Senior Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London 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 679 678 739
Rank change year-on-year -1 +61 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 83 55 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.093% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.10% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 63 43 53
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,367 £53,150
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,845 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,231 £86,500 £93,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £68,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.79% -14.38% -

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%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior 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
North of England +60 20 £75,000 +11.11% 6
Midlands +8 19 £57,500 -34.29% 5
West Midlands +28 18 £56,250 -35.71% 1
South West -28 18 £77,500 +31.14% 7
East of England +11 14 £80,000 +6.67%
North West +12 13 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire +84 7 £75,000 +25.00% 1
South East +1 6 £80,000 +18.52% 22
Scotland -60 6 £81,677 -24.02% 1
East Midlands - 1 £85,000 - 4
Senior Data Scientist
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) Data Science
2 74 (89.16%) Python
3 63 (75.90%) Machine Learning
4 49 (59.04%) SQL
5 36 (43.37%) Degree
6 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
7 30 (36.14%) PhD
8 28 (33.73%) Agile
8 28 (33.73%) Analytics
9 25 (30.12%) Statistical Modelling
9 25 (30.12%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (30.12%) R
10 23 (27.71%) Algorithms
11 22 (26.51%) Data Analysis
12 19 (22.89%) Natural Language Processing
12 19 (22.89%) Master's Degree
13 18 (21.69%) Pandas
13 18 (21.69%) Finance
14 17 (20.48%) Visualisation
14 17 (20.48%) Decision-Making
15 16 (19.28%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (19.28%) Data Structures
15 16 (19.28%) Banking
16 15 (18.07%) Business Intelligence
16 15 (18.07%) Use Case
16 15 (18.07%) Random Forest
17 14 (16.87%) Decision Tree
17 14 (16.87%) Data Visualisation
17 14 (16.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (16.87%) LLM

Senior 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 3 (3.61%) SAS
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) Azure
1 13 (15.66%) GCP
2 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.43%) SaaS
4 2 (2.41%) AWS
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.25%) Big Data
2 8 (9.64%) Power BI
3 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Metadata
4 3 (3.61%) Tableau
5 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.20%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.20%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.20%) Redis
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.20%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Git
General
1 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Finance
3 16 (19.28%) Banking
4 14 (16.87%) Pharmaceutical
5 10 (12.05%) Law
6 9 (10.84%) Games
7 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.82%) Marketing
9 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.41%) Legal
9 2 (2.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.69%) Pandas
2 7 (8.43%) XGBoost
3 5 (6.02%) PyTorch
3 5 (6.02%) TensorFlow
4 3 (3.61%) NumPy
4 3 (3.61%) PySpark
4 3 (3.61%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.41%) Keras
5 2 (2.41%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.20%) Django
6 1 (1.20%) Flask
6 1 (1.20%) NLTK
6 1 (1.20%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.20%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Algorithms
2 16 (19.28%) Data Structures
3 9 (10.84%) Life Science
3 9 (10.84%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.02%) Reinsurance
5 4 (4.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Data Science
2 63 (75.90%) Machine Learning
3 28 (33.73%) Agile
3 28 (33.73%) Analytics
4 25 (30.12%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (30.12%) Statistical Modelling
5 22 (26.51%) Data Analysis
6 19 (22.89%) Natural Language Processing
7 17 (20.48%) Decision-Making
7 17 (20.48%) Visualisation
8 16 (19.28%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (18.07%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (18.07%) Random Forest
9 15 (18.07%) Use Case
10 14 (16.87%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (16.87%) Decision Tree
10 14 (16.87%) LLM
11 13 (15.66%) Statistics
12 12 (14.46%) Line Management
13 11 (13.25%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (89.16%) Python
2 49 (59.04%) SQL
3 25 (30.12%) R
4 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 36 (43.37%) Degree
2 30 (36.14%) PhD
3 19 (22.89%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Databricks
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.41%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.20%) Dataiku
3 1 (1.20%) Google
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle