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.

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.

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.

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

Develop and apply AI, machine learning and Bayesian statistical models to longitudinal electronic health record, retinal imaging, genomic and proteomic data to predict health outcomes and biological ageing in people with diabetes. Work across clinical and computing groups, curating data in safe havens and validating prediction models, in collaboration with Eli Lilly.

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.

MRJ Recruitment · Manchester · £450 – £525 pd

Builds machine learning models for agentic search, recommendation engines, personalisation and ranking, taking ideas from experimentation into production. Works hands-on with Python, SQL and Snowflake on large datasets, using SHAP for explainability and collaborating with Data, Product and Engineering 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.