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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 37 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 4 31 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.82% 4.13% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 5.02% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 3
10th Percentile £42,250 £40,037 £54,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,637 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -23.64% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48,750 £83,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £49,637 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.31% -23.64% -2.89%

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 418 618 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 85.31% 82.29% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 278 286 238
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £54,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.61% -0.53%
75th Percentile £63,125 £67,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £88,750 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -4.55%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Data Science job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (75.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
1 4 (100.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (75.00%) QlikView
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQLite
2 3 (75.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
2 3 (75.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Plotly
2 3 (75.00%) Regular Expression
2 3 (75.00%) Shiny
3 1 (25.00%) Keras
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Metaflow
3 1 (25.00%) NumPy
3 1 (25.00%) Pandas
3 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Data Development
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Matching
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) PROC SQL
2 3 (75.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (75.00%) HDFS
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana
1 3 (75.00%) logstash
1 3 (75.00%) Oozie
2 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (75.00%) Informatica
2 3 (75.00%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (75.00%) SAP