91
Dudley - 4 £75,000 -
Worcestershire +10 2 - - 46
Herefordshire +8 2 - -
Coventry -9 2 £57,500 - 46
Warwickshire -23 1 £88,000 +17.33% 6
Brierley Hill - 1 £82,500 -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (4.76%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) Azure
2 13 (30.95%) Power Platform
3 9 (21.43%) AWS
4 8 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (14.29%) GCP
7 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.76%) Lucidchart
8 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.76%) Serverless
9 1 (2.38%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) Power BI
2 8 (19.05%) Big Data
2 8 (19.05%) Metadata
3 7 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.90%) Data Hub
4 5 (11.90%) Metadata Repository
4 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.52%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.76%) Looker
7 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (4.76%) Tableau
8 1 (2.38%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) ERwin
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) ER Studio
2 2 (4.76%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 23 (54.76%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (21.43%) Manufacturing
5 8 (19.05%) Local Government
6 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 5 (11.90%) Marketing
7 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
8 3 (7.14%) Advertising
9 2 (4.76%) Automotive
9 2 (4.76%) Banking
10 1 (2.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Data Scientist
2 8 (19.05%) Lead
3 7 (16.67%) Lecturer
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.76%) C++ Developer
7 2 (4.76%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.76%) Data Science Leader
7 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Data Scientist
7 2 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) EDI
2 2 (4.76%) OpenMP
3 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.38%) React
3 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Cyberattack
3 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) CUDA
4 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.76%) SIMD
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) Computer Science
1 22 (52.38%) Machine Learning
2 19 (45.24%) Analytics
3 18 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (38.10%) Mathematics
5 15 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 15 (35.71%) Data Analysis
6 12 (28.57%) Agile
6 12 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (23.81%) Exploratory Data Analysis
7 10 (23.81%) Statistics
7 10 (23.81%) Visualisation
8 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
8 9 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
9 8 (19.05%) Data Engineering
9 8 (19.05%) Data Management
9 8 (19.05%) ETL
10 7 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Python
1 20 (47.62%) SQL
2 10 (23.81%) R
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 7 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) Degree
2 7 (16.67%) Postgraduate
3 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) CITP
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (4.76%) PhD
5 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Oracle
3 7 (16.67%) Databricks
4 5 (11.90%) Informatica