Data Science Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Science
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Data Science skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 39 43
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 5 26 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.05% 3.40% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 4.13% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 5
10th Percentile £42,750 £41,750 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,077 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% -13.73% -23.53%
75th Percentile £49,813 £92,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £51,725 £115,000 £71,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £62,879 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.46% -3.26% -23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 629 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.70% 82.22% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 272 359 287
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £31,800
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -12.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £84,964 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Science
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Science

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (60.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
1 4 (80.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (60.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (60.00%) HBase
2 3 (60.00%) Impala
2 3 (60.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (60.00%) QlikView
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQLite
2 3 (60.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
2 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) Plotly
2 3 (60.00%) Regular Expression
2 3 (60.00%) Shiny
3 1 (20.00%) Keras
3 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Development
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Data Matching
3 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) PROC SQL
2 3 (60.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (60.00%) HDFS
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
1 3 (60.00%) logstash
1 3 (60.00%) Oozie
2 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 3 (60.00%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (60.00%) SAP