Data Science Jobs in Central London

Data Science
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 109 89
Rank change year-on-year +67 -20 -13
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 198 150 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.26% 2.92% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 3.09% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 128 130 235
10th Percentile £48,419 £57,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £64,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £135,000 £105,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,463 4,861 7,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.05% 94.77% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,657 4,013 6,383
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% +7.14% -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Central London.

Salary trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Central London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
City of London +55 163 £75,000 -3.23% 26
City of Westminster +7 21 £75,000 -
West End of London +24 13 £59,125 -
Camden - 6 £55,000 -
Southwark +12 1 £72,500 -3.33%
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 8 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.03%) SAS
3 3 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.01%) Stata
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.19%) Azure
2 28 (14.14%) AWS
3 24 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.07%) GCP
5 6 (3.03%) SaaS
6 5 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (2.53%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.52%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.01%) GitHub
9 2 (1.01%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.51%) Dropbox
10 1 (0.51%) Serverless
10 1 (0.51%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (28.28%) Tableau
2 24 (12.12%) Power BI
3 22 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.06%) Big Data
5 9 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.03%) Data Mining
6 6 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (2.02%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.02%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.02%) Power Query
9 3 (1.52%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.01%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (19.19%) Git
2 6 (3.03%) JIRA
2 6 (3.03%) MLflow
3 2 (1.01%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.01%) ERwin
4 1 (0.51%) git-flow
4 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.51%) RStudio
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 16 (8.08%) Finance
5 8 (4.04%) Marketing
6 5 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Games
7 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.01%) Front Office
8 2 (1.01%) Legal
8 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.51%) Back Office
9 1 (0.51%) Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (34.85%) Senior
2 65 (32.83%) Data Scientist
3 44 (22.22%) Senior Data Scientist
4 36 (18.18%) Analyst
5 20 (10.10%) Data Engineer
5 20 (10.10%) Developer
6 16 (8.08%) Lead
7 10 (5.05%) Data Analyst
8 9 (4.55%) Qualitative Analyst
8 9 (4.55%) Quantitative Analyst
9 8 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.04%) Product Owner
10 7 (3.54%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.03%) Data Manager
11 6 (3.03%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.53%) Architect
12 5 (2.53%) Information Manager
12 5 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (2.53%) Senior IT Manager
12 5 (2.53%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.73%) PySpark
2 39 (19.70%) Pandas
3 36 (18.18%) TensorFlow
4 34 (17.17%) scikit-learn
5 7 (3.54%) NumPy
6 5 (2.53%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.02%) JSON
7 4 (2.02%) Kafka
7 4 (2.02%) RESTful
8 3 (1.52%) CSS
8 3 (1.52%) HTML
9 2 (1.01%) .NET
9 2 (1.01%) ATL
9 2 (1.01%) D3.js
9 2 (1.01%) Google Chart
9 2 (1.01%) Keras
9 2 (1.01%) Node.js
9 2 (1.01%) Shiny
10 1 (0.51%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.51%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 65 (32.83%) Algorithms
2 16 (8.08%) Life Science
3 11 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.02%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.42%) Visualisation
2 82 (41.41%) Machine Learning
3 78 (39.39%) Statistics
4 68 (34.34%) Analytics
5 62 (31.31%) Artificial Intelligence
6 61 (30.81%) Computer Science
7 60 (30.30%) Mathematics
8 48 (24.24%) Data Modelling
9 47 (23.74%) Actionable Insight
9 47 (23.74%) Decision-Making
10 44 (22.22%) MLOps
10 44 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
10 44 (22.22%) Predictive Modelling
11 43 (21.72%) Data Visualisation
12 41 (20.71%) Physics
13 40 (20.20%) Customer Experience
13 40 (20.20%) Neural Network
14 33 (16.67%) Generative AI
15 32 (16.16%) Propensity Modelling
15 32 (16.16%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 131 (66.16%) Python
2 107 (54.04%) SQL
3 36 (18.18%) R
4 18 (9.09%) C++
5 13 (6.57%) C#
6 10 (5.05%) Scala
7 9 (4.55%) Java
8 7 (3.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (3.54%) MATLAB
9 5 (2.53%) C
10 3 (1.52%) VBA
11 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.51%) Dart
12 1 (0.51%) F#
12 1 (0.51%) Go
12 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 103 (52.02%) Degree
2 66 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 32 (16.16%) DBS Check
4 30 (15.15%) PhD
5 17 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.54%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.53%) Postgraduate
7 5 (2.53%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.52%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (22.73%) Databricks
2 9 (4.55%) Google
3 4 (2.02%) Alteryx
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.02%) Samsung
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle
5 2 (1.01%) Embarcadero
5 2 (1.01%) Informatica
5 2 (1.01%) Splunk
6 1 (0.51%) Apple
6 1 (0.51%) BEA
6 1 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.51%) Facebook
6 1 (0.51%) IBM
6 1 (0.51%) Spotify