Data Science Jobs in England

Data Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 75 61
Rank change year-on-year -40 -14 +48
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,076 3,879 7,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.43% 4.20% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 4.39% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,207 1,578 2,220
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,209 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,201 88,357 126,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.80% 95.62% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53,948 52,208 73,866
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,291 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,783 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
London -20 896 £80,000 - 379
South East +43 396 £60,000 -11.11% 69
North of England -84 302 £50,000 -18.27% 52
Midlands +20 204 £55,000 +22.22% 33
North West -6 187 £50,000 -25.09% 34
South West -47 171 £61,250 -9.26% 31
West Midlands +9 158 £55,000 +22.22% 17
Yorkshire -108 82 £60,125 -1.72% 14
East of England -57 75 £55,000 -4.35% 33
East Midlands +7 46 £47,500 -14.80% 16
North East -7 33 £47,500 +3.26% 4
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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 90 (4.34%) Apache Spark
2 71 (3.42%) SAS
3 30 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.16%) Apache
6 14 (0.67%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.58%) Confluence
8 5 (0.24%) nginx
9 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.14%) IIS
10 3 (0.14%) Luigi
11 2 (0.096%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.048%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.048%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.048%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 58 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.096%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.096%) SPSS
7 2 (0.096%) Stata
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.048%) Blender
Business Applications
1 25 (1.20%) Endur
2 8 (0.39%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 7 (0.34%) Shopify
4 2 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.048%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 593 (28.56%) Azure
2 336 (16.18%) Power Platform
3 332 (15.99%) AWS
4 329 (15.85%) GCP
5 103 (4.96%) Snowflake
6 90 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 71 (3.42%) Matillion
9 65 (3.13%) SaaS
10 64 (3.08%) Serverless
11 61 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 57 (2.75%) GitHub
13 40 (1.93%) IBM Cloud
14 32 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 29 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.16%) dbt
17 22 (1.06%) Amazon S3
18 20 (0.96%) Amazon SageMaker
19 19 (0.92%) Azure App Service
19 19 (0.92%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.96%) DNS
1 20 (0.96%) HTTP
2 18 (0.87%) Network Security
3 6 (0.29%) Firewall
3 6 (0.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.24%) MQTT
4 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.24%) Wireless
5 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 2 (0.096%) Broadband
6 2 (0.096%) DHCP
6 2 (0.096%) Internet
6 2 (0.096%) IPv6
6 2 (0.096%) LAN
6 2 (0.096%) WAN
7 1 (0.048%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (15.70%) Power BI
2 318 (15.32%) Data Warehouse
3 243 (11.71%) SQL Server
4 188 (9.06%) Tableau
5 180 (8.67%) BigQuery
6 159 (7.66%) Looker
7 143 (6.89%) Big Data
8 131 (6.31%) Data Lake
9 120 (5.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 79 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 63 (3.03%) Data Mining
11 63 (3.03%) NoSQL
12 57 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
13 51 (2.46%) Hadoop
14 49 (2.36%) Star Schema
15 48 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
15 48 (2.31%) Metadata
16 46 (2.22%) MongoDB
17 33 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 32 (1.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 146 (7.03%) Git
2 46 (2.22%) GitLab
3 32 (1.54%) JIRA
4 26 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.43%) MLflow
5 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.34%) ERwin
7 6 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.19%) Maven
10 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.14%) JUnit
10 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.096%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.096%) RStudio
11 2 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.048%) git-flow
12 1 (0.048%) GoCD
12 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 604 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 426 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
3 389 (18.74%) Finance
4 264 (12.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 216 (10.40%) Retail
6 188 (9.06%) Public Sector
7 132 (6.36%) Marketing
8 97 (4.67%) Law
9 83 (4.00%) Banking
10 75 (3.61%) Legal
11 60 (2.89%) Games
12 58 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (1.69%) Military
15 27 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
19 19 (0.92%) Automotive
19 19 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 486 (23.41%) Data Scientist
2 458 (22.06%) Data Engineer
3 398 (19.17%) Senior
4 180 (8.67%) Senior Data Scientist
5 175 (8.43%) Lead
6 153 (7.37%) Principal Engineer
7 151 (7.27%) Analyst
8 150 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
8 150 (7.23%) Principal Data Engineer
9 146 (7.03%) Developer
10 111 (5.35%) Architect
11 105 (5.06%) Consultant
12 80 (3.85%) Data Analyst
13 76 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 67 (3.23%) Data Manager
15 62 (2.99%) Data Architect
16 61 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
17 59 (2.84%) Python Engineer
18 48 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
19 47 (2.26%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (5.59%) Pandas
2 108 (5.20%) TensorFlow
3 81 (3.90%) PySpark
4 69 (3.32%) scikit-learn
5 64 (3.08%) PyTorch
6 61 (2.94%) NumPy
7 55 (2.65%) React
8 49 (2.36%) Kafka
9 44 (2.12%) .NET
10 43 (2.07%) RESTful
11 40 (1.93%) CSS
12 36 (1.73%) HTML
13 32 (1.54%) Node.js
14 27 (1.30%) Keras
15 24 (1.16%) Django
16 21 (1.01%) XGBoost
16 21 (1.01%) XML
17 18 (0.87%) Apache Beam
18 17 (0.82%) JWT
19 15 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 384 (18.50%) Algorithms
2 209 (10.07%) Self-Motivation
3 136 (6.55%) Data Structures
4 68 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.65%) Blockchain
5 55 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 41 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 36 (1.73%) Life Science
9 33 (1.59%) IoT
10 32 (1.54%) Cloud Native
11 25 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
11 25 (1.20%) Swaptions
12 24 (1.16%) Blog
12 24 (1.16%) Credit Risk
13 18 (0.87%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 117 (5.64%) Linux
2 42 (2.02%) Windows
3 40 (1.93%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.93%) CentOS
3 40 (1.93%) Debian
4 15 (0.72%) Unix
5 6 (0.29%) Android
5 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.096%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.048%) Solaris
7 1 (0.048%) VMS
7 1 (0.048%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (39.45%) Machine Learning
2 690 (33.24%) Analytics
3 652 (31.41%) Problem-Solving
4 598 (28.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 469 (22.59%) Agile
6 445 (21.44%) Computer Science
7 444 (21.39%) Mentoring
8 438 (21.10%) Data Engineering
9 427 (20.57%) Business Intelligence
10 423 (20.38%) Data Modelling
11 393 (18.93%) Data Pipeline
12 387 (18.64%) ETL
13 384 (18.50%) Visualisation
14 363 (17.49%) Mathematics
15 346 (16.67%) DevOps
16 339 (16.33%) Data Analysis
17 332 (15.99%) Decision-Making
18 249 (11.99%) Statistics
19 248 (11.95%) Coaching
20 241 (11.61%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 929 (44.75%) Python
2 835 (40.22%) SQL
3 214 (10.31%) R
4 128 (6.17%) Java
5 107 (5.15%) C#
6 70 (3.37%) T-SQL
7 69 (3.32%) JavaScript
8 52 (2.50%) C
8 52 (2.50%) C++
9 38 (1.83%) MATLAB
10 33 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 31 (1.49%) VB
12 30 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 30 (1.45%) Scala
13 15 (0.72%) Haskell
14 13 (0.63%) Go
15 12 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
16 10 (0.48%) VBA
17 9 (0.43%) Bash
17 9 (0.43%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 717 (34.54%) Degree
2 216 (10.40%) Master's Degree
3 129 (6.21%) PhD
4 100 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 91 (4.38%) Security Cleared
6 56 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 43 (2.07%) DBS Check
9 42 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 42 (2.02%) MCSE
10 40 (1.93%) MCSA
11 32 (1.54%) SC Cleared
12 22 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
13 17 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.43%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.29%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.29%) IIBA
17 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (9.49%) GDPR
2 186 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.78%) QA
5 12 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (0.43%) CDISC
6 9 (0.43%) PMO
7 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.19%) IFRS
8 4 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.14%) SLA
10 2 (0.096%) COBIT
10 2 (0.096%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.096%) GLBA
10 2 (0.096%) NIST
10 2 (0.096%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
System Software
1 130 (6.26%) Docker
2 17 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.19%) HDFS
4 2 (0.096%) IAG
5 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.048%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 121 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 109 (5.25%) Terraform
3 7 (0.34%) SysTrack
4 6 (0.29%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.29%) logstash
5 5 (0.24%) SELinux
6 3 (0.14%) Argo
6 3 (0.14%) Grafana
6 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.096%) Core Impact
7 2 (0.096%) Podman
8 1 (0.048%) Kibana
8 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 260 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 212 (10.21%) Google
3 178 (8.57%) Databricks
4 65 (3.13%) Oracle
5 48 (2.31%) IBM
6 40 (1.93%) Alteryx
6 40 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 27 (1.30%) Sybase
8 25 (1.20%) OpenLink
8 25 (1.20%) TIBCO
9 24 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.72%) YouTube
11 14 (0.67%) Dataiku
11 14 (0.67%) Informatica
12 13 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.53%) SAP
14 9 (0.43%) Adobe
15 8 (0.39%) Samsung
15 8 (0.39%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.34%) Cloudera