Data Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 162 112 128
Rank change year-on-year -50 +16 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 1,313 1,743 2,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.73% 3.08% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.23% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 639 638 739
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £44,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,029 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +6.72% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,470 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £94,825 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
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
Scotland -71 109 £70,000 +3.70% 20
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
Wales +27 28 £47,500 -13.70% 12
Northern Ireland +20 8 £100,000 +203.03% 6
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 50 (3.81%) SAS
2 35 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 10 (0.76%) Apache
3 10 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.38%) Luigi
5 4 (0.30%) Confluence
5 4 (0.30%) nginx
6 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.076%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.076%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.076%) Moodle
7 1 (0.076%) SharePoint
Applications
1 59 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.46%) Trello
4 2 (0.15%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.076%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 383 (29.17%) Azure
2 258 (19.65%) Power Platform
3 248 (18.89%) GCP
4 150 (11.42%) AWS
5 83 (6.32%) Snowflake
6 60 (4.57%) Matillion
7 58 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 46 (3.50%) SaaS
9 40 (3.05%) IBM Cloud
10 34 (2.59%) Serverless
11 30 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 27 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (1.75%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (1.07%) Google Docs
15 14 (1.07%) Lucidchart
15 14 (1.07%) Miro
15 14 (1.07%) Slack
16 12 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.76%) DNS
1 10 (0.76%) HTTP
2 4 (0.30%) Ethernet
2 4 (0.30%) MQTT
2 4 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.30%) VPN
2 4 (0.30%) Wireless
3 3 (0.23%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) Broadband
4 2 (0.15%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) Internet
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.076%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (20.11%) Data Warehouse
2 250 (19.04%) Power BI
3 173 (13.18%) SQL Server
4 167 (12.72%) BigQuery
5 155 (11.81%) Looker
6 104 (7.92%) Tableau
7 102 (7.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 96 (7.31%) Big Data
9 90 (6.85%) Data Lake
10 52 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (3.43%) Star Schema
12 40 (3.05%) Metadata
13 38 (2.89%) Data Vault
14 33 (2.51%) Relational Database
15 32 (2.44%) Hadoop
16 27 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
17 22 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 20 (1.52%) Redis
19 17 (1.29%) NoSQL
20 16 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (5.33%) Git
2 30 (2.28%) GitLab
3 12 (0.91%) JIRA
4 10 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.30%) ERwin
5 4 (0.30%) Maven
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.23%) JUnit
6 3 (0.23%) Subversion
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.076%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.076%) GoCD
8 1 (0.076%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 344 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 287 (21.86%) Analytical Skills
3 276 (21.02%) Finance
4 238 (18.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 162 (12.34%) Public Sector
6 149 (11.35%) Retail
7 97 (7.39%) Presentation Skills
8 80 (6.09%) Banking
9 67 (5.10%) Marketing
10 64 (4.87%) Law
11 40 (3.05%) Games
12 38 (2.89%) Legal
13 35 (2.67%) Investment Banking
13 35 (2.67%) Military
14 23 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (1.14%) Automotive
17 13 (0.99%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 335 (25.51%) Data Engineer
2 297 (22.62%) Data Scientist
3 194 (14.78%) Senior
4 181 (13.79%) Principal Engineer
5 158 (12.03%) Platform Engineer
6 147 (11.20%) Principal Data Engineer
7 132 (10.05%) Lead
8 100 (7.62%) Architect
9 93 (7.08%) Analyst
10 88 (6.70%) Consultant
11 87 (6.63%) Senior Data Scientist
12 78 (5.94%) Data Architect
13 76 (5.79%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 71 (5.41%) Software Engineer
15 63 (4.80%) Developer
16 55 (4.19%) Data Analyst
17 43 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
18 38 (2.89%) Data Manager
19 37 (2.82%) Python Engineer
20 34 (2.59%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.04%) Pandas
2 34 (2.59%) NumPy
3 31 (2.36%) TensorFlow
4 30 (2.28%) React
5 25 (1.90%) GraphQL
5 25 (1.90%) Kafka
6 22 (1.68%) Keras
7 20 (1.52%) PySpark
8 19 (1.45%) RESTful
9 18 (1.37%) Node.js
10 17 (1.29%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.14%) XGBoost
12 14 (1.07%) CSS
12 14 (1.07%) HTML
13 13 (0.99%) scikit-learn
14 10 (0.76%) .NET
14 10 (0.76%) EDI
14 10 (0.76%) JWT
14 10 (0.76%) SpaCy
14 10 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 246 (18.74%) Algorithms
2 207 (15.77%) Self-Motivation
3 108 (8.23%) Data Structures
4 49 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (3.12%) Blockchain
6 40 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (2.89%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.59%) Life Science
9 22 (1.68%) IoT
9 22 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.07%) Freedom of Information
10 14 (1.07%) Taxonomies
11 13 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.91%) Reinsurance
13 11 (0.84%) Blog
13 11 (0.84%) Credit Risk
14 9 (0.69%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.61%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.79%) Linux
2 40 (3.05%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (3.05%) CentOS
2 40 (3.05%) Debian
3 35 (2.67%) Windows
4 2 (0.15%) Unix
4 2 (0.15%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.076%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (41.74%) Problem-Solving
2 475 (36.18%) Machine Learning
3 460 (35.03%) Analytics
4 381 (29.02%) Mentoring
5 380 (28.94%) Agile
6 367 (27.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 339 (25.82%) Data Engineering
8 319 (24.30%) Business Intelligence
9 303 (23.08%) Data Analysis
10 283 (21.55%) DevOps
11 281 (21.40%) Data Pipeline
12 271 (20.64%) Data Modelling
13 269 (20.49%) Computer Science
14 254 (19.35%) Decision-Making
15 248 (18.89%) ETL
16 237 (18.05%) Mathematics
17 235 (17.90%) Coaching
18 217 (16.53%) Cybersecurity
19 174 (13.25%) Data Analytics
20 173 (13.18%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 431 (32.83%) Python
2 421 (32.06%) SQL
3 102 (7.77%) R
4 58 (4.42%) Java
5 52 (3.96%) T-SQL
6 43 (3.27%) JavaScript
7 33 (2.51%) C#
8 27 (2.06%) C++
9 26 (1.98%) Scala
10 22 (1.68%) Bash
10 22 (1.68%) C
11 21 (1.60%) Go
12 17 (1.29%) MATLAB
13 16 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 15 (1.14%) Haskell
15 12 (0.91%) SystemVerilog
16 5 (0.38%) Julia
16 5 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.30%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 422 (32.14%) Degree
2 89 (6.78%) Master's Degree
3 61 (4.65%) PhD
4 57 (4.34%) Security Cleared
5 52 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 41 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.05%) MCSA
8 40 (3.05%) MCSE
9 31 (2.36%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.14%) SC Cleared
11 14 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
12 10 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.46%) IIBA
14 4 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.30%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.23%) Postgraduate
16 2 (0.15%) FFIEC
16 2 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (14.39%) GDPR
2 141 (10.74%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.51%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.14%) Good Clinical Practice
5 14 (1.07%) QA
6 9 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.53%) CDISC
8 4 (0.30%) IFRS
8 4 (0.30%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.15%) COBIT
9 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.15%) GLBA
9 2 (0.15%) NIST
9 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.076%) Basel III
10 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
System Software
1 76 (5.79%) Docker
2 10 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.80%) Terraform
3 7 (0.53%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.38%) SELinux
5 3 (0.23%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.076%) Grafana
6 1 (0.076%) Podman
6 1 (0.076%) yum
Vendors
1 217 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 202 (15.38%) Google
3 79 (6.02%) Databricks
4 47 (3.58%) IBM
5 40 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 26 (1.98%) Alteryx
7 22 (1.68%) Oracle
8 14 (1.07%) Dell
9 10 (0.76%) Informatica
9 10 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.61%) SAP
11 7 (0.53%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.53%) Snow
11 7 (0.53%) YouTube
12 6 (0.46%) Dataiku
12 6 (0.46%) iManage
13 5 (0.38%) Talend
13 5 (0.38%) Teradata
14 4 (0.30%) BiZZdesign
15 3 (0.23%) Cloudera