Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 486 521 562
Rank change year-on-year +35 +41 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 292 217 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.41% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 124 134 185
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,650 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the UK excluding London 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
South East +77 125 £65,000 +8.33% 38
Midlands +33 58 £55,000 - 10
West Midlands +48 49 £57,500 +6.98% 5
South West -28 46 £65,000 +18.44% 19
North of England +24 35 £60,000 - 18
North West +12 21 £60,000 -11.11% 7
East of England -10 16 £80,000 +39.13% 4
Yorkshire +54 12 £70,576 +28.32% 8
Scotland -58 12 £65,288 -23.19% 3
East Midlands -2 9 £45,000 -21.74% 5
North East -12 2 £43,200 -3.28% 3
Data Scientist
UK

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 290 (99.32%) Data Science
2 192 (65.75%) Degree
3 184 (63.01%) Algorithms
4 160 (54.79%) Data Analysis
4 160 (54.79%) Statistical Modelling
5 154 (52.74%) Computer Science
6 152 (52.05%) Decision-Making
7 151 (51.71%) Python
8 147 (50.34%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (50.00%) Mathematics
10 132 (45.21%) Mentoring
10 132 (45.21%) Cybersecurity
11 131 (44.86%) Coaching
12 129 (44.18%) Machine Learning
13 126 (43.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 122 (41.78%) Red Team
14 122 (41.78%) Digital Forensics
15 81 (27.74%) SQL
16 72 (24.66%) Agile
17 63 (21.58%) Analytics
18 54 (18.49%) R
19 53 (18.15%) Artificial Intelligence
20 51 (17.47%) Social Skills
21 47 (16.10%) PhD
22 45 (15.41%) Statistics
22 45 (15.41%) Visualisation
23 37 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
24 35 (11.99%) Master's Degree
24 35 (11.99%) Actionable Insight
24 35 (11.99%) Pandas

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (3.08%) SAS
2 3 (1.03%) Apache
2 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.03%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.19%) Azure
2 19 (6.51%) GCP
3 13 (4.45%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.42%) AWS
5 9 (3.08%) SaaS
6 3 (1.03%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.45%) Power BI
3 12 (4.11%) Big Data
4 9 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.08%) Tableau
5 3 (1.03%) Bigtable
5 3 (1.03%) CouchDB
5 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.03%) Metadata
5 3 (1.03%) Redis
5 3 (1.03%) RethinkDB
6 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) MySQL
7 1 (0.34%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 24 (8.22%) Git
General
1 126 (43.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.64%) Finance
4 27 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.88%) Banking
6 15 (5.14%) Law
6 15 (5.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (3.08%) Games
8 8 (2.74%) Marketing
9 7 (2.40%) Retail
10 5 (1.71%) Legal
11 3 (1.03%) Advertising
12 2 (0.68%) International Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Electronics
13 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.99%) Pandas
2 27 (9.25%) NumPy
2 27 (9.25%) TensorFlow
3 21 (7.19%) Keras
4 15 (5.14%) XGBoost
5 13 (4.45%) scikit-learn
6 12 (4.11%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.05%) PySpark
7 6 (2.05%) SpaCy
8 5 (1.71%) Statsmodels
9 3 (1.03%) SQLAlchemy
10 2 (0.68%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.68%) React
10 2 (0.68%) Seaborn
11 1 (0.34%) Django
11 1 (0.34%) Flask
11 1 (0.34%) NLTK
11 1 (0.34%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 184 (63.01%) Algorithms
2 22 (7.53%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.42%) Life Science
5 7 (2.40%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.05%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.34%) iPad
9 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.34%) Molecular Biology
9 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Windows
1 2 (0.68%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (99.32%) Data Science
2 160 (54.79%) Data Analysis
2 160 (54.79%) Statistical Modelling
3 154 (52.74%) Computer Science
4 152 (52.05%) Decision-Making
5 147 (50.34%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (50.00%) Mathematics
7 132 (45.21%) Cybersecurity
7 132 (45.21%) Mentoring
8 131 (44.86%) Coaching
9 129 (44.18%) Machine Learning
10 122 (41.78%) Digital Forensics
10 122 (41.78%) Red Team
11 72 (24.66%) Agile
12 63 (21.58%) Analytics
13 53 (18.15%) Artificial Intelligence
14 45 (15.41%) Statistics
14 45 (15.41%) Visualisation
15 37 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
16 35 (11.99%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 151 (51.71%) Python
2 81 (27.74%) SQL
3 54 (18.49%) R
4 16 (5.48%) MATLAB
5 12 (4.11%) C#
6 3 (1.03%) Java
7 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.68%) Julia
7 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.34%) C
8 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 192 (65.75%) Degree
2 47 (16.10%) PhD
3 35 (11.99%) Master's Degree
4 24 (8.22%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.82%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.03%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.40%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.37%) IFRS
2 4 (1.37%) IFRS 9
3 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (3.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (5.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.79%) Databricks
3 5 (1.71%) Dataiku
4 4 (1.37%) Google
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle
5 3 (1.03%) Alteryx