Data Science Jobs in the North West

Data Science
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 132 123 116
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 178 216 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.78% 2.80% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.93% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 99 48 110
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,600 £41,475
25th Percentile £37,360 £51,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £80,625 £90,700
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
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,221 7,360 8,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.40% 95.55% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,231 3,864 5,251
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,017 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the North West 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
Manchester -2 120 £60,000 -13.60% 22
Cheshire 0 20 £35,000 -30.00% 3
Merseyside +12 18 £38,617 -42.79% 3
Lancashire -19 10 £41,500 -11.70% 3
Cumbria - 10 £47,500 - 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.25%) Confluence
1 4 (2.25%) SAS
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 80 (44.94%) Azure
2 54 (30.34%) GCP
3 32 (17.98%) Power Platform
4 18 (10.11%) AWS
5 17 (9.55%) Matillion
6 16 (8.99%) Snowflake
7 15 (8.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (7.30%) SaaS
9 10 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.12%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.12%) dbt
13 1 (0.56%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) Network Security
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.21%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (17.42%) BigQuery
3 28 (15.73%) Looker
4 27 (15.17%) Power BI
5 25 (14.04%) SQL Server
6 21 (11.80%) Star Schema
7 20 (11.24%) Big Data
8 19 (10.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (9.55%) Data Lake
10 15 (8.43%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (6.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (5.06%) Data Vault
13 8 (4.49%) Metadata
14 6 (3.37%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (3.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 5 (2.81%) Oracle Database
15 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
16 4 (2.25%) Tableau
17 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
17 1 (0.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (10.11%) Git
2 15 (8.43%) GitLab
3 4 (2.25%) JIRA
General
1 53 (29.78%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.92%) Retail
4 17 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.99%) Finance
6 13 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Legal
9 5 (2.81%) Games
9 5 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.69%) Law
11 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (38.76%) Data Engineer
2 37 (20.79%) Senior
3 35 (19.66%) Platform Engineer
4 27 (15.17%) Principal Data Engineer
4 27 (15.17%) Principal Engineer
5 23 (12.92%) Architect
6 21 (11.80%) Data Scientist
6 21 (11.80%) Lead
7 13 (7.30%) Data Architect
7 13 (7.30%) Senior Data Scientist
8 12 (6.74%) Developer
9 11 (6.18%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.62%) DataOps Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) DataOps Leader
10 10 (5.62%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Consultant
11 9 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Analyst
13 7 (3.93%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.49%) .NET
1 8 (4.49%) React
2 4 (2.25%) PySpark
2 4 (2.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (2.25%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.69%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.12%) JWT
4 2 (1.12%) RESTful
4 2 (1.12%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.56%) Flash
5 1 (0.56%) JSON
5 1 (0.56%) Kafka
5 1 (0.56%) NumPy
5 1 (0.56%) Pandas
5 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (27.53%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (8.43%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.18%) Blog
4 9 (5.06%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.81%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.25%) Animation
6 4 (2.25%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.25%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.56%) FMCG
8 1 (0.56%) iPad
8 1 (0.56%) Life Science
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.81%) Linux
1 5 (2.81%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.08%) Analytics
2 65 (36.52%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (35.39%) Agile
4 62 (34.83%) ETL
5 59 (33.15%) Machine Learning
6 58 (32.58%) Data Engineering
7 55 (30.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 54 (30.34%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (27.53%) Mentoring
10 45 (25.28%) DataOps
11 43 (24.16%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (23.60%) Data Modelling
13 41 (23.03%) DevOps
14 37 (20.79%) Visualisation
15 35 (19.66%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (16.29%) Change Management
17 28 (15.73%) CI/CD
18 26 (14.61%) Data Analytics
19 21 (11.80%) Data Integration
20 20 (11.24%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.83%) SQL
2 61 (34.27%) Python
3 12 (6.74%) T-SQL
4 10 (5.62%) R
5 5 (2.81%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.25%) Go
7 2 (1.12%) C#
7 2 (1.12%) Julia
8 1 (0.56%) Bicep
8 1 (0.56%) Java
8 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (9.55%) Degree
2 9 (5.06%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.37%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.25%) PhD
6 3 (1.69%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.10%) GDPR
2 29 (16.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.81%) QA
4 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.93%) Terraform
2 5 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.69%) Ansible
3 3 (1.69%) Puppet
3 3 (1.69%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 33 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.17%) Google
3 7 (3.93%) Databricks
4 5 (2.81%) Oracle
4 5 (2.81%) YouTube
5 4 (2.25%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.25%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (1.69%) SAP
6 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.69%) Snow
7 1 (0.56%) VMware