Data Science Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 118 118 164
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 -9
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 159 145 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.99% 2.49% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.57% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 113 35 56
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £41,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -32.08% +23.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £85,000
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,464 5,634 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.70% 96.74% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,699 3,147 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,842 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +25 73 £57,500 +27.78% 5
Warwickshire +27 31 £75,000 -3.23%
Staffordshire -8 15 £35,000 -
Worcestershire -9 15 £57,500 -
Solihull -3 7 £55,000 +12.82%
Wolverhampton +8 5 £47,500 - 1
Shropshire -7 4 £66,250 -
Coventry -1 3 - - 4
Herefordshire +1 2 £85,000 - 2
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.26%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.26%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (11.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (34.59%) Azure
2 45 (28.30%) Power Platform
3 18 (11.32%) AWS
4 17 (10.69%) GCP
5 13 (8.18%) Matillion
6 11 (6.92%) Snowflake
7 10 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (4.40%) Contentful
9 7 (4.40%) Google Analytics
9 7 (4.40%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (4.40%) Serverless
9 7 (4.40%) Vercel
10 5 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.14%) SaaS
11 2 (1.26%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.26%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.26%) DNS
1 2 (1.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (28.30%) Power BI
3 27 (16.98%) SQL Server
4 19 (11.95%) Tableau
5 15 (9.43%) Looker
6 13 (8.18%) Data Lake
7 12 (7.55%) Star Schema
8 11 (6.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.66%) BigQuery
9 9 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.89%) Big Data
11 3 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.26%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.26%) GIS
12 2 (1.26%) Power Query
12 2 (1.26%) Spatial Data
13 1 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (5.66%) GitLab
2 7 (4.40%) Git
General
1 30 (18.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.84%) Finance
5 17 (10.69%) Legal
6 15 (9.43%) Marketing
6 15 (9.43%) Retail
7 14 (8.81%) Public Sector
8 12 (7.55%) Games
9 9 (5.66%) Law
10 2 (1.26%) Banking
10 2 (1.26%) International Banking
10 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (29.56%) Data Scientist
2 41 (25.79%) Data Engineer
3 35 (22.01%) Senior
4 28 (17.61%) Analyst
5 26 (16.35%) Senior Analyst
6 19 (11.95%) Data Analyst
7 17 (10.69%) Senior Data Scientist
8 16 (10.06%) Senior Data Analyst
9 15 (9.43%) Data Manager
10 12 (7.55%) Lead
11 10 (6.29%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 10 (6.29%) Consultant
12 9 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Principal Data Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Data Governance Analyst
13 8 (5.03%) Data Governance Manager
13 8 (5.03%) Governance Manager
13 8 (5.03%) Senior Operations Analyst
13 8 (5.03%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.66%) React
2 7 (4.40%) GraphQL
2 7 (4.40%) Next.js
2 7 (4.40%) Node.js
2 7 (4.40%) REST
3 2 (1.26%) JWT
3 2 (1.26%) Pandas
3 2 (1.26%) PostGIS
3 2 (1.26%) RESTful
4 1 (0.63%) Kafka
4 1 (0.63%) PySpark
4 1 (0.63%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.61%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (16.35%) Algorithms
3 18 (11.32%) Data Structures
4 14 (8.81%) Freedom of Information
4 14 (8.81%) Taxonomies
5 10 (6.29%) Management Information System
6 8 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.52%) Educational Technology
7 4 (2.52%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.26%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.26%) Lidar
8 2 (1.26%) Robotics
8 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (54.72%) Analytics
2 63 (39.62%) Machine Learning
3 61 (38.36%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (37.74%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (29.56%) Data Modelling
6 41 (25.79%) Decision-Making
7 40 (25.16%) Cybersecurity
7 40 (25.16%) ETL
8 39 (24.53%) Data Engineering
8 39 (24.53%) Statistical Modelling
9 38 (23.90%) Mentoring
10 35 (22.01%) Data Analysis
11 33 (20.75%) Artificial Intelligence
11 33 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (20.13%) Agile
12 32 (20.13%) Computer Science
13 31 (19.50%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (16.98%) Coaching
14 27 (16.98%) Roadmaps
15 26 (16.35%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.28%) SQL
2 58 (36.48%) Python
3 10 (6.29%) R
4 9 (5.66%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.89%) Java
7 2 (1.26%) C#
7 2 (1.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 62 (38.99%) Degree
2 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.14%) PhD
4 2 (1.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.66%) GDPR
3 8 (5.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.32%) Databricks
3 17 (10.69%) Google
4 11 (6.92%) Alteryx
5 8 (5.03%) Informatica
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle
6 1 (0.63%) YouTube