Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 487 539 562
Rank change year-on-year +52 +23 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 299 201 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 129 125 182
10th Percentile £40,800 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,162 £44,539
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,650 £68,631
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
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 Scientist 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 +73 130 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Midlands +32 56 £55,000 +22.22% 4
South West -15 53 £65,000 +18.44% 11
West Midlands +23 47 £57,500 +17.95%
North of England +3 33 £60,000 +4.35% 15
North West +1 20 £60,000 -11.11% 6
East of England -8 16 £80,000 +39.13% 4
Yorkshire +34 11 £70,576 +28.32% 8
Scotland -64 11 £70,576 -0.95% 2
East Midlands -10 9 £45,000 +20.00% 4
North East -16 2 £43,200 -3.28% 1
Data Scientist
UK

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 297 (99.33%) Data Science
2 197 (65.89%) Degree
3 183 (61.20%) Algorithms
4 163 (54.52%) Data Analysis
5 161 (53.85%) Computer Science
6 159 (53.18%) Statistical Modelling
7 154 (51.51%) Python
8 152 (50.84%) Decision-Making
8 152 (50.84%) Problem-Solving
9 148 (49.50%) Mathematics
10 136 (45.48%) Cybersecurity
11 134 (44.82%) Mentoring
12 131 (43.81%) Coaching
12 131 (43.81%) Machine Learning
13 125 (41.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 122 (40.80%) Red Team
14 122 (40.80%) Digital Forensics
15 85 (28.43%) SQL
16 78 (26.09%) Agile
17 63 (21.07%) Analytics
18 56 (18.73%) Social Skills
19 54 (18.06%) R
20 52 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
21 49 (16.39%) PhD
22 48 (16.05%) Statistics
23 45 (15.05%) Visualisation
24 39 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
25 38 (12.71%) Natural Language Processing
26 37 (12.37%) Pandas
27 36 (12.04%) Master's Degree

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 9 (3.01%) SAS
2 5 (1.67%) Apache
2 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.67%) Luigi
3 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.36%) Azure
1 22 (7.36%) GCP
2 14 (4.68%) Power Platform
3 10 (3.34%) AWS
4 9 (3.01%) SaaS
5 5 (1.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.35%) Big Data
2 14 (4.68%) Power BI
2 14 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.01%) Tableau
5 5 (1.67%) Bigtable
5 5 (1.67%) CouchDB
5 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.67%) Redis
5 5 (1.67%) RethinkDB
6 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.00%) Metadata
7 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) MySQL
8 1 (0.33%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 28 (9.36%) Git
General
1 125 (41.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.04%) Finance
4 28 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.69%) Banking
6 14 (4.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (4.35%) Law
8 8 (2.68%) Games
8 8 (2.68%) Marketing
9 7 (2.34%) Retail
10 5 (1.67%) Legal
11 3 (1.00%) Advertising
12 2 (0.67%) International Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.37%) Pandas
2 28 (9.36%) TensorFlow
3 27 (9.03%) NumPy
4 22 (7.36%) Keras
5 15 (5.02%) XGBoost
6 12 (4.01%) scikit-learn
7 11 (3.68%) PySpark
7 11 (3.68%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.01%) SpaCy
9 5 (1.67%) SQLAlchemy
9 5 (1.67%) Statsmodels
10 2 (0.67%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.67%) React
10 2 (0.67%) Seaborn
11 1 (0.33%) Django
11 1 (0.33%) Flask
11 1 (0.33%) NLTK
11 1 (0.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 183 (61.20%) Algorithms
2 22 (7.36%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.01%) Reinsurance
4 9 (3.01%) Life Science
4 9 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.01%) Credit Risk
6 5 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.33%) iPad
8 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.33%) Molecular Biology
8 1 (0.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Windows
1 2 (0.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (99.33%) Data Science
2 163 (54.52%) Data Analysis
3 161 (53.85%) Computer Science
4 159 (53.18%) Statistical Modelling
5 152 (50.84%) Decision-Making
5 152 (50.84%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (49.50%) Mathematics
7 136 (45.48%) Cybersecurity
8 134 (44.82%) Mentoring
9 131 (43.81%) Coaching
9 131 (43.81%) Machine Learning
10 122 (40.80%) Digital Forensics
10 122 (40.80%) Red Team
11 78 (26.09%) Agile
12 63 (21.07%) Analytics
13 52 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
14 48 (16.05%) Statistics
15 45 (15.05%) Visualisation
16 39 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
17 38 (12.71%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 154 (51.51%) Python
2 85 (28.43%) SQL
3 54 (18.06%) R
4 17 (5.69%) MATLAB
5 12 (4.01%) C#
6 3 (1.00%) Java
7 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.67%) Julia
7 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.33%) C
8 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 197 (65.89%) Degree
2 49 (16.39%) PhD
3 36 (12.04%) Master's Degree
4 25 (8.36%) Security Cleared
5 22 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (6.02%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.00%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) IFRS
3 4 (1.34%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (3.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (6.02%) Databricks
2 14 (4.68%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.01%) Google
4 5 (1.67%) Dataiku
5 4 (1.34%) Oracle
6 2 (0.67%) Alteryx