Data Science Engineer Jobs in England

Data Science Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Science Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 857 882 1166
Rank change year-on-year +25 +284 -280
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Science Engineer 6 12 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.015% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.016% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £52,750 £46,000 £53,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £70,250 - £89,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 Science Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science Engineer in England

Data Science Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Science Engineer in England

Data Science Engineer
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 Science Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
East of England - 4 £60,000 -
London +93 2 £62,500 - 1
Data Science Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Data Science Engineer 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 Science Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Linked Data
3 4 (66.67%) Triplestore
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 4 (66.67%) RESTful
3 4 (66.67%) SPARQL
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) RDF
3 4 (66.67%) GIS
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Local Government
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Reference Data
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Spatial Data
3 4 (66.67%) Data Structures
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Big Data
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Hadoop

Data Science Engineer 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 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) GIS
1 4 (66.67%) Spatial Data
1 4 (66.67%) Triplestore
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (66.67%) Local Government
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) gRPC
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 4 (66.67%) Linked Data
1 4 (66.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) RDF
3 4 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Convolutional Neural Network
5 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) LSTM
5 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SPARQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft