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.

Pontoon · Leeds · £500 – £600 pd

Analyses customer journeys, data lineage and end-to-end data flows to turn complex business needs into trusted data solutions, working with stakeholders, product owners, architects and data engineers. Supports a major banking data transformation, tracing critical data from source to consumption and shaping future-state data products as legacy systems migrate to modern platforms.

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.

Adecco · London · £600 – £750 pd

Develops and deploys machine learning models and data pipelines that shape decision-making, customer service and business performance. Works closely with ML and software engineers on integration and coding standards, and engages stakeholders to translate complex business problems into data science solutions. Retail context with scope for personalisation, recommendation and experimentation work.

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.

DCV Technologies · Manchester · £550 – £600 pd

Contract role developing and evaluating AI/ML solutions, including classical models and LLM-based applications on Google Cloud Platform. Involves prompt engineering, RAG concepts, experiment design, model evaluation and documentation, plus requirements gathering, code review and troubleshooting alongside project managers and developers.

BDO · London

Builds and productionises AI/ML models for a regulated financial client, covering data wrangling, feature engineering, model development and validation, and containerised deployment. Works with an existing delivery team on classification, outlier detection, ranking and time-series risk analysis, with documentation and reproducible Git-based workflows. RegTech, FinCrime and graph analytics experience is advantageous.

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.

The University of Manchester · Manchester · £48,337 – £59,390 pa

Develops and applies machine-learning and AI methods to protein engineering and enzyme design, analysing complex biological and chemical datasets and building predictive models and computational tools. Works within an interdisciplinary group spanning the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry, providing ML expertise, training and support to computational and experimental colleagues.

UCL · London · £46,261 – £48,679 pa

Develop and evaluate novel AI algorithms to quantify brain iron load from standard-format MRI data, with a focus on quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). Based in UCL's Hawkes Institute, a multidisciplinary grouping at the intersection of engineering and health, the post is funded for four months.

Hays Technology · Belfast · £460 – £485 pd

Gather and document business and data requirements, analyse data flows, lineage and sourcing, and write SQL to validate data. Produce BRDs, process maps and functional specs while working with business, data and technology stakeholders on Markets and regulatory transformation. Requires Capital Markets or Financial Services background and strong SQL skills.

Real · Berkshire · £500 pd

Support a Microsoft Fabric implementation within a data transformation programme, gathering and documenting business and technical requirements while mapping business processes. Work closely with stakeholders in Agile delivery to help ensure a modern data platform is delivered successfully, with exposure to Fabric being highly desirable.

Opus Recruitment Solutions · London · £260 – £290 pd

Two Data Analysts are sought to support analytical and reporting initiatives in a payments, banking or fintech context. Day to day involves backbook segmentation, customer analytics, propensity and predictive modelling, performance reporting, and building and automating dashboards and MI. The role requires strong SQL and Power BI or Tableau skills, working with large datasets and stakeholders to turn business requirements into analytical solutions.

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.