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Lead Data Scientist Salaries

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Last updated on June 27, 2025

Average salary is ₹39.2lakhs.

Employees as Lead Data Scientist earn an average of ₹39.2lakhs, mostly ranging from ₹30.0lakhs to ₹96.8lakhs based on 185 profiles.

👨‍💻 Male	₹36lakhs Male Average Salary : ₹ 36 lakhs
👩‍💻 Female	₹34lakhs Female Average Salary : ₹ 34 lakhs

For every ₹100 paid to men, women are paid ₹94

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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
S&P Global Gurugram	Lead Data Scientist	6yrs		Nanyang Technological University Singapore National Institute of Science Education and Research	Theoretical Physics Quantum Field Theory Differential Eq Large Language Models (Llm) Entity Extraction Prompt Engineering (Show More) Openai Products Amazon Web Services (Aws) Analytical Skills Mathematical Modeling Data Analysis R Physics Programming Statistics Research Simulations Statistical Data Analysis Life Sciences Science
BNY Mellon Pune	Lead Data Scientist	6.8yrs	Base: ₹34.0lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: - CTC:₹34.0lakhs	UCL ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management	Problem Solving Operations Research Forecasting Demand Forecasting Python Communication (Show More) Question Answering Written Communication Technical Leadership Software Engineering Practices Distributed Systems Large Language Models (Llm) Statistics Analytics Databases Mathematics Feature Engineering Debugging Datasets Prediction Apache Spark Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (Ci/cd) Airflow Logistic Regression Data Mining Predictive Modeling Hadoop Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (Aws) Pyspark Tensorflow Data Science Computer Vision Keras Transformers Programming Machine Learning Algorithms Data Engineering Pytorch Pattern Recognition Computer Science Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Machine Learning Sql Algorithms Data Structures Oop Information Security Data Analysis Big Data C++ Mongodb Operating Systems Mysql Computer Architecture Apache Pig C Deep Learning Natural Language Processing (Nlp)
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
Aviso AI India	Lead Data Scientist	8.2yrs		Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Mar Athanasius College of Engineering	Sales Intelligence Llama 2 Chatgpt Yolo Rag Prompt Engineering (Show More) Fastapi Linux Large Language Models (Llm) Transformers Github Bert Optical Character Recognition (Ocr) Gitlab Wsl H2o.ai Teradata Javascript Docker
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
Bajaj Finserv Pune	Senior Lead Data scientist	1.7yrs	Base: ₹36.2lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: - CTC:₹36.2lakhs	Madras School of Economics
Freshworks Bengaluru	Data Scientist (Lead Data Scientist) Male	11yrs	Base: ₹58.0lakhs Stocks: ₹11.1lakhs (Today) (0.9%) ₹11.0L Bonus: ₹2.9lakhs CTC:₹72.0lakhs (Today) (0.1%) ₹71.9L
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

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Frequently asked questions

How much do Lead Data Scientist employees make?

Employees as Lead Data Scientist earn an average of ₹39.2lakhs, mostly ranging from ₹30.0lakhs per year to ₹96.8lakhs per year based on 185 profiles. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹62.9lakhs per year.

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist?

Average salary of an employee as Lead Data Scientist is ₹39.2lakhs.

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

Highest reported salary offered as Lead Data Scientist is ₹113.7lakhs. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹62.9lakhs per year. The top 1% earn more than a whopping ₹96.8lakhs per year.

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

42% of employees have skills in machine learning . 36% also know python . 22% also know deep learning .

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist?

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

data scientist - ₹47.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist - ₹38.0lakhs per year
senior lead data scientist - ₹27.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist serving notice period - ₹24.0lakhs per year
technical lead - ₹16.0lakhs per year

Which are the top locations?

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

The median salary approximately calculated from salary profiles measured so far is ₹35.0lakhs per year.

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

24% of employees lie between 31-36 yrs . 18% of the employees fall in the age group of 26-31 yrs .

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist?

8% hold a PostGraduate degree. 5% hold a Graduate degree.

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

4% of employees studied at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) . 3% studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science .

Frequently asked questions

How much do Lead Data Scientist employees make?

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist?

Average salary of an employee as Lead Data Scientist is ₹39.2lakhs.

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

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

42% of employees have skills in machine learning . 36% also know python . 22% also know deep learning .

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist?

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

data scientist - ₹47.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist - ₹38.0lakhs per year
senior lead data scientist - ₹27.0lakhs per year
lead data scientist serving notice period - ₹24.0lakhs per year
technical lead - ₹16.0lakhs per year

Which are the top locations?

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

The median salary approximately calculated from salary profiles measured so far is ₹35.0lakhs per year.

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

24% of employees lie between 31-36 yrs . 18% of the employees fall in the age group of 26-31 yrs .

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist?

8% hold a PostGraduate degree. 5% hold a Graduate degree.

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

4% of employees studied at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) . 3% studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science .

Salary Brackets

Percentage
10-20 lakhs	10-20 lakhs Percentage : 12
20-30 lakhs	20-30 lakhs Percentage : 23
30-40 lakhs	30-40 lakhs Percentage : 28
40-50 lakhs	40-50 lakhs Percentage : 12
> 50 lakhs	> 50 lakhs Percentage : 25

Age Brackets

Percentage
21-26 yrs	21-26 yrs Percentage : 3
26-31 yrs	26-31 yrs Percentage : 18
31-36 yrs	31-36 yrs Percentage : 24
36-41 yrs	36-41 yrs Percentage : 8
> 41 yrs	> 41 yrs Percentage : 1

Skills

Trending

machine learning

42 %

python

36 %

deep learning

22 %

data science

0 %

sql

0 %

data analysis

0 %

Schools

Top

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

4 %

Birla Institute of Technology and Science

3 %

Indian Institute of Management (IIM)

2 %

Indian Institute of Technology

2 %

National Institute of Technology (NIT)

2 %

Calcutta University

2 %

Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU)

2 %

Lead Data Scientist Salaries

Average salary is ₹39.2lakhs.

How much do Lead Data Scientist employees make?

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist?

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

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

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist?

Which are the top locations?

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

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

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist?

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

How much do Lead Data Scientist employees make?

What is the average salary of Lead Data Scientist?

What is the highest salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

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

What are the highest paying jobs as Lead Data Scientist?

Which are the top locations?

What is the median salary offered as Lead Data Scientist?

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

What qualifications do employees have as Lead Data Scientist?

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

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