Data Scientist Jobs in England

Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Data Scientist salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 539 454
Rank change year-on-year +104 -85 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 491 397 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.52% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 226 269 451
10th Percentile £43,277 £43,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,570 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £88,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
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 Scientist 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 +107 196 £75,000 +11.11% 91
South East +73 130 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Midlands +32 56 £55,000 +22.22% 4
South West -15 53 £65,000 +18.44% 11
West Midlands +23 47 £57,500 +17.95%
North of England +3 33 £60,000 +4.35% 15
North West +1 20 £60,000 -11.11% 6
East of England -8 16 £80,000 +39.13% 4
Yorkshire +34 11 £70,576 +28.32% 8
East Midlands -10 9 £45,000 +20.00% 4
North East -16 2 £43,200 -3.28% 1
Data Scientist
UK

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 England region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 489 (99.59%) Data Science
2 322 (65.58%) Python
3 313 (63.75%) Degree
4 283 (57.64%) Machine Learning
5 276 (56.21%) Algorithms
6 239 (48.68%) Mathematics
7 214 (43.58%) Computer Science
8 208 (42.36%) Decision-Making
9 201 (40.94%) SQL
10 188 (38.29%) Data Analysis
11 169 (34.42%) Problem-Solving
12 164 (33.40%) Statistical Modelling
13 149 (30.35%) Social Skills
14 148 (30.14%) Statistics
15 138 (28.11%) Cybersecurity
16 137 (27.90%) Artificial Intelligence
17 136 (27.70%) Mentoring
18 132 (26.88%) Coaching
19 130 (26.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 128 (26.07%) Analytics
21 126 (25.66%) Visualisation
22 122 (24.85%) Digital Forensics
22 122 (24.85%) Red Team
23 114 (23.22%) Predictive Modelling
24 109 (22.20%) Natural Language Processing
25 106 (21.59%) Master's Degree
26 101 (20.57%) R
27 93 (18.94%) TensorFlow
27 93 (18.94%) Actionable Insight
28 88 (17.92%) Pandas

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 23 (4.68%) SAS
2 20 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.02%) Apache
3 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.02%) Luigi
4 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.05%) Azure
2 56 (11.41%) AWS
3 50 (10.18%) GCP
4 23 (4.68%) Power Platform
5 13 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
6 10 (2.04%) GitHub
7 9 (1.83%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (1.83%) SaaS
8 8 (1.63%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.20%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.24%) Tableau
2 31 (6.31%) Big Data
3 23 (4.68%) Power BI
4 20 (4.07%) Data Mining
5 17 (3.46%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.05%) Hadoop
7 11 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (1.43%) Text Mining
9 5 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (1.02%) Bigtable
9 5 (1.02%) CouchDB
9 5 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.02%) Redis
9 5 (1.02%) RethinkDB
10 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.61%) Metadata
12 2 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 81 (16.50%) Git
2 1 (0.20%) git-flow
2 1 (0.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.20%) MLflow
2 1 (0.20%) RStudio
2 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 149 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 130 (26.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.39%) Finance
5 27 (5.50%) Marketing
6 24 (4.89%) Retail
7 22 (4.48%) Banking
8 21 (4.28%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (3.46%) Law
10 15 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.83%) Games
12 7 (1.43%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.02%) Legal
14 3 (0.61%) Advertising
15 2 (0.41%) International Banking
15 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.20%) Electronics
16 1 (0.20%) Front Office
16 1 (0.20%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (18.94%) TensorFlow
2 88 (17.92%) Pandas
3 73 (14.87%) scikit-learn
4 57 (11.61%) PySpark
5 34 (6.92%) NumPy
6 30 (6.11%) PyTorch
7 24 (4.89%) Keras
8 13 (2.65%) XGBoost
9 6 (1.22%) Kedro
9 6 (1.22%) SpaCy
10 5 (1.02%) MXNet
10 5 (1.02%) SQLAlchemy
10 5 (1.02%) Statsmodels
11 4 (0.81%) React
12 3 (0.61%) .NET
13 2 (0.41%) Anaconda
13 2 (0.41%) Matplotlib
13 2 (0.41%) SciPy
13 2 (0.41%) Seaborn
14 1 (0.20%) NLTK
Miscellaneous
1 276 (56.21%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.26%) Life Science
3 15 (3.05%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.65%) Reinsurance
5 12 (2.44%) Credit Risk
6 10 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.02%) PMI
8 5 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.02%) Semantic Web
8 5 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.61%) Blog
9 3 (0.61%) CUDA
9 3 (0.61%) Social Media
10 2 (0.41%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.41%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.41%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.41%) Pricing Data
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.41%) Android
1 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.41%) Windows
1 2 (0.41%) Windows Vista
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (99.59%) Data Science
2 283 (57.64%) Machine Learning
3 239 (48.68%) Mathematics
4 214 (43.58%) Computer Science
5 208 (42.36%) Decision-Making
6 188 (38.29%) Data Analysis
7 169 (34.42%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (33.40%) Statistical Modelling
9 148 (30.14%) Statistics
10 138 (28.11%) Cybersecurity
11 137 (27.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 136 (27.70%) Mentoring
13 132 (26.88%) Coaching
14 128 (26.07%) Analytics
15 126 (25.66%) Visualisation
16 122 (24.85%) Digital Forensics
16 122 (24.85%) Red Team
17 114 (23.22%) Predictive Modelling
18 109 (22.20%) Natural Language Processing
19 93 (18.94%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 322 (65.58%) Python
2 201 (40.94%) SQL
3 101 (20.57%) R
4 22 (4.48%) MATLAB
5 18 (3.67%) C#
6 9 (1.83%) C++
6 9 (1.83%) Java
7 8 (1.63%) VBA
8 6 (1.22%) C
9 4 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.41%) Julia
11 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 313 (63.75%) Degree
2 106 (21.59%) Master's Degree
3 72 (14.66%) PhD
4 46 (9.37%) DBS Check
5 34 (6.92%) Security Cleared
6 26 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.04%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.81%) IFRS
3 4 (0.81%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 13 (2.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.02%) Terraform
3 2 (0.41%) Core Impact
4 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 73 (14.87%) Databricks
2 16 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.24%) Google
4 10 (2.04%) Dataiku
5 4 (0.81%) Oracle
6 3 (0.61%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.41%) Sage
8 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow