Data Science Jobs in London

Data Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 76 55 44
Rank change year-on-year -21 -11 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 885 1,691 6,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.66% 5.30% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 5.56% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 566 824 1,510
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,280 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.34%
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +9.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,759 30,392 71,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.06% 95.23% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 22,244 34,287
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the London 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
Central London +60 197 £72,500 -3.33% 21
West London -20 12 £90,000 +84.86% 12
South London -32 10 £67,500 +38.64%
East London +17 6 £55,000 +42.86% 4
North London +1 3 £70,000 -12.50% 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 69 (7.80%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.62%) SAS
3 22 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (2.26%) Apache
6 14 (1.58%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.02%) Confluence
8 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) SPSS
5 2 (0.23%) Stata
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.11%) Blender
Business Applications
1 21 (2.37%) Endur
2 5 (0.56%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 228 (25.76%) Azure
2 211 (23.84%) AWS
3 114 (12.88%) GCP
3 114 (12.88%) Power Platform
4 47 (5.31%) GitHub
5 45 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (4.07%) SaaS
7 33 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.62%) Snowflake
9 30 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (2.49%) Serverless
11 18 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (1.81%) dbt
13 15 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (1.58%) Figma
15 12 (1.36%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.24%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 10 (1.13%) Amazon SageMaker
18 9 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
19 8 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.81%) Network Security
2 8 (0.90%) DNS
2 8 (0.90%) HTTP
3 4 (0.45%) Firewall
3 4 (0.45%) Intranet
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) MQTT
5 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (13.79%) Tableau
2 111 (12.54%) Power BI
3 98 (11.07%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (8.93%) Big Data
5 66 (7.46%) SQL Server
6 43 (4.86%) Relational Database
7 40 (4.52%) NoSQL
8 39 (4.41%) MongoDB
8 39 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (4.18%) Data Lake
10 36 (4.07%) Hadoop
11 34 (3.84%) Data Mining
12 28 (3.16%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.82%) RDBMS
14 23 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (2.26%) Looker
16 17 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (1.81%) Amazon QuickSight
17 16 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (11.53%) Git
2 19 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 19 (2.15%) JIRA
3 17 (1.92%) GitLab
4 9 (1.02%) MLflow
4 9 (1.02%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.45%) ERwin
7 3 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.34%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.23%) GoCD
9 1 (0.11%) git-flow
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.11%) RStudio
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 327 (36.95%) Social Skills
2 175 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
3 156 (17.63%) Finance
4 86 (9.72%) Marketing
5 80 (9.04%) Retail
6 60 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (5.20%) Law
8 36 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
9 35 (3.95%) Banking
10 34 (3.84%) Legal
11 33 (3.73%) Games
12 27 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 25 (2.82%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.92%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.92%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.24%) Front Office
15 11 (1.24%) Publishing
16 8 (0.90%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 261 (29.49%) Senior
2 196 (22.15%) Data Scientist
3 125 (14.12%) Data Engineer
4 118 (13.33%) Senior Data Scientist
5 84 (9.49%) Developer
6 78 (8.81%) Analyst
7 65 (7.34%) Lead
8 48 (5.42%) Architect
9 42 (4.75%) Data Manager
10 39 (4.41%) Python Engineer
10 39 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
11 37 (4.18%) Senior Manager
12 32 (3.62%) Data Analyst
13 26 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
14 23 (2.60%) Consultant
15 19 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
15 19 (2.15%) Python Developer
16 18 (2.03%) Lead Data Scientist
16 18 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
17 17 (1.92%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (10.06%) TensorFlow
2 80 (9.04%) Pandas
3 77 (8.70%) PySpark
4 64 (7.23%) scikit-learn
5 39 (4.41%) Kafka
6 38 (4.29%) PyTorch
7 26 (2.94%) CSS
8 25 (2.82%) RESTful
9 23 (2.60%) .NET
10 22 (2.49%) HTML
10 22 (2.49%) React
11 21 (2.37%) NumPy
12 18 (2.03%) Django
13 15 (1.69%) Node.js
14 14 (1.58%) Apache Beam
15 13 (1.47%) JSON
16 10 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
17 9 (1.02%) Web Services
17 9 (1.02%) XML
18 8 (0.90%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 172 (19.44%) Algorithms
2 60 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 42 (4.75%) Virtual Team
4 37 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.94%) Life Science
6 24 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.37%) Swaptions
9 20 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.92%) Credit Risk
10 17 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
11 15 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.47%) Blockchain
13 13 (1.47%) Blog
14 11 (1.24%) Client/Server
14 11 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.13%) PMI
16 9 (1.02%) Mobile App
17 8 (0.90%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.41%) Linux
2 15 (1.69%) Unix
3 10 (1.13%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) Android
4 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (42.49%) Machine Learning
2 294 (33.22%) Analytics
3 257 (29.04%) Artificial Intelligence
4 246 (27.80%) Visualisation
5 215 (24.29%) Computer Science
6 182 (20.56%) Data Modelling
7 179 (20.23%) Statistics
8 174 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
9 169 (19.10%) Mathematics
10 148 (16.72%) Data Visualisation
11 139 (15.71%) Data Engineering
12 138 (15.59%) Agile
12 138 (15.59%) Software Engineering
13 134 (15.14%) Business Intelligence
14 130 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
15 127 (14.35%) ETL
16 111 (12.54%) Natural Language Processing
17 110 (12.43%) Decision-Making
18 109 (12.32%) Customer Experience
19 105 (11.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 546 (61.69%) Python
2 442 (49.94%) SQL
3 122 (13.79%) R
4 89 (10.06%) Java
5 62 (7.01%) C#
6 31 (3.50%) C
7 29 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (3.16%) JavaScript
9 26 (2.94%) C++
10 24 (2.71%) VB
11 23 (2.60%) MATLAB
12 21 (2.37%) Scala
13 18 (2.03%) T-SQL
14 17 (1.92%) VBA
15 16 (1.81%) TypeScript
16 11 (1.24%) U-SQL
17 7 (0.79%) Go
18 3 (0.34%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
19 2 (0.23%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 339 (38.31%) Degree
2 154 (17.40%) Master's Degree
3 72 (8.14%) PhD
4 65 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.20%) DBS Check
6 23 (2.60%) Security Cleared
7 16 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.36%) SC Cleared
9 10 (1.13%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
10 9 (1.02%) Postgraduate
11 6 (0.68%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.23%) HNC
13 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.11%) MBA
13 1 (0.11%) MCP
13 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.15%) GDPR
3 16 (1.81%) QA
4 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.23%) CDISC
6 2 (0.23%) IFRS
6 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.23%) PMO
6 2 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (6.67%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.18%) Terraform
3 6 (0.68%) Kubeflow
3 6 (0.68%) logstash
4 5 (0.56%) Ansible
5 4 (0.45%) Grafana
6 3 (0.34%) Argo
6 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.23%) Core Impact
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 119 (13.45%) Databricks
2 70 (7.91%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.20%) Google
4 44 (4.97%) Oracle
5 23 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.60%) Sybase
6 21 (2.37%) OpenLink
6 21 (2.37%) TIBCO
7 13 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.13%) Alteryx
9 8 (0.90%) Samsung
10 7 (0.79%) Adobe
11 5 (0.56%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.56%) YouTube
12 4 (0.45%) FIS
12 4 (0.45%) Informatica
12 4 (0.45%) Splunk
13 3 (0.34%) Embarcadero
13 3 (0.34%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.34%) Teradata