Data Science Jobs in London

Data Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 71 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 896 1,985 5,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.79% 5.62% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 5.90% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 602 885 1,496
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,582 33,665 64,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.32% 95.35% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,066 24,126 34,397
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,465 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the London 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
Central London +54 182 £70,000 -12.50% 33
West London -27 13 £85,000 +74.59% 6
South London -32 10 £67,500 +38.64% 2
East London +10 6 £55,000 +42.86% 7
North London -2 3 £70,000 -12.50% 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 71 (7.92%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.68%) SAS
3 25 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.12%) Apache
6 14 (1.56%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.89%) Confluence
8 2 (0.22%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.22%) SPSS
5 2 (0.22%) Stata
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.11%) Blender
Business Applications
1 25 (2.79%) Endur
2 8 (0.89%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 236 (26.34%) Azure
2 223 (24.89%) AWS
3 118 (13.17%) Power Platform
4 112 (12.50%) GCP
5 52 (5.80%) GitHub
6 48 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (4.24%) SaaS
8 33 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 27 (3.01%) Serverless
11 21 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.01%) Figma
13 16 (1.79%) dbt
14 12 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.12%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (1.12%) Azure Machine Learning
16 9 (1.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 8 (0.89%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.67%) Network Security
2 8 (0.89%) DNS
2 8 (0.89%) HTTP
3 4 (0.45%) Firewall
3 4 (0.45%) Intranet
4 2 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) MQTT
5 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (13.06%) Tableau
2 115 (12.83%) Power BI
3 96 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (8.48%) Big Data
5 75 (8.37%) SQL Server
6 49 (5.47%) Data Mining
7 47 (5.25%) Relational Database
8 44 (4.91%) NoSQL
9 38 (4.24%) MongoDB
10 36 (4.02%) Data Lake
10 36 (4.02%) Hadoop
11 35 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
12 28 (3.13%) RDBMS
13 26 (2.90%) BigQuery
14 22 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (2.12%) Amazon QuickSight
16 18 (2.01%) Looker
17 16 (1.79%) MySQL
18 15 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
19 14 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 89 (9.93%) Git
2 20 (2.23%) JIRA
3 17 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.79%) GitLab
5 9 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.78%) MLflow
7 6 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.33%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.33%) ERwin
8 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.22%) RStudio
9 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.11%) git-flow
10 1 (0.11%) GoCD
10 1 (0.11%) Moq
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
General
1 294 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 175 (19.53%) Finance
3 170 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.38%) Marketing
5 72 (8.04%) Retail
6 46 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.69%) Law
8 39 (4.35%) Games
9 33 (3.68%) Legal
10 29 (3.24%) Banking
11 25 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.68%) Public Sector
13 18 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.90%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.90%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.23%) Front Office
15 11 (1.23%) Publishing
16 8 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.89%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (25.78%) Senior
2 197 (21.99%) Data Scientist
3 135 (15.07%) Data Engineer
4 103 (11.50%) Senior Data Scientist
5 89 (9.93%) Developer
6 71 (7.92%) Lead
7 67 (7.48%) Analyst
8 47 (5.25%) Data Manager
9 39 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
10 38 (4.24%) Python Engineer
11 36 (4.02%) Architect
12 32 (3.57%) Data Analyst
13 28 (3.13%) Senior Manager
14 25 (2.79%) Python Data Engineer
15 23 (2.57%) Lead Data Scientist
16 20 (2.23%) Consultant
16 20 (2.23%) Python Developer
17 18 (2.01%) Designer
17 18 (2.01%) Product Manager
18 17 (1.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.37%) Pandas
1 75 (8.37%) TensorFlow
2 73 (8.15%) PySpark
3 50 (5.58%) scikit-learn
4 40 (4.46%) Kafka
5 37 (4.13%) PyTorch
6 31 (3.46%) .NET
7 28 (3.13%) NumPy
8 26 (2.90%) CSS
9 24 (2.68%) RESTful
10 22 (2.46%) React
11 21 (2.34%) HTML
12 19 (2.12%) Django
13 14 (1.56%) Apache Beam
13 14 (1.56%) Node.js
14 13 (1.45%) JSON
15 11 (1.23%) XML
16 10 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (1.12%) XGBoost
17 9 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 156 (17.41%) Algorithms
2 51 (5.69%) Data Structures
3 43 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.24%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.79%) Swaptions
6 22 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.34%) Renewable Energy
8 19 (2.12%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.90%) Life Science
10 16 (1.79%) Credit Risk
10 16 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.56%) Blockchain
12 13 (1.45%) Blog
12 13 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.23%) Client/Server
13 11 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.00%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.00%) PMI
15 8 (0.89%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.46%) Linux
2 13 (1.45%) Unix
3 9 (1.00%) Windows
4 6 (0.67%) Android
4 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (43.19%) Machine Learning
2 304 (33.93%) Analytics
3 257 (28.68%) Artificial Intelligence
4 226 (25.22%) Visualisation
5 209 (23.33%) Computer Science
6 183 (20.42%) Data Modelling
7 174 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (18.64%) Statistics
9 161 (17.97%) Mathematics
10 144 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
11 141 (15.74%) ETL
12 139 (15.51%) Software Engineering
13 137 (15.29%) Data Visualisation
14 136 (15.18%) Agile
15 133 (14.84%) Data Engineering
16 128 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
17 111 (12.39%) DevOps
18 103 (11.50%) Data Analysis
19 102 (11.38%) Natural Language Processing
20 94 (10.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 566 (63.17%) Python
2 449 (50.11%) SQL
3 125 (13.95%) R
4 88 (9.82%) Java
5 71 (7.92%) C#
6 31 (3.46%) VB
7 30 (3.35%) C
8 26 (2.90%) C++
8 26 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 26 (2.90%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.68%) MATLAB
10 19 (2.12%) Scala
11 17 (1.90%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.67%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.12%) VBA
14 9 (1.00%) U-SQL
15 6 (0.67%) Go
16 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.22%) Bash
17 2 (0.22%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 321 (35.83%) Degree
2 132 (14.73%) Master's Degree
3 70 (7.81%) PhD
4 58 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.02%) DBS Check
6 25 (2.79%) Security Cleared
7 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.45%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (0.89%) Postgraduate
11 6 (0.67%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.22%) HNC
14 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.11%) MBA
14 1 (0.11%) MCP
14 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.01%) GDPR
3 16 (1.79%) QA
4 10 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.00%) PMO
6 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) SLA
8 2 (0.22%) CDISC
8 2 (0.22%) IFRS
8 2 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 55 (6.14%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.22%) HDFS
4 2 (0.22%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.35%) Terraform
3 6 (0.67%) Kubeflow
3 6 (0.67%) logstash
4 3 (0.33%) Argo
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
4 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.22%) Ansible
5 2 (0.22%) Core Impact
6 1 (0.11%) Kibana
6 1 (0.11%) Podman
6 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 104 (11.61%) Databricks
2 67 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.36%) Oracle
4 46 (5.13%) Google
5 27 (3.01%) Sybase
6 25 (2.79%) OpenLink
6 25 (2.79%) TIBCO
7 14 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.45%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.23%) Alteryx
10 9 (1.00%) Adobe
11 8 (0.89%) Samsung
11 8 (0.89%) YouTube
12 6 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.45%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.45%) Facebook
13 4 (0.45%) FIS
13 4 (0.45%) Informatica
13 4 (0.45%) Splunk
14 3 (0.33%) Tealium