Data Science Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Science
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 139 111
Rank change year-on-year -32 -28 +84
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 55 38 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.98% 1.10% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.18% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28 35 86
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,500 £37,075
25th Percentile £40,000 £49,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,940 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £82,970
90th Percentile £95,000 £66,250 £88,125
England median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,678 3,218 7,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.43% 92.84% 97.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,070 2,550 4,643
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,050
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - -0.83% +0.83%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Birmingham +7 31 £60,190 -3.70% 18
Warwickshire -20 10 £45,000 +57.89% 2
Coventry +6 3 £70,000 +21.74% 4
Worcestershire -17 3 £50,000 -14.89%
Solihull -3 2 £81,250 +51.87%
Staffordshire - 1 - - 4
Shropshire - 1 - -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (5.45%) Apache
1 3 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) Azure
2 18 (32.73%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.73%) AWS
3 7 (12.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.27%) GitHub
6 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) GCP
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.73%) Power BI
2 13 (23.64%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (12.73%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.91%) Tableau
5 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.45%) Big Data
6 3 (5.45%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.64%) Spotfire
8 1 (1.82%) Looker
8 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.82%) Power Query
8 1 (1.82%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.82%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Finance
4 7 (12.73%) Marketing
5 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.64%) Law
7 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.82%) Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Electronics
8 1 (1.82%) Games
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Data Scientist
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 10 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Senior Data Scientist
5 6 (10.91%) Lead
6 5 (9.09%) Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Consultant
7 4 (7.27%) Data Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Data Analytics Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Data Science Leader
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Architect
9 2 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.64%) Data Science Manager
9 2 (3.64%) ERP Consultant
9 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Pricing Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) .NET
1 4 (7.27%) NumPy
1 4 (7.27%) Pandas
2 3 (5.45%) SciPy
3 1 (1.82%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.82%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.82%) Playwright
3 1 (1.82%) pytest
3 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.64%) Life Science
4 1 (1.82%) CAN bus
4 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (61.82%) Analytics
1 34 (61.82%) Machine Learning
2 25 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 19 (34.55%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (34.55%) Mentoring
4 18 (32.73%) Data Engineering
5 17 (30.91%) Agile
5 17 (30.91%) Decision-Making
5 17 (30.91%) Mathematics
6 16 (29.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 15 (27.27%) Statistics
8 13 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (21.82%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (21.82%) Coaching
9 12 (21.82%) Data Analysis
9 12 (21.82%) ETL
10 11 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
11 9 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (16.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (58.18%) Python
2 31 (56.36%) SQL
3 13 (23.64%) R
4 8 (14.55%) C++
5 7 (12.73%) Java
6 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.82%) C
7 1 (1.82%) C#
7 1 (1.82%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.82%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Accessibility
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
1 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.73%) Databricks
3 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.64%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) Informatica
4 1 (1.82%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.82%) SAP
4 1 (1.82%) Wrike