Data Science Jobs

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Lead medicinal chemistry strategy across drug discovery programmes, from hit identification through lead optimisation to candidate nomination, while working hands-on as an individual contributor. Partner closely with AI/ML platform teams to refine predictive models and manage CRO resources, mentoring junior colleagues in a hybrid London team.

AlphaFold

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Design and evolve a large-scale ML infrastructure platform that supports distributed training and inference workloads, working closely with research, engineering and product teams. The role also explores deploying agents to improve platform robustness and reliability, in a hybrid London setting.

Kubernetes · Google Cloud Platform · GCP

• London
• On-site
• Internship

A one-week unpaid work placement at Faculty's London offices for service veterans in their last 12 months of regular service, offering structured exposure to roles, processes and people across the Defence Business Unit. Participants gain insight into how a leading UK AI company operates and how machine learning is applied to defence challenges such as surveillance, reconnaissance and autonomous systems.

Metaview

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Technical leadership role owning delivery of complex machine learning and Generative AI projects for financial services clients, while setting technical direction for the data science team. Involves mentoring, contributing to bids and scoping, and publishing thought leadership, with a focus on deep individual contribution and scalable Python codebases.

Large Language Models

• London
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £160,000 – £170,000 pa
• Director · manages people

Owns the data, analytics and AI strategy for a global pharmaceutical procurement joint venture, leading a multidisciplinary team of about 18 across analytics, data science and engineering. Reports to the COO and drives a digital and AI roadmap spanning commercial and pricing analytics, predictive modelling of supply chain risk and operational improvement, working with senior stakeholders across both parent organisations.

• Exeter
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

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.

R · Python · Lidar +1

• Greater Manchester
• Hybrid
• £65,000 – £75,000 pa
• Permanent

Join a core team of data scientists, engineers and analysts working in small teams on a two-week review cycle, delivering minimum viable solutions that scale. You will apply the full data science lifecycle, from exploratory analysis and model building to deployment, monitoring and retraining, while working with stakeholders on pricing, customer intent and decision-making. The role blends hands-on Python and machine learning work with clear communication of findings.

pytest

• Barking
• £30,000 – £50,000 pa
• Entry level

A training and placement programme for entry-level candidates with little or no data experience, combining self-paced online courses in Excel, SQL, Python and Tableau with CompTIA Data+ and BCS Business Analysis Foundation qualifications. After qualifying, a recruitment support team helps with CVs, applications and mock interviews to secure a first data analyst role, with an advanced CompTIA Data X stage once employed.

Microsoft Excel · SQL · Python +4

• Loughborough
• Hybrid
• Mid-level

Hands-on role in a Group IT Data & AI team, owning use cases end to end from problem definition and feature engineering through model development, deployment and monitoring. Work spans BI, advanced analytics, ML and AI solutions in Python, SQL and Spark on cloud platforms, with accountability for measurable commercial value and input into governance standards.

Spark

• Reading
• £25,000 – £45,000 pa
• Entry level

A self-paced traineeship taking complete beginners through AI fundamentals, Python, data handling, machine learning and Git/GitHub, plus Microsoft AI-900 certification and two tutor-assigned industry projects. On completion, candidates are placed into a Junior AI Engineer role with a UK employer within 20 miles of their location, with a job offer guaranteed or course fees refunded.

Microsoft Azure · Git · GitHub

• Salford
• £25,000 – £45,000 pa
• Entry level

A self-paced traineeship taking complete beginners through AI fundamentals, Python, data handling, machine learning and Git/GitHub, with Microsoft AI-900 certification and two tutor-assigned industry projects. On completion, candidates are placed into a Junior AI Engineer role within 20 miles of their location, with training designed to fit around existing work or unemployment.

Microsoft Azure · Git · GitHub

• Birmingham
• Hybrid · 1 day in office
• £85,000 – £95,000 pa
• Director · manages people
• Contract

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.

AI · Machine Learning · Cloud Data Services +1

• Birmingham
• Hybrid · 1 day in office
• £85,000 – £95,000 pa
• Director · manages people
• Contract

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 leading a data function and advising executive and senior leadership teams. Requires one day per week onsite at the Birmingham head office.

AI · Machine Learning · Cloud Data Services +1

• Swindon
• £60,000 – £70,000 pa
• Senior

This is a hybrid role with a minimum of three days in the office per week.At Cotswold Outdoor Group, the outdoors isn’t just where we work, it’s who we are. Every day, our head office teams play a vital role…

• London
• Senior · manages people

Owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse, driving performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors. The role involves low-level systems debugging, performance optimisation on large production clusters, architecture design, and technical leadership including mentoring and sprint planning. Distinct for its scale: millions of VMs, terabytes of logs and exabytes of data daily, with active open-source contribution.

Databricks · Delta Lake · Apache Iceberg +6