Senior Data Scientist Jobs in London

Senior Data Scientist
England > London

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in London is £87,500 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 383 559 544
Rank change year-on-year +176 -15 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 118 56 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.18% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.18% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 47 44 119
10th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.56% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £103,125
90th Percentile £128,500 £97,290 £112,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -15.63% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist 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 +89 44 £115,000 +64.29% 1
West London - 2 £80,000 - 1
Senior Data Scientist
England

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

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

1 118 (100.00%) Data Science
2 103 (87.29%) Python
3 100 (84.75%) Machine Learning
4 85 (72.03%) SQL
5 83 (70.34%) Degree
6 82 (69.49%) Statistics
7 77 (65.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 76 (64.41%) Mathematics
9 72 (61.02%) Algorithms
10 70 (59.32%) Natural Language Processing
11 69 (58.47%) Social Skills
12 62 (52.54%) Master's Degree
12 62 (52.54%) Visualisation
13 61 (51.69%) Customer Experience
14 57 (48.31%) Neural Network
15 56 (47.46%) Physics
16 55 (46.61%) Predictive Modelling
17 54 (45.76%) Actionable Insight
17 54 (45.76%) Pandas
18 53 (44.92%) Generative AI
19 52 (44.07%) Tableau
20 51 (43.22%) scikit-learn
20 51 (43.22%) Decision-Making
20 51 (43.22%) Git
21 50 (42.37%) TensorFlow
21 50 (42.37%) MLOps
22 45 (38.14%) Storytelling
22 45 (38.14%) DBS Check
22 45 (38.14%) PySpark
22 45 (38.14%) Databricks

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
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 17 (14.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.34%) Azure
2 21 (17.80%) AWS
3 17 (14.41%) GCP
4 4 (3.39%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (44.07%) Tableau
2 9 (7.63%) Hadoop
3 5 (4.24%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (3.39%) Big Data
5 3 (2.54%) Power BI
6 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 51 (43.22%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) RStudio
2 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (58.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.56%) Marketing
4 14 (11.86%) Retail
5 11 (9.32%) Finance
6 10 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (4.24%) Banking
9 3 (2.54%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (45.76%) Pandas
2 51 (43.22%) scikit-learn
3 50 (42.37%) TensorFlow
4 45 (38.14%) PySpark
5 8 (6.78%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.39%) NumPy
7 3 (2.54%) .NET
7 3 (2.54%) XGBoost
8 1 (0.85%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 72 (61.02%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.93%) Life Science
3 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.24%) Semantic Web
4 4 (3.39%) PMI
5 3 (2.54%) Blog
5 3 (2.54%) CUDA
5 3 (2.54%) Social Media
6 2 (1.69%) Cybercrime
6 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (100.00%) Data Science
2 100 (84.75%) Machine Learning
3 82 (69.49%) Statistics
4 77 (65.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 76 (64.41%) Mathematics
6 70 (59.32%) Natural Language Processing
7 62 (52.54%) Visualisation
8 61 (51.69%) Customer Experience
9 57 (48.31%) Neural Network
10 56 (47.46%) Physics
11 55 (46.61%) Predictive Modelling
12 54 (45.76%) Actionable Insight
13 53 (44.92%) Generative AI
14 51 (43.22%) Decision-Making
15 50 (42.37%) MLOps
16 45 (38.14%) Data Munging
16 45 (38.14%) Demand Forecasting
16 45 (38.14%) Propensity Modelling
16 45 (38.14%) Root Cause Analysis
16 45 (38.14%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 103 (87.29%) Python
2 85 (72.03%) SQL
3 18 (15.25%) R
4 6 (5.08%) C++
5 5 (4.24%) MATLAB
6 4 (3.39%) C
6 4 (3.39%) Java
7 3 (2.54%) C#
Qualifications
1 83 (70.34%) Degree
2 62 (52.54%) Master's Degree
3 45 (38.14%) DBS Check
4 16 (13.56%) PhD
5 4 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.54%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.54%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 45 (38.14%) Databricks
2 2 (1.69%) Sage
3 1 (0.85%) Alteryx