Data Science Jobs in the South East

Data Science
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 166 106
Rank change year-on-year +47 -60 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 405 272 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.27% 1.98% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.10% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 131 166 227
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £44,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
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 East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,794 12,976 19,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.07% 94.36% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,162 7,675 11,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,396 £85,000 £82,500
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +66 235 £62,500 -10.07% 46
Buckinghamshire +68 165 £65,000 +33.51% 7
Hampshire +9 99 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Berkshire -31 43 £65,000 -6.47% 17
Surrey -24 35 £50,000 -28.57% 8
Oxfordshire +22 27 £60,000 -35.14% 22
East Sussex +22 20 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Kent -1 12 £47,500 - 2
West Sussex +21 3 £50,000 -5.66%
Sussex - 1 £46,000 -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (4.69%) SAS
2 4 (0.99%) nginx
3 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.68%) Azure
2 58 (14.32%) Power Platform
3 40 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (9.88%) IBM Cloud
4 30 (7.41%) Snowflake
5 29 (7.16%) GCP
6 18 (4.44%) Matillion
6 18 (4.44%) Serverless
7 15 (3.70%) AWS
8 7 (1.73%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (0.99%) GitHub
9 4 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.74%) SaaS
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.99%) MQTT
1 4 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (0.99%) VPN
2 2 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.32%) Power BI
2 39 (9.63%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (9.63%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.91%) BigQuery
4 26 (6.42%) Data Lake
5 25 (6.17%) Looker
5 25 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (4.69%) Metadata
7 15 (3.70%) Tableau
8 11 (2.72%) Big Data
9 9 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.98%) MySQL
10 8 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.73%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.99%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.74%) Data Vault
14 3 (0.74%) Impala
15 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 11 (2.72%) Git
2 2 (0.49%) ERwin
3 1 (0.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.25%) Maven
3 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 137 (33.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 81 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 79 (19.51%) Finance
4 72 (17.78%) Public Sector
5 62 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (10.37%) Retail
7 35 (8.64%) Military
8 30 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.47%) Korean Language
10 9 (2.22%) Marketing
11 8 (1.98%) Billing
12 6 (1.48%) Legal
13 5 (1.23%) Aviation
13 5 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.23%) Swedish Language
14 4 (0.99%) Wearables
15 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.49%) Law
16 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (31.85%) Data Scientist
2 66 (16.30%) Data Engineer
3 61 (15.06%) Senior
4 42 (10.37%) Lead
5 28 (6.91%) Consultant
6 27 (6.67%) Architect
6 27 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 27 (6.67%) Developer
7 24 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (5.93%) Principal Data Engineer
7 24 (5.93%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (5.93%) Software Engineer
8 23 (5.68%) Security Engineer
9 21 (5.19%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 19 (4.69%) Python Engineer
11 18 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 18 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
12 15 (3.70%) Project Leader
12 15 (3.70%) Senior Project Leader
13 14 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.47%) EDI
2 8 (1.98%) XML
3 5 (1.23%) CSS
3 5 (1.23%) HTML
3 5 (1.23%) NumPy
3 5 (1.23%) Pandas
3 5 (1.23%) RESTful
4 4 (0.99%) GraphQL
4 4 (0.99%) gRPC
4 4 (0.99%) Knex.js
4 4 (0.99%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (0.99%) Node.js
4 4 (0.99%) React
4 4 (0.99%) React Native
4 4 (0.99%) Sequelize
5 3 (0.74%) Matplotlib
5 3 (0.74%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.49%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.49%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.49%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 142 (35.06%) Algorithms
2 41 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (9.88%) Blockchain
3 40 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (7.16%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (5.43%) Life Science
6 15 (3.70%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.73%) Biopharmaceutical
8 5 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.23%) Robotics
9 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.99%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (0.99%) IoT
9 4 (0.99%) PMI
9 4 (0.99%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.49%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.49%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.25%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 64 (15.80%) Linux
2 40 (9.88%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (9.88%) CentOS
2 40 (9.88%) Debian
3 19 (4.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (51.36%) Problem-Solving
2 166 (40.99%) Mentoring
3 150 (37.04%) Mathematics
4 147 (36.30%) Data Analysis
5 145 (35.80%) Coaching
6 141 (34.81%) Computer Science
7 139 (34.32%) Decision-Making
8 134 (33.09%) Cybersecurity
8 134 (33.09%) Red Team
9 125 (30.86%) Artificial Intelligence
10 123 (30.37%) Analytics
11 112 (27.65%) Machine Learning
12 104 (25.68%) Statistical Modelling
13 102 (25.19%) Digital Forensics
14 80 (19.75%) DevOps
15 76 (18.77%) Business Intelligence
15 76 (18.77%) Data Modelling
16 69 (17.04%) Data Engineering
17 54 (13.33%) Agile
18 52 (12.84%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 82 (20.25%) Python
2 66 (16.30%) SQL
3 31 (7.65%) R
4 26 (6.42%) C#
5 24 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.19%) C++
7 18 (4.44%) Java
7 18 (4.44%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.70%) C
8 15 (3.70%) Haskell
9 6 (1.48%) Bash
10 5 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.99%) JSX
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 223 (55.06%) Degree
2 40 (9.88%) Azure Certification
2 40 (9.88%) MCSA
2 40 (9.88%) MCSE
2 40 (9.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (7.65%) Master's Degree
4 24 (5.93%) PhD
5 18 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (1.98%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.99%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.49%) MBA
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.09%) GDPR
2 46 (11.36%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.70%) Good Clinical Practice
4 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.73%) CDISC
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) QA
System Software
1 55 (13.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (12.59%) Kubernetes
2 40 (9.88%) Terraform
3 5 (1.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 56 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.88%) IBM
2 40 (9.88%) Red Hat
3 24 (5.93%) Google
4 20 (4.94%) Databricks
5 10 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.48%) iManage
7 5 (1.23%) SAP
8 4 (0.99%) Alteryx
8 4 (0.99%) Talend
9 3 (0.74%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.49%) Informatica
10 2 (0.49%) Oracle
11 1 (0.25%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.25%) Ariba
11 1 (0.25%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.25%) Vertica