Junior Data Scientist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Junior Data Scientist
UK > Work from Home

The median Junior Data Scientist salary in Work from Home is £47,557 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 656 829
Rank change year-on-year +77 +173 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Data Scientist 6 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.018% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.007% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £43,153 £42,000 -
25th Percentile £46,306 £43,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,557 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £48,809 £56,500 £48,750
90th Percentile - £57,400 -
UK median annual salary £47,557 £54,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -11.93% +42.11% -5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Junior Data Scientist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Junior Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Junior Data Scientist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Junior Data Scientist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Junior Data Scientist.

Junior Data Scientist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Junior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Junior 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Junior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Pandas
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
2 5 (83.33%) Data Structures
2 5 (83.33%) XGBoost
2 5 (83.33%) Random Forest
2 5 (83.33%) Decision Tree
2 5 (83.33%) Gradient Boosting
2 5 (83.33%) Use Case
2 5 (83.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Econometrics
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) NumPy
3 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database

Junior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Pandas
2 5 (83.33%) XGBoost
3 1 (16.67%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) Decision Tree
2 5 (83.33%) Econometrics
2 5 (83.33%) Gradient Boosting
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 5 (83.33%) Random Forest
2 5 (83.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree