Data Science Jobs in Central London

Data Science
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 96 89
Rank change year-on-year +55 -7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 208 145 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.46% 2.94% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.97% 3.10% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 125 125 231
10th Percentile £50,500 £53,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £134,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,487 4,674 8,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 91.57% 94.69% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,599 3,837 6,358
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London 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
City of London +50 166 £75,000 - 15
City of Westminster +6 22 £62,419 -
West End of London +18 12 £49,000 -
Camden - 6 £55,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 - 1
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.92%) SAS
3 2 (0.96%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.96%) Stata
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (18.27%) Azure
2 29 (13.94%) AWS
3 27 (12.98%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.73%) GCP
5 7 (3.37%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.88%) SaaS
7 5 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.44%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.96%) dbt
10 2 (0.96%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.48%) Asana
11 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.48%) Dropbox
11 1 (0.48%) Figma
11 1 (0.48%) Matillion
11 1 (0.48%) Slack
11 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (28.37%) Tableau
2 30 (14.42%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (12.98%) Power BI
4 15 (7.21%) Big Data
5 9 (4.33%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.37%) Amazon QuickSight
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.88%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.40%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.40%) Power Query
8 5 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.92%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (18.27%) Git
2 6 (2.88%) JIRA
2 6 (2.88%) MLflow
3 2 (0.96%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.96%) ERwin
4 1 (0.48%) git-flow
General
1 92 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 66 (31.73%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 13 (6.25%) Finance
5 8 (3.85%) Marketing
6 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.96%) Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Front Office
9 2 (0.96%) Law
9 2 (0.96%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Back Office
10 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.48%) Games
10 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (35.58%) Senior
2 64 (30.77%) Data Scientist
3 46 (22.12%) Senior Data Scientist
4 40 (19.23%) Analyst
5 21 (10.10%) Developer
6 20 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.17%) Lead
8 10 (4.81%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (4.33%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.85%) Qualitative Analyst
10 8 (3.85%) Quantitative Analyst
11 7 (3.37%) Architect
11 7 (3.37%) Product Owner
12 6 (2.88%) IT Manager
13 5 (2.40%) Data Manager
13 5 (2.40%) Information Manager
13 5 (2.40%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (2.40%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.40%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.15%) PySpark
2 39 (18.75%) Pandas
3 34 (16.35%) scikit-learn
4 33 (15.87%) TensorFlow
5 7 (3.37%) NumPy
6 4 (1.92%) JSON
6 4 (1.92%) RESTful
7 3 (1.44%) HTML
8 2 (0.96%) ATL
8 2 (0.96%) CSS
8 2 (0.96%) D3.js
8 2 (0.96%) Google Chart
8 2 (0.96%) Kafka
8 2 (0.96%) Node.js
8 2 (0.96%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.96%) Shiny
9 1 (0.48%) Apache Thrift
9 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.48%) gRPC
9 1 (0.48%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (35.58%) Algorithms
2 24 (11.54%) Life Science
3 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.92%) Pricing Data
7 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.96%) PropTech
7 2 (0.96%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (46.15%) Visualisation
2 84 (40.38%) Statistics
3 80 (38.46%) Analytics
4 78 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 66 (31.73%) Computer Science
6 64 (30.77%) Data Modelling
7 63 (30.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 56 (26.92%) Mathematics
9 54 (25.96%) Data Visualisation
10 48 (23.08%) Decision-Making
11 47 (22.60%) Actionable Insight
12 44 (21.15%) Predictive Modelling
13 41 (19.71%) Customer Experience
13 41 (19.71%) MLOps
14 40 (19.23%) Natural Language Processing
14 40 (19.23%) Physics
15 37 (17.79%) Business Intelligence
15 37 (17.79%) Neural Network
16 34 (16.35%) Software Engineering
17 32 (15.38%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 129 (62.02%) Python
2 111 (53.37%) SQL
3 36 (17.31%) R
4 18 (8.65%) C++
5 11 (5.29%) C#
6 8 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (3.85%) Java
6 8 (3.85%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.85%) Scala
7 5 (2.40%) C
8 3 (1.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) Dart
10 1 (0.48%) F#
10 1 (0.48%) Go
10 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (52.40%) Degree
2 71 (34.13%) Master's Degree
3 34 (16.35%) PhD
4 32 (15.38%) DBS Check
5 19 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.85%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.40%) Postgraduate
7 5 (2.40%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (22.60%) Databricks
2 8 (3.85%) Google
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.92%) Samsung
4 3 (1.44%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.44%) Oracle
5 2 (0.96%) Embarcadero
5 2 (0.96%) Informatica
5 2 (0.96%) Splunk
6 1 (0.48%) BEA
6 1 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.48%) Spotify