Data Science Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Science
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 124 145
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 -105
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 34 29 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.51% 1.04% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.11% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 24 19 45
10th Percentile £26,388 £47,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £56,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £63,652 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +6.09% -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £84,964
90th Percentile £81,677 £89,695 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,503 2,601 4,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.52% 93.09% 79.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,121 1,260 3,805
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,594 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,653 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Science
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Science

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Yorkshire

Data Science
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
West Yorkshire -27 26 £47,500 -25.78% 24
South Yorkshire -37 5 £75,000 +17.83% 8
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 6 (17.65%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.94%) dbt
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Power BI
2 6 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (14.71%) Metadata
4 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
4 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.88%) Big Data
6 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.88%) Spark SQL
6 2 (5.88%) Star Schema
6 2 (5.88%) Tableau
7 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.94%) Looker
7 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.82%) Law
7 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Data Engineer
1 8 (23.53%) Data Scientist
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Lecturer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Data Scientist
4 3 (8.82%) Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Software Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Data Analytics Scientist
6 1 (2.94%) Principal Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Product Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) PySpark
2 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.94%) Django
3 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.94%) Flask
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) LangChain
3 1 (2.94%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (2.94%) NumPy
3 1 (2.94%) Pandas
3 1 (2.94%) pgvector
3 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Clustering
4 1 (2.94%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Analytics
2 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (26.47%) Data Modelling
4 9 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (20.59%) Agile
6 7 (20.59%) AI
6 7 (20.59%) Computer Science
6 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
6 7 (20.59%) ETL
7 6 (17.65%) Data Engineering
7 6 (17.65%) Data Governance
7 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
8 5 (14.71%) Business Analysis
8 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
8 5 (14.71%) DevOps
8 5 (14.71%) Machine Learning
8 5 (14.71%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Python
2 18 (52.94%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) C#
3 4 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) R
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) C
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 19 (55.88%) Degree
2 6 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.76%) DBS Check
3 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.76%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Databricks
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.94%) Dell
3 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow