Data Science Jobs in England

Data Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 77 58
Rank change year-on-year -41 -19 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,073 3,360 8,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.28% 3.99% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 4.18% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,157 1,434 2,250
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +9.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,700 £111,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London -21 885 £80,000 - 469
South East +47 405 £60,000 -7.69% 80
North of England -87 294 £50,000 -19.35% 64
Midlands +2 207 £55,000 +22.22% 29
South West -31 187 £60,000 -12.41% 41
North West -13 180 £50,000 -25.09% 42
West Midlands 0 159 £55,000 +22.22% 15
Yorkshire -105 80 £55,000 -10.10% 18
East of England -58 75 £55,000 -4.35% 26
East Midlands -2 48 £47,500 +5.56% 14
North East -13 34 £47,500 +3.26% 5
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 89 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 74 (3.57%) SAS
3 33 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.45%) Apache
5 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.63%) Confluence
8 7 (0.34%) Luigi
9 5 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.096%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.096%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.048%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.048%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.048%) IIS
11 1 (0.048%) Moodle
Applications
1 71 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.096%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.096%) SPSS
7 2 (0.096%) Stata
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.048%) Blender
Business Applications
1 21 (1.01%) Endur
2 7 (0.34%) Shopify
3 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.048%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 589 (28.41%) Azure
2 335 (16.16%) Power Platform
3 324 (15.63%) GCP
4 318 (15.34%) AWS
5 107 (5.16%) Snowflake
6 87 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 68 (3.28%) Matillion
9 64 (3.09%) SaaS
10 57 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 54 (2.60%) Serverless
12 52 (2.51%) GitHub
13 40 (1.93%) IBM Cloud
14 30 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 25 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.16%) dbt
17 21 (1.01%) Amazon S3
18 17 (0.82%) Azure App Service
18 17 (0.82%) Azure Machine Learning
18 17 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.92%) Network Security
2 18 (0.87%) DNS
2 18 (0.87%) HTTP
3 6 (0.29%) Firewall
3 6 (0.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.24%) MQTT
4 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.24%) Wireless
5 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 2 (0.096%) Broadband
6 2 (0.096%) Internet
6 2 (0.096%) LAN
6 2 (0.096%) WAN
7 1 (0.048%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (15.97%) Data Warehouse
2 327 (15.77%) Power BI
3 236 (11.38%) SQL Server
4 202 (9.74%) Tableau
5 182 (8.78%) BigQuery
6 160 (7.72%) Looker
7 152 (7.33%) Big Data
8 124 (5.98%) Data Lake
9 122 (5.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 75 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 66 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (2.65%) NoSQL
13 53 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
14 51 (2.46%) Hadoop
15 49 (2.36%) Star Schema
16 48 (2.32%) Data Mining
17 45 (2.17%) MongoDB
18 43 (2.07%) Metadata
19 32 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 31 (1.50%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 168 (8.10%) Git
2 47 (2.27%) GitLab
3 31 (1.50%) JIRA
4 28 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.53%) MLflow
6 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.39%) ERwin
8 6 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.14%) JUnit
11 3 (0.14%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.14%) Subversion
11 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.096%) GoCD
13 1 (0.048%) git-flow
13 1 (0.048%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.048%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 649 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 437 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
3 376 (18.14%) Finance
4 268 (12.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 222 (10.71%) Retail
6 186 (8.97%) Public Sector
7 130 (6.27%) Marketing
8 97 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
9 90 (4.34%) Law
10 85 (4.10%) Banking
11 73 (3.52%) Legal
12 52 (2.51%) Games
13 47 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (1.69%) Military
15 29 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
17 21 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
19 18 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 489 (23.59%) Data Scientist
2 440 (21.23%) Data Engineer
3 434 (20.94%) Senior
4 199 (9.60%) Senior Data Scientist
5 188 (9.07%) Lead
6 163 (7.86%) Analyst
7 152 (7.33%) Principal Engineer
8 151 (7.28%) Platform Engineer
9 147 (7.09%) Principal Data Engineer
10 145 (6.99%) Developer
11 131 (6.32%) Architect
12 107 (5.16%) Consultant
13 79 (3.81%) Data Analyst
14 76 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 72 (3.47%) Data Architect
16 62 (2.99%) Data Manager
17 60 (2.89%) Python Engineer
18 57 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
19 56 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
20 50 (2.41%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (6.03%) Pandas
1 125 (6.03%) TensorFlow
2 94 (4.53%) PySpark
3 82 (3.96%) scikit-learn
4 62 (2.99%) PyTorch
5 55 (2.65%) NumPy
5 55 (2.65%) React
6 47 (2.27%) Kafka
7 44 (2.12%) RESTful
8 40 (1.93%) CSS
9 36 (1.74%) HTML
10 35 (1.69%) .NET
11 33 (1.59%) Node.js
12 29 (1.40%) Keras
13 23 (1.11%) Django
14 19 (0.92%) XML
15 18 (0.87%) Apache Beam
16 17 (0.82%) JWT
16 17 (0.82%) REST
16 17 (0.82%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 402 (19.39%) Algorithms
2 206 (9.94%) Self-Motivation
3 146 (7.04%) Data Structures
4 60 (2.89%) Life Science
5 58 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 54 (2.60%) Blockchain
8 45 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 44 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 36 (1.74%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.59%) Cloud Native
13 30 (1.45%) IoT
14 25 (1.21%) Credit Risk
15 24 (1.16%) Blog
16 21 (1.01%) Swaptions
17 20 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
18 18 (0.87%) Mobile App
19 17 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
20 15 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 115 (5.55%) Linux
2 44 (2.12%) Windows
3 40 (1.93%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.93%) CentOS
3 40 (1.93%) Debian
4 17 (0.82%) Unix
5 6 (0.29%) Android
5 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.096%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.096%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.048%) Solaris
7 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (38.64%) Machine Learning
2 698 (33.67%) Analytics
3 679 (32.75%) Problem-Solving
4 592 (28.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 466 (22.48%) Computer Science
6 462 (22.29%) Agile
7 452 (21.80%) Mentoring
8 443 (21.37%) Data Engineering
9 430 (20.74%) Data Modelling
10 427 (20.60%) Business Intelligence
11 398 (19.20%) Visualisation
12 387 (18.67%) Data Pipeline
13 383 (18.48%) Mathematics
14 364 (17.56%) ETL
15 363 (17.51%) Data Analysis
16 349 (16.84%) Decision-Making
16 349 (16.84%) DevOps
17 269 (12.98%) Statistics
18 249 (12.01%) Data Visualisation
19 247 (11.92%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 909 (43.85%) Python
2 827 (39.89%) SQL
3 215 (10.37%) R
4 129 (6.22%) Java
5 95 (4.58%) C#
6 72 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 69 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 53 (2.56%) C
9 52 (2.51%) C++
10 40 (1.93%) MATLAB
11 35 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 32 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 32 (1.54%) Scala
13 24 (1.16%) VB
14 21 (1.01%) VBA
15 15 (0.72%) Haskell
16 14 (0.68%) Go
17 12 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
18 11 (0.53%) U-SQL
19 10 (0.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 755 (36.42%) Degree
2 245 (11.82%) Master's Degree
3 135 (6.51%) PhD
4 117 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (3.96%) Security Cleared
6 57 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (2.56%) DBS Check
8 50 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.93%) MCSA
9 40 (1.93%) MCSE
10 37 (1.78%) DV Cleared
11 29 (1.40%) SC Cleared
12 23 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
13 18 (0.87%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.48%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.29%) IIBA
17 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 193 (9.31%) GDPR
3 44 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 34 (1.64%) QA
5 15 (0.72%) Good Clinical Practice
6 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.43%) CDISC
8 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.19%) IFRS
9 4 (0.19%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.096%) COBIT
10 2 (0.096%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.096%) GLBA
10 2 (0.096%) NIST
10 2 (0.096%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.096%) PMO
10 2 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.096%) SLA
11 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
System Software
1 134 (6.46%) Docker
2 17 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.19%) HDFS
4 2 (0.096%) IAG
5 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.048%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 126 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.11%) Terraform
3 9 (0.43%) Ansible
4 7 (0.34%) SysTrack
5 6 (0.29%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.29%) logstash
6 5 (0.24%) SELinux
7 4 (0.19%) Grafana
8 3 (0.14%) Argo
8 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.14%) Puppet
9 2 (0.096%) Core Impact
9 2 (0.096%) Podman
10 1 (0.048%) Kibana
10 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.048%) yum
Vendors
1 279 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 211 (10.18%) Google
3 193 (9.31%) Databricks
4 63 (3.04%) Oracle
5 47 (2.27%) IBM
6 40 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 36 (1.74%) Alteryx
8 33 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.11%) Sybase
10 21 (1.01%) OpenLink
10 21 (1.01%) TIBCO
11 14 (0.68%) Informatica
12 13 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.58%) YouTube
14 11 (0.53%) Dataiku
15 9 (0.43%) SAP
16 8 (0.39%) Cloudera
16 8 (0.39%) Samsung
16 8 (0.39%) ServiceNow
17 7 (0.34%) Snow