Data Science Jobs in the North West

Data Science
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 124 124
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 179 205 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.60% 2.80% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.93% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 96 47 102
10th Percentile - £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,265 £79,375
90th Percentile £89,375 £77,715 £93,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +10.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,970 6,987 9,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.02% 95.58% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,539 3,850 5,342
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester -14 120 £60,000 -13.60% 37
Merseyside +12 20 £38,617 -42.79% 2
Cheshire -17 19 £35,000 +7.69% 4
Lancashire -25 10 £41,500 -11.70% 6
Cumbria - 10 £47,500 -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (2.23%) Confluence
1 4 (2.23%) SAS
2 3 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 83 (46.37%) Azure
2 55 (30.73%) GCP
3 35 (19.55%) Power Platform
4 22 (12.29%) AWS
5 17 (9.50%) Matillion
6 16 (8.94%) Snowflake
7 15 (8.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (7.82%) SaaS
9 9 (5.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.12%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.12%) dbt
12 1 (0.56%) GitHub
12 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) Network Security
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.73%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (17.32%) BigQuery
3 30 (16.76%) Power BI
4 28 (15.64%) Looker
5 25 (13.97%) SQL Server
6 21 (11.73%) Star Schema
7 20 (11.17%) Big Data
8 18 (10.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (8.94%) Data Lake
10 15 (8.38%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (6.70%) Data Vault
12 11 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (4.47%) Tableau
14 7 (3.91%) Metadata
15 6 (3.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (3.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (2.79%) Oracle Database
16 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
17 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
17 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 18 (10.06%) Git
2 15 (8.38%) GitLab
3 4 (2.23%) JIRA
General
1 51 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.93%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.85%) Retail
4 17 (9.50%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.94%) Finance
6 9 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.35%) Legal
8 5 (2.79%) Games
8 5 (2.79%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.56%) Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (38.55%) Data Engineer
2 37 (20.67%) Senior
3 35 (19.55%) Platform Engineer
4 27 (15.08%) Architect
4 27 (15.08%) Principal Data Engineer
4 27 (15.08%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (11.17%) Lead
6 19 (10.61%) Data Scientist
7 17 (9.50%) Data Architect
8 13 (7.26%) Senior Data Scientist
9 12 (6.70%) Developer
10 11 (6.15%) Technical Architect
11 10 (5.59%) DataOps Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) DataOps Leader
11 10 (5.59%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Operations Engineer
12 9 (5.03%) Consultant
12 9 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (4.47%) Analyst
14 7 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.47%) .NET
1 8 (4.47%) React
2 4 (2.23%) PySpark
2 4 (2.23%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (2.23%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.68%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.12%) JWT
4 2 (1.12%) RESTful
4 2 (1.12%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.56%) Flash
5 1 (0.56%) NumPy
5 1 (0.56%) Pandas
5 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 47 (26.26%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (8.38%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.15%) Blog
4 9 (5.03%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.79%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.23%) Animation
6 4 (2.23%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.23%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.56%) FMCG
8 1 (0.56%) iPad
8 1 (0.56%) Life Science
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
1 5 (2.79%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.11%) Analytics
2 69 (38.55%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (34.64%) Agile
3 62 (34.64%) ETL
4 58 (32.40%) Data Engineering
4 58 (32.40%) Machine Learning
5 56 (31.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 54 (30.17%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (27.37%) Mentoring
8 47 (26.26%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (24.58%) Data Modelling
9 44 (24.58%) DataOps
9 44 (24.58%) DevOps
10 36 (20.11%) Visualisation
11 35 (19.55%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (16.76%) Data Analytics
13 29 (16.20%) Change Management
14 28 (15.64%) CI/CD
15 23 (12.85%) Data Analysis
16 22 (12.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.64%) SQL
2 59 (32.96%) Python
3 12 (6.70%) T-SQL
4 10 (5.59%) R
5 5 (2.79%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.23%) Go
7 2 (1.12%) Julia
8 1 (0.56%) Bicep
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) Java
8 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (9.50%) Degree
2 9 (5.03%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.23%) PhD
6 3 (1.68%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.99%) GDPR
2 29 (16.20%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.79%) QA
4 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.91%) Terraform
2 5 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.68%) Ansible
3 3 (1.68%) Puppet
3 3 (1.68%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 33 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.08%) Google
3 7 (3.91%) Databricks
4 5 (2.79%) Oracle
4 5 (2.79%) YouTube
5 4 (2.23%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.23%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (1.68%) SAP
6 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.68%) Snow
7 1 (0.56%) VMware