Senior Data Scientist Jobs in the South West

Senior Data Scientist
England > South West

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in the South West is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 241 303
Rank change year-on-year -28 +62 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 18 20 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.19% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.34% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 4
10th Percentile £57,500 £43,125 £63,300
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,250 £68,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £59,098 £84,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.14% -30.06% +25.19%
75th Percentile £85,938 £67,500 £102,813
90th Percentile £92,644 £69,650 £103,375
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -15.63% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 9,017 5,951 7,863
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.06% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,618 3,693 5,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,363
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Senior Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the South West

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in the South West.

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in the South West

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the South West

Senior Data Scientist
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist within the South 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
Bristol +3 15 £80,000 +28.00% 3
Gloucestershire - 3 £77,500 -
Senior Data Scientist
England

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Python
1 18 (100.00%) Data Science
2 17 (94.44%) Machine Learning
3 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
4 12 (66.67%) Degree
5 11 (61.11%) SQL
6 10 (55.56%) Data Analysis
7 9 (50.00%) PhD
7 9 (50.00%) Agile
8 8 (44.44%) Natural Language Processing
8 8 (44.44%) Pandas
9 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (38.89%) Master's Degree
10 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (33.33%) Mathematics
10 6 (33.33%) Statistics
10 6 (33.33%) R
10 6 (33.33%) Analytics
10 6 (33.33%) Deep Learning
11 5 (27.78%) Statistical Modelling
11 5 (27.78%) Algorithms
11 5 (27.78%) Reinsurance
11 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
11 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
11 5 (27.78%) Random Forest
12 4 (22.22%) Databricks
12 4 (22.22%) Decision Tree
12 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (22.22%) LLM

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) GCP
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Bigtable
3 1 (5.56%) CouchDB
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) RethinkDB
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Pandas
2 3 (16.67%) NumPy
2 3 (16.67%) PySpark
2 3 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (11.11%) SpaCy
3 2 (11.11%) XGBoost
4 1 (5.56%) Django
4 1 (5.56%) Flask
4 1 (5.56%) Keras
4 1 (5.56%) NLTK
4 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (5.56%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Algorithms
1 5 (27.78%) Reinsurance
2 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 4 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Data Science
2 17 (94.44%) Machine Learning
3 10 (55.56%) Data Analysis
4 9 (50.00%) Agile
5 8 (44.44%) Natural Language Processing
6 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (33.33%) Analytics
7 6 (33.33%) Deep Learning
7 6 (33.33%) Mathematics
7 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (33.33%) Statistics
8 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
8 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
8 5 (27.78%) Random Forest
8 5 (27.78%) Statistical Modelling
9 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (22.22%) Decision Tree
9 4 (22.22%) LLM
9 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 9 (50.00%) PhD
3 7 (38.89%) Master's Degree
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Dataiku
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle