Australia

Data Scientist: job description, salary and skills in Australia

Reference estimate Updated November 2026
Median salary
127 500.00 AUD

Salary range (gross annual)

100 000.00 AUD Junior (P10)
127 500.00 AUD Median
155 000.00 AUD Senior (P90)
Entry levelMarketExpert

Source: Reference estimate · sample ≥ 30 (GDPR).

Most in-demand skills

  • PythonDocumented skill
  • RDocumented skill
  • SQLDocumented skill
  • Machine LearningDocumented skill
  • StatistiquesDocumented skill
  • Deep LearningDocumented skill
  • PandasDocumented skill
  • Data VisualizationDocumented skill

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