Data Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 156 106 125
Rank change year-on-year -50 +19 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 1,310 1,956 1,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.86% 3.18% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.33% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 652 704 732
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,313 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +11.85% +0.88%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,450 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,415 58,778 66,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 95.62% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 41,129 30,196 41,543
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
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 Science within the UK excluding 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
South East +43 396 £60,000 -11.11% 69
North of England -84 302 £50,000 -18.27% 51
Midlands +20 204 £55,000 +22.22% 32
North West -6 187 £50,000 -25.09% 33
South West -47 171 £61,250 -9.26% 32
West Midlands +9 158 £55,000 +22.22% 16
Scotland -56 129 £69,750 +3.33% 21
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
Wales +29 29 £47,500 -13.67% 10
Northern Ireland +23 4 £77,500 +134.85% 6
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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 46 (3.51%) SAS
2 44 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.38%) Apache
5 4 (0.31%) Confluence
5 4 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.23%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.076%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.076%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.076%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.076%) Luigi
Applications
1 46 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.46%) Trello
4 2 (0.15%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Shopify
2 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.076%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.076%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 368 (28.09%) Azure
2 265 (20.23%) GCP
3 242 (18.47%) Power Platform
4 148 (11.30%) AWS
5 83 (6.34%) Snowflake
6 63 (4.81%) Matillion
7 62 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (4.66%) SaaS
9 46 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 40 (3.05%) IBM Cloud
11 39 (2.98%) Serverless
12 33 (2.52%) Amazon S3
13 32 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 28 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 25 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (1.76%) Google Docs
16 23 (1.76%) Lucidchart
16 23 (1.76%) Miro
16 23 (1.76%) Slack
17 14 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.92%) DNS
1 12 (0.92%) HTTP
2 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
2 4 (0.31%) MQTT
2 4 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.31%) VPN
2 4 (0.31%) Wireless
3 3 (0.23%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) Broadband
4 2 (0.15%) DHCP
4 2 (0.15%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) Internet
4 2 (0.15%) IPv6
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.076%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
2 232 (17.71%) Power BI
3 171 (13.05%) SQL Server
4 170 (12.98%) BigQuery
5 156 (11.91%) Looker
6 101 (7.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 99 (7.56%) Big Data
8 94 (7.18%) Data Lake
9 83 (6.34%) Tableau
10 57 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (3.44%) Star Schema
12 43 (3.28%) Metadata
13 42 (3.21%) Hadoop
14 33 (2.52%) Relational Database
15 25 (1.91%) Redis
16 23 (1.76%) Scylla
16 23 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 22 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
18 19 (1.45%) Data Vault
19 18 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (4.66%) Git
2 30 (2.29%) GitLab
3 12 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.92%) JIRA
4 4 (0.31%) ERwin
4 4 (0.31%) JUnit
4 4 (0.31%) Maven
4 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.15%) MLflow
6 2 (0.15%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.076%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.076%) GoCD
7 1 (0.076%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 343 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 281 (21.45%) Analytical Skills
3 277 (21.15%) Finance
4 256 (19.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (12.29%) Public Sector
6 151 (11.53%) Retail
7 90 (6.87%) Banking
8 76 (5.80%) Law
9 71 (5.42%) Marketing
10 61 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (3.21%) Games
12 38 (2.90%) Legal
13 35 (2.67%) Investment Banking
13 35 (2.67%) Military
14 23 (1.76%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.15%) Automotive
18 11 (0.84%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 336 (25.65%) Data Engineer
2 290 (22.14%) Data Scientist
3 200 (15.27%) Principal Engineer
4 191 (14.58%) Senior
5 157 (11.98%) Platform Engineer
6 147 (11.22%) Principal Data Engineer
7 116 (8.85%) Lead
8 93 (7.10%) Analyst
9 89 (6.79%) Consultant
10 88 (6.72%) Software Engineer
11 84 (6.41%) Architect
12 81 (6.18%) Senior Data Scientist
13 76 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 62 (4.73%) Data Architect
15 57 (4.35%) Data Analyst
15 57 (4.35%) Developer
16 53 (4.05%) Principal Software Engineer
17 42 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
18 38 (2.90%) Data Manager
19 37 (2.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.74%) Pandas
2 36 (2.75%) Kafka
3 34 (2.60%) GraphQL
4 33 (2.52%) NumPy
5 30 (2.29%) React
6 24 (1.83%) TensorFlow
7 19 (1.45%) Keras
7 19 (1.45%) RESTful
8 18 (1.37%) Node.js
9 17 (1.30%) PyTorch
10 16 (1.22%) XGBoost
11 15 (1.15%) HTML
12 14 (1.07%) CSS
13 12 (0.92%) PySpark
13 12 (0.92%) scikit-learn
13 12 (0.92%) SpaCy
14 11 (0.84%) .NET
15 10 (0.76%) EDI
15 10 (0.76%) REST
15 10 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 253 (19.31%) Algorithms
2 208 (15.88%) Self-Motivation
3 116 (8.85%) Data Structures
4 49 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (3.66%) Cloud Native
6 41 (3.13%) Blockchain
7 40 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 24 (1.83%) IoT
10 21 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.53%) Life Science
12 14 (1.07%) Freedom of Information
12 14 (1.07%) Taxonomies
13 12 (0.92%) Onboarding
13 12 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.84%) Blog
14 11 (0.84%) Credit Risk
15 10 (0.76%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.61%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.64%) Linux
2 43 (3.28%) Windows
3 40 (3.05%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (3.05%) CentOS
3 40 (3.05%) Debian
4 9 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.15%) Unix
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.076%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (39.85%) Problem-Solving
2 478 (36.49%) Machine Learning
3 444 (33.89%) Analytics
4 406 (30.99%) Agile
5 378 (28.85%) Mentoring
6 370 (28.24%) Artificial Intelligence
7 345 (26.34%) Data Engineering
8 295 (22.52%) Business Intelligence
9 286 (21.83%) Data Pipeline
10 268 (20.46%) DevOps
11 264 (20.15%) Data Analysis
12 254 (19.39%) Computer Science
13 253 (19.31%) ETL
14 251 (19.16%) Data Modelling
14 251 (19.16%) Decision-Making
15 235 (17.94%) Coaching
16 229 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
17 225 (17.18%) Mathematics
18 175 (13.36%) Statistical Modelling
19 174 (13.28%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 439 (33.51%) Python
2 417 (31.83%) SQL
3 98 (7.48%) R
4 68 (5.19%) Java
5 54 (4.12%) T-SQL
6 42 (3.21%) JavaScript
7 36 (2.75%) C#
7 36 (2.75%) Scala
8 31 (2.37%) Bash
8 31 (2.37%) Go
9 27 (2.06%) C++
10 22 (1.68%) C
11 15 (1.15%) Haskell
11 15 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 14 (1.07%) MATLAB
13 12 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
14 5 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.31%) JSX
15 4 (0.31%) PHP
15 4 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 404 (30.84%) Degree
2 84 (6.41%) Master's Degree
3 62 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 57 (4.35%) PhD
5 48 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 42 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (3.21%) MCSE
6 42 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (3.05%) MCSA
8 36 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
9 14 (1.07%) SC Cleared
10 10 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.46%) IIBA
11 6 (0.46%) OCP
11 6 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (14.81%) GDPR
2 131 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 40 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.07%) QA
5 9 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.53%) CDISC
7 4 (0.31%) IFRS
7 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.15%) COBIT
8 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.15%) GLBA
8 2 (0.15%) NIST
8 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.076%) Basel III
9 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (5.88%) Docker
2 10 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.81%) Terraform
3 7 (0.53%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.38%) SELinux
5 3 (0.23%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.076%) Grafana
6 1 (0.076%) Podman
6 1 (0.076%) Rancher
Vendors
1 214 (16.34%) Google
2 201 (15.34%) Microsoft
3 75 (5.73%) Databricks
4 47 (3.59%) IBM
5 40 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 33 (2.52%) Dell
7 29 (2.21%) Alteryx
8 20 (1.53%) Oracle
9 10 (0.76%) Informatica
9 10 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.76%) SAP
10 7 (0.53%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.53%) Snow
10 7 (0.53%) YouTube
11 6 (0.46%) Dataiku
11 6 (0.46%) iManage
12 5 (0.38%) Talend
12 5 (0.38%) Teradata
13 4 (0.31%) BiZZdesign
14 3 (0.23%) Cloudera