Data Scientist Jobs in England

Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Data Scientist salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 528 446
Rank change year-on-year +123 -82 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 496 443 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.50% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.55% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 231 302 444
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,162 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,570 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in England.

Salary trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the England 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
London +94 208 £75,000 +8.98% 110
South East +77 125 £65,000 +8.33% 37
Midlands +33 58 £55,000 - 10
West Midlands +48 49 £57,500 +6.98% 5
South West -28 46 £65,000 +18.44% 19
North of England +24 35 £60,000 - 18
North West +12 21 £60,000 -11.11% 7
East of England -10 16 £80,000 +39.13% 4
Yorkshire +54 12 £70,576 +28.32% 8
East Midlands -2 9 £45,000 -21.74% 5
North East -12 2 £43,200 -3.28% 3
Data Scientist
UK

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 494 (99.60%) Data Science
2 330 (66.53%) Python
3 316 (63.71%) Degree
4 292 (58.87%) Machine Learning
5 280 (56.45%) Algorithms
6 241 (48.59%) Mathematics
7 212 (42.74%) Computer Science
8 207 (41.73%) Decision-Making
9 206 (41.53%) SQL
10 187 (37.70%) Data Analysis
11 167 (33.67%) Statistical Modelling
11 167 (33.67%) Problem-Solving
12 154 (31.05%) Statistics
13 146 (29.44%) Social Skills
14 143 (28.83%) Artificial Intelligence
15 135 (27.22%) Mentoring
16 134 (27.02%) Analytics
16 134 (27.02%) Cybersecurity
17 132 (26.61%) Coaching
18 131 (26.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 127 (25.60%) Visualisation
20 122 (24.60%) Digital Forensics
20 122 (24.60%) Red Team
21 117 (23.59%) Predictive Modelling
22 112 (22.58%) Natural Language Processing
23 106 (21.37%) Master's Degree
24 103 (20.77%) R
25 95 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
26 92 (18.55%) TensorFlow
27 82 (16.53%) Pandas

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (5.24%) SAS
2 21 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.60%) Apache
3 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.60%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.91%) Azure
2 57 (11.49%) AWS
3 45 (9.07%) GCP
4 22 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.02%) Azure Machine Learning
6 12 (2.42%) GitHub
7 10 (2.02%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (1.81%) SaaS
9 5 (1.01%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.20%) Serverless
12 1 (0.20%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.31%) Tableau
2 29 (5.85%) Big Data
3 23 (4.64%) Data Mining
4 22 (4.44%) Power BI
5 17 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.02%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
7 9 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.81%) Text Mining
8 5 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.60%) Bigtable
10 3 (0.60%) CouchDB
10 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.60%) Metadata
10 3 (0.60%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.60%) Redis
10 3 (0.60%) RethinkDB
11 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 77 (15.52%) Git
2 1 (0.20%) git-flow
2 1 (0.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.20%) MLflow
2 1 (0.20%) RStudio
2 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 131 (26.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.69%) Finance
5 26 (5.24%) Marketing
6 23 (4.64%) Retail
7 22 (4.44%) Banking
8 21 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (3.83%) Law
10 15 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.22%) Games
12 8 (1.61%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.01%) Legal
14 3 (0.60%) Advertising
15 2 (0.40%) International Banking
15 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.20%) Electronics
16 1 (0.20%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (18.55%) TensorFlow
2 82 (16.53%) Pandas
3 69 (13.91%) scikit-learn
4 53 (10.69%) PySpark
5 35 (7.06%) NumPy
6 32 (6.45%) PyTorch
7 23 (4.64%) Keras
8 15 (3.02%) XGBoost
9 7 (1.41%) Kedro
10 6 (1.21%) MXNet
10 6 (1.21%) SpaCy
11 5 (1.01%) Statsmodels
12 4 (0.81%) .NET
12 4 (0.81%) React
13 3 (0.60%) SQLAlchemy
14 2 (0.40%) Anaconda
14 2 (0.40%) Matplotlib
14 2 (0.40%) SciPy
14 2 (0.40%) Seaborn
15 1 (0.20%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 280 (56.45%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.23%) Life Science
3 15 (3.02%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.42%) Credit Risk
4 12 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.61%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.01%) PMI
7 5 (1.01%) Semantic Web
8 4 (0.81%) Pricing Data
8 4 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.60%) Blog
9 3 (0.60%) CUDA
9 3 (0.60%) Social Media
10 2 (0.40%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.40%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.40%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.40%) Android
1 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.40%) Windows
1 2 (0.40%) Windows Vista
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (99.60%) Data Science
2 292 (58.87%) Machine Learning
3 241 (48.59%) Mathematics
4 212 (42.74%) Computer Science
5 207 (41.73%) Decision-Making
6 187 (37.70%) Data Analysis
7 167 (33.67%) Problem-Solving
7 167 (33.67%) Statistical Modelling
8 154 (31.05%) Statistics
9 143 (28.83%) Artificial Intelligence
10 135 (27.22%) Mentoring
11 134 (27.02%) Analytics
11 134 (27.02%) Cybersecurity
12 132 (26.61%) Coaching
13 127 (25.60%) Visualisation
14 122 (24.60%) Digital Forensics
14 122 (24.60%) Red Team
15 117 (23.59%) Predictive Modelling
16 112 (22.58%) Natural Language Processing
17 95 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 330 (66.53%) Python
2 206 (41.53%) SQL
3 103 (20.77%) R
4 21 (4.23%) MATLAB
5 18 (3.63%) C#
6 9 (1.81%) C++
6 9 (1.81%) Java
7 8 (1.61%) VBA
8 6 (1.21%) C
9 4 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.40%) Julia
11 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 316 (63.71%) Degree
2 106 (21.37%) Master's Degree
3 74 (14.92%) PhD
4 46 (9.27%) DBS Check
5 34 (6.85%) Security Cleared
6 21 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.43%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.22%) SC Cleared
9 6 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.01%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.81%) IFRS
3 4 (0.81%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.40%) QA
5 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (2.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.21%) Terraform
3 2 (0.40%) Core Impact
4 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 70 (14.11%) Databricks
2 17 (3.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.22%) Dataiku
4 10 (2.02%) Google
5 4 (0.81%) Alteryx
5 4 (0.81%) Oracle
6 2 (0.40%) Sage
7 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow