Senior Data Scientist Jobs in London

Senior Data Scientist
England > London

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in London is £83,750 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 393 551 545
Rank change year-on-year +158 -6 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 118 52 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.17% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.18% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 42 40 118
10th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -1.56% -5.88%
75th Percentile £110,938 £87,500 £101,875
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,290 £112,500
England median annual salary £78,750 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -15.63% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Job Locations in London

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 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
Central London +86 46 £115,000 +64.29%
West London - 2 £80,000 - 1
Senior Data Scientist
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) Data Science
2 100 (84.75%) Python
3 96 (81.36%) Machine Learning
4 85 (72.03%) SQL
5 82 (69.49%) Degree
6 80 (67.80%) Statistics
7 76 (64.41%) Algorithms
8 71 (60.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 71 (60.17%) Mathematics
8 71 (60.17%) Social Skills
9 65 (55.08%) Natural Language Processing
10 64 (54.24%) Visualisation
11 62 (52.54%) Master's Degree
12 61 (51.69%) Customer Experience
13 57 (48.31%) Neural Network
14 55 (46.61%) Predictive Modelling
15 54 (45.76%) Actionable Insight
15 54 (45.76%) Physics
16 53 (44.92%) Generative AI
17 51 (43.22%) Decision-Making
17 51 (43.22%) Git
17 51 (43.22%) Tableau
18 50 (42.37%) Pandas
18 50 (42.37%) scikit-learn
19 49 (41.53%) MLOps
20 47 (39.83%) TensorFlow
21 45 (38.14%) DBS Check
21 45 (38.14%) Databricks
21 45 (38.14%) PySpark
21 45 (38.14%) Propensity Modelling

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
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 17 (14.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.24%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.34%) Azure
2 16 (13.56%) AWS
3 14 (11.86%) GCP
4 6 (5.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.54%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (43.22%) Tableau
2 9 (7.63%) Hadoop
3 5 (4.24%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (3.39%) Power BI
5 3 (2.54%) Big Data
6 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 51 (43.22%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 71 (60.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.56%) Marketing
4 14 (11.86%) Retail
5 13 (11.02%) Finance
6 10 (8.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.24%) Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (42.37%) Pandas
1 50 (42.37%) scikit-learn
2 47 (39.83%) TensorFlow
3 45 (38.14%) PySpark
4 5 (4.24%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.54%) XGBoost
6 2 (1.69%) NumPy
7 1 (0.85%) .NET
7 1 (0.85%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 76 (64.41%) Algorithms
2 10 (8.47%) Life Science
3 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.24%) Semantic Web
4 4 (3.39%) PMI
5 3 (2.54%) Blog
5 3 (2.54%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.54%) CUDA
5 3 (2.54%) Social Media
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (100.00%) Data Science
2 96 (81.36%) Machine Learning
3 80 (67.80%) Statistics
4 71 (60.17%) Artificial Intelligence
4 71 (60.17%) Mathematics
5 65 (55.08%) Natural Language Processing
6 64 (54.24%) Visualisation
7 61 (51.69%) Customer Experience
8 57 (48.31%) Neural Network
9 55 (46.61%) Predictive Modelling
10 54 (45.76%) Actionable Insight
10 54 (45.76%) Physics
11 53 (44.92%) Generative AI
12 51 (43.22%) Decision-Making
13 49 (41.53%) MLOps
14 45 (38.14%) Data Munging
14 45 (38.14%) Demand Forecasting
14 45 (38.14%) Propensity Modelling
14 45 (38.14%) Root Cause Analysis
14 45 (38.14%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 100 (84.75%) Python
2 85 (72.03%) SQL
3 16 (13.56%) R
4 6 (5.08%) C++
5 5 (4.24%) MATLAB
6 4 (3.39%) C
6 4 (3.39%) Java
7 1 (0.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 82 (69.49%) Degree
2 62 (52.54%) Master's Degree
3 45 (38.14%) DBS Check
4 18 (15.25%) PhD
5 4 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.54%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.54%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 45 (38.14%) Databricks