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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 102 93
Rank change year-on-year +57 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 197 149 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.20% 2.97% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 3.14% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 125 130 227
10th Percentile £49,100 £54,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £135,250 £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 3,472 4,747 8,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 91.73% 94.73% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,627 3,908 6,382
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,888
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 £112,875 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +50 163 £75,000 - 19
City of Westminster +7 20 £62,419 -
West End of London +19 12 £49,000 -
Camden - 6 £55,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 - 1
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 5 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.54%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.54%) SAS
2 3 (1.52%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.51%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.02%) Stata
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 39 (19.80%) Azure
2 28 (14.21%) AWS
3 27 (13.71%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.11%) GCP
5 7 (3.55%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.05%) SaaS
7 5 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.52%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.02%) dbt
9 2 (1.02%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.02%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.51%) Dropbox
10 1 (0.51%) Figma
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub
10 1 (0.51%) Matillion
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (28.93%) Tableau
2 27 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (13.71%) Power BI
3 12 (6.09%) Big Data
4 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.05%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.54%) Power Query
6 5 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.03%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.03%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.02%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 37 (18.78%) Git
2 6 (3.05%) JIRA
2 6 (3.05%) MLflow
3 2 (1.02%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.02%) ERwin
4 1 (0.51%) git-flow
4 1 (0.51%) RStudio
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (40.61%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.41%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 14 (7.11%) Finance
5 7 (3.55%) Marketing
6 5 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Front Office
9 2 (1.02%) Games
9 2 (1.02%) Law
9 2 (1.02%) Legal
9 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (35.53%) Senior
2 60 (30.46%) Data Scientist
3 44 (22.34%) Senior Data Scientist
4 35 (17.77%) Analyst
5 22 (11.17%) Data Engineer
6 21 (10.66%) Developer
7 16 (8.12%) Lead
8 10 (5.08%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.06%) Qualitative Analyst
10 8 (4.06%) Quantitative Analyst
11 7 (3.55%) Architect
11 7 (3.55%) Product Owner
11 7 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.05%) IT Manager
12 6 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.54%) Data Manager
13 5 (2.54%) Information Manager
13 5 (2.54%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (2.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.34%) PySpark
2 39 (19.80%) Pandas
3 34 (17.26%) scikit-learn
3 34 (17.26%) TensorFlow
4 7 (3.55%) NumPy
5 4 (2.03%) JSON
5 4 (2.03%) RESTful
6 3 (1.52%) HTML
6 3 (1.52%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.02%) ATL
7 2 (1.02%) CSS
7 2 (1.02%) D3.js
7 2 (1.02%) Google Chart
7 2 (1.02%) Kafka
7 2 (1.02%) Node.js
7 2 (1.02%) Shiny
8 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.51%) pytest
8 1 (0.51%) React
8 1 (0.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 66 (33.50%) Algorithms
2 16 (8.12%) Life Science
3 9 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.03%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) PropTech
9 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.65%) Visualisation
2 78 (39.59%) Machine Learning
3 74 (37.56%) Statistics
4 69 (35.03%) Analytics
5 63 (31.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 57 (28.93%) Computer Science
6 57 (28.93%) Mathematics
7 53 (26.90%) Data Modelling
8 47 (23.86%) Actionable Insight
8 47 (23.86%) Decision-Making
9 44 (22.34%) Data Visualisation
9 44 (22.34%) Predictive Modelling
10 42 (21.32%) MLOps
11 41 (20.81%) Natural Language Processing
12 40 (20.30%) Physics
13 39 (19.80%) Customer Experience
14 38 (19.29%) Neural Network
15 35 (17.77%) Business Intelligence
16 32 (16.24%) Root Cause Analysis
16 32 (16.24%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 127 (64.47%) Python
2 108 (54.82%) SQL
3 35 (17.77%) R
4 18 (9.14%) C++
5 11 (5.58%) C#
6 8 (4.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (4.06%) Java
6 8 (4.06%) MATLAB
6 8 (4.06%) Scala
7 5 (2.54%) C
8 3 (1.52%) VBA
9 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.51%) Dart
10 1 (0.51%) F#
10 1 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 100 (50.76%) Degree
2 63 (31.98%) Master's Degree
3 32 (16.24%) DBS Check
4 27 (13.71%) PhD
5 18 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.06%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.54%) Postgraduate
7 5 (2.54%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.03%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (24.37%) Databricks
2 8 (4.06%) Google
3 4 (2.03%) Alteryx
3 4 (2.03%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.03%) Samsung
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle
5 2 (1.02%) Embarcadero
5 2 (1.02%) Informatica
5 2 (1.02%) Splunk
6 1 (0.51%) BEA
6 1 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.51%) Spotify