Data Science Leader Jobs

Data Science Lead
UK

The median Data Science Lead salary in the UK is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 739 742 1109
Rank change year-on-year +3 +367 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Science Leader 51 19 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.033% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.034% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 18
10th Percentile £78,750 - £74,425
25th Percentile £88,125 £55,000 £74,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £80,000 £85,025
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% -5.91% -10.50%
75th Percentile £128,125 £87,750 £119,168
90th Percentile £138,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £76,250 £112,896
% change year-on-year - -32.46% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 71,968 55,098 132,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 95.65% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,505 40,133 78,004
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,604 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%

Data Science Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Science Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science Leader in the UK

Data Science Leader
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science Leader.

Salary trend for Data Science Leader in the UK

Data Science Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science Leader over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science Leader in the UK

Data Science Leader
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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
England -3 51 £107,500 +34.38%
Work from Home +65 49 £140,000 +100.00%
UK excluding London +3 43 - - 1
South East -3 33 - -
Midlands - 6 - -
London +26 4 £140,000 -
North of England -23 3 - -
North West -39 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands - 3 - -
South West -8 1 - -

Data Science Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Data Science Leader 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 featuring Data Science Leader in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Data Science
2 50 (98.04%) Mentoring
3 49 (96.08%) Machine Learning
3 49 (96.08%) Degree
3 49 (96.08%) Decision-Making
4 48 (94.12%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (94.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (94.12%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (94.12%) Software Engineering
4 48 (94.12%) Statistics
4 48 (94.12%) Data Analysis
4 48 (94.12%) Statistical Modelling
4 48 (94.12%) Natural Language Processing
4 48 (94.12%) Computer Vision
5 3 (5.88%) Agile
6 2 (3.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.92%) Python
6 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.92%) Azure
7 1 (1.96%) AWS
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) PySpark
7 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.96%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (1.96%) MapReduce
7 1 (1.96%) Tableau
7 1 (1.96%) Test Strategy
7 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.96%) Analytics

Data Science Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (3.92%) Azure
2 1 (1.96%) AWS
2 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (1.96%) GCP
2 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) Subversion
General
1 48 (94.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.96%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.96%) PySpark
1 1 (1.96%) React
1 1 (1.96%) REST
1 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
1 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Data Science
2 50 (98.04%) Mentoring
3 49 (96.08%) Decision-Making
3 49 (96.08%) Machine Learning
4 48 (94.12%) Computer Vision
4 48 (94.12%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (94.12%) Data Analysis
4 48 (94.12%) Natural Language Processing
4 48 (94.12%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (94.12%) Software Engineering
4 48 (94.12%) Statistical Modelling
4 48 (94.12%) Statistics
5 3 (5.88%) Agile
6 2 (3.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (1.96%) Data Modelling
7 1 (1.96%) E-Commerce
7 1 (1.96%) Scrum
7 1 (1.96%) TDD
7 1 (1.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) Python
2 1 (1.96%) Julia
2 1 (1.96%) R
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (96.08%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.96%) Databricks
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft