Data Science Jobs in the Midlands

Data Science
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 143 151 198
Rank change year-on-year +8 +47 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 206 186 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.71% 2.05% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.12% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 147 56 74
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,650
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -29.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £64,375 £64,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,625 £82,970
England median annual salary £65,000 £71,373 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.93% -1.56% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,838 8,754 10,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.47% 96.52% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,188 4,423 6,902
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.75%
75th Percentile £62,374 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +14 159 £55,000 +22.22% 25
East Midlands +6 47 £47,500 -13.64% 15
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.97%) ArcGIS
1 2 (0.97%) SAS
2 1 (0.49%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.49%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 21 (10.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 75 (36.41%) Azure
2 56 (27.18%) Power Platform
3 27 (13.11%) GCP
4 21 (10.19%) AWS
5 17 (8.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (8.25%) Matillion
6 14 (6.80%) Snowflake
7 13 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.40%) Contentful
9 7 (3.40%) Google Analytics
9 7 (3.40%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (3.40%) Serverless
9 7 (3.40%) Vercel
10 6 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.43%) SaaS
12 3 (1.46%) Azure App Service
13 2 (0.97%) Azure Stack
13 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) DNS
1 3 (1.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.97%) Broadband
2 2 (0.97%) LAN
2 2 (0.97%) WAN
2 2 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (30.10%) Data Warehouse
2 56 (27.18%) Power BI
3 44 (21.36%) SQL Server
4 24 (11.65%) Looker
5 22 (10.68%) Tableau
6 21 (10.19%) Data Lake
7 18 (8.74%) BigQuery
8 15 (7.28%) Star Schema
9 14 (6.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.43%) Big Data
13 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.97%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.97%) GIS
14 2 (0.97%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (6.31%) Git
2 12 (5.83%) GitLab
General
1 43 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.53%) Finance
4 30 (14.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.17%) Retail
6 21 (10.19%) Public Sector
7 17 (8.25%) Legal
7 17 (8.25%) Marketing
8 13 (6.31%) Games
9 12 (5.83%) Law
10 5 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Advertising
11 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.97%) Automotive
12 2 (0.97%) Banking
12 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.97%) International Banking
12 2 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (29.13%) Data Engineer
2 58 (28.16%) Data Scientist
3 38 (18.45%) Senior
4 30 (14.56%) Analyst
5 28 (13.59%) Senior Analyst
6 21 (10.19%) Data Analyst
7 19 (9.22%) Senior Data Scientist
8 18 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (8.74%) Principal Data Engineer
8 18 (8.74%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (8.74%) Senior Data Analyst
9 16 (7.77%) Data Manager
10 15 (7.28%) Lead
11 14 (6.80%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 14 (6.80%) Consultant
12 9 (4.37%) Customer Analyst
12 9 (4.37%) Operations Analyst
12 9 (4.37%) Senior Operations Analyst
13 8 (3.88%) Data Governance Manager
13 8 (3.88%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.37%) React
2 8 (3.88%) Node.js
3 7 (3.40%) GraphQL
3 7 (3.40%) Next.js
3 7 (3.40%) REST
4 3 (1.46%) JWT
4 3 (1.46%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.46%) RESTful
5 2 (0.97%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.97%) Pandas
5 2 (0.97%) PostGIS
5 2 (0.97%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.49%) ERC20
6 1 (0.49%) Kafka
6 1 (0.49%) PySpark
6 1 (0.49%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.49%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.49%) Truffle
6 1 (0.49%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.39%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (12.62%) Algorithms
3 21 (10.19%) Data Structures
4 14 (6.80%) Freedom of Information
4 14 (6.80%) Taxonomies
5 11 (5.34%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.91%) IoT
8 4 (1.94%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.97%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.97%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.97%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (0.97%) Lidar
9 2 (0.97%) Robotics
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (48.06%) Analytics
2 86 (41.75%) Machine Learning
3 80 (38.83%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (35.44%) Business Intelligence
5 59 (28.64%) Data Engineering
6 56 (27.18%) ETL
7 55 (26.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 55 (26.70%) Data Modelling
8 52 (25.24%) Mentoring
9 47 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
10 45 (21.84%) Agile
11 42 (20.39%) Statistical Modelling
12 40 (19.42%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (18.93%) Data Analysis
13 39 (18.93%) Decision-Making
14 35 (16.99%) Roadmaps
15 34 (16.50%) Actionable Insight
16 33 (16.02%) Computer Science
17 32 (15.53%) Coaching
18 30 (14.56%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 93 (45.15%) SQL
2 82 (39.81%) Python
3 18 (8.74%) R
4 9 (4.37%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.46%) Java
6 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.97%) C#
8 1 (0.49%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 69 (33.50%) Degree
2 9 (4.37%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.40%) PhD
4 4 (1.94%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.94%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.97%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 2 (0.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.05%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.74%) GDPR
3 10 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.43%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.62%) Google
3 22 (10.68%) Databricks
4 13 (6.31%) Alteryx
5 8 (3.88%) Informatica
6 4 (1.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.49%) YouTube