Data Scientist Jobs in West Yorkshire

Data Scientist
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Scientist salary in West Yorkshire is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 210 197
Rank change year-on-year +64 -13 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 11 33 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.67% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 12
10th Percentile £46,306 £51,650 £47,875
25th Percentile £54,403 £51,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.32% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £61,250 £73,346
90th Percentile £96,539 £63,000 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,576 £54,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +30.09% -16.54% +31.98%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,896 4,916 4,534
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 93.32% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,115 2,384 3,193
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,922 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £81,850
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £54,882 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.72% +9.76% +5.26%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in West Yorkshire

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in West Yorkshire

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in West Yorkshire

Data Scientist
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 Scientist within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Leeds +50 11 £70,576 +28.32% 2
Data Scientist
Yorkshire

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 across the West Yorkshire region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Data Science
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 10 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) Banking
3 8 (72.73%) Machine Learning
4 7 (63.64%) Statistical Modelling
4 7 (63.64%) Pandas
4 7 (63.64%) Data Structures
4 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (63.64%) Finance
4 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 7 (63.64%) Random Forest
4 7 (63.64%) Decision Tree
5 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
5 6 (54.55%) LLM
5 6 (54.55%) Use Case
5 6 (54.55%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (45.45%) Econometrics
6 5 (45.45%) Gradient Boosting
6 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (45.45%) XGBoost
7 3 (27.27%) Pricing Strategy
7 3 (27.27%) Model Validation
7 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
7 3 (27.27%) Metadata
7 3 (27.27%) Validation
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (27.27%) SAS
7 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Data Validation

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 3 (27.27%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Metadata
General
1 10 (90.91%) Banking
2 7 (63.64%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Pandas
2 5 (45.45%) XGBoost
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Science
2 8 (72.73%) Machine Learning
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (63.64%) Decision Tree
3 7 (63.64%) Random Forest
3 7 (63.64%) Statistical Modelling
4 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
4 6 (54.55%) LLM
4 6 (54.55%) Natural Language Processing
4 6 (54.55%) Use Case
5 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (45.45%) Econometrics
5 5 (45.45%) Gradient Boosting
6 3 (27.27%) Customer Segmentation
6 3 (27.27%) Data Validation
6 3 (27.27%) Model Validation
6 3 (27.27%) Pricing Strategy
6 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks