Data Science Jobs

Local Pensions Partnership Administration · Preston · £90,000 – £100,000 pa

Lead AI strategy, governance and delivery across a major UK pension administration organisation, working with the CTO and executive team to identify and scale AI opportunities. Establish responsible AI frameworks, build and manage a specialist AI team, and oversee adoption of tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Civica UPM and UiPath. The role combines strategic leadership, risk assurance and supplier engagement to drive measurable service improvements.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £160,000 – £180,000 pa

Own the data strategy and lead a major transformation of data and analytics capabilities, reshaping the existing function and defining a target operating model. Build a modern data lake and warehouse architecture and a self-serve data environment, with a strong focus on using AI to boost engineering productivity and improve the customer onboarding journey.

Morson Edge · West Yorkshire · £170,000 – £180,000 pa

Lead the data and AI strategy across the organisation, taking ideas from experimentation through to production at scale. Hands-on role spanning generative AI, LLMs, RAG, agentic AI and MLOps, while owning the data platform strategy and building a high-performing team. Works closely with the executive team, Product, Engineering, Architecture and Security.

Isomorphic Labs · London

Lead all externalised drug discovery and preclinical lab operations, building and scaling a global CRO infrastructure for an AI-first drug design platform. Oversee experimental throughput, data QC and turnaround times, embed data-generation-by-design standards, and manage vendor governance, budgets and a team of CRO leads and operations managers.

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

An interdisciplinary PhD developing miniaturised, low-power sensing hardware co-designed with AI for field monitoring of wild animals, including individual recognition and automated behavioural and physiological quantification. Systems are benchmarked under controlled conditions then validated on wild jackdaws and West African field sites, spanning behavioural ecology, electronic engineering and data science.

Palantir Technologies · New York, United States · US$10,500 pm

Interns contribute production code directly to Palantir's Gotham defense product, working across the full lifecycle from ideation and prototyping to shipping. Paired with a dedicated mentor, they build mission-critical tools like geospatial mapping and alert-triaging systems using Java, Go, TypeScript, React, and Spark.

Palantir Technologies · Palo Alto, United States · US$10,500 pa

Interns contribute production code directly to Palantir's Gotham defense product, working across the full lifecycle from ideation and prototyping to shipping. Paired with a dedicated mentor, they build mission-critical tools like geospatial mapping and alert-triaging systems in small product teams using Java, Go, TypeScript, React and Spark.

VolkerWessels · Hertfordshire

Lead the data and analytics function for a major civil engineering and construction group, defining strategy and building a modern cloud data ecosystem. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical authority across Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power BI, DAX, SQL and ETL pipelines, while establishing data governance and Master Data Management frameworks and developing a high-performing team.

University of Essex · Ipswich · £40,000 – £45,000 pa

A KTP Associate role embedded at Distag QCS in Ipswich, working with a large, messy ERP dataset never designed for machine learning. The post holder shapes the data, builds reliable models, and leads the introduction of data-driven decision making in a business with no existing in-house data science capability, balancing hands-on development with commercial priorities.

Gerrard White · Manchester · £28,000 – £32,000 pa

A graduate-level role analysing datasets to identify trends and support the development, testing and maintenance of statistical and predictive models. You'll use Python, SQL, SAS or PySpark and machine learning techniques, presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences while collaborating across teams on varied projects.

Gleeson Recruitment Group · London · £100,000 pa

Own the data strategy, platform and analytics function, managing a small team while staying hands-on with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks and Power BI. Lead data engineering, pipelines, lakes and warehouses, drive advanced analytics, predictive modelling and ML, and champion self-service BI, governance and security while partnering with C-suite stakeholders.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £180,000 pa

Lead enterprise data, technology, architecture and AI strategy across a data-led organisation, unifying Data & Analytics, Engineering, IT, Salesforce and Architecture into a single vision. Inherit a large multidisciplinary team, own governance and architecture standards, and drive AI adoption to unlock commercial value from existing platform investments.

Michael Page · Birmingham · £85,000 – £95,000 pa

Lead enterprise-wide data and analytics capability for a large social housing organisation on a 12-month fixed term contract. Own the data strategy, governance framework, enterprise data architecture and BI/analytics delivery, while managing a data function and advising executive and senior leadership teams. Requires one day per week onsite at the Birmingham head office.

Michael Page · Birmingham · £85,000 – £95,000 pa

Lead enterprise-wide data and analytics capability on a 12-month fixed term contract, owning the data strategy, governance framework, architecture roadmap and BI services. The role chairs governance forums, oversees cloud data platforms and analytics, and manages a data function while reporting to executive teams. One day per week is required onsite in Birmingham.

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

Develops and tests an integrated sensing and modelling framework for predicting fine-scale forest microclimate in Amazonia, combining low-cost sensor networks, physics-based models and machine learning with Lidar and satellite data. The role involves sensor calibration, model validation, uncertainty propagation and possible fieldwork in Brazil, with scope to emphasise hardware, modelling or data science.

University of Sheffield · Sheffield · £32,080 pa

Builds and evaluates machine learning models that predict Strep A outbreak risk from multiple real-world datasets, turning them into early-warning signals. Works closely with clinicians and an engineering team so the analysis feeds into a practical public health tool. Combines health data, time series and mathematical modelling in a cross-disciplinary research setting.