Data Science Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Science
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 79 86
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -46
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 22 26 58
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.21% 1.75% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 2.00% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 40
10th Percentile £34,375 £44,895 £42,320
25th Percentile £46,938 £45,000 £52,826
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,879 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -3.36% +4.66%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,250 £72,762
90th Percentile £66,250 £87,500 £96,539
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +15.00% -17.01% -3.08%

All Process & 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 1,491 1,303 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 82.10% 87.51% 93.37%
Number of salaries quoted 871 654 1,388
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,599 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Data Science job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Science
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Science

Data Science
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

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 3 January 2026. 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 -13 20 £57,500 -30.30% 27
Huddersfield - 2 £40,000 - 2
Data Science
Yorkshire

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) dbt
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub
5 3 (13.64%) SaaS
5 3 (13.64%) Serverless
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 6 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 5 (22.73%) MySQL
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (18.18%) Data Vault
3 4 (18.18%) Tableau
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (13.64%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (13.64%) Metadata
5 2 (9.09%) Data Mining
5 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.09%) Power BI
6 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Looker
6 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Senior
2 12 (54.55%) Data Engineer
3 9 (40.91%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior
4 2 (9.09%) Junior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Trainee
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Data Science Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Science Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Head of Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Pandas
2 2 (9.09%) Grails
2 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 10 (45.45%) Machine Learning
2 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (40.91%) Data Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (36.36%) ETL
5 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) Data Security
5 6 (27.27%) DevOps
6 5 (22.73%) AI
6 5 (22.73%) Data Architecture
6 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
6 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Logical Data Model
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Open Source
6 5 (22.73%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) SQL
2 14 (63.64%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) Scala
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Databricks
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle
3 5 (22.73%) Palantir