Data Scientist Jobs in the South West

Data Scientist
England > South West

The median Data Scientist salary in the South West is £65,000 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 239 216 267
Rank change year-on-year -23 +51 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 56 39 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 0.60% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 38 36 44
10th Percentile £46,306 £42,813 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,125 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,882 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -0.21% +15.79%
75th Percentile £80,938 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £71,148 £69,250
England median annual salary £68,100 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.96% -7.41% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 10,157 5,725 8,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 88.79% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,334 3,659 5,114
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in the South West.

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the South West 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
Bristol -2 35 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Gloucestershire -2 19 £70,000 - 2
Devon -12 2 £60,000 +64.38% 3
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 South West region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (98.21%) Data Science
3 50 (89.29%) Machine Learning
4 43 (76.79%) Agile
5 31 (55.36%) SQL
6 28 (50.00%) Statistics
7 26 (46.43%) Analytics
8 24 (42.86%) Degree
9 23 (41.07%) NumPy
9 23 (41.07%) Natural Language Processing
10 22 (39.29%) Algorithms
10 22 (39.29%) TensorFlow
11 21 (37.50%) Visualisation
11 21 (37.50%) Security Cleared
12 20 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (35.71%) Keras
12 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
13 19 (33.93%) Pandas
13 19 (33.93%) Data Analysis
14 18 (32.14%) Computer Science
14 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (28.57%) Data Engineering
15 16 (28.57%) DV Cleared
15 16 (28.57%) Data Modelling
16 15 (26.79%) MATLAB
16 15 (26.79%) Business Analysis
16 15 (26.79%) Actionable Insight
16 15 (26.79%) Minimum Viable Product
16 15 (26.79%) Prototyping
17 14 (25.00%) Databricks

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (8.93%) Apache
1 5 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (8.93%) Luigi
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) GCP
2 5 (8.93%) Snowflake
3 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.36%) Azure
5 2 (3.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) Big Data
2 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.93%) Bigtable
3 5 (8.93%) CouchDB
3 5 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (8.93%) Redis
3 5 (8.93%) RethinkDB
3 5 (8.93%) Tableau
4 4 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.79%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Finance
4 6 (10.71%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.07%) NumPy
2 22 (39.29%) TensorFlow
3 20 (35.71%) Keras
4 19 (33.93%) Pandas
5 12 (21.43%) PySpark
6 8 (14.29%) PyTorch
6 8 (14.29%) scikit-learn
7 6 (10.71%) SpaCy
8 5 (8.93%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (8.93%) Statsmodels
9 4 (7.14%) XGBoost
10 1 (1.79%) Django
10 1 (1.79%) Flask
10 1 (1.79%) NLTK
10 1 (1.79%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (39.29%) Algorithms
2 14 (25.00%) Reinsurance
3 7 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 5 (8.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (98.21%) Data Science
2 50 (89.29%) Machine Learning
3 43 (76.79%) Agile
4 28 (50.00%) Statistics
5 26 (46.43%) Analytics
6 23 (41.07%) Natural Language Processing
7 21 (37.50%) Visualisation
8 20 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (33.93%) Data Analysis
10 18 (32.14%) Computer Science
10 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (28.57%) Data Engineering
11 16 (28.57%) Data Modelling
12 15 (26.79%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (26.79%) Business Analysis
12 15 (26.79%) Minimum Viable Product
12 15 (26.79%) Prototyping
13 14 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
15 11 (19.64%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Python
2 31 (55.36%) SQL
3 15 (26.79%) MATLAB
4 8 (14.29%) R
5 1 (1.79%) C
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) Julia
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Degree
2 21 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 16 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 13 (23.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (19.64%) PhD
6 8 (14.29%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (8.93%) Dataiku
2 5 (8.93%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle