
Data science and AI Jobs in the UK with a Sponsor Licence: 448 Open (Oct 2026)
- Open roles at licensed employers
- 448
- Graduate, internship & apprenticeship
- 34
- Employers hiring
- 229
- Cities
- 8
Roles first seen in the last 30 days and still open. Updated weekly.
Data science and AI graduate jobs, internships and apprenticeships open now
- Graduate Programme 2027: Applied AI Engineer
This 12-month graduate programme involves working on real fintech projects, solving complex challenges and building practical skills through structured training and hands-on experience. It suits an ambitious recent graduate who wants to begin an applied AI engineering career in financial technology.
Ask about this role - Credit Risk Data Analyst
The work translates regulatory and business needs into requirements, data specifications and solution designs. It includes analysing credit risk data, checking lineage, quality and controls, engaging stakeholders and supporting testing and governance, so it suits someone with risk data or structured analysis experience.
Ask about this role - Data Analyst
This analyst supports qualitative and quantitative research, including construction application trends and broader client analytics. It suits a graduate or analyst who enjoys investigating datasets, producing useful insight and working across research projects in a business information environment.
Ask about this role - Data Analytics Intern
The internship involves exploring datasets, finding trends, investigating unexpected results and answering engineering or business questions. You would use Codex, SQL and Python, work on data quality and AI-enabled automation, evaluate analytical solutions and communicate findings, making it suitable for a student or recent graduate.
Ask about this role - Junior Machine Learning Engineer
This engineering role applies machine learning to a travel platform, including advanced search and other product capabilities. It suits someone starting out in machine learning engineering who wants to work with models, data and production systems that support customer-facing digital products.
Ask about this role - Finance and Business Insights Analyst - Porsche Financial Services GB Lt
The role combines finance operations with reporting, planning and business insight. Daily work includes transactions, reconciliations, month-end tasks, schedules, audit support and using business intelligence and AI-enabled tools, so it suits a graduate interested in data-informed financial control and commercial analysis.
Ask about this role - Associate Data Analyst - Remote (UK Only) - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
This associate role supports operational analysis for a cyber resilience platform. It suits an early-career analyst who can work with data and stakeholders, help turn performance information into evidence, and contribute to reporting and improvements in a technology or cybersecurity setting.
Ask about this role - Data Analyst Financial Markets - Mandarin Speaking
The job supports financial markets sales through data reconciliation, customer performance and market trend information, database enquiries, KPI analysis, risk indicators and presentations. It suits an analyst who can coordinate across departments, communicate clearly and work in Mandarin and English in a financial markets environment.
Ask about this role - Data Analyst - Quantitative Finance - Internship
This internship turns complex financial data into insight for decisions and change. It suits a logical, research-minded graduate or student with strong quantitative and programming ability, including an object-oriented language, and an interest in machine learning, optimisation, forecasting, numerical analysis or simulation.
Ask about this role - Data Analyst
The role develops and maintains reporting, dashboards, performance measures and management information for product development governance and planning. It suits an analyst who can transform business data into rigorous, useful insight and work closely with stakeholders, data engineering and analytics colleagues.
Ask about this role - Data Analyst
This analyst role supports data work for an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform. It suits someone interested in turning data into reliable information for financial services compliance, working in a fast-moving software business and communicating effectively with colleagues and users.
Ask about this role - Data Analyst (Agentic Search)
The position owns quality measures for a search system designed for AI agents, from defining and computing metrics to improving them over time. It suits an analyst interested in search quality, fresh and verified data, and evaluating systems that support AI products.
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What kinds of data science and ai roles are open
- Data science and machine learning: 290 roles
- Data analysis and BI: 107 roles
- Data engineering: 51 roles
What Data science and AI graduates do in the UK
The largest group is data science and machine learning, with 290 roles. Day to day, these jobs can involve exploring data, building and evaluating models, improving search or recommendations, creating AI-enabled products, and turning research into reliable systems. Some roles focus on applied engineering, while others involve experiments, forecasting, optimisation or machine learning research.
Data analysis and business intelligence account for 107 roles. These jobs turn business, financial, product or operational data into reports, dashboards, measures and recommendations, often working with stakeholders to define questions and check data quality. Data engineering accounts for 51 roles and involves building datasets, pipelines, data models and scalable platforms that make trustworthy data available to analysts, scientists and product teams.
What employers ask for
The descriptions commonly ask for analytical problem-solving, quantitative thinking, clear communication and the ability to work with business, product, engineering or technology stakeholders. Specific technical requirements include SQL, Python, data modelling, data quality, data lineage, machine learning, artificial intelligence, forecasting, optimisation, numerical analysis and, in one internship, Codex. Some roles also value research ability, experimentation and explaining findings clearly.
Software and methods vary by role. Examples include dbt, dashboards, reporting and management information, object-oriented programming, Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic calculus, pipeline development, large-scale datasets, AI agents, large language models and reinforcement learning. More experienced descriptions ask for relevant experience, such as credit risk data and IRB or Basel programmes, while internships and graduate programmes provide a route to practical learning.
Which employers and sectors are hiring
Technology and software has the largest sector total, with 280 roles. Finance and insurance follows with 48, then consulting and marketing with 39, engineering, research and design with 29, and business services and HR with 22. The roles cover technology platforms, financial analysis and risk, marketing insight, engineering data and business services, showing how widely data skills are used.
Among the employers with the most roles are Faculty with 16, Tripadvisor with 12, Wise and WPP Media with 10 each, Wayve with 9, Lendable Operations with 8, and Neptune North, Trainline Com, Nebius and Spotify with 7 each. London has 328 roles, while Newcastle and Cambridge have 11 and 8 respectively; Manchester and UK remote each have 8.
Applying as an international student
Graduate roles are relatively few compared with the wider search, so internships, placements and apprenticeships matter. The descriptions include a graduate programme, a data analytics internship, a quantitative finance internship and other early-career routes. A role asking for some experience can still suit a strong graduate if you can show relevant projects, technical work, communication and evidence that you can learn quickly.
A sponsor licence means an employer holds permission to sponsor eligible workers, not that every vacancy offers sponsorship. Read each advert carefully and ask the employer where the position is unclear. Check the Graduate visa route and the current Skilled Worker rules on GOV.UK, including the requirements that apply to your circumstances, before relying on any role.
Employers with a sponsor licence hiring for data science and ai
| Employer | Sector | Open roles |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty | Technology & software | 16 |
| Tripadvisor | Technology & software | 12 |
| Wise | Finance & insurance | 10 |
| WPP Media | Consulting & marketing | 10 |
| Wayve | Engineering, research & design | 9 |
| Lendable Operations | Finance & insurance | 8 |
| Neptune North | Technology & software | 7 |
| Trainline Com | Technology & software | 7 |
| Nebius | Technology & software | 7 |
| Spotify | Business services & HR | 7 |
| Spaitial | Technology & software | 7 |
| Preply UK Services | Technology & software | 6 |
| Anthropic | Technology & software | 6 |
| Mind Foundry | Technology & software | 6 |
| Aptura AI UK | Technology & software | 6 |
Where the roles are
- London: 328 roles
- Newcastle: 11 roles
- Cambridge: 8 roles
- Manchester: 8 roles
- UK - Remote: 8 roles
- Bristol: 7 roles
- Belfast: 4 roles
- Cheltenham: 4 roles
Other open data science and ai roles worth a look
Not senior, at employers on the sponsor register; some ask for a few years' experience.
- Data Analytics & Insights Engineer
This role sits between data engineering and analytics, preparing and analysing product, engineering and machine data while managing pipelines and dashboards. It suits someone who can translate stakeholder needs into analytical frameworks and build reliable data products and visualisations for engineering and product teams.
Ask about this role - Data Engineer, Product Analytics: Scale & Impact
The work designs and builds large-scale datasets for product growth, user experiences and business insight. It involves scalable architectures, pipeline optimisation, data quality and security, working with software engineers, data scientists and product managers, so it suits a data engineer interested in product analytics.
Ask about this role - Machine Learning Engineer (Remote)
This machine learning engineering role works with data scientists and engineering teams to build pipelines and advertising optimisation models. It suits an engineer who enjoys complex, high-volume data problems, production machine learning and collaborative work on a digital advertising platform.
Ask about this role - Oliver Wyman – AI Engineer (m/f/d) – Quotient AI Specialist – Madrid / London
The role turns briefs into working AI prototypes and products for consulting work, with an emphasis on reusable delivery and moving ideas towards production. It suits an AI engineer who can combine technical building with practical problem-solving for varied organisational challenges.
Ask about this role - Networks AI & Data Science Professional
This role builds scalable data products using machine learning and AI for network monitoring, investment, predictive maintenance and customer services. It suits a data and AI professional who can translate complex needs into robust solutions and collaborate with engineers, architects and product owners.
Ask about this role - Machine Learning Engineer (Defence)
The work involves training, understanding and deploying machine learning models across engineered solutions, proof of concepts and applied research. It suits a hands-on engineer interested in defence-related problems, but the description says applicants must be eligible for UK SC-level clearance and that visas cannot be sponsored.
Ask about this role - Analytics Engineer
This analytics engineering role builds a scalable data foundation by designing clean data models and transforming raw data into accessible information. It specifically uses SQL, dbt and Python, so it suits someone with strong data engineering skills who wants to support research and insight across an organisation.
Ask about this role - Research Scientist / Engineer - Machine Learning (Contractor)
This research and engineering role develops and evaluates algorithms and architectures in reinforcement learning, Bayesian optimisation, AI agents, large language models and vision-language models. It suits someone interested in advanced machine learning research who can turn ideas into prototypes, scalable systems and applications.
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Frequently asked questions
How many Data science and AI jobs are available in the UK?
The search shows 448 roles at employers that hold a sponsor licence, including 200 roles that are not senior. It also shows 34 graduate, internship and apprenticeship roles, so early-career applicants should search beyond graduate job titles.
Can an international graduate apply for these roles?
Yes, you can apply if you meet the advert's requirements and have the right to work through your current or future route. A sponsor licence does not mean that a particular vacancy offers sponsorship, so check the advert and ask the employer where necessary.
Are internships and placements useful for Data science and AI graduates?
They can be especially useful because graduate roles are a smaller part of the wider search. The listed opportunities show practical work in analytics, quantitative finance and applied AI, helping you build evidence in Python, SQL, modelling, research or communicating insight.
Which UK visa routes should I check after studying?
Check the Graduate visa route and the current Skilled Worker rules on GOV.UK. The applicable route depends on your circumstances and the job, and Home Office requirements can change, so use current official guidance rather than relying on a job listing alone.
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