Data Science Jobs in the South West

Data Science
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 138 91 108
Rank change year-on-year -47 +17 -25
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 171 228 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.85% 3.30% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 3.49% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 88 197 129
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,125 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,833 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £67,500 £51,450
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +31.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £95,916 £76,400
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,753 6,536 7,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.05% 94.48% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,554 3,644 5,025
10th Percentile £28,833 £30,500 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,238 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
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 Science within the South West 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
Bristol -42 75 £65,000 -5.11% 18
Gloucestershire +10 34 £53,750 -28.33% 6
Dorset +7 31 £41,146 -48.57% 1
Somerset +17 16 £45,000 +1.69% 1
Wiltshire -17 8 £47,500 +3.83% 2
Devon -9 7 £47,500 +30.11% 3
Data Science
England

Data Science
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 10 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.09%) SAS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.51%) Trello
2 2 (1.17%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.37%) GCP
1 28 (16.37%) Power Platform
2 27 (15.79%) Azure
3 17 (9.94%) AWS
4 4 (2.34%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (1.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.17%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (1.17%) Firebase
6 2 (1.17%) SaaS
6 2 (1.17%) Serverless
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.58%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.58%) Collibra
7 1 (0.58%) Matillion
7 1 (0.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) DNS
1 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.37%) Power BI
2 25 (14.62%) BigQuery
3 22 (12.87%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (12.28%) Looker
5 19 (11.11%) Tableau
6 18 (10.53%) SQL Server
7 15 (8.77%) Big Data
8 14 (8.19%) Relational Database
9 12 (7.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.68%) Hadoop
11 7 (4.09%) Data Lake
11 7 (4.09%) QlikView
12 6 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (3.51%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.92%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
14 4 (2.34%) Data Mining
14 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (2.34%) Flink
15 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.09%) JIRA
2 5 (2.92%) Git
3 4 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.75%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.75%) JUnit
4 3 (1.75%) Maven
General
1 54 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 52 (30.41%) Finance
3 43 (25.15%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.96%) Law
5 27 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (15.20%) Banking
7 18 (10.53%) Retail
8 16 (9.36%) Investment Banking
9 15 (8.77%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (7.02%) Automotive
11 11 (6.43%) Public Sector
12 9 (5.26%) Marketing
13 7 (4.09%) Legal
14 4 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (2.34%) Police
14 4 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.75%) Financial Institution
16 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (23.98%) Data Scientist
2 37 (21.64%) Data Engineer
3 22 (12.87%) Lead
4 21 (12.28%) Platform Engineer
4 21 (12.28%) Principal Data Engineer
4 21 (12.28%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (11.70%) Analyst
6 17 (9.94%) Senior
7 16 (9.36%) Senior Data Scientist
8 11 (6.43%) Consultant
8 11 (6.43%) Data Analyst
8 11 (6.43%) Developer
9 10 (5.85%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 7 (4.09%) Architect
10 7 (4.09%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (4.09%) Graduate
11 6 (3.51%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
12 5 (2.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.87%) NumPy
1 22 (12.87%) Pandas
2 21 (12.28%) TensorFlow
3 19 (11.11%) Keras
4 9 (5.26%) React
5 8 (4.68%) CSS
5 8 (4.68%) HTML
5 8 (4.68%) PyTorch
5 8 (4.68%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.51%) Kafka
6 6 (3.51%) SpaCy
7 5 (2.92%) Node.js
7 5 (2.92%) Statsmodels
7 5 (2.92%) Vue
8 4 (2.34%) Apache Beam
8 4 (2.34%) XGBoost
9 3 (1.75%) OpenAPI
9 3 (1.75%) Playwright
9 3 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.62%) Algorithms
2 23 (13.45%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.02%) IoT
4 11 (6.43%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.34%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.17%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.17%) NHS
9 2 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.88%) Machine Learning
2 70 (40.94%) Agile
3 56 (32.75%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (32.16%) Analytics
5 45 (26.32%) Data Engineering
6 42 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (23.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 40 (23.39%) Mentoring
8 39 (22.81%) Visualisation
9 36 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (18.13%) Data Modelling
10 31 (18.13%) DevOps
11 26 (15.20%) Statistics
12 25 (14.62%) Change Management
12 25 (14.62%) Computer Science
13 23 (13.45%) Data Analysis
13 23 (13.45%) Data Analytics
13 23 (13.45%) Decision-Making
14 22 (12.87%) Prototyping
15 21 (12.28%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 77 (45.03%) Python
2 69 (40.35%) SQL
3 14 (8.19%) MATLAB
3 14 (8.19%) R
4 13 (7.60%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.02%) SystemVerilog
6 11 (6.43%) Java
7 8 (4.68%) Scala
7 8 (4.68%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.92%) C++
9 4 (2.34%) C
10 3 (1.75%) Go
11 1 (0.58%) C#
11 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (30.41%) Degree
2 38 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.87%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.70%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.68%) PhD
7 6 (3.51%) IIBA
8 5 (2.92%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.28%) GDPR
2 11 (6.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (2.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (14.62%) Google
2 13 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.09%) Alteryx
3 7 (4.09%) IBM
3 7 (4.09%) Oracle
4 6 (3.51%) Databricks
4 6 (3.51%) Dataiku
5 4 (2.34%) Teradata
6 1 (0.58%) ESRI
6 1 (0.58%) Mapbox