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Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru Salaries

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Last updated on July 6, 2025

Average salary is ₹41.2lakhs.

Employees as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru earn an average of ₹41.2lakhs, mostly ranging from ₹31.0lakhs to ₹95.1lakhs based on 92 profiles.

👨‍💻 Male	₹41lakhs Male Average Salary : ₹ 41 lakhs
👩‍💻 Female	₹48lakhs Female Average Salary : ₹ 48 lakhs

For every ₹100 paid to men, women are paid ₹117

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Company	Title	Experience	Annual Salary	School	Skills
GSK Bengaluru	Lead Data Scientist	9.1yrs	Base: ₹35.9lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: ₹3.8lakhs CTC:₹39.7lakhs	National Institute of Technology Warangal Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University	Retrieval-augmented Generation (Rag) Insight Generation Business Insights Key Performance Indicators Programming Languages Cluster Analysis (Show More) Critical Thinking Problem Solving Fraud Investigations Healthcare Statistics Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (Ci/cd) Docker Products Object-oriented Programming (Oop) Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Customer Relationship Management (Crm) Statistical Analysis Regression Analysis Marketing Analytics
Dentsu Bengaluru	Lead Data Scientist Male	6.9yrs	Base: ₹26.6lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: - CTC:₹26.6lakhs	Birla Institute of Technology Narayana Junior College	Generative Ai Large Language Models (Llm) Unstructured Data Transfer Learning Convolutional Neural Networks (Cnn) Analytical Skills (Show More) Decision Trees Support Vector Machine (Svm) Tensorflow Pytorch Oral Communication Computer Science Statistics Predictive Modeling Data Wrangling Communication Data Analysis Python Sql Data Science Machine Learning Deep Learning Natural Language Processing (Nlp) Big Data Hadoop Pyspark C# Data Structures Algorithms Computer Networking Mapreduce Apache Sqoop Scala .Net Framework C C++ Microsoft Sql Server Ado.net Asp.net Angularjs Entity Framework Microsoft Azure Powershell Snowflake Cloud Apache Kafka Apache Spark Database Management System (Dbms) Hive Pig Data Engineering
Wells Fargo Bengaluru	Lead Data Scientist	11.8yrs		Great Learning Biju Patnaik University of Technology	Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform (Gcp) Kubernetes Docker Machine Learning (Show More) Natural Language Processing (Nlp) Sql Supply Chain Management Bfsi Telecommunications Amazon Web Services (Aws) Tensorflow Statistical Modeling Python Data Analysis Microsoft Sql Server Microsoft Office Tableau Team Management Scikit-learn Pandas
Freshworks Bengaluru	Data Scientist (Lead Data Scientist) Male	11yrs	Base: ₹58.0lakhs Stocks: ₹11.1lakhs (Today) (0.9%) ₹11.2L Bonus: ₹2.9lakhs CTC:₹72.0lakhs (Today) (0.1%) ₹72.1L
Equinix Bengaluru	Lead Data Scientist Male	15yrs		Inderprastha Engineering College	Kubernetes Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (Ci/cd) Ai For Operational Efficiency Demand Forecasting Models Customers Experience Analytics Ml Lifecycle Automation (Show More) Statistical Data Analysis Statistics Natural Language Processing (Nlp) Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Large Language Models (Llm) Retrieval-augmented Generation (Rag) Generative Ai Elasticsearch Mlflow Docker Terraform Google Cloud Platform (Gcp) Mlops Python Analytics Market Research Business Analysis Team Management Data Analysis Project Management Sas Predictive Modeling Time Series Analysis Market Basket Analysis Logistic Regression Cluster Analysis Management Analysis Telecommunications Consulting C Oracle Powerpoint Microsoft Excel Statistical Modeling Sql Start-ups Excel Market Analysis Oracle Sql Project Planning Strategy Segmentation Business Intelligence Requirements Analysis Business Strategy Pl/sql Competitive Analysis Machine Lea Numpy Crm Data Modeling Analytical Skills Data Science Predictive Analytics Deep Learning Deep N
Toplyne Bengaluru	Lead Data Scientist	6.5yrs		Birla Institute of Technology and Science	Public Speaking Html Machine Learning Predictive Analytics Python Pyspark (Show More) Sql Scala Machine Learning Algorithms Deep Learning
Foundit Bengaluru	Lead Data Scientist	8yrs		Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology Khalsa Academy	Strategic Thinking Amazon Web Services (Aws) Google Cloud Platform (Gcp) Supply Chain Management Statistical Modeling Data Analytics (Show More) Attention To Detail Problem Solving Feast Merlin Apache Airflow Mongodb Elasticsearch Fastapi Large Language Models (Llm) Business Analytics Data Visualization Sas Pytorch Recommender Systems Search Product Management Tensorflow Cluster Analysis Time Series Analysis Anomaly Detection Predictive Modeling Natural Language Processing (Nlp) Machine Learning Python Sql Supply Chain Optimization Data Analysis Statistics Process Simulation Data Science Tableau R Sas Eg Visual Basic For Applications (Vba) Apache Superset Metabase Google Bigquery Postgresql Leadership Public Speaking Teamwork Amazon Redshift Microsoft Office Deep Learning
Nagarro Bengaluru	Associate Lead Data Scientist	6.2yrs	Base: ₹29.0lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: ₹1.0lakhs CTC:₹30.0lakhs	BIT Mesra Student-Industry Relations Cell	Data Science Data Science/ Artificial Intelligence Data Science & Analytics Machine Learning Deep Learning Databricks (Show More) Gcp Azure
FIS Bengaluru	Lead Data Scientist	4.6yrs	Base: ₹38.4lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: ₹4.3lakhs CTC:₹42.7lakhs	Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Vivekananda Global University	Gnn Probability Theory Large Language Models (Llm) Generative Ai Machine Learning Deep Learning (Show More) Natural Language Processing (Nlp) Data Science Algorithms Data Analysis Pytorch Tensorflow Pyspark Keras Python C++ C Sql Convolutional Neural Networks (Cnn) Pattern Recognition Neural Networks Research Artificial Neural Networks Scikit-learn Numpy Deep Neural Networks (Dnn) Machine Learning Algorithms Recurrent Neural Networks (Rnn) Hadoop Data Analytics Statistical Modeling Data Structures Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Applied Machine Learning Hive Analytics Microsoft Office Statistics Statistical Data Analysis Predictive Modeling
Target Bengaluru	Data Scientist (L6) Female	6yrs	Base: ₹45.9lakhs Stocks: ₹4.7lakhs (Today) (29.8%) ₹3.3L Bonus: ₹12.2lakhs CTC:₹62.8lakhs (Today) (2.2%) ₹61.4L

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Frequently asked questions

How much do Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru employees make?

Employees as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru earn an average of ₹41.2lakhs, mostly ranging from ₹31.0lakhs per year to ₹95.1lakhs per year based on 92 profiles. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹63.9lakhs per year.

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru?

Average salary of an employee as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru is ₹41.2lakhs.

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

Highest reported salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru is ₹113.7lakhs. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹63.9lakhs per year. The top 1% earn more than a whopping ₹95.1lakhs per year.

What are the most common skills required as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

39% of employees have skills in machine learning . 36% also know python . 25% also know deep learning .

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

The top 5 highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru with reported salaries are:

data scientist - ₹50.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist - ₹38.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist serving notice period - ₹24.0lakhs per year
technical lead - ₹17.0lakhs per year

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

The median salary approximately calculated from salary profiles measured so far is ₹38.0lakhs per year.

How is the age distributed among employees as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

20% of employees lie between 26-31 yrs . 20% of the employees fall in the age group of 31-36 yrs .

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

7% hold a PostGraduate degree. 3% hold a Graduate degree.

Which schools do employees working as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru went to?

5% of employees studied at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) . 4% studied at National Institute of Technology (NIT) .

Frequently asked questions

How much do Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru employees make?

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru?

Average salary of an employee as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru is ₹41.2lakhs.

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What are the most common skills required as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

39% of employees have skills in machine learning . 36% also know python . 25% also know deep learning .

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

The top 5 highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru with reported salaries are:

data scientist - ₹50.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist - ₹38.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist serving notice period - ₹24.0lakhs per year
technical lead - ₹17.0lakhs per year

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

The median salary approximately calculated from salary profiles measured so far is ₹38.0lakhs per year.

How is the age distributed among employees as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

20% of employees lie between 26-31 yrs . 20% of the employees fall in the age group of 31-36 yrs .

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

7% hold a PostGraduate degree. 3% hold a Graduate degree.

Which schools do employees working as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru went to?

5% of employees studied at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) . 4% studied at National Institute of Technology (NIT) .

Salary Brackets

Percentage
10-20 lakhs	10-20 lakhs Percentage : 12
20-30 lakhs	20-30 lakhs Percentage : 17
30-40 lakhs	30-40 lakhs Percentage : 28
40-50 lakhs	40-50 lakhs Percentage : 12
> 50 lakhs	> 50 lakhs Percentage : 30

Age Brackets

Percentage
21-26 yrs	21-26 yrs Percentage : 2
26-31 yrs	26-31 yrs Percentage : 20
31-36 yrs	31-36 yrs Percentage : 20
36-41 yrs	36-41 yrs Percentage : 7

Skills

Trending

machine learning

39 %

python

36 %

deep learning

25 %

sql

0 %

data science

0 %

data analysis

0 %

Schools

Top

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

5 %

National Institute of Technology (NIT)

4 %

Birla Institute of Technology and Science

3 %

Indian Institute of Management (IIM)

3 %

Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU)

3 %

Indian School of Business (ISB)

2 %

Jadavpur University

2 %

Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru Salaries

Average salary is ₹41.2lakhs.

How much do Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru employees make?

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru?

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What are the most common skills required as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

How is the age distributed among employees as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

Which schools do employees working as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru went to?

How much do Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru employees make?

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist Bengaluru?

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What are the most common skills required as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

How is the age distributed among employees as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru?

Which schools do employees working as Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru went to?

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