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.

Experis · United Kingdom · £1,000 pd

Lead the design, governance and delivery of enterprise-scale Power BI reporting and analytics for a major public sector transformation programme. Define architecture, standards and roadmap across the Microsoft data platform, including Azure SQL, Data Lake, Synapse and Fabric, while implementing RLS, workspace controls and CI/CD practices. Client-facing role mentoring developers and working with data engineering, security and DevOps teams.

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.

Innova Solutions · London · £50 pa

Applies statistics and time-series analysis to mobile app telemetry, turning raw data into decision-ready insights and dashboards for leadership. Builds multi-page Streamlit dashboards and integrates API/SQL sources including Snowflake and OpenSearch, working end-to-end from data source to analysis to dashboard alongside QE, delivery and product teams.

Spencer Rose · Bristol · £450 – £480 pd

Designs, builds and deploys end-to-end AI/ML solutions for a banking client's Coach AI programme, including LLM-powered assistants, copilots and multi-agent agentic systems. The role covers ML pipelines, MLOps deployment, NLP, computer vision and voice AI, plus AI guardrails, responsible-AI governance and mentoring a team as senior lead.

Bowers Partnership · London · £825 pd

Hands-on VP-level data scientist building generative AI, LLM/NLP and statistical modelling products end to end for a boutique investment bank's M&A and advisory bankers. Works in a small team taking prototypes into production, writing production-quality Python and explaining models to senior non-technical stakeholders. M&A experience is essential.

NES Group Ltd · London

Builds ML and graph-based identity resolution where rule-based matching falls short, improving customer-spine architecture and reducing identity drift. Defines matching-quality metrics, supports golden-layer integration and delivers a reusable identity-resolution framework. Requires entity resolution, fuzzy matching, MLOps and feature-store experience plus Customer Master/MDM background.

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.

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.

University of Hertfordshire · Hatfield · £39,560 – £46,970 pa

Postdoctoral role delivering research on innovative AI/ML algorithms for predictive modelling and optimisation of agricultural applications using heterogeneous data, as part of an Innovate UK-funded collaborative project. Involves developing AI/ML software tools, data management and analysis, supporting the Principal Investigator on project milestones, and contributing to publications and reports.

Vallum Associates · London · £475 – £500 pd

Data scientist role focused on collecting and analysing large datasets, building experimental models and machine learning applications in Python, and performing complex statistical analysis. Involves leading small teams, mentoring junior data scientists, and working with classical ML, LLMs, prompt/RAG techniques and experiment design. Contract position with two days per week in the London office.

Reed Technology · Rochdale · £500 – £550 pd

Delivering enterprise-scale Power BI solutions and scalable reporting for a housing client, while supporting forecasting and predictive analytics projects. The role involves translating stakeholder requirements into data solutions, improving reporting governance, and mentoring existing team members to build long-term internal capability.

University of Essex · Milton Keynes · £41,950 pa

Develops novel computer vision techniques to capture and analyse live-broadcasted eSports events, identifying in-game events and building low-latency AI calculations for in-play and pre-match betting markets. Works with Python, TensorFlow or PyTorch alongside Java and .NET colleagues, using historical game data and video feeds to detect irregular play patterns.

Quadram Institute Bioscience · Norwich · £39,000 – £46,500 pa

Integrate and analyse heterogeneous dietary, microbiome, metabolomic and mental-health datasets, building reproducible statistical workflows for longitudinal and multi-omics data. Apply causal-inference and validated machine-learning models to predict health outcomes and investigate diet-microbiome-mental-health relationships within a research group.

University of Cambridge · Cambridge · £37,694 – £46,049 pa

Develops mathematical and computational methods for privacy-preserving human pangenome references, including differentially private pangenome graphs, privacy-aware graph algorithms, and benchmarking on genomic data. The interdisciplinary role sits in an applied maths department and involves collaboration on statistical, optimization and differential privacy aspects, with freedom to shape the project's direction.