Data Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 75 66
Rank change year-on-year -49 -9 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,273 4,467 7,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.32% 4.23% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 4.43% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 1,768 2,397
10th Percentile £42,250 £43,162 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% +3.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £64,598 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.99% +12.34% +1.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 -46 2,060 £65,000 -7.14% 582
UK excluding London -55 1,306 £57,500 -10.99% 238
London -24 880 £80,000 - 377
Work from Home -37 875 £60,000 -14.29% 324
South East +54 400 £62,500 -10.71% 52
North of England -90 302 £50,000 -18.27% 57
Midlands -10 206 £55,000 +22.22% 27
North West -25 186 £50,000 -25.09% 37
South West -50 164 £61,250 -9.26% 27
West Midlands -5 157 £55,000 +22.22% 17
Scotland -53 126 £70,000 +0.80% 28
Yorkshire -105 83 £60,000 -1.93% 16
East of England -54 74 £55,000 -4.35% 31
East Midlands -10 49 £47,500 -14.80% 10
North East +1 33 £47,500 +3.26% 4
Wales +32 30 £47,500 -13.67% 18
Northern Ireland +18 4 £77,500 +134.85% 6

Data Science
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:

Application Platforms
1 119 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 86 (3.78%) SAS
3 30 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.23%) Apache
6 15 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.53%) Confluence
8 6 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.13%) IIS
9 3 (0.13%) Luigi
9 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.044%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.044%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.044%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 60 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.26%) Trello
5 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.088%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.088%) SPSS
7 2 (0.088%) Stata
8 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.044%) Blender
Business Applications
1 28 (1.23%) Endur
2 9 (0.40%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 7 (0.31%) Shopify
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.088%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.044%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 638 (28.07%) Azure
2 408 (17.95%) AWS
3 397 (17.47%) GCP
4 365 (16.06%) Power Platform
5 115 (5.06%) Snowflake
6 105 (4.62%) SaaS
7 98 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 96 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 74 (3.26%) Matillion
10 73 (3.21%) Serverless
11 64 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 59 (2.60%) GitHub
13 50 (2.20%) Amazon S3
14 40 (1.76%) IBM Cloud
15 35 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 28 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
18 27 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
19 25 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
20 24 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.88%) DNS
1 20 (0.88%) HTTP
2 19 (0.84%) Network Security
3 6 (0.26%) VPN
4 5 (0.22%) Firewall
4 5 (0.22%) MQTT
4 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.22%) Wireless
5 4 (0.18%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.088%) Broadband
6 2 (0.088%) DHCP
6 2 (0.088%) Internet
6 2 (0.088%) IPv6
6 2 (0.088%) LAN
6 2 (0.088%) WAN
7 1 (0.044%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (15.49%) Power BI
2 348 (15.31%) Data Warehouse
3 249 (10.95%) SQL Server
4 199 (8.75%) BigQuery
5 191 (8.40%) Big Data
6 190 (8.36%) Tableau
7 175 (7.70%) Looker
8 140 (6.16%) Data Lake
9 123 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 82 (3.61%) Relational Database
11 78 (3.43%) Hadoop
12 72 (3.17%) NoSQL
13 70 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
14 63 (2.77%) Data Mining
15 57 (2.51%) Metadata
16 56 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
17 49 (2.16%) Star Schema
18 44 (1.94%) MongoDB
19 35 (1.54%) RDBMS
19 35 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 135 (5.94%) Git
2 48 (2.11%) GitLab
3 32 (1.41%) JIRA
4 29 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.44%) MLflow
6 9 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.31%) ERwin
8 6 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.22%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.18%) JUnit
10 4 (0.18%) Maven
11 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.088%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.088%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.088%) RStudio
12 2 (0.088%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.044%) git-flow
13 1 (0.044%) Spinnaker
General
1 650 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 464 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 452 (19.89%) Finance
4 313 (13.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 226 (9.94%) Retail
6 196 (8.62%) Public Sector
7 162 (7.13%) Marketing
8 116 (5.10%) Banking
9 109 (4.80%) Law
10 91 (4.00%) Games
11 88 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
12 77 (3.39%) Legal
13 39 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (1.54%) Military
15 34 (1.50%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.92%) Health Technology
20 19 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 496 (21.82%) Data Engineer
2 494 (21.73%) Data Scientist
3 435 (19.14%) Senior
4 223 (9.81%) Principal Engineer
5 190 (8.36%) Lead
6 177 (7.79%) Senior Data Scientist
7 169 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
8 168 (7.39%) Principal Data Engineer
9 159 (7.00%) Developer
10 158 (6.95%) Analyst
11 126 (5.54%) Architect
12 112 (4.93%) Consultant
13 101 (4.44%) Software Engineer
14 89 (3.92%) Data Analyst
15 82 (3.61%) Data Manager
16 78 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Consultant
17 73 (3.21%) Data Architect
18 71 (3.12%) Python Engineer
19 68 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
20 53 (2.33%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.97%) Pandas
2 97 (4.27%) TensorFlow
3 79 (3.48%) Kafka
4 75 (3.30%) PySpark
5 70 (3.08%) PyTorch
6 63 (2.77%) NumPy
7 54 (2.38%) scikit-learn
8 52 (2.29%) React
9 47 (2.07%) .NET
10 43 (1.89%) RESTful
11 38 (1.67%) CSS
11 38 (1.67%) GraphQL
12 33 (1.45%) HTML
12 33 (1.45%) Node.js
13 29 (1.28%) Keras
14 28 (1.23%) Django
15 27 (1.19%) XGBoost
16 24 (1.06%) XML
17 19 (0.84%) JSON
18 18 (0.79%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 395 (17.38%) Algorithms
2 232 (10.21%) Self-Motivation
3 169 (7.44%) Data Structures
4 71 (3.12%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 61 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (2.42%) Blockchain
8 54 (2.38%) Virtual Team
9 45 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 38 (1.67%) Life Science
11 38 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 37 (1.63%) IoT
13 31 (1.36%) Credit Risk
14 28 (1.23%) Swaptions
15 24 (1.06%) Blog
15 24 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (0.79%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 134 (5.90%) Linux
2 50 (2.20%) Windows
3 40 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.76%) CentOS
3 40 (1.76%) Debian
4 19 (0.84%) Unix
5 9 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.26%) Android
6 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.088%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.044%) Solaris
8 1 (0.044%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 895 (39.38%) Machine Learning
2 768 (33.79%) Analytics
3 718 (31.59%) Problem-Solving
4 653 (28.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 570 (25.08%) Agile
6 492 (21.65%) Data Engineering
7 473 (20.81%) Mentoring
8 463 (20.37%) Computer Science
9 453 (19.93%) Data Modelling
10 451 (19.84%) Business Intelligence
11 435 (19.14%) Data Pipeline
12 408 (17.95%) DevOps
12 408 (17.95%) ETL
13 395 (17.38%) Visualisation
14 376 (16.54%) Data Analysis
15 373 (16.41%) Mathematics
16 332 (14.61%) Decision-Making
17 304 (13.37%) Software Engineering
18 274 (12.05%) Coaching
19 260 (11.44%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (45.18%) Python
2 879 (38.67%) SQL
3 224 (9.85%) R
4 156 (6.86%) Java
5 113 (4.97%) C#
6 75 (3.30%) JavaScript
7 72 (3.17%) T-SQL
8 56 (2.46%) C++
9 54 (2.38%) Scala
10 53 (2.33%) C
11 41 (1.80%) Go
12 38 (1.67%) MATLAB
13 35 (1.54%) Bash
13 35 (1.54%) TypeScript
13 35 (1.54%) VB
14 31 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.66%) Haskell
16 12 (0.53%) SystemVerilog
17 10 (0.44%) VBA
18 8 (0.35%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 717 (31.54%) Degree
2 207 (9.11%) Master's Degree
3 130 (5.72%) PhD
4 100 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 96 (4.22%) Security Cleared
6 58 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 42 (1.85%) MCSE
10 40 (1.76%) MCSA
11 35 (1.54%) SC Cleared
12 28 (1.23%) DBS Check
13 21 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
14 19 (0.84%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.48%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.26%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.26%) IIBA
17 6 (0.26%) OCP
17 6 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (9.50%) GDPR
2 197 (8.67%) Data Quality
3 43 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 41 (1.80%) QA
5 12 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (0.48%) PMO
7 9 (0.40%) CDISC
8 6 (0.26%) IFRS
8 6 (0.26%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.13%) SLA
11 2 (0.088%) COBIT
11 2 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.088%) GLBA
11 2 (0.088%) NIST
11 2 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.088%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.044%) Basel III
12 1 (0.044%) HIPAA
System Software
1 142 (6.25%) Docker
2 17 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.22%) HDFS
4 4 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.088%) IAG
6 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.044%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 163 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 116 (5.10%) Terraform
3 7 (0.31%) Ansible
3 7 (0.31%) SysTrack
4 6 (0.26%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.26%) logstash
5 5 (0.22%) Argo
5 5 (0.22%) SELinux
6 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.13%) Puppet
7 2 (0.088%) Core Impact
7 2 (0.088%) Podman
7 2 (0.088%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.044%) Grafana
8 1 (0.044%) Kibana
8 1 (0.044%) Packer
8 1 (0.044%) Rancher
Vendors
1 275 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 273 (12.01%) Google
3 182 (8.01%) Databricks
4 71 (3.12%) Oracle
5 48 (2.11%) IBM
6 41 (1.80%) Alteryx
7 40 (1.76%) Red Hat
8 37 (1.63%) Dell
9 30 (1.32%) Sybase
10 28 (1.23%) OpenLink
10 28 (1.23%) TIBCO
11 24 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 15 (0.66%) YouTube
13 14 (0.62%) Dataiku
13 14 (0.62%) Informatica
14 13 (0.57%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.53%) SAP
16 9 (0.40%) Adobe
17 8 (0.35%) ServiceNow
17 8 (0.35%) Teradata