Senior Data Scientist Jobs in England

Senior Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in England is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 659 798 727
Rank change year-on-year +139 -71 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 205 96 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.12% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.13% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 106 78 154
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,833 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,813 £60,000 £66,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £96,875
90th Percentile £110,625 £90,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% -15.63% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in England.

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +158 118 £83,750 +6.35% 46
North of England +21 21 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South West -34 21 £77,500 +32.05% 2
Midlands -23 18 £57,500 -34.29% 3
West Midlands +3 17 £57,500 -34.29%
North West -15 14 £60,000 -11.11% 5
South East -20 14 £62,922 -3.20% 9
East of England +1 13 £80,000 +6.67%
Yorkshire +68 7 £75,000 +27.66%
East Midlands - 1 £85,000 - 3
Senior Data Scientist
UK

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 205 (100.00%) Data Science
2 176 (85.85%) Python
3 160 (78.05%) Machine Learning
4 134 (65.37%) SQL
5 124 (60.49%) Degree
6 103 (50.24%) Social Skills
7 102 (49.76%) Algorithms
8 99 (48.29%) Statistics
9 91 (44.39%) Artificial Intelligence
10 86 (41.95%) Master's Degree
11 85 (41.46%) Mathematics
12 81 (39.51%) Visualisation
13 79 (38.54%) Natural Language Processing
14 66 (32.20%) Predictive Modelling
15 65 (31.71%) Decision-Making
15 65 (31.71%) Customer Experience
16 63 (30.73%) Pandas
16 63 (30.73%) Actionable Insight
16 63 (30.73%) Analytics
17 62 (30.24%) Git
18 59 (28.78%) Neural Network
19 57 (27.80%) Physics
19 57 (27.80%) Generative AI
20 55 (26.83%) Databricks
20 55 (26.83%) Tableau
21 53 (25.85%) scikit-learn
22 52 (25.37%) TensorFlow
22 52 (25.37%) MLOps
22 52 (25.37%) PhD
23 50 (24.39%) PySpark

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (8.78%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.39%) SAS
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.49%) Azure
2 27 (13.17%) GCP
3 18 (8.78%) AWS
3 18 (8.78%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
4 7 (3.41%) SaaS
5 3 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (26.83%) Tableau
2 18 (8.78%) Power BI
3 16 (7.80%) Big Data
4 9 (4.39%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.44%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.46%) Metadata
7 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Base SAS
9 1 (0.49%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.49%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.49%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.49%) Redis
9 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.49%) RethinkDB
9 1 (0.49%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 62 (30.24%) Git
2 1 (0.49%) JIRA
2 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 103 (50.24%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (15.12%) Finance
3 24 (11.71%) Pharmaceutical
4 20 (9.76%) Marketing
5 16 (7.80%) Banking
5 16 (7.80%) Retail
6 12 (5.85%) Law
7 11 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.90%) Games
9 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (30.73%) Pandas
2 53 (25.85%) scikit-learn
3 52 (25.37%) TensorFlow
4 50 (24.39%) PySpark
5 10 (4.88%) PyTorch
6 7 (3.41%) XGBoost
7 5 (2.44%) NumPy
8 2 (0.98%) Keras
8 2 (0.98%) SpaCy
9 1 (0.49%) .NET
9 1 (0.49%) Django
9 1 (0.49%) EDI
9 1 (0.49%) Flask
9 1 (0.49%) NLTK
9 1 (0.49%) SciPy
9 1 (0.49%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (0.49%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 102 (49.76%) Algorithms
2 18 (8.78%) Life Science
3 12 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.41%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.44%) Semantic Web
6 5 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.95%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.95%) PMI
8 3 (1.46%) Blog
8 3 (1.46%) CUDA
8 3 (1.46%) Social Media
9 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.49%) NHS
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (100.00%) Data Science
2 160 (78.05%) Machine Learning
3 99 (48.29%) Statistics
4 91 (44.39%) Artificial Intelligence
5 85 (41.46%) Mathematics
6 81 (39.51%) Visualisation
7 79 (38.54%) Natural Language Processing
8 66 (32.20%) Predictive Modelling
9 65 (31.71%) Customer Experience
9 65 (31.71%) Decision-Making
10 63 (30.73%) Actionable Insight
10 63 (30.73%) Analytics
11 59 (28.78%) Neural Network
12 57 (27.80%) Generative AI
12 57 (27.80%) Physics
13 52 (25.37%) MLOps
14 50 (24.39%) Propensity Modelling
15 47 (22.93%) Computer Science
15 47 (22.93%) Storytelling
16 46 (22.44%) Data Munging
Programming Languages
1 176 (85.85%) Python
2 134 (65.37%) SQL
3 43 (20.98%) R
4 7 (3.41%) C++
5 5 (2.44%) C
5 5 (2.44%) MATLAB
6 4 (1.95%) Java
7 2 (0.98%) C#
7 2 (0.98%) Julia
8 1 (0.49%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 124 (60.49%) Degree
2 86 (41.95%) Master's Degree
3 52 (25.37%) PhD
4 46 (22.44%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.93%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.95%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.46%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.98%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.98%) Core Impact
2 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (26.83%) Databricks
2 8 (3.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.98%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.49%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.49%) Google
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle
4 1 (0.49%) Sun