Data Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 71 67
Rank change year-on-year -52 -4 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,261 4,682 7,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.33% 4.41% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 4.61% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 1,769 2,412
10th Percentile £42,250 £43,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,419 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £64,598 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.99% +12.34% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,667 101,580 146,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.18% 95.66% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 59,403 59,507 83,596
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +2.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the UK

Data Science
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 April 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
England -46 2,055 £65,500 -9.66% 585
UK excluding London -60 1,294 £57,500 -10.99% 235
Work from Home -30 882 £60,249 -13.93% 302
London -22 879 £80,000 -0.37% 381
South East +51 400 £65,000 -7.14% 48
North of England -89 297 £50,000 -18.27% 63
Midlands -17 203 £55,000 +15.79% 29
North West -34 182 £50,000 -25.09% 41
South West -51 167 £62,500 -7.41% 27
West Midlands -9 156 £55,000 +22.22% 20
Scotland -69 121 £70,000 +0.80% 30
Yorkshire -110 82 £60,249 -1.52% 16
East of England -61 74 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East Midlands -15 47 £47,500 -14.80% 9
North East -4 33 £47,500 +3.26% 6
Wales +23 29 £47,500 -13.67% 18
Northern Ireland +17 3 £77,500 +134.85% 3

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 120 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 86 (3.80%) SAS
3 30 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.24%) Apache
5 14 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.57%) Confluence
7 6 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.13%) IIS
8 3 (0.13%) Luigi
8 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.044%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.044%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.044%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 60 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Trello
5 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.088%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.088%) SPSS
6 2 (0.088%) Stata
7 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.044%) Blender
Business Applications
1 28 (1.24%) Endur
2 9 (0.40%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 7 (0.31%) Shopify
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.088%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.044%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 629 (27.82%) Azure
2 400 (17.69%) AWS
3 398 (17.60%) GCP
4 351 (15.52%) Power Platform
5 116 (5.13%) Snowflake
6 104 (4.60%) SaaS
7 98 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 75 (3.32%) Matillion
9 75 (3.32%) Serverless
10 65 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 59 (2.61%) GitHub
12 52 (2.30%) Amazon S3
13 40 (1.77%) IBM Cloud
14 36 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 30 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
17 25 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
18 24 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.88%) DNS
1 20 (0.88%) HTTP
2 19 (0.84%) Network Security
3 7 (0.31%) VPN
4 5 (0.22%) Firewall
4 5 (0.22%) MQTT
4 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.22%) Wireless
5 4 (0.18%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.088%) Broadband
6 2 (0.088%) DHCP
6 2 (0.088%) Internet
6 2 (0.088%) IPv6
6 2 (0.088%) LAN
6 2 (0.088%) WAN
7 1 (0.044%) BGP
7 1 (0.044%) SAN
7 1 (0.044%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (14.95%) Power BI
2 334 (14.77%) Data Warehouse
3 248 (10.97%) SQL Server
4 200 (8.85%) BigQuery
5 197 (8.71%) Big Data
6 177 (7.83%) Tableau
7 175 (7.74%) Looker
8 143 (6.32%) Data Lake
9 123 (5.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 83 (3.67%) Relational Database
11 79 (3.49%) Hadoop
12 72 (3.18%) NoSQL
13 70 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
14 64 (2.83%) Data Mining
15 59 (2.61%) Metadata
16 55 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
17 49 (2.17%) Star Schema
18 44 (1.95%) MongoDB
19 36 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 35 (1.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 133 (5.88%) Git
2 48 (2.12%) GitLab
3 32 (1.42%) JIRA
4 29 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.49%) MLflow
6 9 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.27%) ERwin
7 6 (0.27%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.18%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.18%) JUnit
9 4 (0.18%) Maven
10 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.088%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.088%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.088%) RStudio
11 2 (0.088%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.044%) git-flow
12 1 (0.044%) PHPUnit
General
1 650 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 467 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
3 455 (20.12%) Finance
4 319 (14.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 226 (10.00%) Retail
6 199 (8.80%) Public Sector
7 164 (7.25%) Marketing
8 113 (5.00%) Banking
9 106 (4.69%) Law
10 89 (3.94%) Games
11 77 (3.41%) Legal
12 76 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
13 40 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 33 (1.46%) Military
15 31 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.24%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 26 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
18 22 (0.97%) Health Technology
19 19 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 501 (22.16%) Data Engineer
2 497 (21.98%) Data Scientist
3 437 (19.33%) Senior
4 224 (9.91%) Principal Engineer
5 188 (8.31%) Lead
6 181 (8.01%) Senior Data Scientist
7 170 (7.52%) Principal Data Engineer
8 169 (7.47%) Platform Engineer
9 158 (6.99%) Developer
10 155 (6.86%) Analyst
11 115 (5.09%) Architect
12 110 (4.87%) Consultant
13 98 (4.33%) Software Engineer
14 89 (3.94%) Data Analyst
15 82 (3.63%) Data Manager
16 78 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Consultant
17 69 (3.05%) Python Engineer
18 68 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
19 62 (2.74%) Data Architect
20 52 (2.30%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (5.04%) Pandas
2 99 (4.38%) TensorFlow
3 78 (3.45%) Kafka
4 76 (3.36%) PySpark
5 74 (3.27%) PyTorch
6 62 (2.74%) NumPy
7 57 (2.52%) scikit-learn
8 50 (2.21%) React
9 47 (2.08%) .NET
10 43 (1.90%) RESTful
11 38 (1.68%) GraphQL
12 37 (1.64%) CSS
12 37 (1.64%) HTML
13 33 (1.46%) Node.js
14 29 (1.28%) Keras
15 28 (1.24%) Django
16 27 (1.19%) XGBoost
17 24 (1.06%) XML
18 20 (0.88%) JSON
19 18 (0.80%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 397 (17.56%) Algorithms
2 233 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
3 170 (7.52%) Data Structures
4 69 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 67 (2.96%) Cloud Native
6 62 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (2.43%) Blockchain
8 54 (2.39%) Virtual Team
9 45 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 39 (1.72%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.68%) Life Science
13 37 (1.64%) IoT
14 31 (1.37%) Credit Risk
15 28 (1.24%) Swaptions
16 24 (1.06%) Blog
16 24 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
17 18 (0.80%) Mobile App
18 17 (0.75%) Cyberattack
19 14 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 131 (5.79%) Linux
2 49 (2.17%) Windows
3 40 (1.77%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.77%) CentOS
3 40 (1.77%) Debian
4 19 (0.84%) Unix
5 9 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.27%) Android
6 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.088%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.044%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.044%) Solaris
8 1 (0.044%) VMS
8 1 (0.044%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 895 (39.58%) Machine Learning
2 756 (33.44%) Analytics
3 707 (31.27%) Problem-Solving
4 656 (29.01%) Artificial Intelligence
5 568 (25.12%) Agile
6 497 (21.98%) Data Engineering
7 476 (21.05%) Mentoring
8 465 (20.57%) Computer Science
9 440 (19.46%) Data Modelling
10 435 (19.24%) Business Intelligence
11 434 (19.20%) Data Pipeline
12 410 (18.13%) ETL
13 402 (17.78%) DevOps
14 397 (17.56%) Visualisation
15 373 (16.50%) Mathematics
16 367 (16.23%) Data Analysis
17 329 (14.55%) Decision-Making
18 305 (13.49%) Software Engineering
19 273 (12.07%) Coaching
20 252 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (45.42%) Python
2 880 (38.92%) SQL
3 227 (10.04%) R
4 158 (6.99%) Java
5 112 (4.95%) C#
6 75 (3.32%) JavaScript
7 74 (3.27%) T-SQL
8 54 (2.39%) C++
8 54 (2.39%) Scala
9 51 (2.26%) C
10 41 (1.81%) Go
11 39 (1.72%) MATLAB
12 36 (1.59%) TypeScript
13 35 (1.55%) Bash
13 35 (1.55%) VB
14 31 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.57%) Haskell
16 12 (0.53%) SystemVerilog
17 10 (0.44%) VBA
18 8 (0.35%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 720 (31.84%) Degree
2 207 (9.16%) Master's Degree
3 130 (5.75%) PhD
4 103 (4.56%) Security Cleared
5 102 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 48 (2.12%) DV Cleared
9 42 (1.86%) MCSE
10 40 (1.77%) MCSA
11 37 (1.64%) SC Cleared
12 27 (1.19%) DBS Check
13 22 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
14 18 (0.80%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.49%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.27%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.27%) IIBA
17 6 (0.27%) OCP
17 6 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (9.64%) GDPR
2 196 (8.67%) Data Quality
3 42 (1.86%) QA
4 40 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (0.53%) PMO
6 9 (0.40%) CDISC
7 6 (0.27%) IFRS
7 6 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.13%) SLA
10 2 (0.088%) COBIT
10 2 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.088%) GLBA
10 2 (0.088%) NIST
10 2 (0.088%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.088%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.044%) Basel III
11 1 (0.044%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 145 (6.41%) Docker
2 17 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.22%) HDFS
4 2 (0.088%) IAG
5 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.044%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 167 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 118 (5.22%) Terraform
3 7 (0.31%) Ansible
3 7 (0.31%) SysTrack
4 6 (0.27%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.27%) logstash
5 5 (0.22%) Argo
5 5 (0.22%) SELinux
6 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.13%) Puppet
7 2 (0.088%) Core Impact
7 2 (0.088%) Podman
7 2 (0.088%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.044%) Grafana
8 1 (0.044%) Kibana
8 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.044%) Packer
8 1 (0.044%) Rancher
8 1 (0.044%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 276 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 274 (12.12%) Google
3 186 (8.23%) Databricks
4 70 (3.10%) Oracle
5 48 (2.12%) IBM
6 40 (1.77%) Alteryx
6 40 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 37 (1.64%) Dell
8 30 (1.33%) Sybase
9 28 (1.24%) OpenLink
9 28 (1.24%) TIBCO
10 24 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 16 (0.71%) Dataiku
12 15 (0.66%) YouTube
13 14 (0.62%) Informatica
14 13 (0.57%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.53%) SAP
16 9 (0.40%) Adobe
17 8 (0.35%) ServiceNow
17 8 (0.35%) Teradata