Data Science Jobs in the South West

Data Science
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 104 112
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 187 206 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.87% 3.12% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 3.30% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 98 173 140
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,125 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,833 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +27.44% +6.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,087 £95,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +9.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,079 6,247 8,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 80.87% 94.48% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 3,513 4,997
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,505 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +9.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the South West

Data Science
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Bristol -38 85 £65,000 -5.11% 25
Gloucestershire -11 36 £53,750 -28.33% 3
Dorset +3 32 £45,000 -43.75% 7
Somerset +7 16 £45,000 +1.69%
Devon -4 8 £47,500 -11.83% 5
Wiltshire -21 8 £47,500 -5.00%
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.74%) SAS
3 5 (2.67%) Apache
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.67%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.21%) Trello
2 2 (1.07%) LaTeX
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.72%) Power Platform
2 33 (17.65%) Azure
2 33 (17.65%) GCP
3 19 (10.16%) AWS
4 8 (4.28%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.07%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.07%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (1.07%) Firebase
6 2 (1.07%) SaaS
6 2 (1.07%) Serverless
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.53%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.53%) Collibra
7 1 (0.53%) Matillion
7 1 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) DNS
1 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.72%) Power BI
2 28 (14.97%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (13.90%) Tableau
4 25 (13.37%) BigQuery
5 22 (11.76%) Big Data
6 21 (11.23%) Looker
7 19 (10.16%) SQL Server
8 14 (7.49%) Relational Database
9 13 (6.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.28%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.28%) Hadoop
11 7 (3.74%) QlikView
12 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (3.21%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.67%) CouchDB
13 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Git
2 7 (3.74%) JIRA
3 4 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) JUnit
4 3 (1.60%) Maven
4 3 (1.60%) Subversion
General
1 63 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 55 (29.41%) Finance
3 53 (28.34%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.51%) Law
5 27 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (13.90%) Banking
7 18 (9.63%) Retail
8 16 (8.56%) Investment Banking
9 15 (8.02%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (6.42%) Automotive
11 11 (5.88%) Public Sector
12 9 (4.81%) Marketing
13 7 (3.74%) Legal
14 4 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (2.14%) Police
14 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 52 (27.81%) Data Scientist
2 39 (20.86%) Data Engineer
3 25 (13.37%) Lead
4 23 (12.30%) Analyst
5 21 (11.23%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (11.23%) Principal Data Engineer
5 21 (11.23%) Principal Engineer
5 21 (11.23%) Senior
6 20 (10.70%) Senior Data Scientist
7 14 (7.49%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.88%) Consultant
8 11 (5.88%) Developer
9 10 (5.35%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (4.81%) Architect
11 7 (3.74%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (3.74%) Graduate
12 6 (3.21%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.21%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (3.21%) Technical Business Analyst
13 5 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.44%) Pandas
2 24 (12.83%) NumPy
3 23 (12.30%) TensorFlow
4 21 (11.23%) Keras
5 11 (5.88%) PySpark
6 9 (4.81%) React
7 8 (4.28%) CSS
7 8 (4.28%) HTML
7 8 (4.28%) PyTorch
7 8 (4.28%) scikit-learn
8 6 (3.21%) Kafka
8 6 (3.21%) SpaCy
9 5 (2.67%) Node.js
9 5 (2.67%) SQLAlchemy
9 5 (2.67%) Statsmodels
9 5 (2.67%) Vue
10 4 (2.14%) Apache Beam
10 4 (2.14%) XGBoost
11 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.44%) Algorithms
2 24 (12.83%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (7.49%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.42%) IoT
4 12 (6.42%) Reinsurance
5 9 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.07%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.07%) NHS
9 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (51.87%) Machine Learning
2 85 (45.45%) Agile
3 67 (35.83%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (33.69%) Analytics
5 51 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
6 49 (26.20%) Data Engineering
7 44 (23.53%) Mentoring
8 41 (21.93%) Data Pipeline
8 41 (21.93%) Visualisation
9 40 (21.39%) Artificial Intelligence
10 37 (19.79%) Data Modelling
11 34 (18.18%) Computer Science
12 33 (17.65%) DevOps
12 33 (17.65%) Statistics
13 30 (16.04%) Data Analysis
14 27 (14.44%) Decision-Making
15 25 (13.37%) Change Management
15 25 (13.37%) Data Analytics
16 24 (12.83%) Prototyping
17 23 (12.30%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 90 (48.13%) Python
2 81 (43.32%) SQL
3 17 (9.09%) R
4 16 (8.56%) MATLAB
5 13 (6.95%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.42%) SystemVerilog
7 11 (5.88%) Java
8 9 (4.81%) T-SQL
9 8 (4.28%) Scala
10 5 (2.67%) C++
11 4 (2.14%) C
12 3 (1.60%) Go
12 3 (1.60%) Julia
13 1 (0.53%) C#
13 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (32.62%) Degree
2 40 (21.39%) Security Cleared
3 24 (12.83%) DV Cleared
4 23 (12.30%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.88%) PhD
7 10 (5.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.21%) IIBA
9 5 (2.67%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.23%) GDPR
2 11 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (15.51%) Google
2 15 (8.02%) Databricks
3 14 (7.49%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.28%) Oracle
5 7 (3.74%) Alteryx
5 7 (3.74%) IBM
6 6 (3.21%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.14%) Teradata
8 1 (0.53%) ESRI
8 1 (0.53%) Mapbox