Senior Data Scientist Jobs in England

Senior Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 651 815 711
Rank change year-on-year +164 -104 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 199 99 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.12% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.13% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 107 82 155
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,833 £62,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -15.63% -
75th Percentile £90,625 £84,375 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -15.63% -

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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £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%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist within the England 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
London +170 118 £87,500 +11.11% 51
North of England +42 20 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South West -23 20 £77,500 +32.05% 4
Midlands +4 18 £57,500 -34.29% 3
West Midlands +4 17 £57,500 -34.29%
East of England +7 14 £80,000 +6.67% 1
North West -5 13 £60,000 -11.11% 3
South East -9 9 £77,500 +19.23% 16
Yorkshire +63 7 £75,000 +27.66% 2
East Midlands - 1 £85,000 - 3
Senior Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 199 (100.00%) Data Science
2 173 (86.93%) Python
3 159 (79.90%) Machine Learning
4 130 (65.33%) SQL
5 122 (61.31%) Degree
6 101 (50.75%) Social Skills
7 98 (49.25%) Statistics
8 96 (48.24%) Artificial Intelligence
9 95 (47.74%) Algorithms
10 87 (43.72%) Mathematics
11 84 (42.21%) Natural Language Processing
12 83 (41.71%) Master's Degree
13 79 (39.70%) Visualisation
14 67 (33.67%) Pandas
15 65 (32.66%) Customer Experience
15 65 (32.66%) Predictive Modelling
16 63 (31.66%) Actionable Insight
17 62 (31.16%) Decision-Making
18 61 (30.65%) Git
19 60 (30.15%) Analytics
20 58 (29.15%) Physics
21 57 (28.64%) Neural Network
21 57 (28.64%) Generative AI
22 55 (27.64%) Databricks
22 55 (27.64%) TensorFlow
22 55 (27.64%) Tableau
23 54 (27.14%) scikit-learn
24 53 (26.63%) MLOps
25 50 (25.13%) PySpark
25 50 (25.13%) Propensity Modelling

Senior 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 18 (9.05%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.02%) SAS
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.10%) Azure
2 30 (15.08%) GCP
3 23 (11.56%) AWS
4 12 (6.03%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.52%) SaaS
6 5 (2.51%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (27.64%) Tableau
2 17 (8.54%) Big Data
3 12 (6.03%) Power BI
4 9 (4.52%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.51%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.51%) Metadata
8 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.50%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.50%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.50%) Redis
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 61 (30.65%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) RStudio
2 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (50.75%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.07%) Finance
4 21 (10.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 20 (10.05%) Marketing
6 16 (8.04%) Banking
6 16 (8.04%) Retail
7 12 (6.03%) Law
8 11 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.02%) Games
10 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.67%) Pandas
2 55 (27.64%) TensorFlow
3 54 (27.14%) scikit-learn
4 50 (25.13%) PySpark
5 13 (6.53%) PyTorch
6 7 (3.52%) NumPy
6 7 (3.52%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.51%) .NET
8 2 (1.01%) Keras
8 2 (1.01%) SpaCy
9 1 (0.50%) Django
9 1 (0.50%) Flask
9 1 (0.50%) NLTK
9 1 (0.50%) SciPy
9 1 (0.50%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (0.50%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 95 (47.74%) Algorithms
2 16 (8.04%) Life Science
3 11 (5.53%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.02%) Reinsurance
4 8 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.51%) Semantic Web
5 5 (2.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.01%) PMI
7 3 (1.51%) Blog
7 3 (1.51%) CUDA
7 3 (1.51%) Social Media
8 2 (1.01%) Cybercrime
8 2 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) Data Science
2 159 (79.90%) Machine Learning
3 98 (49.25%) Statistics
4 96 (48.24%) Artificial Intelligence
5 87 (43.72%) Mathematics
6 84 (42.21%) Natural Language Processing
7 79 (39.70%) Visualisation
8 65 (32.66%) Customer Experience
8 65 (32.66%) Predictive Modelling
9 63 (31.66%) Actionable Insight
10 62 (31.16%) Decision-Making
11 60 (30.15%) Analytics
12 58 (29.15%) Physics
13 57 (28.64%) Generative AI
13 57 (28.64%) Neural Network
14 53 (26.63%) MLOps
15 50 (25.13%) Propensity Modelling
16 47 (23.62%) Storytelling
17 46 (23.12%) Data Munging
18 45 (22.61%) Demand Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 173 (86.93%) Python
2 130 (65.33%) SQL
3 43 (21.61%) R
4 6 (3.02%) C++
5 5 (2.51%) MATLAB
6 4 (2.01%) C
6 4 (2.01%) C#
6 4 (2.01%) Java
Qualifications
1 122 (61.31%) Degree
2 83 (41.71%) Master's Degree
3 48 (24.12%) PhD
4 45 (22.61%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.02%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.01%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.51%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.01%) Core Impact
2 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (27.64%) Databricks
2 8 (4.02%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.51%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.01%) Sage
5 1 (0.50%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.50%) Google
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle