Data Science Jobs in West Yorkshire

Data Science
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 107 28
Rank change year-on-year +23 -79 +135
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 25 47 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.83% 1.54% 8.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.83% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 20 28 91
10th Percentile £46,800 £35,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,438 £51,792
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £57,500 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% -6.01% +4.14%
75th Percentile £73,886 £85,000 £77,622
90th Percentile £88,597 £88,625 £83,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £63,652 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +15.73% -10.10% +1.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,299 2,574 4,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 95.16% 84.09% 98.16%
Number of salaries quoted 675 1,860 2,254
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,000 £34,093
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year -4.63% -8.90% +7.66%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in West Yorkshire

Data Science
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Data Science in West Yorkshire

Data Science
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in West Yorkshire

Data Science
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Leeds +40 21 £64,000 +16.36% 84
Halifax - 2 £45,000 - 1
Data Science
Yorkshire

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 8 (32.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (16.00%) Apache
2 4 (16.00%) SAS
3 1 (4.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) GCP
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Serverless
4 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.00%) Big Data
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Banking
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.00%) Games
6 2 (8.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Senior
2 8 (32.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Data Scientist
5 4 (16.00%) Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Management Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Lead
5 4 (16.00%) Lead Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Data Science Graduate
6 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Graduate
7 1 (4.00%) Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 5 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (12.00%) Plotly
3 2 (8.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (24.00%) Credit Risk
3 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (16.00%) Market Risk
3 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (12.00%) Clustering
5 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
5 2 (8.00%) Learning Management System
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Machine Learning
2 14 (56.00%) Analytics
3 13 (52.00%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (44.00%) Agile
5 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 9 (36.00%) Data Engineering
7 8 (32.00%) Data Security
7 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
8 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (24.00%) ETL
9 6 (24.00%) Fraud Detection
10 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 5 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 5 (20.00%) DevOps
10 5 (20.00%) Mathematics
10 5 (20.00%) Microservices
10 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) Python
2 20 (80.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) R
3 4 (16.00%) Scala
4 2 (8.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) PhD
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (16.00%) Basel II
2 4 (16.00%) Basel III
2 4 (16.00%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (16.00%) GDPR
2 4 (16.00%) IFRS
2 4 (16.00%) IFRS 9
2 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (12.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Databricks
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
1 4 (16.00%) Palantir