Data Science Jobs in London

Data Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 72 54 45
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 898 1,863 5,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.80% 5.52% 8.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 5.79% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 578 868 1,485
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.34%
75th Percentile £106,875 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,250 £117,875 £110,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £71,800 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.47% -0.97% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,516 32,155 68,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.97% 95.34% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,872 23,232 34,355
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,171 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +68 197 £72,500 -9.38% 29
West London -25 12 £90,000 +84.86% 9
South London -35 10 £67,500 +38.64%
East London +14 6 £55,000 +42.86% 74
North London 0 3 £70,000 -12.50% 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 72 (8.02%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.23%) SAS
3 24 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.12%) Apache
6 14 (1.56%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.89%) Confluence
8 2 (0.22%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.22%) SPSS
4 2 (0.22%) Stata
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Blender
Business Applications
1 24 (2.67%) Endur
2 6 (0.67%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 224 (24.94%) Azure
2 213 (23.72%) AWS
3 113 (12.58%) Power Platform
4 109 (12.14%) GCP
5 49 (5.46%) GitHub
6 45 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (3.90%) SaaS
8 33 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (3.23%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.56%) Serverless
11 18 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (1.89%) Figma
13 14 (1.56%) dbt
14 13 (1.45%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.22%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon SageMaker
17 10 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
18 7 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.78%) Network Security
2 8 (0.89%) DNS
2 8 (0.89%) HTTP
3 4 (0.45%) Firewall
3 4 (0.45%) Intranet
4 2 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) MQTT
5 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (13.59%) Tableau
2 110 (12.25%) Power BI
3 95 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (9.02%) Big Data
5 69 (7.68%) SQL Server
6 44 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 40 (4.45%) NoSQL
8 38 (4.23%) Data Mining
8 38 (4.23%) MongoDB
9 36 (4.01%) Data Lake
9 36 (4.01%) Hadoop
10 35 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (3.01%) BigQuery
12 26 (2.90%) RDBMS
13 21 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (2.00%) Looker
15 17 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
15 17 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (1.67%) MySQL
17 14 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 100 (11.14%) Git
2 19 (2.12%) JIRA
3 17 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.78%) GitLab
5 9 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.89%) MLflow
7 6 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.45%) ERwin
9 3 (0.33%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.22%) GoCD
10 2 (0.22%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.11%) git-flow
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.11%) RStudio
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 326 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 178 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
3 167 (18.60%) Finance
4 89 (9.91%) Marketing
5 79 (8.80%) Retail
6 58 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (4.90%) Law
8 37 (4.12%) Games
9 35 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (3.79%) Banking
11 33 (3.67%) Legal
12 27 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 24 (2.67%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.89%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.22%) Front Office
15 11 (1.22%) Publishing
16 8 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.89%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 251 (27.95%) Senior
2 209 (23.27%) Data Scientist
3 127 (14.14%) Data Engineer
4 121 (13.47%) Senior Data Scientist
5 84 (9.35%) Developer
6 72 (8.02%) Analyst
7 69 (7.68%) Lead
8 47 (5.23%) Architect
9 42 (4.68%) Data Manager
10 39 (4.34%) Python Engineer
11 38 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (4.12%) Senior Manager
13 31 (3.45%) Data Analyst
14 25 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
15 23 (2.56%) Lead Data Scientist
16 21 (2.34%) Consultant
17 19 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
18 18 (2.00%) Python Developer
19 17 (1.89%) Principal Engineer
19 17 (1.89%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (9.35%) TensorFlow
2 81 (9.02%) PySpark
3 80 (8.91%) Pandas
4 59 (6.57%) scikit-learn
5 38 (4.23%) Kafka
6 35 (3.90%) PyTorch
7 26 (2.90%) .NET
7 26 (2.90%) CSS
8 24 (2.67%) RESTful
9 23 (2.56%) NumPy
10 21 (2.34%) HTML
10 21 (2.34%) React
11 19 (2.12%) Django
12 14 (1.56%) Apache Beam
13 13 (1.45%) Node.js
14 12 (1.34%) JSON
15 10 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (1.11%) XGBoost
15 10 (1.11%) XML
16 9 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 173 (19.27%) Algorithms
2 60 (6.68%) Data Structures
3 43 (4.79%) Virtual Team
4 40 (4.45%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.90%) Life Science
6 25 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.67%) Swaptions
8 20 (2.23%) Cloud Native
9 19 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
10 16 (1.78%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.67%) Blockchain
11 15 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.45%) Blog
14 11 (1.22%) Client/Server
14 11 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.11%) PMI
16 9 (1.00%) Mobile App
17 8 (0.89%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.45%) Linux
2 13 (1.45%) Unix
3 10 (1.11%) Windows
4 6 (0.67%) Android
4 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (42.76%) Machine Learning
2 297 (33.07%) Analytics
3 259 (28.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 240 (26.73%) Visualisation
5 224 (24.94%) Computer Science
6 190 (21.16%) Statistics
7 187 (20.82%) Data Modelling
8 175 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (19.04%) Mathematics
10 144 (16.04%) Data Visualisation
11 142 (15.81%) Software Engineering
12 140 (15.59%) Agile
13 136 (15.14%) Business Intelligence
13 136 (15.14%) Data Engineering
14 133 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
15 130 (14.48%) ETL
16 116 (12.92%) Natural Language Processing
17 109 (12.14%) Customer Experience
18 106 (11.80%) DevOps
19 105 (11.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 555 (61.80%) Python
2 444 (49.44%) SQL
3 126 (14.03%) R
4 91 (10.13%) Java
5 66 (7.35%) C#
6 31 (3.45%) C
7 29 (3.23%) VB
8 28 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 27 (3.01%) C++
10 26 (2.90%) JavaScript
11 23 (2.56%) MATLAB
12 20 (2.23%) Scala
13 16 (1.78%) T-SQL
14 15 (1.67%) TypeScript
15 11 (1.22%) U-SQL
16 10 (1.11%) VBA
17 6 (0.67%) Go
18 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
19 2 (0.22%) Bash
19 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 351 (39.09%) Degree
2 152 (16.93%) Master's Degree
3 76 (8.46%) PhD
4 63 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.12%) DBS Check
6 24 (2.67%) Security Cleared
7 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.34%) SC Cleared
9 10 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.00%) Postgraduate
11 8 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.67%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.33%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.22%) HNC
15 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.11%) MBA
15 1 (0.11%) MCP
15 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.12%) GDPR
3 17 (1.89%) QA
4 10 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.33%) PMO
6 3 (0.33%) SLA
7 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.22%) CDISC
7 2 (0.22%) IFRS
7 2 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (6.24%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.22%) HDFS
4 2 (0.22%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.79%) Terraform
3 6 (0.67%) Kubeflow
3 6 (0.67%) logstash
4 4 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.33%) Ansible
5 3 (0.33%) Argo
5 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.22%) Core Impact
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 116 (12.92%) Databricks
2 69 (7.68%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.12%) Oracle
4 45 (5.01%) Google
5 26 (2.90%) Sybase
6 24 (2.67%) OpenLink
6 24 (2.67%) TIBCO
7 23 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.45%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.00%) Adobe
9 9 (1.00%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.89%) Samsung
11 5 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.56%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.56%) YouTube
12 4 (0.45%) FIS
12 4 (0.45%) Informatica
12 4 (0.45%) Splunk
13 3 (0.33%) Embarcadero
13 3 (0.33%) Tealium