Data Science Jobs in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 100 85
Rank change year-on-year +51 -15 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 163 134 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.87% 3.01% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 3.16% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 116 117 222
10th Percentile £50,625 £52,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,065 4,239 7,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 91.57% 95.15% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,376 3,523 5,664
10th Percentile £41,315 £42,800 £45,230
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.07%) SAS
2 4 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.84%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.23%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.93%) Azure
2 28 (17.18%) AWS
3 23 (14.11%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.98%) GCP
5 7 (4.29%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.84%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.23%) dbt
8 2 (1.23%) Fivetran
8 2 (1.23%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.61%) Asana
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.61%) GitHub
9 1 (0.61%) Matillion
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (26.99%) Tableau
2 27 (16.56%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (14.11%) Power BI
4 11 (6.75%) Big Data
5 6 (3.68%) Data Mining
6 5 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.07%) Power Query
6 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.45%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.84%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.23%) QGIS
9 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.23%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 28 (17.18%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) JIRA
2 6 (3.68%) MLflow
3 2 (1.23%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.23%) ERwin
4 1 (0.61%) git-flow
4 1 (0.61%) RStudio
4 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.98%) Finance
4 6 (3.68%) Marketing
5 5 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Front Office
8 2 (1.23%) Games
8 2 (1.23%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (32.52%) Senior
2 44 (26.99%) Data Scientist
3 28 (17.18%) Senior Data Scientist
4 25 (15.34%) Analyst
5 22 (13.50%) Data Engineer
6 21 (12.88%) Developer
7 16 (9.82%) Lead
8 10 (6.13%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Qualitative Analyst
10 8 (4.91%) Quantitative Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) Product Owner
11 7 (4.29%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.68%) Architect
12 6 (3.68%) IT Manager
12 6 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Information Manager
13 5 (3.07%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (3.07%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.07%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.47%) PySpark
2 30 (18.40%) Pandas
3 25 (15.34%) scikit-learn
3 25 (15.34%) TensorFlow
4 7 (4.29%) NumPy
5 4 (2.45%) JSON
5 4 (2.45%) RESTful
6 3 (1.84%) HTML
6 3 (1.84%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.23%) ATL
7 2 (1.23%) CSS
7 2 (1.23%) D3.js
7 2 (1.23%) Google Chart
7 2 (1.23%) Shiny
8 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.61%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.61%) Kafka
8 1 (0.61%) Node.js
8 1 (0.61%) pytest
8 1 (0.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (24.54%) Algorithms
2 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.29%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.07%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.45%) Pricing Data
6 3 (1.84%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) PropTech
8 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.10%) Machine Learning
2 57 (34.97%) Visualisation
3 53 (32.52%) Analytics
3 53 (32.52%) Artificial Intelligence
4 49 (30.06%) Statistics
5 48 (29.45%) Mathematics
6 39 (23.93%) Computer Science
7 38 (23.31%) Actionable Insight
8 37 (22.70%) Data Modelling
8 37 (22.70%) Decision-Making
9 35 (21.47%) Predictive Modelling
10 33 (20.25%) MLOps
11 32 (19.63%) Natural Language Processing
12 31 (19.02%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (19.02%) Physics
13 29 (17.79%) Neural Network
14 28 (17.18%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (15.95%) Agile
15 26 (15.95%) Customer Experience
15 26 (15.95%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 113 (69.33%) Python
2 94 (57.67%) SQL
3 30 (18.40%) R
4 18 (11.04%) C++
5 10 (6.13%) C#
6 8 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (4.91%) MATLAB
7 7 (4.29%) Scala
8 6 (3.68%) Java
9 5 (3.07%) C
10 3 (1.84%) VBA
11 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.61%) Go
12 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (44.79%) Degree
2 38 (23.31%) Master's Degree
3 23 (14.11%) DBS Check
4 16 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.75%) PhD
6 8 (4.91%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.07%) Postgraduate
7 5 (3.07%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (23.93%) Databricks
2 7 (4.29%) Google
3 4 (2.45%) Alteryx
3 4 (2.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.84%) Oracle
5 2 (1.23%) Embarcadero
5 2 (1.23%) Informatica
5 2 (1.23%) Splunk