Data Scientist Jobs in the South West

Data Scientist
England > South West

The median Data Scientist salary in the South West is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 228 264
Rank change year-on-year -17 +36 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 53 42 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 0.64% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.71% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 35 37 43
10th Percentile £46,306 £42,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,125 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,882 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -0.21% +15.79%
75th Percentile £83,125 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £70,849 £69,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% -5.56% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 9,607 5,879 8,100
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,030 3,696 5,109
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,838 £37,971 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
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 Scientist 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 +3 32 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Gloucestershire -7 20 £70,000 - 1
Devon -9 1 £50,000 +36.99% 3
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 South West region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Python
2 52 (98.11%) Data Science
3 48 (90.57%) Machine Learning
4 41 (77.36%) Agile
5 29 (54.72%) Statistics
6 27 (50.94%) SQL
7 25 (47.17%) Analytics
8 24 (45.28%) NumPy
9 23 (43.40%) TensorFlow
10 22 (41.51%) Algorithms
10 22 (41.51%) Security Cleared
10 22 (41.51%) Visualisation
11 21 (39.62%) Natural Language Processing
11 21 (39.62%) Degree
11 21 (39.62%) Keras
12 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
13 19 (35.85%) Pandas
13 19 (35.85%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (33.96%) Data Analysis
15 17 (32.08%) DV Cleared
15 17 (32.08%) Data Engineering
16 16 (30.19%) Minimum Viable Product
16 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (30.19%) Prototyping
16 16 (30.19%) Actionable Insight
16 16 (30.19%) Business Analysis
16 16 (30.19%) MATLAB
16 16 (30.19%) Data Modelling
17 15 (28.30%) Computer Science
18 14 (26.42%) Cybersecurity

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 5 (9.43%) Apache
1 5 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (9.43%) Luigi
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.32%) GCP
2 5 (9.43%) Snowflake
3 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.77%) AWS
4 2 (3.77%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Big Data
2 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.43%) Bigtable
3 5 (9.43%) CouchDB
3 5 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (9.43%) Redis
3 5 (9.43%) RethinkDB
4 3 (5.66%) Power BI
4 3 (5.66%) Tableau
5 1 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Git
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.77%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (45.28%) NumPy
2 23 (43.40%) TensorFlow
3 21 (39.62%) Keras
4 19 (35.85%) Pandas
5 10 (18.87%) PySpark
6 8 (15.09%) PyTorch
6 8 (15.09%) scikit-learn
7 6 (11.32%) SpaCy
8 5 (9.43%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (9.43%) Statsmodels
9 4 (7.55%) XGBoost
10 1 (1.89%) Django
10 1 (1.89%) Flask
10 1 (1.89%) NLTK
10 1 (1.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (41.51%) Algorithms
2 12 (22.64%) Reinsurance
3 6 (11.32%) Data Structures
4 5 (9.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (98.11%) Data Science
2 48 (90.57%) Machine Learning
3 41 (77.36%) Agile
4 29 (54.72%) Statistics
5 25 (47.17%) Analytics
6 22 (41.51%) Visualisation
7 21 (39.62%) Natural Language Processing
8 19 (35.85%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (33.96%) Data Analysis
10 17 (32.08%) Data Engineering
11 16 (30.19%) Actionable Insight
11 16 (30.19%) Business Analysis
11 16 (30.19%) Data Modelling
11 16 (30.19%) Minimum Viable Product
11 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (30.19%) Prototyping
12 15 (28.30%) Computer Science
13 14 (26.42%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (18.87%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (18.87%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 53 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (50.94%) SQL
3 16 (30.19%) MATLAB
4 7 (13.21%) R
5 1 (1.89%) C
5 1 (1.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (41.51%) Security Cleared
2 21 (39.62%) Degree
3 17 (32.08%) DV Cleared
4 11 (20.75%) PhD
5 10 (18.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (15.09%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.77%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Databricks
2 5 (9.43%) Dataiku
2 5 (9.43%) Google
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle