Data Science Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Science
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 72 126 82
Rank change year-on-year +54 -44 +48
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 221 138 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.29% 2.34% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 2.47% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 45 93 84
10th Percentile £43,750 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,570 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £100,000
90th Percentile - £92,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,686 5,583 6,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.53% 94.79% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,875 3,048 3,847
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,777 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +69 165 £65,000 +33.51% 6
Berkshire -38 33 £65,000 - 18
Oxfordshire +21 23 £60,000 -35.14% 11
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (3.17%) SAS
2 4 (1.81%) nginx
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP MDM
1 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.69%) Azure
2 15 (6.79%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.88%) GCP
4 12 (5.43%) AWS
5 8 (3.62%) Snowflake
6 7 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (1.81%) GitHub
7 4 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.81%) Serverless
7 4 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.90%) SaaS
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.45%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.81%) MQTT
1 4 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (1.81%) VPN
2 2 (0.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.79%) Power BI
3 13 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.07%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.07%) Looker
5 8 (3.62%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.17%) MySQL
7 6 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.26%) Tableau
9 4 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.81%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.81%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.36%) Impala
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.90%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.52%) Git
2 2 (0.90%) ERwin
3 1 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 137 (61.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.05%) Finance
4 12 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (5.43%) Retail
5 9 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.17%) Military
7 5 (2.26%) Marketing
8 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Banking
9 2 (0.90%) Billing
9 2 (0.90%) Games
9 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 118 (53.39%) Data Scientist
2 48 (21.72%) Data Engineer
3 30 (13.57%) Senior
4 23 (10.41%) Security Engineer
5 18 (8.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 17 (7.69%) Lead
7 13 (5.88%) Developer
8 10 (4.52%) Computer Scientist
8 10 (4.52%) Research Scientist
9 9 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Principal Data Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (3.62%) Project Leader
10 8 (3.62%) Research Engineer
10 8 (3.62%) Senior Project Leader
11 7 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 7 (3.17%) Consultant
11 7 (3.17%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.17%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.71%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.62%) XML
2 4 (1.81%) CSS
2 4 (1.81%) GraphQL
2 4 (1.81%) gRPC
2 4 (1.81%) HTML
2 4 (1.81%) Knex.js
2 4 (1.81%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.81%) Node.js
2 4 (1.81%) React
2 4 (1.81%) React Native
2 4 (1.81%) RESTful
2 4 (1.81%) Sequelize
3 2 (0.90%) Matplotlib
3 2 (0.90%) NumPy
3 2 (0.90%) Pandas
3 2 (0.90%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.90%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 122 (55.20%) Algorithms
2 15 (6.79%) Life Science
3 9 (4.07%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.17%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (1.81%) IoT
5 4 (1.81%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.90%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.45%) Genomics
7 1 (0.45%) Molecular Biology
7 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.45%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Unix
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (75.57%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (67.42%) Mentoring
3 144 (65.16%) Coaching
4 134 (60.63%) Cybersecurity
4 134 (60.63%) Red Team
5 132 (59.73%) Computer Science
6 124 (56.11%) Mathematics
7 120 (54.30%) Decision-Making
8 117 (52.94%) Data Analysis
9 103 (46.61%) Statistical Modelling
10 102 (46.15%) Digital Forensics
11 59 (26.70%) Analytics
12 48 (21.72%) Data Engineering
12 48 (21.72%) Data Modelling
13 38 (17.19%) Machine Learning
14 26 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
15 20 (9.05%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (8.60%) Agile
16 19 (8.60%) DevOps
17 16 (7.24%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.93%) Python
2 22 (9.95%) R
3 15 (6.79%) SQL
4 11 (4.98%) C#
5 5 (2.26%) C++
6 4 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.81%) JSX
6 4 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.36%) Java
8 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 176 (79.64%) Degree
2 23 (10.41%) Master's Degree
3 18 (8.14%) PhD
4 15 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.10%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.52%) GDPR
3 8 (3.62%) Good Clinical Practice
4 7 (3.17%) CDISC
5 6 (2.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (6.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (4.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.07%) Google
3 6 (2.71%) iManage
4 5 (2.26%) SAP
5 4 (1.81%) Talend
6 3 (1.36%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.90%) Informatica
8 1 (0.45%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle