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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 48 47
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 25 6 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.39% 1.28% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.47% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 22 4 13
10th Percentile £52,358 £42,750 -
25th Percentile £65,625 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,500 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -3.60% -24.19%
75th Percentile £87,500 £49,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £51,725 £109,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £80,000 £47,500 £56,077
% change year-on-year +68.42% -15.29% -13.73%

All Process & 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 1,363 407 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 75.68% 87.15% 83.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 280 478
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £28,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £48,117
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +3.91% -8.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,750 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% +6.67% -14.29%

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
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 2 (8.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Google Analytics
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
2 6 (24.00%) Google Tag Manager
2 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (20.00%) Serverless
4 3 (12.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) Azure AI
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Looker
2 6 (24.00%) BigQuery
2 6 (24.00%) Power BI
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (20.00%) Metadata
4 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (28.00%) Finance
5 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Data Scientist
2 7 (28.00%) Lead
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Mentoring
2 13 (52.00%) Analytics
3 11 (44.00%) Mathematics
4 10 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 10 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 10 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (36.00%) Agile
5 9 (36.00%) Data Engineering
5 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
5 9 (36.00%) Data Strategy
5 9 (36.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (36.00%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (32.00%) Data Architecture
6 8 (32.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 8 (32.00%) Fintech
6 8 (32.00%) Machine Learning
6 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (24.00%) ETL
7 6 (24.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) SQL
2 17 (68.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (24.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft