Lead Data Scientist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Data Scientist
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Data Scientist salary in Work from Home is £92,778 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 656 789
Rank change year-on-year +88 +133 -238
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 15 20 55
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.044% 0.047% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.049% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 38
10th Percentile £61,803 £54,750 £63,750
25th Percentile £89,016 £62,322 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,778 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.54% -20.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £103,750 £112,500
90th Percentile - £109,000 -
UK median annual salary £93,889 £72,500 £88,750
% change year-on-year +29.50% -18.31% -1.39%

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 32,479 40,829 66,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.03% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,933 29,012 42,088
10th Percentile £33,036 £36,532 £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 £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Lead Data Scientist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead Data Scientist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead 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 Lead Data Scientist.

Lead Data Scientist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Scientist
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Data Scientist over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Lead Data Scientist salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL
1 15 (100.00%) Python
1 15 (100.00%) Data Science
2 13 (86.67%) Machine Learning
3 10 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (66.67%) Deep Learning
3 10 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 10 (66.67%) Pandas
3 10 (66.67%) LLM
4 9 (60.00%) Statistics
5 8 (53.33%) Finance
5 8 (53.33%) Coaching
5 8 (53.33%) Data Structures
5 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
5 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
6 7 (46.67%) Random Forest
6 7 (46.67%) Decision Tree
6 7 (46.67%) Time Series Forecasting
7 6 (40.00%) Propensity Modelling
7 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (40.00%) Agile
7 6 (40.00%) Banking
7 6 (40.00%) Mathematics
7 6 (40.00%) Use Case
7 6 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
7 6 (40.00%) Price Optimisation
7 6 (40.00%) Generative AI
7 6 (40.00%) Customer Experience
7 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps

Lead 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Pandas
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) NumPy
2 4 (26.67%) PyTorch
2 4 (26.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.67%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (26.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Data Science
2 13 (86.67%) Machine Learning
3 10 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (66.67%) Deep Learning
3 10 (66.67%) LLM
3 10 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 9 (60.00%) Statistics
5 8 (53.33%) Coaching
5 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
6 7 (46.67%) Decision Tree
6 7 (46.67%) Random Forest
6 7 (46.67%) Time Series Forecasting
7 6 (40.00%) Agile
7 6 (40.00%) Customer Experience
7 6 (40.00%) Mathematics
7 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (40.00%) Propensity Modelling
7 6 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
7 6 (40.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft