Data Science Jobs in England

Data Science
UK > England

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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 74 58
Rank change year-on-year -43 -16 +52
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 2,066 3,658 7,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.39% 4.13% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 4.32% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 1,523 2,237
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,800 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -0.97% +11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -18 898 £80,000 - 492
South East +47 394 £60,000 -11.11% 126
North of England -82 291 £50,000 -19.15% 66
Midlands -1 207 £55,000 +22.22% 38
North West -7 180 £50,000 -25.93% 37
South West -44 178 £61,250 -10.58% 64
West Midlands +15 159 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Yorkshire -106 78 £60,125 -1.72% 22
East of England -64 75 £55,000 -4.35% 29
East Midlands -3 48 £47,500 -13.64% 14
North East -5 33 £47,500 +3.26% 7
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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 92 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 67 (3.24%) SAS
3 30 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.26%) Apache
5 24 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.58%) Confluence
8 5 (0.24%) Luigi
8 5 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.097%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.097%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.048%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.048%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.048%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.048%) IIS
10 1 (0.048%) Moodle
Applications
1 67 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.097%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.097%) SPSS
7 2 (0.097%) Stata
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.048%) Blender
Business Applications
1 24 (1.16%) Endur
2 7 (0.34%) Shopify
3 6 (0.29%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.048%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 579 (28.03%) Azure
2 329 (15.92%) Power Platform
3 319 (15.44%) GCP
4 316 (15.30%) AWS
5 103 (4.99%) Snowflake
6 87 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 68 (3.29%) Matillion
9 62 (3.00%) SaaS
10 59 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 57 (2.76%) Serverless
12 54 (2.61%) GitHub
13 40 (1.94%) IBM Cloud
14 30 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 25 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.11%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.06%) dbt
18 18 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
19 17 (0.82%) Amazon SageMaker
19 17 (0.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.92%) Network Security
2 18 (0.87%) DNS
2 18 (0.87%) HTTP
3 6 (0.29%) Firewall
3 6 (0.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.24%) MQTT
4 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.24%) Wireless
5 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 2 (0.097%) Broadband
6 2 (0.097%) Internet
6 2 (0.097%) LAN
6 2 (0.097%) WAN
7 1 (0.048%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 321 (15.54%) Power BI
3 238 (11.52%) SQL Server
4 197 (9.54%) Tableau
5 181 (8.76%) BigQuery
6 158 (7.65%) Looker
7 150 (7.26%) Big Data
8 127 (6.15%) Data Lake
9 120 (5.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 76 (3.68%) Relational Database
11 59 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
12 57 (2.76%) NoSQL
13 52 (2.52%) Data Mining
14 51 (2.47%) Hadoop
15 50 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
16 49 (2.37%) Star Schema
17 45 (2.18%) Metadata
18 44 (2.13%) MongoDB
19 30 (1.45%) RDBMS
19 30 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 161 (7.79%) Git
2 46 (2.23%) GitLab
3 31 (1.50%) JIRA
4 26 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.48%) MLflow
6 9 (0.44%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.39%) ERwin
8 6 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.15%) JUnit
11 3 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.097%) GoCD
12 2 (0.097%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.048%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.048%) git-flow
13 1 (0.048%) RStudio
13 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 640 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 439 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 381 (18.44%) Finance
4 266 (12.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 221 (10.70%) Retail
6 184 (8.91%) Public Sector
7 133 (6.44%) Marketing
8 91 (4.40%) Law
9 86 (4.16%) Banking
10 84 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
11 73 (3.53%) Legal
12 57 (2.76%) Games
13 47 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (1.69%) Military
15 29 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 21 (1.02%) Health Technology
19 19 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
20 17 (0.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 494 (23.91%) Data Scientist
2 444 (21.49%) Data Engineer
3 414 (20.04%) Senior
4 198 (9.58%) Senior Data Scientist
5 183 (8.86%) Lead
6 153 (7.41%) Analyst
6 153 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
7 151 (7.31%) Platform Engineer
8 148 (7.16%) Principal Data Engineer
9 139 (6.73%) Developer
10 125 (6.05%) Architect
11 105 (5.08%) Consultant
12 78 (3.78%) Data Analyst
13 76 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 65 (3.15%) Data Architect
15 62 (3.00%) Data Manager
16 60 (2.90%) Python Engineer
17 57 (2.76%) Senior Data Engineer
18 50 (2.42%) Senior Manager
19 48 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.91%) Pandas
2 119 (5.76%) TensorFlow
3 92 (4.45%) PySpark
4 77 (3.73%) scikit-learn
5 60 (2.90%) PyTorch
6 56 (2.71%) NumPy
7 54 (2.61%) React
8 47 (2.27%) Kafka
9 43 (2.08%) RESTful
10 40 (1.94%) CSS
11 38 (1.84%) .NET
12 35 (1.69%) HTML
13 31 (1.50%) Node.js
14 28 (1.36%) Keras
15 24 (1.16%) Django
16 21 (1.02%) XML
17 20 (0.97%) XGBoost
18 18 (0.87%) Apache Beam
19 17 (0.82%) JWT
20 16 (0.77%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 402 (19.46%) Algorithms
2 208 (10.07%) Self-Motivation
3 144 (6.97%) Data Structures
4 62 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 56 (2.71%) Blockchain
6 55 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 54 (2.61%) Life Science
8 46 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 45 (2.18%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 37 (1.79%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.60%) Cloud Native
13 30 (1.45%) IoT
14 24 (1.16%) Blog
14 24 (1.16%) Credit Risk
14 24 (1.16%) Swaptions
15 22 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (0.87%) Mobile App
17 17 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
18 14 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 116 (5.61%) Linux
2 44 (2.13%) Windows
3 40 (1.94%) Alpine Linux
3 40 (1.94%) CentOS
3 40 (1.94%) Debian
4 15 (0.73%) Unix
5 6 (0.29%) Android
5 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.097%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.097%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.048%) Solaris
7 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (39.11%) Machine Learning
2 687 (33.25%) Analytics
3 663 (32.09%) Problem-Solving
4 594 (28.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 466 (22.56%) Computer Science
6 457 (22.12%) Agile
7 447 (21.64%) Mentoring
8 438 (21.20%) Data Engineering
9 430 (20.81%) Data Modelling
10 420 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
11 393 (19.02%) Visualisation
12 389 (18.83%) Data Pipeline
13 378 (18.30%) Mathematics
14 372 (18.01%) ETL
15 348 (16.84%) Data Analysis
16 344 (16.65%) DevOps
17 341 (16.51%) Decision-Making
18 277 (13.41%) Statistics
19 246 (11.91%) Coaching
20 244 (11.81%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 913 (44.19%) Python
2 822 (39.79%) SQL
3 217 (10.50%) R
4 131 (6.34%) Java
5 100 (4.84%) C#
6 69 (3.34%) JavaScript
7 67 (3.24%) T-SQL
8 53 (2.57%) C
8 53 (2.57%) C++
9 39 (1.89%) MATLAB
10 33 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 31 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 31 (1.50%) Scala
12 29 (1.40%) VB
13 15 (0.73%) Haskell
14 13 (0.63%) Go
15 12 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
16 11 (0.53%) U-SQL
17 10 (0.48%) Bash
17 10 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 758 (36.69%) Degree
2 241 (11.67%) Master's Degree
3 139 (6.73%) PhD
4 109 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (3.92%) Security Cleared
6 57 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (2.57%) DBS Check
8 50 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.94%) MCSA
9 40 (1.94%) MCSE
10 36 (1.74%) DV Cleared
11 28 (1.36%) SC Cleared
12 21 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
13 18 (0.87%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.48%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.29%) IIBA
17 4 (0.19%) AWS Certification
17 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (9.39%) GDPR
2 185 (8.95%) Data Quality
3 44 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 35 (1.69%) QA
5 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (0.44%) CDISC
6 9 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.19%) IFRS
8 4 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.15%) PMO
9 3 (0.15%) SLA
10 2 (0.097%) COBIT
10 2 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.097%) GLBA
10 2 (0.097%) NIST
10 2 (0.097%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.048%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 132 (6.39%) Docker
2 17 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.19%) HDFS
4 2 (0.097%) IAG
5 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.048%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.99%) Terraform
3 7 (0.34%) Ansible
3 7 (0.34%) SysTrack
4 6 (0.29%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.29%) logstash
5 5 (0.24%) SELinux
6 4 (0.19%) Grafana
7 3 (0.15%) Argo
7 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.097%) Core Impact
8 2 (0.097%) Podman
9 1 (0.048%) Kibana
9 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.048%) yum
Vendors
1 272 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 208 (10.07%) Google
3 187 (9.05%) Databricks
4 65 (3.15%) Oracle
5 47 (2.27%) IBM
6 40 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 37 (1.79%) Alteryx
8 33 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.26%) Sybase
10 24 (1.16%) OpenLink
10 24 (1.16%) TIBCO
11 14 (0.68%) Informatica
12 13 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.58%) YouTube
14 11 (0.53%) Dataiku
15 10 (0.48%) SAP
16 9 (0.44%) Adobe
17 8 (0.39%) Cloudera
17 8 (0.39%) Samsung
17 8 (0.39%) ServiceNow