Data Science Jobs in the North of England

Data Science
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 149 65 141
Rank change year-on-year -84 +76 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 302 922 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.74% 5.27% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 5.44% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 169 180 182
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £38,387
25th Percentile £39,720 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +1.97% +6.67%
75th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £92,300
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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,500 16,947 16,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.75% 96.88% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,137 8,093 10,814
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -6 187 £50,000 -25.09% 33
Yorkshire -108 82 £60,125 -1.72% 14
North East -7 33 £47,500 +3.26% 4
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 10 (3.31%) SAS
2 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.32%) Confluence
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 111 (36.75%) Azure
2 98 (32.45%) GCP
3 53 (17.55%) Power Platform
4 27 (8.94%) AWS
5 23 (7.62%) Snowflake
6 22 (7.28%) Matillion
7 18 (5.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (4.64%) SaaS
9 7 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.99%) dbt
11 5 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.32%) Azure App Service
12 4 (1.32%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (1.32%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) DNS
1 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 3 (0.99%) Network Security
3 2 (0.66%) Firewall
4 1 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (27.48%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (22.19%) BigQuery
3 59 (19.54%) Looker
4 48 (15.89%) Power BI
4 48 (15.89%) SQL Server
5 35 (11.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 25 (8.28%) Big Data
7 24 (7.95%) Data Lake
7 24 (7.95%) Star Schema
8 18 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (5.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (5.30%) Metadata
10 12 (3.97%) Tableau
11 10 (3.31%) Data Vault
11 10 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.66%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (8.94%) Git
2 18 (5.96%) GitLab
3 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.32%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 92 (30.46%) Analytical Skills
2 91 (30.13%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.23%) Finance
4 43 (14.24%) Retail
5 35 (11.59%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.95%) Banking
7 16 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.64%) Law
9 11 (3.64%) Marketing
10 8 (2.65%) Legal
11 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.66%) Games
12 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.32%) Local Government
14 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.33%) Automotive
16 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (38.08%) Data Engineer
2 65 (21.52%) Platform Engineer
3 57 (18.87%) Principal Data Engineer
3 57 (18.87%) Principal Engineer
4 51 (16.89%) Senior
5 37 (12.25%) Data Scientist
6 31 (10.26%) Architect
7 29 (9.60%) Lead
8 21 (6.95%) Senior Data Scientist
9 20 (6.62%) Consultant
10 19 (6.29%) Data Architect
11 18 (5.96%) Analyst
12 17 (5.63%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 17 (5.63%) Developer
13 13 (4.30%) Technical Architect
14 10 (3.31%) DataOps Engineer
14 10 (3.31%) DataOps Leader
14 10 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (3.31%) Operations Engineer
14 10 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.31%) Pandas
2 9 (2.98%) .NET
3 8 (2.65%) React
4 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (1.66%) PySpark
5 5 (1.66%) XGBoost
6 4 (1.32%) JWT
6 4 (1.32%) RESTful
6 4 (1.32%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 4 (1.32%) Unreal Engine
7 3 (0.99%) NumPy
8 2 (0.66%) Django
8 2 (0.66%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.66%) Flask
8 2 (0.66%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.66%) HTML
8 2 (0.66%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.66%) LangChain
8 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.66%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.15%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (8.28%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.64%) Blog
5 7 (2.32%) Cyberattack
5 7 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.99%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.66%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.32%) Animation
8 4 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (1.32%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.66%) NHS
10 1 (0.33%) Acoustics
10 1 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.33%) iPad
10 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.32%) Windows
2 6 (1.99%) Linux
3 2 (0.66%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (44.37%) Agile
2 120 (39.74%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (38.41%) Data Engineering
4 104 (34.44%) Data Pipeline
5 99 (32.78%) Analytics
6 94 (31.13%) Machine Learning
7 90 (29.80%) ETL
8 87 (28.81%) Mentoring
9 81 (26.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 79 (26.16%) DevOps
11 76 (25.17%) DataOps
12 70 (23.18%) Business Intelligence
13 65 (21.52%) Platform Engineering
14 63 (20.86%) Change Management
15 57 (18.87%) Data Modelling
16 54 (17.88%) Visualisation
17 40 (13.25%) Data Analytics
18 39 (12.91%) CI/CD
19 35 (11.59%) Data Governance
20 34 (11.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 119 (39.40%) SQL
2 89 (29.47%) Python
3 19 (6.29%) T-SQL
4 14 (4.64%) R
5 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.32%) C#
6 4 (1.32%) Go
7 2 (0.66%) Julia
7 2 (0.66%) PHP
7 2 (0.66%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Java
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (10.26%) Degree
2 10 (3.31%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.32%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.99%) OCP
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.99%) PhD
9 2 (0.66%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.66%) CISA
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) CRISC
9 2 (0.66%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.66%) SANS
10 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (21.85%) GDPR
2 41 (13.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.66%) QA
5 2 (0.66%) COBIT
5 2 (0.66%) GLBA
5 2 (0.66%) IFRS
5 2 (0.66%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.99%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.30%) Terraform
2 10 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.32%) SysTrack
4 3 (0.99%) Ansible
4 3 (0.99%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (21.19%) Google
2 59 (19.54%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.31%) Databricks
4 7 (2.32%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.32%) Snow
5 5 (1.66%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.66%) Oracle
5 5 (1.66%) YouTube
6 4 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.99%) SAP
8 1 (0.33%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.33%) Facebook
8 1 (0.33%) VMware
8 1 (0.33%) Zend